Helpful Hints
In order not to litter your house or apartment with small things, there are various devices: organizers, cabinets, shelves, and so on.
But the problem may lie in the fact that there is not always enough money or it is difficult to find a device that is suitable in size and color. And then do-it-yourself fakes can come to the rescue and our helpful tips .
Read also: 10+ life hacks that will make your life easier 
Do you keep losing pins? This problem can be easily solved by attaching magnetic tape with glue or nails to any wooden object at home.
Housewives often have a problem - a washcloth for washing dishes is constantly lost somewhere. Just put on plastic pocket on the faucet near the sink and the problem will disappear.
In this case, such a pocket is cut out of a plastic shampoo bottle.
Highly convenient fixture for storing canned food are shelving. Perhaps you have such old shelving, if not, then they can be purchased at a hardware store.
A reliable headphone organizer is obtained by gluing two clothespins.
If you attach a small rail with a pre-installed rope, as shown in the photo, you get a hanger for small things.
DIY organizer
like this handy organizer You can do it yourself from old small boxes.
If you have Small child, then for sure you have met with the problem of toys scattered throughout the house. The figure shows one possible solution to this problem. Just attach plastic trays on the wall or closet.
Interesting iron toy shelves can be made from magnetic tape.
Such a stylish wardrobe can be built do it yourself from baskets and folders.
There are many ideas to help you Everyday life. Some will be useful if you cook, others while cleaning the room, others while traveling. Here is just a small part of useful ideas which you can use.
1. Use clothespins to cover a bag of chips, cereal, etc.
2. If your fly is constantly unzipping, use a key ring.
3. Use frozen grapes to chill wine without diluting it with water (which comes from melting ice cubes).
4. How to put two bowls in one microwave.
5. When the child grows up, you can make a table out of the crib for various activities.
6. Clean your sink without expensive chemicals. Pour half a cup of baking soda and one cup of vinegar into a clogged sink. When the foam is gone, rinse the sink with water.
7. If you need to hang something on the wall and need to know where to drill, make a copy of the item and use it as a template.
8. Insert a tea bag into smelly shoes and it will absorb unpleasant odors.
9. Place a folded newspaper in the bottom of the bin to absorb the liquid from some foods.
10. If you want to reheat the dish in microwave oven, make a hole in it, and it will heat up evenly.
11. Wrap a bottle of beer in paper towels and place in the freezer to chill your beer in just 2 minutes.
12. Use a clothespin to hold the nail in place when hammering it if you are afraid of hurting your finger with a hammer.
13. Some plastic packaging can be opened with modern can openers.
14. You can "hide" small scratches on furniture by rubbing a walnut on them.
15. The ice pack starts to drip when the ice melts. To avoid this, you can fill the sponge with water, place it in a plastic bag and freeze. You will get your own ice pack that does not drip.
16. A razor blade can be sharpened by running the razor over old denim.
17. Would you like to make a sausage sandwich? Maybe you like this option better (no exposed corners)?
18. How to carefully cut several tomatoes at once without injuring your fingers and without splashing the juice?
19. If you put wooden spoon on the pan, then boiling water will not spill, because. the spoon will pop the rising bubbles.
20. If you add a teaspoon of baking soda while boiling an egg, you can easily remove the shell.
21. If someone always picks up your pen at work or school, put the blue ink in the red pen. Thus, the likelihood that someone will take your pen again will decrease significantly.
22. If you put mobile phone into flight mode, it will charge twice as fast.
23. Use tape to fix the problem of blurry photos taken with your phone.
24. If you attach a small flashlight to a plastic water bottle, you get a large and bright lantern.
25. To take your phone, money and keys to the beach without getting them wet or covered with sand, you can use an empty, washed and dried plastic bottle from shampoo or cream.
26. And here's how you can charge your phone while traveling (a USB cable will help, because many hotels have TVs with a USB input).
27. How to quickly fold a T-shirt.
28. Here's how to fold spare clothes compactly.
29. If you need to use AA batteries for a particular gadget, and you only have AAA batteries, you can use folded foil. Such batteries will not last long, but in emergency cases this method will help you.
