Little tips

Tips i liked from Essentials magazine

-Remove stains with strawberries: to brighten teeth and remove stains, simply cut a strawberry in half and rub the surface along your teeth.

-Have a smoother shave: Use hair conditioner.

-Use icecube trays to store jewellery in your dressing table. The little compartments are great for keeping rings and earrings tidy.

-An over the door hanger makes a great display for beads and necklaces.

-Hang hooks on walls and hang bags and hats on them so you can see at a glance what you have and it looks quite arty too.

-Stop hiccups: Swallow one teaspoon of vinegar.

-Eradicate ink stains on clothes: Spray with hairspray and then wash.

-Make flowers last longer: Put 2 teaspoons of mouthwash in the water if you haven't got any flower food.

-Squeeze the most out of your shampoo: Decant your shampoo into a pump action dispenser, it'll last twice as long.

-Put sheets of newspaper on top of kitchen cupboards and replace occasionally - you'll never get a build up of greasy debris.

-Remove tough stains from crockery by rubbing with lemon rinds.

-Put a timer on your chores: Use a kitchen timer to set time lilits for household tasks so that your left with plenty of 'me' time.

-Vaseline the rim of nailvarnish bottles before you put the lid back on so it won't be so difficult to open next time.

-Spray the end of thread with hairspray to make it stiff and easier to thread a needle.

-Put a fragrant tumble dryer sheet in your vacumn bag so that when vacuming it leaves a nice smell.

-Doily your design: A simple way to decorate a cake is to place a doily on top and sprinkle icing sugar over, a fancy pattern will be left.

-Keep a ceramic tile and a non permanent pen near the phone and use it to write down messages - you can clean it afterwards.

-Build up of gunk on your iron? Just scrub with aluminium foil.

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