Grandmas Share Their Tips for Making Day-To-Day Life Easier and Cheaper

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Make a Homemade Heating Pad With Rice

Constantly dealing with aches and pains? Always feel like you're in agony? While you can stock up on expensive heating pads you can buy online, what you might be interested to know is that you can use this grandma hack to your advantage - and save some money in the process. That's because you can actually make your own heating pad by filling an old sock with rice and placing it in the microwave.

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After around two minutes, you can take it out and use it as a heating pad. The rice will retain the heat for a long time, too. But when it gets cold again, you can just pop it in the microwave again.