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Use a dry erase marker to leave yourself a mirror-note. Lifehacker reader ayellen shared a great, if unconventional, use for dry-erase markers: I write my to-do list on my mirror.

Get a dry erase marker (yes, we will make marks to take marks) and a dry eraser. Draw over what you want to erase (make sure you draw slowly to fill it in better). Erase. Done!

But a dry erase marker won’t turn any heads. And this one holds its own little secret. It acts as a master key for hotel room door locks. This is really more of a repackaging hack.

“There was this single-use dry erase marker,” McAllister said. “The body is plastic, the nib is plastic, the cap is plastic, the ink is soaked in plastic — it’s all garbage.