Quick Tips to make life better!
I love sharing little quick tips and life hacks that make life easier. Here are some of my favorite quick tips and life hacks that I’ve shared here over the years…all in one place. Hopefully they can help you too.
1. Use your Salad Spinner as a Salad Crisper. After you have washed and spun your lettuce dry, keep the lettuce in the salad spinner and it will act as an excellent crisper! Your lettuce will be cold and crisp when you are ready for it.
2. To prevent the Fraying of Ribbon ends, hold the ends over the rising heat of a light candle and watch the end singe and melt together to prevent future fraying.
3. Help your young kids to Avoid Burning their tongue by teaching them the lip test. Just touch the hot food on your fork gently to your outer lip and if it’s too hot for your lip, then it’s too hot to go into your mouth. No more burned tongues – ouch!
4. Here’s some tips for Picking a Good Pineapple: First, check the bottom for mold and then pull out one of the inside leaves on the top. If it comes out easily, you know it’s ripe and not overly ripe.
5.Catch Excess Cooking Spray with your dishwasher! Open your dishwasher to catch the excess overspray of nonstick cooking spray. This will help with clean up.
6. Next time you make pancakes, make extra pancakes and freeze them or just refrigerate them with small pieces of parchment in between. When your kids want pancakes on a busy morning, all you have to do is pop them in the toaster for a breakfast they will love.
7. Try Goo-Gone for soap scum on your glass shower door. With a paper towel and a little elbow grease, you’ll be surprised at how easily it wipes up. It will also help with water spots and future soap scum.
8. Save the plastic bags inside of old cereal boxes to keep on hand, they are great for pounding out raw chicken for recipes that call for pounded flat chicken breasts. Make sure to shake out any leftover cereal crumbs before starting, but once you start, you’ll be surprised at how durable these plastic bags are for this chore.
9. Next Summer when you grow basil, cut off a little and stick into some water in a warm sunny spot in your house. Fast forward 7-10 days, and you will now have a sprouting new start of basil to give or keep. If you love basil, then you will love to have lots of basil to keep the caprese salads going all summer long.
10. Next time you stay at a hotel and bring your favorite pillow along, throw your pillow into a colorful pillow case to make sure you don’t leave it behind in the hotel room. A funky colorful pillow case is easy to spot.
11. Summer Socks! Sometimes it’s just too hot to wear regular socks to bed in the summer, but your heels still need something to hold in all the lotion or foot cream that you’ve applied after a good soak.
To do this: find a pair of old cotton socks that you can cut the toes off of, and that’s it! So simple!
That’s it! Do you have a little quick tip or a life hack that makes your life easier? I’d love to hear them!
Laura M says
Thank you so much for the tip about spraying the oil over the open dishwasher door. I’ve already used it this afternoon. Work like a charm!!!
kami says
Oh good! You bet! I love that one! Glad I could help!
Crystal says
Great quick tips!! I love the saving of cereal bags, spraying into dishwasher and wax paper between leftover pancakes. I haven’t heard of them. Thanks so much!!
Debbie says
After losing 2 pillows on trips, I did the colored pillowcase trick!
Tracey says
When my kids were babies, I always kept 2 mesh lingerie bags with the clothes hamper. Bibs and other items with velcro went in one, and tiny socks went in the other.
The mesh bags kept the velcro from snagging other laundry, and kept tiny socks from getting lost.
amelia says
Oh, I love your pineapple choosing tips. Apparently, I’ve been using it since July of 2010. Thanks.
Sharon says
When the boys were little, I saved plastic bread clips in a small baby food jar in the glove compartment of both vehicles. They grab any tea towel or piece of fabric and turn it into an instant bib. No matter where we stopped to eat, our messy children had an instant bib that was large enough to do the job. Afterward, a small corner of the towel might even work to clean the child’s face.
Also, try WD40 on the soap scum. It doesn’t cost as much as goo gone, but it also gets the goo off bottles. Oh, the WD40 also gets lime and other grime off your bathroom surfaces. It works well for getting doggy doo off the bottom of a child’s sneakers, too. Honestly, WD40 is about as handy as duct tape. 🙂
kami says
That’s a great tip about the clip! Wish I could use it now.