Have you ever had an epiphany or discovered a surprising tip that leaves you wondering, “Why did I not think of that?”
Life can get fairly busy, and with a massive to-do list in hand, it’s easy to feel like nothing ever gets done.
While you may not have infinite energy or the ability to increase the number of hours in a day, you can certainly try some DIY tricks to make your life much easier and gain more time. One quick search across the internet will bring you multiple interesting ideas.
Sometimes it’s the simplest idea that makes the most difference to your life. For example, using a pen as a bookmark is a simple trick to use when you don’t have a bookmark handy.
To make your life simple and a little less complicated than it already is, here are 10 DIY tricks that you never expected to be so simple!
1. Keep Your Produce Fresh For Longer
Do you want to extend the life of your produce? Are you an allotment grower who wants to ensure fresh produce? Whether you are a homemaker or an allotment community grower, enjoy a better shelf life for your produce with this ingenious DIY trick.
Place a clear plastic bag on top for a longer shelf life for your herbs and leafy greens. This hack keeps your leafy vegetables moist and hydrated and extends their shelf life by a few days. The condensation prevents the herb or vegetable from oxidising, leaving it fresh and moist. This clever trick can also be used to extend the shelf life of celery, carrots, and avocado halves. This trick saves you time and money that you’d otherwise invest in replacing spoilt or rotting vegetables.
However, be sure to research beforehand or discuss your fellow allotment community growers for their experiences. Prolonging the shelf life of vegetables and herbs helps preserve food longer and reduces unnecessary wastage.
2. Use a Window Squeegee to Clear Fur From the Carpet
This clever hack is for all furry pet parents, who put in a lot of effort to keep their pets healthy and happy. Grooming your cats and dogs regularly is an important activity to maintain their hairy coats.
Using professional dog clippers or cat clippers over scissors to groom your pet is certainly a game changer and elevates the grooming experience. However, most pet owners are not too fond of the trimmed dog or cat hair that is left out.
It can get frustrating when the snipped hair gets lodged deeply into carpets and furniture. Beat the frustration away by using a window squeegee to pick up the fur. Just scrape it along the carpet and watch in amazement as the unwanted hair pulls up easily!
3. Attach a Pool Noodle to Your Garage Wall
This unexpected hack is for all car lovers. Did you get a brand-new car? Or did you just service your trusty Vauxhall Corsa with the latest Corsa car parts and a shiny coat of paint? If so, then an ugly scratch on your beautiful car is the last thing you want.
After having taken all sorts of precautions, from parking at a distance to avoiding biking lanes, don’t let the ultimate injury happen right under your nose—in your own garage.
Garages come in all sizes and shapes, but you can avoid banging or scraping your car door against the garage wall by attaching a pool noodle on the wall. Just split the noodle in half and stick each half against the walls where your car doors come in contact. Easy peasy! Say goodbye to accidental scratches!
4. Use a Balloon to Avoid Leaks in Your Luggage
Ever experienced an accidental ‘shampoo explosion’ in your suitcase?
Avoid the mess and the stress of travelling with your products with the fear of leaks. Just tighten the caps of your bottles and attach a balloon to their lids. This trick ensures your products are extra secure when you’re travelling.
On the off chance your hard case luggage suitcase is roughly handled or you have a leaky lid, the spill will be contained in the balloon. Implement this handy trick to level up your packing game.
5. Use Clear Boxes for Organising Your Memorabilia
Do you own an enviable collection of cool merchandise but don’t know the right way to store it? Let’s help you with this cool trick.
Memorabilia and collectables are to cherish a fond event, memory or a beloved character. Whether you’re a comic book collector or own a lot of quirky movie TUBBZ, you spend your valuable time and money building an enviable collection for display.
To keep the magic of these memorabilia intact, use clear and transparent plastic boxes to store and display your collectables. While most official merchandise collection pieces come wrapped in plastic, the boxes ensure they remain protected from dust, moisture, and fingerprints for a long time.
Bonus tip: Stack the boxes on top of each other to save space.
6. Use Nail Polish to Colour-Code Your Keys
If you own a bunch of keys (don’t we all?), it can get difficult to figure out the key you want when you really need to. It’s not a pleasant experience to be juggling and fumbling at the door figuring out the right key.
Some may try to remember the teeth of the keys to distinguish one from the other, while others may add a tiny name sticker on each key. A simpler and better way is to apply differently coloured nail polish on the key heads. Just make sure the paint dries out before re-adding them to your keychain or keyloop.
7. Use a Pillowcase to Pack Extra Items
Travelling with limited space in your check-in bags? Want to pack more clothes but don’t want to pay for the extra check-in luggage? Try this ingenious hack and save money.
Pack all extra items, like clothes or other personal belongings in a large pillowcase with a zip. Take it along as a carry-on bag that doubles up as a travel pillow. How’s that for a win-win?
This unexpected yet ingenious trick works for flights as well as car and train journeys.
8. Use a Plastic Bottle to Separate Your Egg Yolks From Whites
Separating whole egg yolks from whites can be frustratingly difficult and tricky. Some use spoons or buy a yolk separator, but learning this quick and easy trick can make your life in the kitchen a little easier, especially when you’re in the middle of a recipe.
The next time you want the yolks and whites separated, here’s what you need to do – crack the egg on a flat surface like a plate, grab an empty plastic water bottle, bring the bottle’s opening towards the yolk, and squeeze the bottle.
This action easily sucks the whole yolk into the bottle, and voila! You’re left with perfectly clean egg whites on the plate.
9. Use the Pomodoro Technique for Time Management
Managing time efficiently is an essential life lesson. Whether you’re a professional or a student, it’s easy to lose track of time when engaging in multiple tasks. At the same time, it’s easy to get sidetracked with unwanted distractions and put off important work for long periods. At the end of the day, you end up feeling miserable for not putting in the hours and effort when you had the time.
A good technique to manage how you utilise your time effectively is using the Pomodoro technique. This technique is about breaking your work or study tasks into short, manageable intervals, known as ‘Pomodoros’. You can follow each task interval with a short or long break to refresh.
For example, you can set 40-minute work or study intervals, followed by 10-minute breaks. It’s an easy hack to work through your workload without feeling overwhelmed, bored, distracted, or burned out. This technique boosts your productivity, combats procrastination, and helps you maintain a balanced and healthy work or study environment.
10. Use a Rubber Band to Remove Excess Paint
This trick works wonders for all who often decorate their interior spaces using paint and varnish. It’s a common practice to use the rim of the paint can to wipe off excess paint from the paintbrush. But this seemingly harmless action can often result in the lid getting stuck to the can and looking for a tool like a screwdriver to pry it open.
Instead, attach a large rubber band around the middle of the paint can and brush off the excess paint on it. Paint can lids will come off easily when you implement this easy and effective trick, saving you from a lot of hassle.
It’s said that life is simple only when we stop looking for ways to uncomplicate it. This may seem like a paradox of sorts, but there’s truth to it, don’t you think?
You may have come across scores of life hacks that promise to ease your woes. But the simpler the hack, the easier it is to remember and simpler to do.
The best DIY tricks are practical, involve everyday items, take less time than the actual task, don’t involve expensive gadgets, and can be done by anyone. Try and implement these tricks into your daily routine and see how they unexpectedly simplify your life.
This is a collaborative post.
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