30. If you want to play games on your smartphone, but pop-up ads bother you, put your phone in flight mode.
Many troubles around the house can be fixed very easily and quickly. The main thing is to apply the right methods. The article contains tips on the house, which in any case will help you sooner or later.
1. Odorless bag
Must be eliminated bad smell in a bag? Put an unused tea bag in it for one day.
2. Pipes without blockage
For cleaning sewer pipes use salt. Pour it into the pipe and rinse with boiling water.
3. Traces of sunburn
Often artificial skin tanning is the cause of uneven skin lightening, that is, the presence of spots. To avoid this, you need to use baking soda, a small amount of which is applied to problem areas with a sponge.
4. Clean iron
Carbon deposits on the sole of the iron are easily removed with a mixture ammonia and vinegar. Soak a soft cloth in the solution and wipe the iron.
5. Vegetable soup
in soups from fresh vegetables do not put spices - Bay leaf, black pepper and others. It is better to sprinkle the finished soup with herbs - it is healthier and tastier.
6. Hygiene in the kitchen
Be sure to treat wooden kitchen boards with a vinegar and water solution. It is necessary to cut products on a perfectly clean surface.
7. Salad with butter
Vegetable oil should be added to the salad only after salt, vinegar, and pepper have been added to it. Remember that salt cannot dissolve in oil.
8. Cold compote
To quickly cool hot compote, put the pan with it in a bowl bigger size with cold salted water.
9. Delicious buckwheat
To cook delicious buckwheat porridge, water should be twice as much as cereals. Cover the pot in which the porridge is cooked. Cook the porridge first on high heat, and then on low heat.
10. Odorless fish
When cooking such types of fish as flounder and cod, an unpleasant specific smell is released, which can be eliminated by adding parsley root, celery to the dish. Onions added to the dish will be useful.
11. Flowers in the room
Wildflowers will last longer if you add a couple of drops to the vase detergent. The main thing in this matter is not to overdo it, as the opposite effect is possible.
12. Cleaning to shine
In order to obtain a snow-white bath, it is necessary to prepare a special solution for cleaning it: soda ash(2 tablespoons) + baking soda (2 tablespoons). Next, rub your bath with this mixture. The bath must be damp. Wait 5 minutes (important - do not wash off the layer) and apply the following mixture: vinegar (50 g) + bleach (50 g). It remains to wait half an hour and wash off the layers.
13. Snow-white curtains
If the windows in your home are equipped with white synthetic curtains, then after washing during the drying process, exclude direct sunlight from entering.
14. Clean entrance hall
The floor of the hallway is characterized by rapid soiling. To eliminate this undesirable phenomenon, you need to get a stand for shoes. A tray is perfect as a stand and cork backing. You can buy them at almost any building materials store.
15. Laundry bags
They are indispensable when washing delicate fabrics. However, you should not rush to buy them in the store, as they can be made with your own hands. For this purpose, a regular duvet cover is suitable.
16. Economical cooking
If you decide to treat your loved ones and relatives with small pasta, then do not strive to cook them until they are fully cooked. As soon as the water boils, throw in the pasta, stir, turn off the gas and be sure to cover with a lid. In 10 minutes they will be ready.
17. TV in place
Place your computer monitor and TV in evenly lit areas to optimize brightness and contrast adjustments to a lower level. This will result in savings electrical energy- up to 5% monthly.
18. Air freshener
If you suddenly run out of perfume, then do not rush to throw out the bottle from them. Remove the dispenser, pour plain water into a bottle (1/2 the volume of the bottle) and release the wooden sticks there. They will absorb flavored moisture and distribute it throughout the home.
DON'T THROW OUT YOUR OLD GRINDER
When you need to cover a lot of glass during repairs garden house, prepare a sufficient number of flagella from the putty by scrolling the putty through an old meat grinder.
Lana Ishanova, Volgograd
IF THERE IS NO OVEN IN THE COTTAGE
You can also cook on a fire, but it takes a long time. I offer my proven method.
Dip dry red brick for a day in kerosene. It burns for a long time, the weather does not affect.
S. Shagiakhmetova, Krasnoyarsk Territory
HOW TO MAKE A GARDEN BENCH
The bench is made of hewn boards, its dimensions can be different.
