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To ask for your easy life hacks?

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Polkapjs · 02/08/2018 23:23

I need easy ways to make life easier and help me get my life in order in all areas

Tonight have have used a garlic press with an UNPEELED love of garlic as recommended by Jamie Oliver. Genius.
Give me yours that don’t involve needing stuff I don’t have but help make stuff a bit easier or cheaper?

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HebeMumsnet · 03/08/2018 12:32

I was thinking about this the other day, while pondering whether it would be worth Hoovering the actual cat, rather than cleaning up all the moulted fur (probably not, on balance).

However, this academic year I have trialled an idea I probably read on Mumsnet (since it is virtually my only reading)...

Keep a box in the kitchen or wherever you do household admin with stamps, cheque book, small amount of cash, notelets, envelopes and a few different types of stick-on name tape. This solves most requests from school for money for trips, cheque for school milk, name tags for cake tins etc.

It means as soon as a school letter comes home or I get an email I can sort the Bloody Note there and then and I therefore won't be found dead one day under a landslide of 5 million school letters - and a lot of cat hair. And it makes me feel highly efficient.

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HebeMumsnet · 03/08/2018 15:30

Oh - another one I learnt on Mumsnet. Put EVERYTHING in the dishwasher - bin lid, highchair tray, anything like that. Anything that could do with a good scrub and will withstand hot temperatures.

Also my personal one - if you do Christmas cards, only do them two years out of three. I've done this for years now and no one has noticed (hoping no one on my cards list is on Mumsnet - this is not the most unidentifiable username, I'm suddenly aware... They got lost in the post, Auntie Vi - promise!).

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