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At the begining of each year I have the sudden urge to PURGE (pun totally intended) and organize my house. I’m always looking for cool tips and things that make my life easier. Send any great tips you have my way! :) Today I’ve rounded up 20 household tips to make your life easier. YEA! Are you wondering, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Yeah… I was too. ;)
20 household tips
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Use a piece of tape to make hanging pictures a breeze. (source)
Create a magnetic command center in your kitchen to keep organized. (source)
Place a rubberband around a cut apple to keep it from turning brown. (source)
Use a curtain rod and baskets to organize under your sink. (source)
Use a rubber band to remove a stripped screw. (source)
Learn how to clean a dishwasher here. 
Use a walnut to cover up dings in furniture. (source)
Learn how to cook asparagus.
Color coordinate your keys with different colors of nail polish. (source)
Remove nail polish with a magic eraser and nail polish remover. (source)
Fill cupcakes 3/4 full for a fluffy cupcake and 2/3 full for a flat cupcake. (source)
Make a holder for charing your cell phone from a lotion bottle. (source)
Remove crayons from your screen with WD-40. (source)
Use a wipes holder to store plastic bags. (source)
Use a cupcake holder to organize your craft supplies. (source)
Use a cupcake liner as a drip catcher. (source)
Create paint swatch sticks for each room. (source)
Use baby powder to remove sand from the park or beach. (source)
Store matches in mason jar. Add a piece of sand paper in the cap to strike the matches. (source)
Stick a few marshmallows or pieces of bread in your brown sugar to keep it soft. (source)
Place a bag with vinegar over your shower head to get it clean. (source)
So many great household tips! I can’t wait to use more of these in my home.
SO I’m curious…which tip are you going to try first?
Lori
LOVE these tips!!! I thought I knew it all, but alas, I got some great new ideas here. Thank you!
Laura Beth
Love having all of these tips in one place!! You have no idea how many screws I’ve stripped in my DIY lifetime. I’m definitely going to have to save the rubber and idea!
Loretta | A Finn In The Kitchen
I love the matches tip, especially since every time I open the box of matches, they’re upside down…Plus, anything in a jar is automatically cuter!
Shawnna
I think I will try the vinegar one today after my shower. I’m being lazy and haven’t gotten out of bed yet. ;) I deserve one day off, right?
Suzanne
So, I have known most of these great tips (minus the apple, sandpaper/match, and magnetic command center), but since I hadn’t “pinned” them, they were forgotten. I think the first I’m going to do is the baggie with vinegar on the shower head. Thanks for sharing these and all the other amazing things on your blog!!
Diane DiDiana
Great tips I am going to use some of them right now
Abigail
Love this. Thank you for this post! Definitely going to try!
Randi - Dukes and Duchesses
Great post! I just pinned it … I love simple ideas that make life better.
Ashley Emmett
so many clever ideas! I love the nail polish keys!
Jenny Y
Use bath scrubbies for washing dishes..lots of suds and easy to clean and air dry.
Nikki
I found a water saving tip for the toilet…… ad a brick inside the tank. Yes a brick it’s the most energy efficient thing I have found what a simple and yet cheap trick. I have one of those water saver flushers but that tank is SOOOOO big. I added a brick and I still have plenty of water to flush with. YAY!!
Laura @ Laura's Crafty Life
I already knew about a bunch of these. The vinegar on the shower head works awesome! Also, I just saw an idea on Pinterest (I don’t think I pinned it or I would site the source) to use popsicle sticks instead of paint sticks to keep a color swatch of paint for each room. Then punch a hole in the end and loop them together with a binder ring. Totally portable to take to the store with you!
Sarah
These are great, thank you!! Just in time for the New YEAR!
Sarah
The Eager Teacher
Marti in San Diego
Fabulous ideas…especially love the paint stick one!!
Cheers from San Diego!
Jennifer@The Chronicles of Home
The stripped screw and tape for hanging pictures are genius! I will definitely use these. Why have I wasted so much time measuring space between picture hangers?? I’ll also try the shower head-vinegar trick. Thanks for sharing!
Pat C.
Thank you for compiling such a useful collection of tips! I love the curtain rod under the sink one… besides being great for hanging spray bottles, it’s also a convenient place to hang dust rags and rubber gloves.: )
xoxo
Shelise
Love all of these ideas and can’t wait to try them! Thanks!! :)
Nikki @ Chef in Training
SO MANY great ideas in one place! Love this post, Jamielyn! Pinned :)
Candy Shepherd
Vinegar over my shower head is going on now!! Thanks.
Deborah
I think I’ll try first the wipes container/plastic bag holder. Then a few others as well. Thanks for the tips.
Marsha
Thank you these tips are GREAT!
Marilou S.
I am going to use the tape to hang a picture first!
Lindsey
Great tips! Unfortunately, I found that the rubber band for stripped screws didn’t work… I tried it several times! :( Can’t wait to try some of the others though!
Robin Moylan
Thanks for sharing!
Len
super like!!
Chelleigh
Love, love, love!
Jamielyn
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!
belang
great tips…
Cathy Johnston
The tape for hanging pictures was a great idea.
Jamielyn
Thanks Cathy! Have a great day! :)
The Student Loan People
We’ve been doing this, and student loan people banks continue the same function. In Japan, where touch is avoided as much as I liked him.