What hack has blown your mind?

[MindblownMia]

On the weekend I burnt some black felt onto my iron and it was impossible to get off. I tried spraying it with cleaner, scrubbing it with a sponge and scraping it when hot but nothing worked.

I was about to give up when I learnt that if you pick up a piece of paracetamol or ibuprofen with some tweezers and then wipe it all over the hot iron, the marks literally disappear.

My mind has been blown.

My mind was also blown when I learnt on Mumsnet that the stripes on a super king duvet go horizontally not vertically 🤣 I just thought none of my duvet covers fit 💀

What other things like this have blown peoples minds? I can’t keep living without all these amazing hacks 😂

So mine is so simple that every day I'm amazed at the difference it makes. When you come downstairs in the morning take a load of washing with you and put it straight on. Means I basically never have to look at washing waiting to be done now.

Keep the roots of scallions in water & they’ll keep growing

Just had to google scallions! Thanks for the hack though - will try this with my spring onions 😂

Cling film. When you pull out the roll to the size needed, stick it over the bowl, then twist the whole box twice (wind up motion) & cut off film at the middle. , no sticking, floating, tearing, & film ready to pull out easily next time
not easy to explain
(search “cling film hack” on Insta)

The quvet hack blow my mind

Porridge - I realised that you can use the overnight oats method to speed up porridge making in the morning. Put the oats and the milk in the pan the night before, then it's half the time to make your porridge in the morning.

This morning I learnt that to take all the hair and dog hair of my daughters primark 'wool' smart coat (actually 100% polyester) that a rubber glove worked a million times better than a lint remover.

I vigorously dragged the rubber glove over the fabric and all the dog hair came off. I presume it was friction.

(covered in dog hair from lying in the bed with the dogs before taking off her coat I think!)

Stripes on a duvet one doesn't always work. Some have stitched squares. That will blow your mind even further. 🤣

The other one people quote as 'fact' is that the hole in a past serving spoon is an individual serving size for spaghetti. No, it isn't. Different spoons have different sized holes. And spaghetti comes in different lengths.

Yes, the Grinch shat in my cornflakes this morning. 🤣

If you mean putting the sheet, pillow cases and duvet cover into 1 pillow case me too
I read it on here and thought no way - but tis true and awesome

Trimming green beans - keep them in the packet and just cut through chopping all the ends off in one go

The ‘roll up’ method for putting a duvet cover on a duvet (search it on YouTube as I can’t do a link). Especially amazing with double and king sized duvet, no struggling with yards of fabric trying to locate the corners.

I’ve drawn a smiley face on the bottom left corner of the duvet so we know where the bottom (short edge) is.

Flames started coming out of my microwave , looked on YouTube and basically you just have to replace a bit of silver card stuff that’s in there, £3

Also bubble wrap to keep a bath hot

This is so bloomin obvious, why did I never think of it?

What on earth?? Like put it in the bath??!!!

Nooooo 🤣 gutted this doesn’t work in these cases!

I didn’t, but this is such a good idea!! I can’t believe I’ve never done this before!

Or…wash covers inside out, when dry put one hand in each upper corner like a glove puppet, grab two bottom corners of the duvet through the fabric and shake shake shake. The cover will fall down over the duvet and reverse itself to show the right side up.

Or just put it on the night before to finish in the morning?

Obvious yet genius, you say?

Yep, used to do that, but the rolling trick is soooo easy, especially with double or king sized, and especially for shorter people (also with shorter arm-span) like myself.

It floats! So on the bath. Either with or without human

Whoah! I’m trying that one, sad individual that I am. But I like green beans.

Then it has to sit in the machine starting to smell damp for half the night and until I'm back from the school run as I don't want the dryer on when I'm out. This way it finishes and I can chuck it in the dryer.