One useful tip will make your life a little easier and increase your free time. It is much more effective to use several household tricks at once. Below are fifteen simple solutions. These simple little things will allow you to enjoy a movie, read, play the guitar and engage in other interesting activities longer.
Tips 1–5 about food and cooking
- Yellow bananas look fresh and delicious. Black fruits are already unattractive. You can slow down the browning by wrapping tape around the base of the bananas. This will delay the blackening from 3 to 5 days.
- This tip will prevent the lemon from drying out in the refrigerator. Throwing away a citrus root means losing the opportunity to keep the pulp fresh. A piece of lemon must be pierced through with a toothpick. Now, the next time you cut a citrus, you need to pin the root on top. This way, the freshness of the pulp will be preserved.
- It's hard to keep track of a boiling pot when you're engrossed in sewing or watching a movie. The brew will not spill onto the stove if you place a wooden spoon or rolling pin on top of the dish.
- This last tip is for those who don't like lumps of salt in their salt shakers. The moisture will stop accumulating if you put a few grains of rice there.
- Vegetables, herbs, fruits and other foods dull the blender blades over time. Four broken eggs will return the former sharpness. Their shells should be placed in the freezer for 30 minutes and poured into a blender. After turning on the device, whipping will begin, during which sharpening will occur.
Tips 6 and 7 about clothes
- This method will smooth the item without an iron. To do this, mix water, vinegar and fabric softener evenly. Now all that remains is to pour this solution into a spray bottle and sprinkle it on your blouse, shirt or other clothing. When sprayed, not only light, but also colored things will gradually smooth out.
- Clothes that are constantly sliding off the hanger will be held in place by an elastic band if you wrap it around each side of the hanger. Now the T-shirt or dress will not fall off.
Tip 8 and 9 for plants
- Do not pour out the contents of the pan in which the eggs were boiled. This water contains calcium, and therefore has a beneficial effect on plants. First, this liquid is cooled and then poured into a watering can or bottle for further watering of flowers.
- When the house is abandoned for a week or more, the flowers are left without watering. Single plants will get enough moisture by filling a plastic bag with water. After which you need to pierce a hole in it with a needle and attach it to the ground with a puncture. So, the soil will slowly and gradually moisten.
Tips 10–13 about cleaning
- The broom will stop breaking when sweeping if it stays in hot water with salt for 2 hours. After this, you need to wash off the dust and hang it to dry.
- A mixture of fabric softener and water can slow down dust accumulating in a room. Soak a cloth with the solution and walk over dusty surfaces. This product will not only keep the shelves clean longer, but will also fill the room with a pleasant smell.
- Every 3-4 days the bag in the bucket is filled with garbage and replaced. With this advice, you only have to do this once a month. To do this, the bucket is covered with 10–20 bags at once, one on top of the other. Now, you don’t have to get a new package every time.Plus, when one of them leaks, two are thrown out at once.
- The mirror will fog up less if you rub the surface with dry soap and then wipe off the “scraped bits” with a dry and soft cloth.
Tips 14 and 15 about other little things
- A few lit candles will remove the smell of tobacco.
- This advice is for those who cannot remove old wallpaper during renovation. For easy removal, you need to apply a wet cloth to them and then iron them.
As the list shows, in addition to simplifying cleaning, cooking and speeding up repairs, you can enjoy the fruits longer and also take care of the flowers. Using at least 5 tricks will significantly increase the time for interesting activities.
