Use Common Household Ingredients To Unclog A Drain

A slow-draining sink, bathtub or shower is frustrating. Not only do you have to wait for the water to drain, but you’re left with a residue to clean up. Who wants that?

If you don’t want to use harsh chemicals to unclog your drain — or don’t have any on hand — you can follow the following DIY remedy: First, boil water and pour it down the drain. Then, pour 1/2 cup of baking soda down the drain (some DIYers recommend mixing in a 1/4 cup of salt) followed by 1/2 cup of white vinegar. Let it sit for 10 minutes, then flush again with hot water from the tap. Voila!

Use Shaving Cream And Bleach To Eradicate Grout Lines

Grout lines on your nice tile floors not only look bad, but they can really hard to clean up. As it turns out though, using some shaving cream can be a really helpful way to get rid of them. Combine equal parts shaving cream and bleach and apply it along the grout lines in your shower. The shaving cream thickens the bleach enough that it can sit vertically on the grout overnight. Then, in the morning, all you have to do is rinse and the mildew should be gone.

Use Your Phone While Wearing Gloves With Aluminum Foil

Once again, this isn’t quite a home repair tip, but it’s such a good hack we had to include it. If you live in a cold climate, you know the pain of wearing winter gloves while trying to use a touchscreen. You could shell out for those touchscreen-friendly gloves, or you could simply use aluminum foil. Simply wrap a bit of foil around all the fingers you need to use on your phone screen and voila!

Keep Your Windshield From Frosting Up

For people that live in colder climates, waking up with a frosted over windshield is really annoying. However, you can avoid this with this simple trick. Just put a long piece of cardboard over your windshield. Dew can’t gather on your windshield that way and it can’t freeze as a result.

Cleaning The Blender

Ordinarily, cleaning a blender involves taking out all of the individual pieces and cleaning then individually. It can be an annoying process that might make someone not even want to use their blender. But here’s a simple fix. Put soapy water inside of the blender, put it all together, then run it for about 10 seconds. The soap will help clean out the blender and all the pieces for you. Then you just need to rinse it out and you’ll be fine.

Lowering Your Water Bill

If your water bill’s just a bit higher than average, this is a good way to lower those costs. Sometimes, the problem is just that your toilet bowl refills with too much water. Put something large like a brick in the tank to disperse some of that water. The tank won’t fill up as much and you’ll get to save money.

Getting Sand Out Of Your Bag

People love going to the beach, but whenever you come back there’s always sand in the most annoying of places for weeks on end. And that’s where the lint roller comes in. This is already a must have tool if you have a furry pet, so there’s a good chance you’ll already have one lying around. Just use the lint roller on the inside (or outside) of your bag and it’ll stick all of the sand to its surface.

Pool Noodles In Boots

If you leave your boots just lying around for too long they’ll flop over and lose their shape. However, if you have some pool noodles, you can put those inside the boots to keep them upright. They’ll last much longer that way.