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 😂

Love this.

I've watched this 5 times and I still cannot fathom 😅

Big fire risk though.

That spaghetti one is bollocks but I've got a good spaghetti one.

Use a piece of spaghetti (let's use the correct word, a spaghetto 😂) to light candles, fires, barbecues etc when you can't get too close with a lighter/ matches or the angle is weird. Works a charm and only smells a tiny bit horrible

Just to clarify, I mean the fire risk is for people going out and leaving their washing machine or tumble dryer running while no one is home.

I remember that duvet thread
The poor woman had spent ages trying to put a duvet cover on and gave up and asked mumsnet
It was hilarious

My recent best hack is about making poached eggs

Boiling water in a pan
Hold in a tea bag strainer and crack the egg in it
Its so easy and the poached egg actually looks like a restaurant poached egg

This is how I’ve always done ours
I do it on my own
Its simple
I assumed everyone did this ( tbh it’s not a conversation I’ve ever had with anyone 🤣🤣)

Is there a better way ?

Most 'hacks' are common sense things that people didn't know about before they found out. I've never known it in the 46 years I've been eating porridge, so for me it was a hack two weeks ago when I was thinking of how I could speed up breakfast for the girls.

"and only smells a tiny bit horrible" 😁 You're really selling it.

Wine on old wooden non varnished tables can be removed by rubbing in wood ash

I've planted them in the garden and they flowered

Rubber shoes are great too if you don’t want to get on your hands and knees

I love this
Im definately having a go

Isn't she just!!

Would love to see the tinsel hack!!

I’ve started searching anything I want to get on Amazon, on Amazon haul instead. You go on the main Amazon website and in the search bar just type ‘Amazon haul.’ I got my children some really nice branded clothing and toys and myself a shirt 80% cheaper than on regular Amazon for the same one! I always price check there and they don’t always have everything but enough times they do it’s worth a check.

Has anyone shared how to wash a greasy tupperware yet?

Squirt a bit of washing up liquid and some water into the greasy box. Put a bit of kitchen roll in. Lid on. Shake vigorously. Completely clean and no grease. This is now standard practice in my house.

That sounds brilliant. I know it's 3.38 a.m. (insomniac here) but I'm also tempted to get out of bed to try it.

What's a tea bag strainer? Or did you just mean a tea strainer (the sort you use for loose leaf tea?)

🤣🤣🤣
good point

Yes Tea strainer

I find the gloves hard on the hands and use
Shoes with rubber soles
crocs are good.

For the stairs I hold the shoes
For carpets I just rub my feet up and down

( I’m tempted to get out of bed and make a cup of tea with my tea bag strainer ☕️ 🙃 )

Very small risk of fire actually (though a risk, nonetheless).

50 odd years ago we were taught to just lick our fingers and smooth our tights up that way.

Did you think hacks have to be spontaneously made up by someone?
You learned from your mother, someone else learns it from Mumsnet. What's the difference?

But surely the width of spaghetti is usually very similar, the length of the spaghetti makes no difference to that measure - unless the length was half as long as usual, in which case you might want to measure two 'hole in spoon' sizes to give you the equivalent mass of the spaghetti, but I have to admit that maths was never my strongest subject? 🙈