Everyone has a trick or two up their sleeve when faced with everyday quandaries but these astute few have really taken their creativity to new levels to find a solution.

Men and women have been taking to Imgur to share their most creative solutions to everyday woes - including using peppers as makeshift cups, hair brushes as wing mirrors and a rather cunning way of texting while in school.

Other canny hacks included using a lock of hair as an eye mask to catch some sleep on a plane and even creating their own swimming pool on a balcony.

These ingenious shortcuts will certainly have you saying: 'I wish I'd thought of that' and prove that there's always a solution to a problem - no matter how impossible it might seem.