Useful tips for home: how to make useful things with your own hands. Simple and ingenious tricks for cleaning the house Useful tips for the house with your own hands

Perfection knows no bounds! If you do household chores thoughtfully and with inspiration, you can significantly make life easier for yourself... It is always useful to use the tricks that were invented by inventive housewives, because with their help you can save not only the time spent on household chores, but also your own strength.

These entertaining life hacks will be useful for you both in routine matters and in unusual situations - read the information that will help you make life easier... Who would have thought that marshmallow has such an effect ...

1. To keep the cheese longer, apply a little butter to the cut. With its help, wrapped cheese will never get moldy in the refrigerator.
2. Thick plastic is very convenient to cut with a can opener! I will do it now only this way ...
   
   
3. It is easy to light candles with long pasta.
   
4. Vaporab ointment or a similar warming ointment will help you keep your pet from scratching. Apply ointment to the problem area, and the animal will not lick it.
   
   
5. A couple of drops of vodka and a teaspoon of sugar will prolong the life of the flowers in the vase for a tangible period.
   
6. Large spoon easily opens jars with stubborn, tight lids. Pry the edge with a spoon - and you're done!
   
   
7. Mix the vinegar and fabric softener and spray the mixture onto your clothes. Crumpled items do not need to be ironed - they will straighten out and become soft.
   
8. Sore throat? Eat marshmallows! Gelatin soothes sore throat and relieves pain. Mmm ...
   
   
9. Used tea bags can be used as compresses after sunburn... It gets easier immediately!
   
10. Do you want the music from your phone to sound louder? Amplify the sound by placing the gadget in a bowl or cup.
    
    
11. A trash can in the car is essential! Use a resealable plastic container (such as cereals) for this purpose.
    
12. This is how a moon manicure is done! Perfect solution.
    
    

    

13. Painful shock from the burn is relieved with mustard. Sprinkle on the damaged area and it won't bother you so much.
    
    
14. A roller with adhesive tape will help you get dust and dirt out of hard-to-reach places.
    
15. Lens solution is a great way to bring dried mascara back to life. I'll try right now ...
    
16. Modification of regular hooks. Remember to break off the part you need from the tin before you throw it away.
    
    
17. Water stains and cup marks on wooden furniture can be masked with mayonnaise. Acts instantly!
    
    
18. Lubricate the candlestick with oil before placing the candle in it - the wax will not stick, everything will look neat.
    

I'm in awe of tip # 15 - I wonder how anyone came up with this idea?

We all face everyday problems. Sometimes, to solve some of them, it is not at all necessary to run to the nearest hardware store to buy special, and not always cheap, funds. household chemicals... Take note of 16 helpful homework tips to help you get out of your predicament with your common household tools at hand.

1. Hydrogen peroxide - excellent stain remover. It is enough to pour this antiseptic on any stain, and it will go away within 10 minutes, do not forget to wash the thing after the procedure. If the thing is colored, then check the effect of peroxide on the fabric paint somewhere from the inside out.

2. Activated carbon, baking soda, tea bags - excellent adsorbents of odors. If you need to get rid of unwanted odors in the refrigerator, car interior, wardrobe, drawer, gym bag, shoes or closed dishes (for example, in plastic containers), then it is enough to put a calico bag of soda there, or a few tablets activated carbon, or a couple of tea bags.

3. Coal in briquettes - absorber of excess moisture and dampness. If you hide a few coals in the corners of the bathroom, then they will perfectly cope with excess moisture (change to a new portion every 2 months). A charcoal dehumidifier, which is easy to make yourself, can help normalize the air in your attic, basement, cellar or closet. To do this, you will need a tin can, for example from coffee, in the lid of which you need to make several holes and put 3-5 briquettes of coal in it. Leaving the jar in a damp place will remove moisture. Remember to change the coal every two months.

4. Hand cream as a substitute for shoe polish. If you run out of a special product for the care of leather shoes, do not rush to despair - the hand cream will add shine to the skin, soften it, and show water-repellent properties.

5. Charcoal as a tooth powder in field conditions. Pound a couple of charcoal from the fire - this powder will not only whiten your teeth (despite its obvious blackness), but also disinfect the oral cavity and destroy harmful microbes on the mucous membrane.

