Who needs WD40? (a tip for kids of strict parents)

[Luana.vasper]

So, I was messing around and I found smth out. This is sort of long, so if you don't feel like reading it all and want to find the point of this post, I'm putting a star icon (like this: ★) in front of the paragraph it's in.

When I'm putting this switch up at night, it is crucial that I don't make any loud noises. This is because A) My parents bedroom is right across from mine, B) My mom is a light sleeper, and C) I'm not supposed to have this switch at all, and getting caught with it would be hell for me.

So, bcs of that, I have been getting really annoyed recently. Both my bathroom and bedroom door were squeaky af. Like really squeaky. Especially the bathroom. And they were extremely loud at night. My parents don't usually keep WD40, so I resorted to lifting up on the doors as I opened them, which didn't work for my bathroom (so I avoided even going in there even if I had to use it and just waited until morning) and worked for a while for my bedroom but it quit working. Now, since that method had stopped working, they were squeaky and I couldn't do anything about it...

Or so I thought.

★ I had some hand salve lying around from a christmas present I got (If you don't have that, anything generally oily like lotion would work, though I would reccommend chapstick bcs it solidifies). So, I decided to try putting it on my hinges. I applied it with some papertowel and made sure to press it into the creases and scratch anything blackened off as much as I could, and then I swung the door a few times to work it in, and it worked like a charm! My doors are now super quiet. I'm very happy with them.

[theadora]

LIFE SMART

[theadora]

lucky you don't have cameras in your house

[w1ckedsticky1983]

Another method that works really, really well is spraying perfume on the hinges. I used to do that all the time back in my old house. Just make sure to consistently spray it on every couple days

[Rorschach]

Have you ever put into account that they would touch the switch to see if it is warm??????

[Rorschach]

Not only that, they could install the parental controls, and from there on your screwed, I've tried factory resetting my switch and the parental controls is still on.

[vnnedg]

my mama and my stepdad first had took my door off the hindges , theres cameras outside and,alarm on the door i found out,a way to not make the alarm go off but ive been to scared to go out. yesterday my mom took both of my phone went thru it and find out abt it. mind yall im 16,about to graduate. she threatened to put cameras in the whole house and use MY PAYCHECK for this. she started cm outta EVERY name, got called a [censored] and more and she said things like "since all u wanna do is [censored] ima let u go out every saturday so u can get [censored]" idk what to do man. i just wanna get outta here.