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Thirteen beach fixes turn a stack of hardware-store junk into a full day of shade, cold drinks, and sand-free gear.
Troom Troom SELECT’s “13 Beach Life Hacks / Coolest Summer Ideas!” doesn’t waste time on the usual “bring sunscreen and a towel” advice. The video runs through thirteen specific builds using items most people already have lying around — pool noodles, zip-top bags, an old serving tray, rice powder, spring hooks — and turns them into working beach gear on camera. It’s the kind of high-volume DIY content that made Troom Troom’s network one of YouTube’s biggest life-hack machines, and this particular upload racked up millions of views inside that catalog.
- The video’s official supply manifest lists 25 items, including baking paper, rice powder, an inflatable mattress, a tent, cords, a serving tray, pool noodles, a box cutter, fabric, plastic bottles, pebbles, a coin, watermelon, hot glue, cardboard, zip-top bags, mesh bags, coconut oil, wheat germ oil, a beach mat, rope, a smartphone, and spring hooks.
- Demonstrated builds include a floating drink holder made from pool noodles and a tray, mesh-bag and fabric tricks for shaking sand out of gear, homemade sun-care mixes using coconut oil, wheat germ oil, and rice powder, and a zip-pack method for waterproofing a smartphone at the beach.
- Other hacks in the lineup cover shade shelters and anchor points built from rope, pebbles, and spring hooks, plus portable loungers and a DIY cooler rig, all filmed as part of Troom Troom’s viral summer content push.
The Sand and Water Problem
Most beach-hack videos treat sand as an afterthought. This one builds two separate solutions around it. A mesh bag becomes the go-to fix for shaking loose sand out of clothing and gear before it ends up in the car, while a tailored piece of fabric gets repurposed as a sand barrier for gear that can’t just be shaken out. The zip-pack trick for the smartphone solves the other classic beach failure point — a phone getting soaked or buried — by sealing it inside a bag that still allows the screen to be used.
The video also leans on cheap plastic bottles and pebbles as anchor weights, a detail that shows up again when the tent and rope segment gets built. Instead of buying stakes, the video uses what’s already in a beach bag — bottles filled with sand or pebbles doubling as weights to keep cords and shelter lines taut against wind coming off the water.
Cooling Down Without a Cooler
Two of the segments focus entirely on temperature. Watermelon shows up as both a snack and a cooling prop, while the coconut oil and wheat germ oil combination gets mixed with rice powder into a homemade sun-care paste — a low-cost stand-in for store-bought lotion using ingredients most kitchens already stock. The rice powder recurs a second time as a drying agent, playing off the same sand-management theme running through the rest of the video.
Pool noodles and a serving tray, glued and cut down with a box cutter, become a floating drink holder that keeps cans cold and within arm’s reach in the water.
That floating-tray build is the video’s most shareable moment — the kind of visual gag that travels well on a platform built for quick, satisfying payoffs. It’s also a fair example of how Troom Troom SELECT structures nearly every one of these videos: cheap materials, a box cutter and hot glue gun doing most of the actual assembly, and a finished product that looks far more polished than the ingredient list would suggest.
Shelter, Storage, and Setup
The tent and inflatable mattress segments round out the video’s more structural hacks. Cords and spring hooks turn a basic tent setup into something that can be anchored more securely against wind, while the inflatable mattress and beach mat combination gets repurposed into a lounger that’s easier to pack down than a full-size beach chair. Readers looking for a dedicated shelter option to pair with these tricks can compare setups in Best Bug Out Tent on the market?, and the cardboard-and-fabric storage builds in the video sit in the same DIY space covered under InfoSearched’s Life Hacks coverage.
Cardboard and fabric also get folded into a makeshift cooler box, closing the loop on the video’s core promise: nothing here requires a trip to a specialty store. A coin, a serving tray, and a length of rope carry as much weight in these builds as any purpose-bought camping gear would.
Troom Troom SELECT built its following on exactly this format — thirteen tight segments, no wasted setup, and a payoff every ninety seconds or so. The floating-tray drink holder is the one clip from this video that keeps getting pulled out and reposted on its own, which tends to be the real measure of whether one of these hack videos lands.
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