1. If you don't have a separate canister for tea bags, turn a box of tea bags into a tea bag dispenser by placing it "vertically" in your kitchen cabinet and ripping off (or cutting off) about an inch from the front bottom of the box.
2. Avoid those little broken pieces of soap by getting a new bar once the old bar gets thin and before it breaks, getting both bars wet and sticking them together.
3. Step on milk cartons before putting them in the recycle bin to save space.
Any other suggestions in the practical art of the mundane (whether household related or not) would be appreciated and could may significantly to our collective practical intelligence.
By the way, our faucets are leaking. They are the kind that have a single central on/off, hot/cold arm. Do these have to be replaced or is there something like a "washer", like the old faucets, that can be replaced to prevent the leak?
Bill
3 comments:
1. Try loose tea. It's cheaper and it's hard to tell your fortune with a tea bag.
2. We use these netty spongey washclothey things that I just press the little bars of soap into. They really make a lot of suds.
3. I usually compress cartons and then screw the top back on to prevent re-inflation.
We tried the suggestion of turning a box of teabags into a tea bag dispenser and, I must say, it really, really works! Now, there's always a teabag there when we need it. Thanks for the tip.
Don't fill up the cap for clothes detergent or even up to the line, use about 1/2 or a 1/4 of what is required
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