- Hull strawberries easily using a straw.
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Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes.
- Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40 (also works on walls).
- Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band.
- Overhaul your linen cupboard – store bed linen sets inside one of their own
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pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match.
- Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone / iPod in a bowl – the concave shape amplifies the music.
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Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags.
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Add this item to your beach bag. Baby powder gets sand off your skin easily
- Attach a Velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys.
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Look up! Use wire to make a space to store gift wrap rolls against the ceiling, rather than cluttering up the floor.
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Gotcha! Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose.
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Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a box lid.
- Forever losing your bathroom essentials? Use magnetic strips to store bobby pins (and tweezers and clippers) behind a vanity door.
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A tip for holiday packing. Store shoes inside shower caps to stop dirty soles rubbing on your clothes. And you can find them in just about every hotel!
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A muffin pan becomes a craft caddy. Magnets hold the plastic cups down to make them tip-resistant.
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Bread tags make the perfect-sized cord labels.
- Bake cupcakes directly in ice-cream cones – so much more fun and easier for kids to eat.
- Microwave your own popcorn in a plain brown paper bag. Much healthier and cheaper than the packet stuff.
- Brilliant space-saver: install a tension rod to hang your spray bottles. Genius!
- Turn your muffin pan upside down, bake cookie-dough over the top and voila –you have cookie bowls for fruit or ice-cream.
- Click here for recipe.
- Freeze Aloe Vera in ice-cube trays for soothing sunburn relief.
- Gutter garden: Create a window-box veggie patch using guttering.
- Use egg cartons to separate and store your Christmas decorations.
