The handiest household tips ever!

23 January, 2012 08:04:00 Anonymous - via email

I'm not a domestic diva so usually skip the household tips emails or sections in magazines - until I came across these.

Take a look at these fabulous tips for saving money (and space) at home - I'm going to use every one of them this year.

1. Store bedlinen sets inside one of their own pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match.

2. Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone / iPod in a bowl – the concave shape amplifies the music. wet wipe containers for plastc bags

3. Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags.

4. Add this item to your beach bag. Baby powder gets sand off your skin easily – who knew? Velcro to hang soft toys

5. Attach a velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys.

6. Look up! Use wire to make a space to store gift wrap rolls against the ceiling, rather than cluttering up the floor.

7. Gotcha! Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose.
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8. Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a box lid.

9. Bread tags make the perfect-sized cord labels. bread tag cord labels

10. Brilliant space-saver: install a tension rod to hang your spray bottles. Genius!

11. Win friends at breakfast with this heart-shaped egg tutorial. Aww shucks!

heart-shaped eggs 12. Turn your muffin pan upside down, bake cookie-dough over the top and voila – you have cookie bowls for fruit or ice-cream..

13. Freeze Aloe Vera in ice-cube trays for soothing sunburn relief.

14. Gutter garden: create a window-box veggie patch using guttering.

Storing Christmas decorations 15. Use egg cartons to separate and store your Christmas decorations.

Aloe vera ice trays hanging spray bottles

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Author info: Sasha Wyatt-Minter

Sasha is one of the editors of www.all4women.co.za and is also a work-from-home mom with a passion for writing, reading, good food and wine. She's obsessed with healthy eating and experimenting with alternative health therapies. Her best reward at the end of a busy day - a glass of wine and a good book!

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