TG Tip: Use Clear Nail Polish to Keep Metal Cans from Rusting
Shaving cream, cooking spray, and other products in metal cans can often rust and leave marks on your counters. You can fix this with a dab…
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TG Tip: Lemons.
Want to get the most juice out of your lemons? Before cutting them, put them on your counter and roll them back and forth, applying…
TG Tip: Use Shaving Cream to Remove Tough, Greasy Stains
Foaming shaving creams are useful outside of the bathroom. They also do a great job at breaking down stubborn food and grease stains, like coffee…
TG Tip: Break an Apple into Four Slices with Hand.
It’s not that hard to break an apple into quarters. The human hand can do it without any trick or help. And don’t let anyone tell…
TG Tip: Move Heavy Furniture More Easily with Aluminum Foil
Unless you’re the Incredible Hulk, moving heavy furniture across carpet is a difficult, back-straining process. Make the process a little easier with a bit of…
TG Tip: Start a Plant in a CD Spindle Case
Turning a CD spindle case into a plant propagator or other botanical project is an incredibly easy project. CD spindle cases can make convenient little…
TG Tip: Keep Your Kitchen Sponges Dry and Grime-Free with Binder Clips
If you leave your kitchen sponges flat on the counter, you may notice they can get pretty gross—mostly because they won’t dry as quickly. The…
TG Tip: How to Fold Bed Sheets (Without Ending Up with a Sloppy Mess)
Here’s a tip (with photos) on a clever way to store sheet sets, with a bonus look at folding fitted sheets. Full size The first…
TG Tip: Store Valuables in the Kitchen to Prevent Theft
Obviously, a safe is the safest place for your valuables when you go on vacation, but if you don’t have one around, the safest place…
TG Tip: Top 10 Better Ways to Stay Warm This Winter
10. Prepare Your Furnace Ahead of Time You don’t want to wait until the temperatures are freezing before you visit your furnace, because if there’s…
TG Tip: A Strategy for Processing out-of-place Objects
When uncluttering a space, you typically find a handful of objects that belong someplace else in your home, or don’t even belong to you. In…
TG Tip: A Useful Re-use of Plastic Bottle Caps
We’re all probably cutting down on plastic bottle use, anyway. But when you do use a plastic bottle, its cap often can’t be recycled. Do you pitch…
TG Tip: Use Freezer to Recover Data from A Failed Hard Drive
When a hard drive crashes, you can lose all your data. Corrupt hard drives happen out of the blue and for seemingly no good reason….
TG Tip: Remove Scratches from a CD/DVD with Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly)
Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly) can be used for chapped lips, dry skin, and for getting rid of head lice; but how about making CDs and DVDs readable again? Well, it does that too. There are also other ways to do this on the Instructables website, but I will show you the one that I believe works best.
TG Tip: Use a Shower Cap to Cover Food
Use a shower cap (from the dollar store) to cover food for quick fridge storage. Reusable and hassle-free. Try to get the transparent types so you can see your edibles!