First, two sidewalls of the same size are made, the width of which should not be less than 20 cm. The height is selected as needed. Then a fastening rectangle is prepared, which is fastened with nails or screws. After that, the lid is nailed, which is made 5-10 cm longer than the frame and 3-5 cm wider. The nails are nailed so that the lid connects all parts of the frame.
Yusup Gelazov, Ulyanovsk region
COUNTRY TOOL RACK
I suggest making a pencil stand. It will be possible to put all the tools in it.
Dimensions - according to your desire. The base is determined by the edges, you can paint it in any color you like. Furniture varnish is suitable for covering the rack. The rack can hold the bags upright.
At a distance equal to the width of the bag, hoops are attached to the stand, to which bags can be attached using clothespins, ties or rubber bands.
N.V. Popov, settlement Betlitsa, Kaluga region
WE LEAVE WATER IN BARRELS FOR THE WINTER
My advice to those who prefer to leave water in barrels for the winter.
WARM FRAME FOR TOILET
Not everyone has a toilet in the house, and I think the frame I propose will be useful to everyone who has "outdoor conveniences": it does not "cold" and is not covered with frost.
Making it is simple: take pressed plywood 10 mm thick and cut the frame to the size you need. Then, using PVA glue, glue the foam plastic 40 mm or 20 mm thick on this frame in two layers. This frame can be put on a toilet seat or a bucket.
V.P. Belev, pos. Oktyabrsky, Krasnodar Territory
BIRD FEEDERS
From a five-liter bottle of water, a spacious bird feeder is obtained. It is necessary to cut two rectangular holes-windows on the sides of the bottle, and attach the cut pieces with adhesive tape as visors above them. Color the bottle oil paint in bright colors, hang it on a tree, fill it with bird food, and your feeder is ready.
A.A. Zakharyin, p. Kapyrevshchina, Smolensk region
WE REPAIR THE SLOT
Slots in wooden structures in the country I close up like this: I pour newsprint hot water, with the resulting gruel I close up all the cracks. Simple and fast.
YES. Kilina, Novokuznetsk
INTERESTING IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Not everyone likes to carry buckets.
I want to offer readers home smoker. For the smokehouse you will need: an old pan with a wide bottom, a lid from it, a ceramic electric stove with a spiral, with a plug and a cord, steel wire for skewers. And if there are ready-made skewers, they will do.
AT aluminum pan just above the bottom you need to make a hole for the wire. The hole must be large enough for the wire to pass through freely. With a hacksaw for metal, 10 vertical cuts must be made - 5 on each side - on the walls of the pan to half the height of the pan.
File all burrs and sharp edges.
IMPORTANT!
The width of the cuts should be such that the skewers can be easily put in and taken out.
Then it is necessary to pass the wire inside the pan, attach it to the contacts of the ceramic tile and insulate. Ceramic tile should lie freely on the bottom of the pan, and the wire should be of sufficient length so that the entire heating element it was easy to get it out, clean it from sawdust and put it back in the pan.
From steel wire make the skewers larger than the diameter of the pan so they don't fall in. Also you will need sawdust. They will be coals. Birch or hawthorn are well suited. And pine and spruce are not suitable - they are too resinous.
Raw products are prepared in a real powerful smokehouse, and they are smoked for quite a long time. And in our smokehouse we do not smoke, but bring it to a smoked state, and the process lasts 20-25 minutes. During this time, the smoke has enough time to saturate the product. At the same time, there will be a unique smell and a specific taste.
The spiral will heat up, and the sawdust will not burn, but smolder, actively emitting smoke, which will then come out through the slots, and therefore the pan should be placed in the garden. Sausage, cheese, sausages are suitable for smoking.
After the end of smoking, turn off the stove (let the spiral cool down) and remove it from the pan (this is where a long cord comes in handy), shake out the processed sawdust. Everything, the smokehouse is ready to work again!
G. S. Yakovleva, Perm
FOR EXAMPLE
We take 200-300 g of pork, cut into 6-10 pieces and fry in a pan in the usual way with spices and salt. Then we put pieces of meat on skewers, pour a handful of sawdust on the surface of the tile, insert the skewers into the slots, close the pan with a lid and plug the cord into the outlet.
COLLECTION OF METAL CHIPS do-it-yourself
It often happens that after drilling metal, for example, with a drill in the country, even after cleaning, the smallest particles of metal chips remain.