6. Table vinegar - an excellent disinfectant. A solution of table vinegar with water in half will cope with microbes on any surfaces: both in the kitchen and throughout the house. By treating the interior and exterior kitchen surfaces with this solution, you will get rid of the ubiquitous ants. Especially in need of such processing cutting boards and wooden shovels.

7. Old toothbrush copes with pollution in the most hard-to-reach places... There is nothing easier than cleaning plaque on pipes (adjacent almost to the wall), on the handles of the stove, inside cast-iron batteries, at the joints of plumbing fixtures and in the area of \u200b\u200b\\ u200b \\ u200bthe faucets using an ordinary toothbrush.

8. Coffee grounds - an excellent body scrub. Do not rush to pour out the grounds when the coffee is already drunk, collect it in a jar. Before going to the steam room or taking a bath, add a few large tablespoons of melted or liquid honey and a little fine sea salt to the collected wet powder, mix thoroughly and use as a whole body scrub. Pay special attention to your heels, knees, and elbows. The result will be visible after the first application of the scrub - the skin will become soft and velvety.

9. Makeup remover removes foundation or lipstick stains not only from your face, but also from your clothes.

10. Shampoo - excellent detergent for delicate washing. If necessary, wash a thing made of delicate fabrics - shampoo will come in handy. Also, shampoo will successfully replace special bath foams.

11. Mayonnaise easily copes with white stains on wooden surfacesfor example from wet glasses. Apply it in a thick layer to problem areas and remove it with a napkin after half an hour.

12. Colorless nail polish Is an excellent fixer. With the help of varnish, you can fix small screws, for example, on the lid of a box or the frame of glasses. If you have purchased jewelry with stones, or clothes with mother-of-pearl buttons, or sandals decorated with a pattern of stones, cover them with transparent varnish, and then all the details of the decoration will remain in place for a long time.

13. Shower cap perfect for packing shoes in a suitcase.

14. Toothpaste as a toilet freshener. Buy the cheapest toothpaste, punch 5-7 holes in the tube and put it in the toilet cistern. With each flush, the room will be scented and the interior of your plumbing will be cleaned.

15. Vodka - excellent solvent. If you need to get rid of the patch, just soak it with vodka and after a few minutes it will fall behind. Using vodka, you can remove sticky labels, for example, on new dishes or a mirror. Soak a sponge with vodka, attach to the sticker, hold for 5 minutes, rub lightly and rinse off with warm water.

16. Sugar removes grass stains. Wet a green spot, sprinkle it with a thin layer of granulated sugar, leave it for an hour and ... enjoy the result - the spot will simply disappear without a trace.

Good helpful tips! Only if mayonnaise washes away stains from wooden products, the question arises - from what chemistry is it mixed))))

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• Oh, Natasha, don't ask ... Ah, we drink cola ... Ah, she turns out to do an excellent job of removing oil stains and rust. 🙁 🙂

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  • Here "cola" can be added to your wonderful advice, I somehow tried to clean the sink in the bathroom with it for fun, so it sparkled like never before \u003d)

    Great! I'll have to try your recipe, Lida. And, I also know that cut flowers stand well in a collet diluted with water. 🙂

Do not be alarmed, it's not about chemistry, but about oil (which is present in mayonnaise). There is another method based on the same oil - mix 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of alcohol, apply on the stains with a swab, let stand for an hour or two, and then wipe with a cloth. The result is great!

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• Allochka, THANKS for another useful recipe! 🙂

I especially liked about the toothpaste. The most perfect place, in my opinion, for a toothpaste with fluoride is a toilet bowl, not our mouth! In general, all the advice is super, thanks!

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Olya, thanks for the advice. They knew something, something new. Everything is clear about mayonnaise and cola ... \u003d)

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Everything is super! But charcoal - it must be experienced, and with cheap toothpaste too a good option... Thank you.

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• Oh, Alexei, once, being in nature, I was about to brush my teeth with coal powder, but I did not dare. And, in the company of friends with whom we were on vacation, there were "courageous" experimenters. The effect was amazing, though I had to rinse my mouth longer than usual. 😉

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Thanks for the selection of useful tips - I took some of them into service.

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Interesting and useful tips, some I hear for the first time, will come in handy.

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Thank you, I learned something for the first time ... For example, about toothpaste) And I remove the smell in the refrigerator with mustard, put it in a small pile and put it in a secluded corner, periodically pour the old one, add a new one)

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• Thank you Ekaterina for the helpful advice. I will take note of your recipe.

