Tips and Wrinkles

Always buy furniture you can get the vacuum cleaner under without having to move it. I arrived at this conclusion more by accident than design as my taste has always been for old furniture and we have inherited some bits of Victorian furniture from family members.

All this furniture tends to be on legs, wheher for living room or bedroom. I can now thorroughly vacuum the whole house without moving any furniure.

. . . as long as you can remember which one you put the elastic band round . . .

Daisy

If we are that bad, then can I suggest ABC? As in Always Band Conditioner

And if even that doesn't work, then we really shouldn't be allowed to wash our hair without supervision!

Cut pizzas with scissors - much easier than using a knife.

I'll second that Mishap.
Always use a balloon whisk when making white sauce - no lumps

Mishap Also use kitchen scissors for chopping herbs and dicing bacon, ham, etc.

Oh yes, absent! I use scissors for all that too, even cutting up pizza. DD thinks it's very odd.

And DG1 thinks it is funny that I keep nail polish remover in the larder cupboard, but it's always when I'm in the kitchen that I see the state of any polish I was unwise enough to use..

DGD1 - the 16 year old who is a whizz at nail art. Any daisies she puts on my nails are smudged within an hour!

I keep my nail polish in the fridge, it just glides on!
Scissors for parsley and cutting pizzas too, I don't think we are odd at all, just very practical!

I think I put this on the last tips thread, but for any that didn't see it, to get the last bit out of bottles or tubes of anything like ketchup, hand cream etc, hold upside down and whizz round in circles.

Make sure the lid is tightly closed!

Why does you whiz zing round in circles help? All it does me is make me giddy?

I cut tubes in half and tuck top round the bottom bit, amazing how much is left in a tube. ie foundation ir that squeezy icing.

phoenix, I think it would make me rather dizzy too if I had to whizz round in circles.

My grandmother used to get the last drops of sauce and ketchup out by adding a drop of vinegar.But then, that's when they came in glass bottles, not the plastic squeezy ones like we have now.

I cut pizza with my scissors too! Genius if you ask me

I like my pizza cutting wheel, my son bought one and left in the drawer this was a revelation to me. I use it to cut cheese on toast to.

Rubber bands....they are so handy. I put them round everything in packets (saves emptying into containers). Flour, sugar, raisins etc. etc.

As we are all long in the tooth I hope I am not preaching to the converted and please ignore if you know these things already.

Wiping the shower down after the last one. This might sound obvious, but for years I just left it and did a big once a week clean up. I then realised if this was done daily the bathroom looked so much nicer. I have one of those karcher window cleaners which is like a vaccum for water and this makes a quick job of the shower door and tiles. I do wipe with a dry cloth after to polish. The whole job wiping tiles and shower door, cleaning bath and basin quick swish round toilet takes roughly 10 mins.

Make sure you vaccum twice a week. This way dusting is kept to miniumum.

Always cook double and freeze one. Convience foods but healthy.

Please more tips I love them.

Good tips overthehill. Do you ever go on martinlewismoneysavers lots of tips and money saving on their forums.

Oh phoenix re your ironing long curtains tip. Thank you so much for this. I often use my banister rail to dry quilt covers by hanging them over when I leave for work and they are dry when I get home. But never thought to iron them from there. What a marvel.

Yes ninny I love mse

phoenix such a good idea for ironing curtains its a pity I live in a 1st floor apartment wondering if I could hang them through the kitchen window

I take it that before you iron the curtains you first have to wash them? I was thinking of throwing them away and getting new ones...

annodomini

Regarding screwing things - I'm always confused about which way to turn the screw and heard a good tip on the radio the other day - RIGHTY-TIGHTY/LEFTY LOOSY. Won't ever do it the wrong way again!
That's a very good idea about ironing over the bannisters!

I thought EVERYONE knew that one specki