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 😂

Did you know that until duvets "escaped" from Europe, there was no such thing as a double duvet? Originally each person had their own duvet. https://www.obc-uk.net/blog/one-vs-two-duvets-around-the-world?srsltid=AfmBOor3ujdBFGDPu-tDuWkJO3L7QbweQtQgoEUu1xEGEOff6L-P7KYs

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Well tbh it's a lot easier for him to do that!

I'm not very tall & he also reaches things out of cupboards to save me having to get the steps out!

Did you know that until duvets "escaped" from Europe, there was no such thing as a double duvet? Originally each person had their own duvet.

Well it makes sense really doesn't it?

We have a single mattress each in a Kingsize(?) frame so have a single duvet each as well.

When you share a double bed you have less than a single bed each!

My ideal would be a double or small double mattress each but the room isn't big enough!

Nail polish remover works wonders for stains, sticky stuff, marks etc

Ah interesting we do sort of the opposite!
Super king bed and a double duvet cover each, no more fighting over one!

Buy some "Barkeepers Friend". Smells like wee, but removes marks from ceramic surfaces.
Most supermarkets sell it.

Also if you tap the jam jar lid against the wall it breaks the vacuum and it is super easy to open.

I sometimes used to find that my shoelaces would get loose or even come undone (particularly if the laces are nylon). A few years ago I found that there's a very simple solution.

Tying a shoelace is normally a two stage process:

1. An over and under.
2. Then a bow on top.

The solution is to introduce an extra step between those two, which is simply to swap the laces between your hands. So the lace that was in your left hand goes to your right hand and vice versa.

I've not had a single loose lace since I started doing this, it's bloody brilliant!

Are you a new poster? This type of thread is posted probably every month. There probably isn't an easy way to find them but if you like tips the similar threads might be useful

Be warned though you will find them pretty repetitive

Use two cleansing pads at a time, one in each hand to do both sides of your face at the same time - done in half the time.

(Not sure if this is a hack or if I'm just a bit dumb and everyone else always did it this way)

I don't even do that. I've got king size feather doonas. Put doona cover down with top corners visible. Insert top corner of doona into top corner of cover. Feed bulk in opening and position bottom corner same side in bottom corner of the cover. Repeat other side. Hold bottom corners - cover and doona. Shake a couple of times to flatten. Takes less time than it did to type the instructions.

For correct orientation, the care tag is typically on the bottom.

Someone probably already explained, but after washing, fold your duvet and pillow cases up and place them all into one of the pillow cases. So the whole set is stored together and you dont have to go looking for all the matching bits. I learned this years ago and it is brilliant!

Also denture cleaner.

You can also do it by tapping the rim of the metal lid quite firmly on a hard surface (I just use the kitchen counter). Hold the jar horizontally and rotate until you’ve tapped all the way round the edge of the lid and it almost always opens easily.

Yes, got this exact one!

I put the bedsheet and extra pillowcases in as well, so everything needed to change the bed is in the pillowcase. So you just need to take the relevant pillowcase out when it's time to change the bed, and don't need to look for anything else.

We now have two complete changes per bed, stored in pillowcases, and no other sheets/duvets/pillowcases. It saves a lot of space in the airing cupboard.

I hate to be the voice of gloom, but wouldn't leach micro plastics from the cling film into the egg?

For me it was sunlight on stains! I’m 35 and only learnt this in the last few years haha. Every time I do it, it amazes me it’s like magic

I've never heard that (the pasta spoon one). My spaghetti metric is a 2l Coke bottle lid. If the spaghetti ends fit inside, that's one portion.

Visiting friend suggested to me not to fully change duvet on the bed she was going to use for 1 night - just put a clean one on top of the original, then take it off the next day.

Meant we avoided having to take off then put back on the original one (no spare room so she was sleeping in someone's room).

You can heat in microwave

If making pasta, boil only a couple inches of water in the pot while you boil the rest of water needed in kettle, the water in the pot will have heated up so when the water from the kettle goes in it should all start boiling straight away.

Yes this is the norm in Germany & Austria.

Il try this instead of a double knot!

My contribution is to use cornflour as dry shampoo. I mix a bit of baby powder in aswell because it smells nice. Use a make up brush to dab onto roots. Works just as good as dry shampoo at a fraction of the coat and more natural