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Your pictures won’t have that blurred misty haze if you wipe the camera lens on your phone before taking them.

Your gold jewellery will sparkle like mad if you leave it to soak in warm soapy water and scrub gently with an old toothbrush, rings do the inside underneath the settings to allow light to penetrate better.

Drinking a pint of water first thing in the morning will rehydrate your body and help get rid of that groggy feeling. Drink as much as you can throughout the day - you’ll thank me for it.

Closing the apps on your phone will make it work more efficiently, same for clearing the browser history.

AIBU to ask what your tips of the day are?

From experience, full fat cola flat (add a drop of water to remove bubbles) will kill or cure your hangover.

You either feel better because electrolytes etc are replenished or you heave and have done with the sick feeling.

Thanks a million! I've ordered some now.

If you try on an item of clothing that seems a fraction too big or small, don't try the next size up or down, try a few more in the same same size. You could very well find the perfect fit!

If this works you are a bloody genius!! I have 2 black bags worth of 'to be shredded' stuff that I never have time to do. I don't even own a shredder. I hope Costco sell it in bulk

Use frog tape when decorating to get perfect straight lines.

When baby has a poo'plosion, the baby vest is designed so you can remove it by pulling it straight down rather than smearing shit everywhere attempting to pull it up over baby's head.

If your baby has stubborn wind, as well as moving their legs, try and stretch their body. My mum taught me how to do this by holding baby in a sitting position, place one hand under the chin and the other supporting the back of the neck/head. Gently lift baby up (not too far or fast!) Just enough to stretch out their body. Worked a treat for me.

I set up a small plastic table and chairs in the garden for my DC to paint or play with playdough. So much less cleaning up to do.

In the fizzy juice isle in Tesco, if you reach up onto the top shelf, you should find a lever you can pull to move hard to reach bottles to the front of the shelf. Game changer for short arses like me.

If your pits get a bit stinky in the heat waves we have been having, slop some anti-bac hand gel on tissue and give them a wipe.

You can do lots of things with a crockpot. I use it to bake potatoes. Stick holes in the potatoes, rub salt and a little olive oil on them and wrap in foil then just cover and bake on low for about three hours. I also use it to cook chicken breasts for shredded chicken. If we are doing a big holiday/roast dinner with lots of vegetable sides I’ll stick frozen corn with a stick of butter and let it melt and heat up then set it straight on the buffet table.
You can also make a roast chicken in it. You put a ring of foil on the bottom and spray the inside of the pot before putting the chicken in.
If I’m cooking something pungent like curry I’ll actually plug in it outside so it doesn’t stink up the house. Using a crockpot saves tons of energy and doesn’t heat up your house

I doubt that.

I'm going to try the hairspray/hair drier tip.

Use a decent factor 50 suncream as your moisturiser from April - October. Put it on first thing then top up throughout the day.

Aldi / Lidl Q10 moisturisers seem to work equally as well as some of the top brands (as a brand-aholic when younger I learned this from idly reading the ingredients on a box when stuck im a queue. Mainly the same ones)

Save the bottons from garments that are no longer wearable, then cut said garments up to use as dusters / wipes.

An empty oxy-clean tub filled with a mix of dettol & water and cleaning rags as above makes for quick and easy multi-surface wipes. If you want to go even better you can buy the tesco re-useable cloth baby wipes and put them in the tub, then throw them in the washing machine, change the water/dettol mix and off you go. Better than the single-use, don't easily decompose ones.

A block of old fashioned carbolic soap is ace for all sorts. Curry stain? Rub with carbolic and it goes. Mopping the floor? Grate some into boiling water, swish it and done. Plus as you're grating it, they last waaaaay longer than the bottles!

Just Pink (in the tub) cream gets copper pans gleaming in under 5 minutes. It is also brilliant for other stuff.

I wash the sheet and pillowcase every week but turn the duvet over. So much less effort.

To open a tightly shut jar bang the edge of lid firmly on a counter top so the indent in the middle of the lid is sticks out then it'll open no problem.

Invest in wrench straps

Jars, bottle tops, plumbing nuts all a breeze to open