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Well, Olya! Thank you, many things turned out to be new to me! Cutting boards can still be disinfected with hydrogen peroxide, and about toothpaste - just a discovery for me! How much money is spent on toilet flavors, but here it is so simple! \u003d)

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I didn't know that hand cream can be used for shoes too, thanks, it will come in handy! And I didn’t know that sugar can remove grass stains, sometimes it’s very necessary!

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Useful Tips, I take it to bookmarks) thanks.

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What awesome tips! Super! Indeed, peroxide can remove stains. And recently I bought a new shampoo, but it didn't fit me at all, now I know where to apply it.

Olya, again you have a new design, how you love changes! and they are always for the best!

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• Thank you, Olenka, for the comment - use it for your own good!
  P / S Yes, I decided to change the design a little, fortunately, the template settings allow you to do this in two clicks! 🙂

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How many useful tips, thanks Olya, I use some.

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Only our people can make such "discoveries", and the popular saying is not in vain: "The need for invention is cunning."
Add to the box of tips: soda + citric acid + soap suds \u003d cleaning kettles, pots until they shine, soda + vinegar \u003d clean toilet, bathroom.

The ability to do some useful things with your own hands very often helps out economically. A person who knows how to handle tools and has ingenuity replaces many purchased goods with homemade ones. Moreover, these are not only some little things, but also quite serious, necessary adaptations for the house.

Making them saves a lot of money and gives you genuine pleasure from the opportunity to create something useful with your own hands and thanks to your own imagination. Perhaps our advice will be useful not only for novice Kulibins, but also for experienced home craftsmen who cannot sit without work.

Brazier smokehouse with your own hands from a barrel or gas cylinder (with video)

Let's start not with a trifle, but quite such a serious and useful thing at any dacha, like a barbecue. It can also be grilled and smoked. If on summer days one does not sit at home, and rest in the country does not amaze the imagination with a variety, it is time to make just such a grill and invite friends to picnics in nature. Such devices are never idle and are always very popular during the warmest months of the year.

To make a homemade grill, you first need to find old barrel or a couple of empty ones gas cylinders... The size of the product and some functional features depend on the format of the product. Of course, in order to make such devices as a brazier, you must be able to work with metal and handle welding equipment. So these tips of ours are only suitable for experienced craftsmen.

Useful tips for making a homemade barbecue:

1. First you need to cut a lid in a barrel for the future barbecue. The photo shows the cutting scheme. If you want to make a more complex design with three sections (brazier, smokehouse and barbecue) from used gas cylinders of 50 liters, watch the video. It explains and shows in detail how the holes in the cylinders are cut.

2. The handle must be welded to the lid. Necessarily with a wooden handle, which will help avoid burns during frying.

3. If the smokehouse is made from cylinders and will have 3 sections in the future, then they will need to be welded to each other, as shown in the video. Pay attention to the homemade design. It provides for such things as a blower, a hole for draining the "soup" that is formed during the smoking process, etc.

4. The brazier can be installed on iron legs. For example, as in the same video, the master used a stand from sewing machine with a foot drive. Such a rarity can be found at a flea market. If you are unlucky with interesting finds, ask your friends if anyone has been lying around in grandmother's attic old car... As a last resort, you can make homemade legs from scrap.

5. Then the cover is attached to the barbecue. If desired, a spit can be built into the grill for roasting large carcasses (suckling pig, nutria, goose, etc.). In order not to turn the spit on its own, a motor is connected to it. How to do all this is shown in the video.

6. On the "bottom" of the barbecue grill is laid. Since both the cylinder and the barrel are rounded, the grate does not lie directly on the bottom, but is located at some distance from it. The grate can be used ready-made or welded on your own. For experienced welders, this is not difficult. After the complete assembly of the structure, you can try it out in action (video).

Homemade Empty Plastic Bottles: Hanging Gardens

With your own hands you can make not only such "high-tech" devices as a grill-smokehouse, but also various pleasant little things for home and garden. These small and fairly simple crafts are very useful things that can cost a fortune in specialized stores.

Useful little things for the interior can be made from empty plastic bottles, which are invisible in cities. For example, you can make a chic hanging garden on brick wall... Usually on forged fences climbing plants they themselves "creep" upward, forming a dense green, and sometimes also a blooming wall. She makes the garden very nice and cozy.

