Household Hints Using Everyday Products

How to use everyday products in unique ways

When we buy staples like tinfoil and paper towels for our homes, we think of their uses in a traditional way.  Check out creative ways to use household products in your home in ways that you never thought of.

• Paper Towels:
  • Corn on the cob – Use a wet paper towel to remove the silk in a quick and easy way.  Never take forever picking the silk off piece by piece.
  • Frozen loaf of bread – When placing a loaf of bread into the freezer, cover the entire loaf inside of the plastic with a paper towel.  When you take the loaf of bread out to thaw, the paper towel will take all of the moisture so that your bread won’t be soggy.
• Tinfoil:
  • Hard brown sugar – If you have placed your brown sugar into your pantry and it gets hard as a rock, wrap it tight in tinfoil.  Turn your oven to 300 degrees and for 5 minutes, place in oven and your brown sugar will come out soft, ready to use.
  • Cleaning – Roll a piece of tinfoil into a ball to clean your BBQ grill in a pinch or your pots and pans.
  • Cookie cutter – If your kids want to bake cookies and you don’t have any cookie cutters, fold tinfoil back and forth into a tight strip.  With just some scotch tape, form the tinfoil into the cookie cutter shape that you want.
• Toothpaste:
  • Crayons on walls – Using a non-gel toothpaste, you can easily remove crayon from your walls.  Using a rag or toothbrush, rub over the crayon spot and then use a wet sponge to remove the toothpaste.  Your wall will be crayon free!
  • Clean your iron or the white rubber on your running shoes the same way.
• Dishsoap:
  • DIY ice pack – In a pinch if you need ice for your cooler and your fridge runs out, pour dishsoap into a ziploc bag and freeze.  It works amazing.
  • Fruit fly catcher – In a glass, pour white vinegar and 3 drops of dishsoap and you have an instant fruit fly catcher. The dishsoap cuts the surface of the vinegar and the fruit flies will fly in and can’t get out.