More Ways to Use Everyday Household Items in Dulles and Alexandria City

These days, it seems like just about everyone has a household tip, trick, or shortcut that’s supposed to save you time, money, or simply make your life easier. And yet for every such miracle solution, you’re likely to need a set of professional woodworking tools, an engineering degree, or a lot of spare time to figure them out, let alone actually do the work. Where’s the shortcut in that?

Instead, and to help make things a little easier around your house, we’ve searched high and low for the best, easiest, and most practical household tips around. From common pantry staples that serve double duty, to breathing new life into items destined for the trash or recycle been, here are 10 household tricks that actually work.

1. Store extension cords or holiday lights neatly by wrapping them around paper towel tubes.
2. Use an eyeglass case to store extra jewelry in your bag or suitcase while traveling.
3. Place shower caps over the soles of your shoes before placing them in your suitcase to keep them front touching your clean clothing.
4. Avoid scratching nonstick pots and pans by separating them with clean coffee filters or those super flimsy paper plates every pantry seems to have in stock.
5. Remove the labels from glass jelly jars for a shabby-chic drink mug, candle holder, or flower vase.
6. Use an empty ice cube tray to store everything from earrings and rings, to pins, paperclips, and tacks, to even small nails, bolts, and screws.
7. Keep tall boots upright in your closet by placing empty, clean wine bottles in them.
8. Use plastic bread tags to label power cords for quick and easy identification.
9. Gain more space in your closet by slipping a soda can pull tab on the curved side of a thin hanger, then hanging another hanger from the pull tab.
10. Growing an indoor herb garden? Tape the empty seed packet into a toothpick or chop stick and stick it into the pot for easy identification.

All of which goes to prove that when you look at familiar objects with an objective eye, you can get a lot more done with what you already have.

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