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 😂

Wouldn't work with mine as it would turn itself off & lose all the settings.

Elbow Grease degreasing spray removes stains from clothes/dishcloths immediately! I spilt curry down my top last week and went into the kitchen, wiped the excess curry off, sprayed on EG and the stain vanished before my eyes! I've used it on all sorts and it's brilliant at stain removal.

Painting the spindles on the stairs, I put a plastic glove under an old wool glove and just painted with my hands rubbing up and down. It took a fraction of the time. I'm going to try this for skirting boards next time.

Also loving the green bean one.

Mine is a gadget rather than a hack but it's worth bending the rules for. It's a safety tin opener. It doesn't cut into the metal on the top of the can or round the sides, it unpeels the top piece from the can leaving only blunt edges. The top sits so beautifully snug after unpeeling that at first you don't think it's worked, but it has, and the lid can be completely removed and can be neatly replaced should you wish.

Like the PP who recommended it, we bought one for DD as she went off to uni, and then had to buy ourselves one as we missed it.

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I will try this again tomorrow. I gave up on it as I kept ending up with a duvet croissant! 🤣🤣

It does!!

Whaaaat?

If you use liquid detergent in the washing machine the washing smells musty if left in the machine/basket very quickly.

If you use a powder detergent it doesn't get musty for ages - amazing!

Now can someone explain what is meant by the duvet in the pillow case one

I think it refers to storing your bed linen once laundered, Insert the duvet cover, the sheet(s) and any remaining pillow cases for that particular set in to one of the pillow cases, making a small packet. Store in your linen cupboard like that. Then when you need to make that bed, you just grab the whole thing. No searching around for bits that match. It works really well!

An alternative to this is to acquire beds with built-in storage drawers, and store each set of linen used for that particular bed in them.

Works on rugs and carpets too.

Yes I did this for a few years then realised the way my boarding school did in the 80s was far more efficient. They folded the duvet into a strip and wrapped it round the sheet and pillow cases, like making a flat sausage roll. Makes a much smaller, neater rectangular parcel. I can see why you wouldn't even need to do that, but I do.

O. M. G.

I’ve done this for so many years now! I think I got it from a magazine called “Best” in the mid to late 1980s.
It’s the only way to do quilt covers!😁

Ive started doing this recently funnily enough. It works !!

Great idea - but Wow! That female presenter is horrendous!!

Oh I see.
My linen cupboard is very tidy already, so I can't see the point in this at all.
I can find anything I want in it within seconds.

If you buy one of those great long stalks of sprouts, they keep fresh for at least a week if you just lean the whole thing up against the wall outside the back door.

Your spring onions ARE scallions! That's what we always called them in the north east.

Wow, this is excellent. I am going to do this in every single room.

And one for the tape measure in the garage too.

And a pen. And sellotape.

All the things!

You can restore corroded chrome by rubbing it with tinfoil.
I had some very badly corroded taps that had no shine, were green in places and had little blisters of corrosion on them and the tinfoil brought them up like new.
It's like it sandpapers away the blisters and then re-chromes them.
I'd did the taps, towel rail, shower curtain rail and toilet roll holder.

But that's not a hack; it's just common sense. It's how porridge has been made for eons. My mother did it throughout my childhood (1950s/60s), presumably because she'd learnt it from her mother.

After a dinner party if your oven is still warm when you're washing up the stuff that doesn't fit in the dishwasher - just shove everything clean but wet in the warm ( but off) oven instead of hand drying and wiping. Everything is dry and ready to tidy away the next morning.

Works with the base of a bunch of celery too. New leaves start sprouting from the middle. It’s not exactly quick, mind, so bring some patience.

I do a version of this because I always like a couple or three base sheets (have a bit of an old lumpy mattress that needs retiring) and it’s all too much to fit in one pillowcase. So using the duvet cover like a folded men’s wallet around everything else works better for me. Same principle of keeping all of the linen for one bed stored together.

I tried a new cleaning tip recently and that was the shaving foam on mattress one. You just apply foaming shaving cream to a stain, gently scrub with a soft brush, let it sit for 15–30 minutes, then wipe it clean with a damp cloth. Use plain basic shaving foam btw not anything with a blue colour! It does work!

Didn’t blow my mind exactly but using shaving cream to clean the floor around the base of the loo if you have young boys visiting takes away any urinal whiff.

Grease stains on clothes - just rub a bit of washing up.liquid on the stain before putting it in the washing machine, grease disappears in the wash