Let's start a thread of just random advise / hacks

[washingmachineslivelongerwithcalgon]

No specific topic, just great advise you'd give.

Keep it simple.
(Apologies, I didn't know which other category to put this under that would gain traction)

I'll go first:

• don't sweat the petty stuff, & don't pet the sweaty stuff.
• if you can't open a food jar, pierce the top to get the air out and it opens right up!
• drizzle a tablespoon of marmite into the cooking fat before you roast your potatoes (and drizzle some over the spuds)
• if you don't have egg cups, use shot glasses
• hair spray gets most things out of carpets. (Learnt this when staying at a boyfriends house as a teen and dropped lipstick. Blind panic and hairspray saved me!) used it ever since, in emergency situations.

If you have an early walking/climbing baby use simple commands to help them be safe. We always used to say "feet first" when they were climbing down instead of "careful".

Similarly as they get older make sure communication is clear and precise. Don't say "argh look out, is that really the best place to put that?" (Looking at you, DH). Say "put the glass away from the edge please".

@AngryBirdsNoMore wash your blacks separately, inside out, with liquid detergent. Powdered detergents contain bleaching agents but liquid does not. And don’t use vanish or colour catcher sheets with them.

🤣🤣🤣 I love this so much. I suffer too and noisy eating drives me insane. I have sent it to my family 😅

I used a dog shampoo but Nizoral shampoo works.

If you have a french polish and then have curry and get the tumeric stains on the “white” bit, antibac hand gel removes it.

If your kid says they need new stationery for school, actually check as you don’t want to spend a fortune only to find they have a massive plastic box full of the stuff….

Hah true!

My life has improved since watching Ted Lasso!

”be curious not judgemental”

I wouldn’t do this, it leaves a waxy film over your furnishings. 🫤

I take clothes off the line in person order. DH first as his are largest and go in the bottom of basket, then mine after. Socks and undies go in a bundle per person at either end of the basket. Easier to divvy out when putting away.(does not apply if it's raining)

I will iron for as long as it takes to use up one single little jug of ironing water. I hate faffing about with emptying unused water and it's a good marker for doing it in reasonable chunks of time. Once it stops steaming I am done.

Ironing boards are an excellent platform for gift wrapping.

Haha I felt this! I had a very literal toddler and also a husband who would say things like "get out from under't feet!" We needed to be explicit - "please take two steps backwards because I'm about to do X" etc and DH just never got it 🤣

Ooooh just tried the kitchen sink of boiling water/zoflora trick -went out for 10 mins to the shop -came back -it works!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!

We just used mugs. Height of refinement, us.

Piercing the lid of the jar will cause the food to spoil.

Run lid under warm water

Bang lid on counter lightly but firmly

Release air by pulling up the sides of the lid

One of those will work

@washingmachineslivelongerwithcalgon

I was being tongue in cheek, but that obviously got lost in translation. Sorry you had such a busy day, hope it has calmed down a bit and that you have had some peace.

I am old enough to have fed my children way before the advent of all today's technology and I am sure that I would have been on my phone had that opportunity existed.

Definitely preferable to the very early Sunday mornings watching some guy drawing birds of prey whilst waiting for Dappledown Farm to come on!

Wouldn't stapling the receipt to the instructions be more efficient?

Ime the ink on receipts fade after a few months.

Haven't seen your friends for a while? Go and get a spray tan. As you make your way home dripping in green brown stuff, braless and pantless in baggy old clothes you will run into everyone you've ever known.

When you want to see your crush you run into someone not keen on you. Or when you when you have a bad hair day, you'll run into everyone.

I don't think she's suggesting you put chicken carcasses, baked potatoes and partially eaten lamb shanks down there.

LOL oh Jesus I just clutched my pearls

And spots and inspect bites.

I have a pale aqua vest top with turmeric stains. Using Vanish twice has faded the stain but I can still see it. I'm going to try this.

Can we put in tip requests? 🤣 If anyone knows how to get (supposedly washable 🤨) poster paint out of a bright orange cotton top without fading it, I'll be forever in your debt! (Many, many techniques have been tried already. A preschooler's happiness hangs in the balance.)

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Tap the side of a glass ketchup bottle in order to get the ketchup to come out, but not all at once

Hot spoon on mosquito bites, got that tip on here and my god it saved my sanity last month in Malta. I had several on my face and oh the exquisite relief.