They are dangerous because at any moment they can suddenly pierce the skin. I propose a simple device for clean cleaning steel shavings, including fine dust.
Take cardboard box from under milk, kefir with a volume of 1 l or 0.5 l. Cut out two sides as well as two holes as shown. Inside the box, put a magnet, for example, from an old speaker, with twine tied to it (household magnets, fastened into a briquette with tape or tied, are also suitable).
Take the box with the magnet by the upper ears and move it close over those places where there is or could remain chips, even if they are not immediately visible.
Useful tricks for the home improve and simplify life. There are life hacks that allow you to conduct more efficiently household. It will be useful for many to implement them in life.
A small budget forces you to look for ways to save money. Useful tips for the home in this case will be most welcome.
Using only one battery in the remote control
Are the batteries in your TV remote dead? If there are no spares at home, it can be a disaster. But if there is at least one spare battery, the technique will come to life. You need to leave one old power supply in the remote control and insert one new one. The voltage will be small, but it will be enough for the appearance of an infrared signal. True, according to the law of conservation of energy, one battery will be discharged earlier than two or three.
Life hack is not suitable for cases where significant power is required. It will not allow you to save on toys with a motor, cameras. But in the console or Wall Clock you can put one battery.
DIY mosquito trap
Mosquitoes fly to the warm carbon dioxide released during respiration. They can be deceived by luring on the gas from the yeast fermentation.
Making a trap:
- cut the throat of a dark plastic bottle;
- connect both parts by turning the top upside down;
- pour into a bottle warm water;
- pour two tablespoons of sugar and a quarter teaspoon of dry yeast;
- put on the windowsill.
The trap will work 7-10 days.
Growing onions on a windowsill
Fresh herbs are a valuable source of vitamins. In winter in the store green onion it costs expensive. To save money, you need to do home distillation. To do this, the bulbs are placed in a glass of water so that the liquid reaches the bottom. If you can buy onions already starting to germinate in the store, forcing will go faster.
Place the vessels with onions on a light windowsill. It will be possible to cut feathers in two weeks.
Stationery clip instead of a photo frame
The office clip is a versatile item that can be used by at least ten different ways. We propose to make a frame for a photo out of it. Instead of a photo in a frame, you can put an important reminder.
Attach 1-2 clips to the bottom edge of the photo. The photo placed on the table will keep its balance steadily.
Bush phone speaker amplifier
A towel sleeve and two plastic cups can act as phone speakers.
Manufacturing:
- cut in the side surfaces of the glasses one at a time round hole, corresponding to the diameter of the sleeve;
- put the glass on the sleeve;
- cut a slot in the center of the sleeve;
- insert your smartphone into the slot.
Such speakers look clumsy, but they can be a way out when there is nothing else at hand, for example, in nature. The sound becomes much better as it is amplified by the voids in the glasses.
A house in which order reigns is the dream of any hostess. In order for each thing to lie in its place and be accessible, you need to use popular life hacks for the home.
Putting things right
For many people, the wardrobe is more like a laundry basket. It is not difficult to correct this situation. The Kon Mari method is now popular, named after its author, a Japanese writer. She came up with an incredibly convenient and practical way to put things on the shelf - not in piles, but in rolls. As a result, each thing is visible, it can be reached without turning the rest. In this form, you can store knitwear, jeans and other non-wrinkling wardrobe items.
Outerwear
A compact way to place outerwear on the bar:
- tuck sleeves and hood inward;
- put on a coat hanger;
- hang it on the bar.
Children's and adult jackets and down jackets look much neater and take up less space.
shirts
Shirts are kept folded in the closet. If you fold the thing correctly, there will be no creases, folds and bruises on it, it will not take up much space in the closet.
Folding the shirt:
- hold the washed and ironed thing for at least half an hour on a hanger in the room so that it cools completely;
- fasten all buttons (on the sleeves too);
- put a cardboard rectangle inside, as they do in stores;
- fold to the middle of the sleeve;
- bend back.
The shirt should look like a rectangle.
linen
The drawer for underwear is rarely in order. A pile of panties and bras takes up a lot of space. If you fold them in the form of small rectangles, the box will become much more spacious.
