Here's a collection of great ideas that I came across on the Internet.
How's this for a comfortable way to polish your floors?
Some of them could save you time, some are really useful, and there's bound to be at least one idea that you will use.
1. Polish the floor as you walk
How's this for a comfortable way to polish your floors?
Recycle an old bathmat, or buy one on the cheap and stick to the bottom of plain slippers.
2. Stack 'em up
When the rugby is on and the friends pop around, you need to have a fridge that will accommodate all of the drinks.
This idea is extremely useful - simply pile up the bottled drinks in the fridge and keep them in place with a bulldog clip. Now there's plenty of room for the food.
Isn't it amazing how the tumble dryer ‘eats’ socks? Put a pair in and only one comes out. Use the sock as a glove to pick up dust or apply some polish and use it to buff up your furniture.
3. Sock it to your furniture
Isn't it amazing how the tumble dryer ‘eats’ socks?
Put a pair in and only one comes out.
Now you can use that spare sock to polish your antique and wood furniture. Use the sock as a glove to pick up dust or apply some polish and use it to buff up your furniture.
4. Iron out stubborn wrinkles
Don't throw away that last piece of tin foil.
To get wrinkles out of silk, wool, and rayon clothing that can't take direct heat, place a piece of foil on your ironing board, then lay the garment flat over it.
With the steam button down, pass the iron 5 to 6 cm over the fabric several times.
A CD case makes the perfect lunchbox for a bread roll or croissant filled with your favourite foods.
Wet heat radiating from the foil helps smooth out the wrinkles.
5. Designer rugs
You've found a rug you love for your home but it's too small?
No problem – use some carpet tape to join two rugs together and then add a few basic stitches to make it last.
Start end stitching on the back side to keep the top looking neat.
6. Invent new ways
Before you throw stuff into the trash, think about ways that your trash can be used again.
Toothpaste is perfect for buffing away fine scratches on CDs.
A CD case makes the perfect lunchbox for a bread roll or croissant filled with your favourite foods.
7. Recycle tin foil
To get baked-on food off a glass pan or an oven rack, use dishwashing liquid and a ball of foil in place of a steel-wool soap pad.
It's one way to recycle those used but perfectly good pieces of foil you normally throw out.
8. Use a fork to fluff up a carpet
Furniture flattened the carpet?
Use the tines of a fork to gently fluff plush carpet fibres back to their original height, removing dents left by heavy furniture.
Now, that's a real fork lift.
9. Buff away scratches
Toothpaste is perfect for buffing away fine scratches on CDs.
It's also a great jewellery cleaner - apply a small amount to an old toothbrush and your rings will shine.
Article courtesy of www.home-dzine.co.za