Unexpected life hacks you stumbled across

[Janboree]

I’ve just discovered that my body mist cleans my spectacles brilliantly. As good as my opticians cleaning spray and a lot cheaper. Added bonus it makes my glasses smell nice too and I didn’t like the smell of the glasses spray. I only used it as it was to hand and my other spray had run out.
Have other mumsnetters stumbled across any life hacks unexpectedly?

Haven’t RTFT but fairy liquid on make up marks on clothes. Make up is mainly grease and works a treat on collars

Making skin on homemade wedges with microwavable baby potatoes and sticking them in the air fryer. Microwave the baby potatoes in packet for a few mins, chop up without peeling and stick in air frier. Season with sea salt, rosemary and garlic granules. Also, if kids uniform has been washed a good few times, white shirt, trousers and jumper can be washed together on a quick wash! No need to wash the white shirt separate!

My hiccup remedy never fails and it’s so simple. You ask everyone to wait for the next hiccup. It never comes. It feels a bit silly with everyone staring at you in silence but the trick is it gets the sufferer breathing very gently and that allows their diaphragm which is in spasm to fall back in sync.

To remove silver tarnish from delicate pieces, use a rubber.
Edit - MNers from Oz , use an eraser.

We have a pair of bamboo toast tongs - for extracting toast from a toaster, obviously. But I have discovered that they are also ideal for squeezing the last of the cat's Lik-e-lix treat from the packet.

Im really not. An awful lot gets dumped into the freezer as it is until I can face dealing with it. If it doesn’t freeze well, it goes in casserole or a sauce and I pretend it was intentional!

But tonight I’m eating bread dipped in anything runnier than bread, to quote Dylan Moran. Too much effort to do anything else.

Or… just invert the bag into the drum and bin the bag? I deal with DH’s stinking work gear in summer this way. The world can cope with me occasionally binning a carrier bag. I’ll offset it against the holidays I never get.

For easily getting rid of weeds in paving, drives etc generously sprinkle cheap table salt and brush into the gaps. In a few days all the weeds will be dead. Low cost and non toxic. My sister told me this and it really works.

If you overcook a cake (which I frequently do), you can make a syrup with virtually any flavouring plus sugar and water boiled together, prick the cake, pour it over and call it a drizzle cake. It looks intentional.

I highly recommend orange zest and juice, but you can make coffee flavour with instant, tea flavour (so much nicer than it sounds) or pretty much any flavouring you have in the cupboard. I’ve used frozen strawberries before.

To release stuck pop up plug in bathroom spray with wd40. Leave for 15 mins and hey presto plug has popped up.

Good god, that's terrible.

this has has never failed me when putting a fitted sheet on a double bed, place the label on the right-hand side as you look from the foot of the bed toward the head.that way you know it’s the right way round before you start tucking in

I make Ice cubes from cool boiled water which make them crystal clear, regular tap water ice cubes are cloudy… they just look nicer in drinks when they are clear.

I misread this and had an image of someone setting a Barbie doll on fire!
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That's enough Internet for me today. 🤣

Also great for frosty windshields. But wear gloves!

Expired credit card I meant, for windshields

Thank you immensely for sharing your brilliant new discovery 💚

Get a small piece of tin foil and press it into your kitchen sink plug. Then you can pour leftover oil or fat into it. Scrunch the top together and throw in the bin. Stops the grease and fat going down the plug.

Elbow grease spray gets baby poo stains and orange food stains out of clothes.

Car windscreen product that beads the water up - clean your shower screen and put this onto it, you won’t get water marks again.

Wet a 1p or 2p coin and rub on thick limescale, it will remove it.

Laundry scent booster beads in small organza bags in your wardrobe, drawers, cars, laundry basket etc to make them smell nice.

washing up liquid is great for cleaning tarnished silver in a pinch

@changednameagain1234 not sure if anyone replied to your question about cleaning oven racks, but this is what I do. Get a cheap under bed storage box, fill with hot water and a generous amount of soda crystals, put the racks in and leave to soak until the water goes cold. The grease will just wipe off. You might need a toothbrush or similar to get in the little nooks if they are bad.

You can clean your buttery knife off by inserting it into the side of your slice of hot toast. When you take the knife back out it is clean.

And windows?

Thanks guys I’ve just had to buy wd40 just for this thread. No intended use. But obviously in case superglue gets in my child’s hair…. 😂

Is this hot water?

Cook my swede this evening… Perfection!