Thought it'd be nice to compile some handy tips for the home. I'll keep adding as I think of them.
The little hoop on the inside of a jacket is for putting a hangar through in order to hang. (You might think "duh,," but this was a eureka moment for me)
Put a kitchen garbage bag in your bathroom garbage cans. That way when you go to empty out the trash, you have extra room to throw away other stuff you're picking up.
The clean house is just for us. Thinking back - it must have been 10 years or more since anyone visited our house. And just as long since we visited anyone else except for my wife’s parents.
I’m OCD about way too much stuff but it looks like I may have one more item now.....
I have the swifter with no bottle for solution. I use cut up t-shirts to dry mop the floors. I do still end up with a little pile of stuff that doesn't stick to the cloth. You can also use scraps of fleece. To scrub the floors, I use cut up towels or the dish cloths with net on one side I put a bunch of them in a little bucket of water/cleaner and scrub away. Cheaper than the wet-jet solution. I use maybe a half dozen each time. Into the washer they go.
Playing, I too line my pans with foil, but the other day I oven roasted a whole head of Cauliflower in a Dutch oven type pot, and lined it too, I would have been scrubbing away afterwards had I not lined it. Don't know why I never thought to line a pot before!
Foil is expensive here so I use parchment paper to line my baking pans and even when making things like meatloaf. It is less expensive and works great. You can even wrap foods in it and cook or steam it. I have made delicious salmon this way. I always dampen the paper first.
I save plastic gift cards or other similar items like the fake credit cards you sometimes get it the mail to use as pot scrapers.They're great for getting stuck on casserole bits off,and come in handy when there's stuff stuck on the stovetop,too.
I save plastic gift cards or other similar items like the fake credit cards you sometimes get it the mail to use as pot scrapers.They're great for getting stuck on casserole bits off,and come in handy when there's stuff stuck on the stovetop,too.
My wife has a scraper that came from TupperWare way back when. It’s merely a square piece of plastic beveled at the edge. I use it all the time and wondered how I would replace it if I ever needed to.
LOL I have one from over 20 years ago that came with a freezer. Never used it on the freezer but did use it on anything else in the kitchen I could find. I don't think they ever wear out so just don't lose yours.
We have a hook right beside the exterior doors with a flashlight hanging on it, very handy and always know where it's at.
Cheap carpet remnants on garage floor at entry to house. Keeps the house cleaner and a good place to take off boots. When they get dirty, I hang them on a saw horse, hose them out and sun dry. When they get bad, just throw them out and replace.
Keep some cardboard boxes in back of the car or pickup most of the time, so small items and groceries don't roll around in transport.
Keep a 6' "boat docking hook" in bed of my pickup to hook and drag things out, or push items to front of the bed. Almost never have to crawl up in the truck bed anymore.
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