16 Life Hacks For Vaseline You Should Know

Do you use Vaseline often, or ever wondered what it’s even used for? If you’ve had a jar of Vaseline laying around your house for a while and haven’t been bothered to use it, you might be interested in some of these helpful life hacks.

Vaseline is a great way to moisturize your skin, clean leather, and can even be used as a makeshift candle. It can be used for all sorts of things around the house that help you in your daily life, and can come in pretty handy at times.

1. Use Vaseline on your hair to keep it smooth and to reduce any of those pesky flies away.

2. Do you have leather shoes that are looking a little old and perhaps worn out? Rub some Vaseline on your scratched or dirty leather shoes, and they will look brand new! The Vaseline will also work as a water repellent.

3.  If you’re having trouble taking a ring off, rub some Vaseline around it it and it should come right off.

4. If the cap of your nail polish tends to get stuck to the bottle, rub some Vaseline on it. This will prevent the cap from sticking to the nail polish bottle.

5. Do the doors in your house squeak when you open them? Smear some Vaseline on the hinges and this should help reduce the annoying squeak.

6. Rub Vaseline on your face when it’s cold outside to prevent frostbite.

7. Use Vaseline to clean your furniture or any other wooden surface to remove any stains and to give it a shiny, polished look.

8. Roll up a tiny piece of paper and stick it into a tube of Vaseline. The piece of paper acts as a makeshift wick so that if you light it. Now you’ve got yourself a brand new candle!

9. Rub some Vaseline on the surface of tools to prevent rusting.

10. To protect your bike gears from corrosion and to reduce wear and tear, lubricate them with petroleum jelly.

11. Vaseline is known to work as a great moisturizer for your skin. You can use it as a chap stick to moisturize your lips or on any other part of your body that you find a little dry.

12. Do you own any clothes with pesky zippers that always stick? If you rub a little bit of Vaseline onto the zippers of your pants, jackets, or bags (basically anything that has a zipper), it will help stick it.

13. Before putting on your perfume, apply a very thin coat of Vaseline onto the area of skin that you will dab your perfume on. This will increase the lifespan of your perfume by three to four hours!

14. Do you have dry, cracked feet? Apply some Vaseline onto your feet before bed and sleep with socks on. The Vaseline will help moisturize your feet overnight and reduce the dryness.

15. If you love carving pumpkins for Halloween but hate how fast they rot, rub some Vaseline onto the carved edges of your pumpkin. This will actually slow down the rotting process so that your beautiful carvings last longer.

16. To prevent battery corrosion on your car battery, clean your battery terminals with Vaseline.

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The True Story Of Annabelle, The Haunted Doll From THE CONJURING

Annabelle is real. 

One of the creepiest parts of the truly scary The Conjuring is the evil possessed doll Annabelle, who makes up the cornerstone of Ed and Lorraine Warren's spooky museum of trophies. Director James Wan redesigned Annabelle for the movie, giving her a much more disturbing appearance, but in real life Annabelle was just your run of the mill Raggedy Ann doll. 

Donna got Annabelle from her mother in 1970; mom bought the used doll at a hobby store. Donna was a college student at the time, and living with a roommate named Angie, and at first neither thought the doll was anything special. But over time they noticed Annabelle seemed to move on her own; at first it was really subtle, just changes in position, the kinds of things that could be written off as the doll being jostled. But the movement increased, and within a few weeks it seemed to become fully mobile. The girls would leave the apartment with Annabelle on Donna's bed and return home to find it on the couch. 

Their friend Lou hated the doll. He thought there was something deeply wrong with it, something evil, but the girls were modern women and didn't believe that sort of thing. There must be an explanation, they reasoned. But soon Annabelle's actions got even weirder - Donna began to find pieces of parchment paper in the house with messages written on it. "Help us," they would say, or "Help Lou." Just to make the whole thing that much creepier nobody in the house had parchment paper. Where the hell was it coming from?

The escalation continued. One night Donna returned home to find Annabelle in her bed, with blood on her hands. The blood - or some sort of red liquid - seemed to be coming from the doll itself. That was enough; Donna finally agreed to bring in a medium. The sensitive sat with the doll and told the girls that long before their apartment complex had been built there had been a field on that property. A seven year old girl named Annabelle Higgins had been found dead in that field. Her spirit remained, and when the doll came into the house the girl latched on to it. She found Donna and Angie to be trustworthy. She just wanted to stay with them. She wanted to be safe with them. 

Being sweet, nurturing types - they were both nursing students - Donna and Angie agreed to let Annabelle stay with them. And that's when all hell broke loose. 

