Tl;dr – Save yourself time and frustration and fix your shorts, pants, or hoodie.
Look, it’s 2025. We’ve been through about three half a thousand cycles of ‘life hacks that will change everything for you,’ and a good number of them are silly or a waste of time. I actively avoid this content, but a random life hack video popped up on my Instagram feed today, and this one seems helpful.
For anyone who ever needs to ‘restring’ their pants with a loose drawstring cord, a pen cap (and pen) is the way to go.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ9dhKdPMYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Ok, back to the travel talk.