If you could share one household tip/life hack, what would it be?

[Dandelion78]

Mine would definitely be that drying clothes in sunlight gets rid of tomato/sauce stains. Am weaning my second child and it's a bloody lifesaver. No more soaking things for hours that still come out with orange marks on them.

What other gems are there that I need to know?

@CrumpetsForAll even better buy washable cake tin linings and never have to fiddle with grease proof paper again!

@MrsCrosbyNRTB
Totally agree!!
One of my children tipped food colouring on the seat (don't ask, wannabe scientist )... it got that out too! It's so satisfying to do aswell
Regards,
MM Magic sponge ambassador

@Koyto you have just changed my life. The magic sponge has indeed removed the yellow pee stains from under my toilet seat where every other spray and liquid known to man has failed. You deserve a Mumsnet Oscar if such a thing exists

@Mummyyyyyyyyyy

I put a sock on my hand & use it to wipe the bannisters on my way down the stairs in the morning.

I put fluffy socks on to dust the skirting boards.

You can buy generic magic sponges from ebay, they are all the same melamine sponges and much cheaper than branded ones.

@vestastilly
This is the proudest achievement of my life, helping mums up and down the land rid their toilet seats of wee stains haha

I got a pack of 100 from ebay but I didnt think to try them on the toilet seat. They get permanent marker pen off many different surfaces (not skin though, use alcohol hand gel)

Train your partner to share the mental load
Yeah, right. What do I do...stamp on his foot whenever he rolls his eyes?😁

Keep spare toothbrushes and paste downstairs in the kitchen/ toilet - saves time when you are about to leave the house for school and DC have "forgotten" to brush their teeth.

I'd echo the Pp who offered the brush/ bobble and socks in the car/ by the front door - great tip

Omg I know what I'm scrubbing with the magic eraser tomorrow! Been scratching my head for ages on how to get rid of the yellowing under our toilet seat. Nothing has shifted it at all and I hate it, especially since I KNOW I've done my absolute best to scrub it, and nothings ever worked. Even more annoying as my son always sits down to wee, and my husband often does too

If you ever get the chance to redo your bathroom. Get a back to wall toilet/ wall hung toilet. No more flippin cleaning on the frickin floor around pipes. Oh and button up duvets before they go into the machine so you dont have the rest of the bedding going around in one big lump inside the bugger.

@therestissilence

A kettle of boiling water around toilet bowl after DC has had a dump. Instantly cleans!

Don’t you risk a catastrophic cracking of the porcelain pan?

Stinking washing machine fabric conditioner drawer and mouldy bbq grill 🤢....stick em on the lawn and get the patio jet washer out. Dog will come round later and chow down the old bits of ancient meat.

[quote MadMadMadamMim]@SilverFish78

Does it kill nettles? Cos that would be brilliant, if so. I've got loads of the buggers.[/quote]
Eat them. My DD has a patch which she cultivates because she likes the taste of them so much.

@lotusmonster

Don’t you risk a catastrophic cracking of the porcelain pan?

I suspect that DC's dump has proved that it's indestructible...

@yellowsubmarines

I have tried every tip I've seen to clean bathroom floor tile grout but nothing has worked. Any suggestions (hopefully there will be something I haven't tried yet). Getting so fed up of dirty grout on the floor.

This is easy. I’ve done it. You get a new tub of grout and literally re grout over the old grout. Works fine. Good as new.

@MrsBobDylan

Don't have dogs, especially don't have three dogs. Or children. Or live with a partner.

Wish I'd seen this tip years ago ...

Buy a Bissell Pro Clean mini wet vac thing... have it ready plugged in, fuelled and ready to pounce. Fantastic for dog bile disasters, bowl of Rice Krispies down the sofa, cat piddle ....anything gross actually. Lifts a stain in seconds.

@Lotusmonster giant man dumps and other blockages can be expedited from the bog using washing up liquid. Give the pan a good squirt, wait 20 mins then swill with hot water and watch it gurgle away.

@lolacola77

Help! I've got an infuriating garage sticker on the inside of my rear window. I've tried some goo off stuff with a plastic scraper but the fucker won't budge. It's right in my eyeline and it's black. I don't want to go apeshit with a scrubber as it's on the heating elements. Any cures? I know what is supposed to help but my car is nowhere where I could plug a hairdryer in 😡

Stanley knife blade at about a 30 degree angle and a bit of care and patience.

[quote vestastilly]@Lotusmonster giant man dumps and other blockages can be expedited from the bog using washing up liquid. Give the pan a good squirt, wait 20 mins then swill with hot water and watch it gurgle away.[/quote]
Flushing while simultaneously pouring a bucket of (cold) water in works just as well without any faffing about and with washing up liquid and waiting. Our upstairs toilet suffers this problem due to plumber fitting a modern 6 litre cistern for an old 9 litre toilet. I keep an old enamel jug in the bathroom. Fill plush pour - bye bye King Log

Minimise possessions.

A bare loft, a tidy and largely empty shed, a cupboard under stairs emptied to become a pantry - I know exactly what this house contains - and little we possess in terms of “things”.

Make ‘seeing to the bins’ a marriage vow. 25 years later I just say ‘bins please’ without even looking up and he knows!

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Also- Vicks vapour rub on soles of feet then socks on top helps a child manage a snuffly nose during a cold

It really does!

People will argue that it can't possibly be effective, but I can promise you that Netaporter is right.

I went for reflexology once and the lady told me whatever she massaged on my feet I would be breathing out in about 30 minutes. So if it was garlic oil I'd have garlic breath. It was more than 20 years ago so I might not be 100% in what she said though.

@impressivelycunty

Keep packs of wipes upside down - it stops them drying out.

I keep mine in an old ice cream tub