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Boil white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to descale your kettle once. Then boil your kettle with water for a further three times to give you a shiny, new kettle inside and out.

Descale Your Kettle

When you’ve popped open a tub of Pringles, the empty container

makes the perfect store for keeping spaghetti and other

uncooked pasta dry.

Pringles to Pasta

Do you get quite emotional when cutting onions? Try chewing gum and the tears will

be held at bay. Singing works too!

Emotional Cooking

To remove stems from strawberries, simply poke a straw from the bottom

through the middle of the fruit.

Strawberry Skills

Struggling to keep your recipe book open at the right page? Simply hook a trouser hanger

on a cupboard and clip the recipe pages to it.

Hanger Stand

Want to light a candle but the wick is hard to reach? Light a stick of spaghetti; it makes a great, extra long matchstick.

Spaghetti Lighter

Rather than struggling to open sti� jar lids, put a

rubber band round the lid and try again. The lid will

be o� in no time.

Easy Jar Opener

Only need the egg whites or yolk for your recipe? Crack the egg into a bowl. Squeeze a plastic bottle over the yolk

and watch it get sucked up as you let it expand, leaving the whites.

Egg Separator

Re-decorating but run out of masking tape? Use tin foil to cover light switches and door

handles instead.

Tin Foil Tips

If you’ve bought rings that aren’t real gold or silver, paint the inside with clear nail polish

to stop getting green rings around your fingers.

Green Fingers

Reaching the end of the Nutella jar? Don’t waste any. Just add a few scoops of ice cream to finish on

nutty-high!

Nutella No More Instead of using a spoon to scoop out a mango, simply

cut the fruit in half and peel it down the side of a glass cup

to easily remove the flesh.

Juicy Mangoes

When heating food up in the microwave, make a well in

the middle of your food so it heats up more evenly.

Microwave Magic

If the grooves in your screw head are worn down, place

an elastic band over the top and try screwing in.

Works like magic!

Nailed ItPut an elastic band round and over the top of your paint pot.

Wipe excess paint o� your brush against the band to avoid paint

drips and mess.

Rubber Band Brilliance

Hang a shoe organiser on the back of your door and add in all cleaning products/supplies

so they’re easier to find.

Easy CleanDon’t ditch an old wooden ladder. Bring it back to life with a lick of paint and it makes a great bathroom

towel rail.

Ladder Towel HolderUse your toothpaste to

clean any plastic items or PVC windows in your home.

Toothpaste Cleaner

To check if eggs are still fresh, drop them in a glass of

water. If they sink they’re fresh, if they float they’re bad.

Good Egg?

Put a magnetic strip on the inside of a cupboard or wardrobe to stick belts,

pins, or even spare coins to.

Magnetic Strips

Nail polish isn’t just for your nails. Paint your keys di�erent colours so you can easily

remember which one opens which door.

Key CleverAdd peppermint oil to water

and spray around your garage and door/window

frames to keep pesky spiders and mice away.

Mint RepellentAl fresco dining? Prevent bugs in

your drink. Get a mu�n case, cut a small hole in the centre and

place it over the glass. Poke a straw through for a DIY lid.

Buzz Off

If you have fleas in your home, add a flea collar to your hoover to prevent

any eggs from hatching.

Flea Killer

Do you have old leather suitcases lying around

collecting dust? Why not stack them up and use them as a side table?

Suitcase Stack

If you spill red wine on your carpet, quickly use white wine or salt to prevent a

stain from showing.

Wine = Wine

Stick a post-it horizontally underneath where you will

be drilling. Bend the bottom half up to catch

any dust that falls.

Post-It Dust Buster

We’ve all had a sip of tea, co�ee or soup and accidently

burnt our tongue. Add sugar to your tongue and it miraculously

clears the pain.

Tongue Burn

If you have a water stain on a wooden item in your home, add some mayonnaise, leave

for an hour and wipe o�. The stain will vanish!

Mayo Stain Cleaner

If you are running low on mobile phone battery,

turn it to Airplane Mode.It preserves the battery and also charges faster.

Airplane Mode

If you have lost something on your floor/carpet, put a sock or tights over the end

of the hoover tube so it doesn’t get sucked up.

Sock Hoover

Toilet, sea or sink phone disaster? If you drop your

mobile in water, put it in a bag of rice, in the airing cupboard,

and wait a couple of days.

Rice Rescue