Lou started having bad dreams, dreams where Annabelle was in his bed, climbing up his leg as he lay frozen, sliding up his chest to his neck and closing her stuffed hands around his throat, choking him out. He would wake up terrified, head pounding like all blood had been cut off to his brain. He was freaking out. He was worried about the girls.

A few days later he and Angie were hanging out, planning a road trip, when they heard someone moving around in Donna's room. They froze - was it a break in? Was there an intruder in the apartment? Lou crept over to the door, listening to rustling within. He threw open the door and everything was as it should be - except Annabelle was off the bed and sitting in a corner. As he approached the doll Lou was consumed with that feeling, a burning on the back of the neck that indicates someone was staring at you and he spun around. Nobody was there. The room was empty. And then sudden pain on his chest. He looked in his shirt and saw a series of raking claw marks, rough ditches in his flesh that burned. He knew Annabelle had done it. 

The weird claw marks began healing almost immediately. They were totally gone in two days. They were like no wounds any of them had ever seen before. They knew they needed more help, and they turned to an Episcopalian priest, who in turned called in Ed and Lorraine Warren.

It didn't take the Warrens long to come to their conclusion: there was no ghost in this case. There was an inhuman spirit - a demon - attached to the doll. But they warned that the doll wasn't possessed; demons don't possess things, only people. It was clinging to the doll, manipulating it, in order to give the impression of a haunting. The target was really Donna's soul. 

A priest performed an exorcism on the apartment and the Warrens took possession of the doll. They put it in a bag and began the long drive home; Ed agreed to stay off the highways because there was a concern that the demon might fuck with the car, and at 65 miles an hour that would be disastrous. And sure enough, as they drove on the back roads, the engine kept cutting out, the power steering kept failing and even the brakes gave them trouble. Ed opened the bag, sprinkled the doll with holy water and the disturbances stopped... for the moment. 

Ed left the doll next to his desk; it began levitating. That happened a couple of times and then it seemed to just quit, finally laying quiet. But in a couple of weeks Annabelle was back to her old tricks; she started appearing in different rooms in the Warren home. Sensing that the doll was ramping back up the Warrens called in a Catholic priest to exorcise Annabelle. The priest didn't take it seriously, telling Annabelle "You're just a doll. You can't hurt anyone!" Big mistake: on his way home the priest's brakes failed, and his car was totaled in a horrible accident. He survived.

Eventually the Warrens built a locked case for Annabelle, and she resides there to this day. The locked case seems to have kept the doll from moving around, but it seems like that whatever terrible entity is attached to it is still there, waiting. Biding its time. Ready for the day when it can again be free.

Helpful Hacks That May End Up Saving Your Life One Day

1. Always follow your instinct. That may seem like an obvious one, but let’s be real here, a lot of the times we don’t do this.
When something feels wrong, your body is telling you that danger is not too far. A lot of the time, people to fail to follow their instincts.

2. If a stranger ever gets into your car and tells you to drive, there’s one thing that you can do. Drive your car into a post.
That way you’ll not only be able to go anywhere, you draw attention to the situation and the person will want to get away pretty fast.

3. Knowing a bit of self-defence, in general, is always helpful. But for those of us who don’t know much about fighting, there’s one trick that always works if attacked.
Go straight for the attacker’s groin area. This will stop them right away and will give you a bit of time to get out and run to get help.

4. Generally, people feel pretty safe driving in a cab. But of course, there’s always that possibility that something can go wrong.
If you find that your driver is acting a little strange, quickly make a call to someone telling them your location. That way the driver knows you have a phone and people know your whereabouts.

5. Never walk downstairs with your hands in your pockets. It sounds a little paranoid but if you trip, you need your hands to save yourself from getting hurt.

6. If you’re staying in a hotel room, it’s a good idea to put rolled up tissue over the toilet. No matter how clean it looks to you.

7. Swimming in the ocean can generally be dangerous, especially if you’re swimming in a riptide. Swim parallel to the shore if this happens. It’s the most efficient way to get back to shore.

8. If you ever find yourself trapped in a burning building, don’t run out. Get down to the floor and start crawling. According to MensXP, there’s more oxygen down there and you won’t pass out.

9. If you’re going to a parking lot alone at night, walk with your keys in your hands. That way you can get into the vehicle quickly and drive off.

10. More and more of us are walking and texting at the same time. Don’t do this when you’re walking in the street. You become an easy target.

11. If you decide to go for a hike or something, there’s a chance you could get lost. If this happens, first find water and shelter. Those are two important things for survival.

12. Keeping your keys by your bedside table is smart. If someone were to ever break into your home, just press the panic button to set off your alarm in the car.