Multiple random uses for household objects

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I was just using a drawing pin to reset my WiFi router and it got me thinking about how many items I use as not intended!
i have been called the Queen of improvisation more than once!
Here are a few of mine, I'm sure I will think of more
Safety pins
vaseline.. from dry patches, lips and eyebrows it also shines and protect shoes( and skin everywhere) see also lipsalves
Vaseline also swells and hides scratches on solid wood
Zip lock bags.. Bacofoil zipper are brilliant
Philadelphia tubs as drawer organisers for things like batteries, Allen keys, screws
Tea towel.. when my boys were younger I never went out without one and a damp flannel( in freezer bag)
tea towel was used for a multitude of things from a makeshift nappy, hat, bib, and parasol.
i find them useful as a napkin now as I'm clumsy especially over a white blouse
Over to you lovely lot

My brainwave when moving was to use my stash of old knee high 'pop socks' to wrap up ornaments, jars and the like. I had several massive rolls of paper towel, wrapped pieces round the item and then put a pop sock over and tucked it in to keep it firmly all in place - far simpler and quicker than using sellotape and provided really good protection - I didn't have a single breakage.

Oh I've just thought of another I do
A flannel wrapped around a silicone spatula
instant back scrubber

That truly is a brainwave!
saves buying plastic too

I have one of those metal steamer baskets that opens like a flower. The central lifting piece can be hot and difficult to find with the 5cm tool provided. So I use the hook on the end of my scrubbing brush.
Spaghetti packed tight in a vase as a knife block.
Scissors to cut pizza.
Spring loaded curtain rods inside cupboards to hang spray bottles and rubber gloves or make vertical dividers for baking trays etc.

I love my JosephJoseph washing up bowl with the plug. And Klippits, couldn’t function without them.

The strong waxy plastic bag in cereal boxes. I wash it out and leave it to dry, then use it to store open blocks of cheese in the fridge, or open packets of sandwich ham.

I use a shot glass to measure washing powder, the last of my eldest’s muslins (she’s almost 28!) are now used when I’m proofing sourdough bread, I’m another clothes peg for closing packets user, and spaghetti tool with the hole is perfect for closing the kitchen window, I also use old (30+ years old) Cadbury ’s roses jars=the really huge ones, to store flour and sugar-they take a bag of flour perfectly

I have a lidded casserole with a "loop" handle on the lid which is too small to grip to lift off while wearing essential oven gloves. So I hook a fork through the loop to lift it off

I was just coming on to say the same thing. Too short to reach over the sink to close the kitchen window, so use potato masher or spaghetti claw server.

Nail files are useful for lots of jobs.

A dab of Vaseline on something which you screw up and will need to unscrew in the future. Any grease will do but Vaseline's found more easily than that peering in the shed.

Plastic containers which have lids, any shape or size, for freezing food.

A thin bamboo cane with a duster wrapped round it to send down the narrow channels at the back of a radiator, to dust them.

Dust ornaments gently with a little paint brush.

Horsey people have the same about baling twine.
My friend’s entire life is propped up by baling twine!

I use a feather duster as a bee catcher. It has an extendable handle that reaches the velux rooflights in the kitchen and trapped bees can cling onto it.

Every time I put another A5 envelope on the pile for writing lists, I long to have time to sit down and make a collage of shades of red and grey and blue from the insides of the envelopes.

A relation kept his work jacket together with a bit of baler twine.

DH scrounged a dentists pick, scalpel and another tool from our old dentist. 1001 uses in the garage he tells me.

Earrings are often the perfect size to poke in the sim card hole of a mobile phone.

Do the lids of a Pringles tub still fit on Gu pots?

A thin bamboo cane with a duster wrapped round it to send down the narrow channels at the back of a radiator, to dust them

That is brilliant!

The Azeera coffee ones fit on tin cans very useful when storing in the fridge

The peg idea to keep duvets in corners is brilliant.

A clothes peg and some no slip socks provided plenty of entertainment for my toddler in the heat last week and a game of "you can't catch me" in the house when it was too hot outside.
Also I carry my washing in and old pillow case from the actual laundry basket saves cluttering downstairs up as I just shove the case in the wash with stuff out the way also on holiday to use the laundry saves trundling back to base to put the washing bag back.
IKEA food bags - brought some a good few month back now and use them for everything they are excellent in the car as rubbish bins on long journeys I have a set few for in the car and keep washing and reusing the rubbish ones take to cafes etc too to try and avoid toddler making too much mess as I can throw it away in the bin after.

I don’t get much post these days, but I do scoop up any printer paper that’s printed on one side and unused. I tear it down the middle and secure with a bulldog clip.
I started doing that when the DCs were learning to spell and had the obligatory weekly spelling test. As they were both dyslexic, we got through a lot of paper.

Re Gu pots. I hesitate to say this, but I found some good bamboo lids on Etsy. I now use them for spice containers and a couple hold tea bags and coffee in my spare room next to the kettle.

If you’re on Insta, and you’d like to use your Gu pots in the way they were intended 🤣 then can I recommend an account called the Caketoonist?

She did a whole series on deserts for old Gu pots. A friend uses her pots and recipes when she cooks the village lunch. They transport really well.

A glass and a piece of stiff paper are great for catching insects, and transferring them to outside.

Here’s a game with clothes pegs. “It” has lots of pegs attached to their clothes, is given a rolled up newspaper to hold, and is blindfolded. Everyone else tries to creep up and grab a peg, but they are out if they get tapped by the newspaper. The winner is the one with the most pegs.

I’ve used a cheap washing up bowl to make a small garden pond.

I use a baby bottle for measuring out small amounts of liquid. One of those gold coloured avent ones to be precise.

My baby is 16 this year and thinks the bottle is the height of embarrassment. Tough though because it works an absolute treat.