Any panties can be folded with rectangles: boxers, shorts, thongs. If you fold each rectangle in half, you get rolls. They can be stacked at the bottom of the drawer like pencils in a pencil case. This is vertical storage, which was invented by the famous Kon Mari. If you pull out the cabinet, which contains the laundry folded in this way, you can take a look at all the toilet items at a glance and remove the one you need without wrinkling the rest.
Cleaning the sink drain with salt
Most often, the sink in the kitchen is clogged due to grease stuck in the pipes. In this case, salt and soda will come to the rescue:
- half a glass of salt and a glass of soda dissolve in a glass hot water;
- pour into drain;
- Wait 10 minutes;
- clean with a plunger;
- rinse with boiling water.
Removing pet hair from surfaces with rubber gloves
Clean wool from carpets and upholstered furniture conveniently with a special roller with adhesive tape. If there is no such device on the farm, put rubber or latex gloves on your hands, wet them, and rub the upholstery. Wool will stick to wet rubber or roll into clumps.
Removing labels with a hairdryer
Many wondered how to remove a label from plastic or metal so that no traces of it remain. If you try to just tear off the sticky paper, a stain will remain. Even worse, if you manage to separate only part of the label, and start scraping off the rest with your nails or a knife.
It is better to use a household hair dryer:
- warm up the sticker for about a minute;
- pick up the edge with your nails;
- separate slowly.
Removing stains with lemon
Lemon contains a lot of organic acid, which is able to “eat away” stains from tissue. This product is tough on blood, rust and felt-tip pens. Apply to stain lemon juice, sprinkle with table salt and place the fabric in the sun for several hours.
Washing with lemon juice to restore brightness to things
Lemon juice brightens fabrics. Lemon flavors and removes stains. Just add lemon juice to your laundry detergent.
Interesting ideas for home
In small kitchens there is always not enough space. Arrange the things you need to have on hand on the inside door of your kitchen cabinets. To do this, it is not necessary to spoil the headset with a drill. Use Velcro hooks. Under a particularly heavy thing, stick a pushpin with a long head into the door. In this way, you can hang anything, from towels to pans.
A uniquely beautiful vase or flower pot can be made using fabric. To do this, you need to fit any vessel with the material you like and fix it beautifully with ribbons. Small planters covered with colorful chintz look incredibly cute. An ordinary jar or bottle wrapped in lace turns into an exquisite interior detail.
Often, assorted mugs accumulate in the buffet - the remnants of former services. If it is no longer supposed to drink tea or coffee from them, and it is a pity to throw out the whole thing, it is possible to turn them into flower pots. You will need a drill with a ceramic nozzle, which you need to carefully drill a small hole in the bottom of the mug to drain water. After that, any suitable size flower will grow in a new pot without any problems.
Decorate the drawer of a sofa or chair from the inside beautiful wallpaper. A cheap and plain technical fabric is always used to finish this piece of furniture. If you use a furniture stapler and a piece of wallpaper left over from the repair, the furniture inside will become as beautiful as the outside.
Turn boring brooches, earrings, pendants of no jewelry value into decorative bookmarks for books. The decoration is fixed on a piece of braid, so that it hangs from the book. The braid will be a bookmark, and a brooch or earring will decorate the folio.
The house always accumulates a lot of used plastic bags that can still serve. They are convenient to store in a napkin holder - cardboard box with a hole in the center. It can be hung on the inner surface of the door kitchen cabinet. It is more convenient to get packages from a napkin holder than from anywhere else.
Office file holders help organize your shoes. Place a pair of flat sandals or house slippers in each compartment. With this method of storage, shoes are always available and do not take up much space.
Springs from old cot still able to serve. They are used as hangers for jeans. One side of the spring is fixed on the wardrobe rod. Pants are hung by a belt loop.
Old terry sock - irreplaceable thing for house cleaning. It can be put on a mop instead of a special nozzle. It can become a cover for an umbrella. Dried herbs such as lavender or mint are stuffed inside and the sock turns into a closet sachet that repels moths. Having stuffed a children's sock with foam rubber, you can get a comfortable needle bed.
A person who loves order and his home does a lot with his own hands. Listed in the article useful tricks help organize your life, save money and time.