Here are some hacks that will help out in multiple areas of your daily life. You should know about these because they are really awesome.
Hacks for Powdered Drink Mixes
I bet there are a lot of you that have empty CD spindles with lids. Use them to take bagels to work or on a picnic. They are perfect for it.
When you break anything glass and aren’t sure whether or not you got up all of the splinters when you swept up the glass, there are two alternatives that you can choose from to make sure. The first alternative is to take some damp paper towels and wipe over the area and make sure that nothing comes up on the paper towels. If anything comes up, then repeat the process until no glass shards come up on the paper towels.
The second alternative is to take a strip of heavy-duty packing tape and go over the area lightly. I say lightly so that if there are any glass shards that cling to the tape you won’t cut your hand. If there are any shards, repeat the process until the tape comes up with no glass shards on it.
Heavy Duty Shipping Tape can be used in many ways. Some are listed below.
To keep from having to buy expensive lint remover roller refills, just tear off some heavy-duty shipping tape. The glue is probably stronger on the shipping tape than on the lint roller anyway.
Use heavy-duty shipping tape to clean down in the crevices of your furniture. You can fold it up to make it go in the cracks easier. You will probably be surprised how much dirt the tape brings back up with it.
Use the heavy-duty shipping tape to clean around your baseboards, window sills, and doorways. The strong glue can pick up dirt that dust rags can’t.
Use Microwave to Kill Bacteria on Sponges
I used to take the end of a new roll of tape, where the piece of paper is so that you can find the starting edge, and fold some of the tape over and over it to make a holder so that you could always get the end very easily. After discovering the bread tags, I no longer have to go to all of that trouble. Now I can just use a bread tag, after I get my next bread with a tag and not a twist tie. I got the picture off of Google.
In an earlier blog, I mentioned other uses for bread tag or clips. This one I just heard about today, and found the picture tonight on Google. It’s says wikiHow on the bottom of it. If you have a pair of flip-flops that are broken due to a split in the sole, use a bread tag to fix it. It fits around the toe piece perfectly. Glue the tag to the flip-flop right under the bottom of the toe piece. If you are afraid that just one won’t do the trick, then put a second one on it.
Whenever I am hammering a nail is somewhere, I always remember the time when I was trying to put boards down, in the attic where I lived, so that I could store stuff up in the attic. For a pretty good time, I was doing fine, next thing I knew I had whammed my finger with the hammer while my finger was on the top of the nail. The flat top of the nail cut into my finger really badly. My finger started bleeding and wouldn’t stop.
I got up to get out of the attic and my foot slipped and my whole leg went through the ceiling right in the living room. Not a very good day. I started using a pair of pliers to hold the nail, whenever I was hammering one in after that. Then I started using a clothespin because the clothespin would hold onto the nail by itself.
There was not a chance that I would miss the nail and pliers holding the nail and hit my hand. I Googled to find a picture of a clothespin holding a nail and found the one below. There is also a device at hardware stores with different size slots in it to hold different size nails.
Believe it or not, there are other things that ice trays can be used for besides ice.
Make freezer pops for the kids. Pour fruit juice of drink mixes that have been mixed up into the ice tray. If you catch them just before they freeze you can put plastic spoons in the individual cubes as handles. Put them into the water as ice or the drink that the cubes were made out of, so when they melt, they won’t dilute the drink.
Put coffee into the ice trays for when you want ice coffee, the frozen coffee won’t dilute the iced coffee like actual ice cubes will.
You can put individual eggs into each cube area and freeze them to use whenever a recipe calls for eggs. After the eggs have frozen, put them in a freezer bag and take out however many you need as you need them. It will save a lot of time by not having to crack the eggs at the time you need them.