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 of clear nail polish. Paint the bottom ring of your shaving cream cans with clear nail polish and they won’t leave rust rings in your bathroom. [Via – Lifehacker]
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 heavy pressure with the heel of your hand. This will help break down the lemon and make them easier to juice! Use a tool like a citrus reamer to get […]
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 or mustard stains from clothing or carpets. Just dab a little on the stain, let it settle in, and then blot the shaving cream – and the stain – away. […]
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 you a green apple is easier to break than a red one. Color doesn’t matter. You just need to practice. Start with an apple that is easy to break like a golden delicious […]
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 aluminum foil. While you can always grab furniture sliders to move that big furniture, a bit of aluminum foil should help serve the same purpose. Just stick it under the […]
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 greenhouses for starting seeds for the garden, growing humidity-loving plants indoors, or making school projects. You can find them in various sizes and probably have a few lying around just […]
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 solution? Stand it up on a binder clip. It’ll air dry much quicker and your sponge will last longer. Just one more reason to have a big bag of these […]
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 step is folding the fitted sheet. The trick is in tucking one of the fitted corners inside another corner. Full size Next, do the same with the other set of […]
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 to store important items is probably the kitchen, since it’s so often skimmed over by criminals. Tech and home-centric blog Unplggd recently posted about a reader that stored his laptop […]
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 anything wrong, you’ll be caught in freezing temperatures while you repair it. As winter approaches, give everything a good test run to make sure it works so you aren’t scrambling […]
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 your kitchen you might find a tape dispenser that should be stored in your office, or you’ll find a tool in your garage that actually belongs in your neighbor’s garage. […]
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 it, or put it to a new use? Here’s one idea that will have you saving the cap to use time and again: This idea has been floating through a […]
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. If your hard drive fails, what can you do? One option is to call a hard drive recovery company. If your data is worth a lot of money to you, […]
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.
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!