But if the fence around the house is solid (stone or brick), and you want more greenery, inventions of home craftsmen will help out. To equip hanging gardens on your site, you don't even need to buy pots and then think about how to attach ropes to them. Elementary homemade products from plastic bottles and fishing line will help.

How to make homemade pots for a hanging garden around your home

To make these extremely useful, but at the same time very simple things, you will need to collect about 20-30 bottles. The volume should be chosen depending on what kind of plants you want to decorate the fence around the house. For those who like more space and have an extensive root system, you should choose bottles of 1.5-2 liters. A "window" for a flower is cut from one side. The plug must be tightened to prevent the soil from spilling out of the bottle.

Holes should be made on both sides for the fishing line, with which the homemade pots will be attached to the top of the fence. Then you need to fill the bottle with soil (preferably immediately fertilized and prepared for planting ornamental plant). It should fill the container about halfway so that the plant has a place to take root. But you should not pour a lot of earth, otherwise homemade pots for a hanging garden around the house will be too heavy.

At the end, you need to plant flowers and fix your homemade pots on the wall. It is better to do this in a checkerboard pattern so that later overgrown plants form a dense green "wall". Curly looks very good flowering plants: they grow very densely, and delight the eye with bright colors almost all summer and a good half of autumn.

Useful little things for a country house: a curtain and a spray from plastic bottles

You can make other crafts and useful things for a cozy life from plastic bottles. Our advice will help you equip your summer cottage as cheaply as possible. For example, it is not at all necessary to buy curtains for a gazebo or loggia. They can be made from the bottoms of plastic bottles.
They already have a pretty pretty shape. All that remains is to cut them out and fasten them together with a fishing line, as in the photo. Even a child can make such crafts, and at the same time they look quite impressive.

Our advice is not only about decorative interior moments. Used plastic bottles can also be used to create useful items such as a spray for watering a garden or lawn. Such devices are quite expensive in stores, and their device is so simple that it is useful little things you can literally at your leisure in a couple of minutes.

Tips on How to Make a Garden / Lawn Sprayer

If around your country house there is a lawn that requires regular watering, our tips for creating simple adaptation for this. For work, you need such little things as several ballpoint pens that have served their purpose and one empty plastic bottle.

You need to make holes in the bottle. They must match the diameter of the body ballpoint pen... The rods must be removed from the handles, and the bodies themselves must be fixed in the holes in the bottle. After that, we make a hole in the lid for the fastener for the hose and screw the latter to the neck of the bottle. Now all that remains is to throw the sprayer onto the lawn and turn on the water.

Such simple and at the same time extremely convenient devices greatly facilitate the life of a summer resident. Spray of plastic bottle can be easily transferred to another part of the garden (lawn) after the first plot is well watered. Even a child can cope with this task, because plastic is a very light material.

Such useful things can be made literally from garbage - ordinary plastic bottles that are thrown into landfills in tons in cities.

Tips and inventions needed in everyday life: do-it-yourself summer shower

You just don't want to spend money on many devices, because their production takes nothing at all. For example, things like an outdoor shower are very easy to do yourself. You will need 1 metal corner, nails, a water hose, duct tape, and an empty aluminum beer can.
Tips on how these crafts are done:

1. To make a device for spraying water, you first need to cut the bottom of the beer can.

2.On the other side, the hole should be slightly widened so that the hose attachment can be secured.

3. To prevent water from seeping into the holes of the craft, the attachment point is carefully closed with electrical tape.

4. To attach this simple invention, the corner must be attached to the fence. We drill holes and just nail it down.

5. The only thing left is to turn on the water and enjoy the summer shower.

Any home craftsman collects a huge number of different things that need to find a certain place. These are all sorts of little things: nails, screws, rolls of electrical tape, etc. In order not to lose all these things necessary in the household, special storage devices are used. Of course, you only need to do them yourself.

Perfect storage for small items, easy to make from 2 empty plastic bottles. First, we cut off the bottom of each of them, then we attach a zipper to the cut of the future craft and just fasten it. That's it, now you have a place to put various important things with which you will make your own crafts or even create real inventions.

Simple crafts are the first step towards great achievements

All the crafts presented by us are pretty simple options what you can do with your own hands from improvised means. The smartest craftsmen know how to turn common household items into stunning inventions. By the way, many of them are real inventions, often worthy of some kind of prize, if not a global, then certainly a regional one.

If you want to join a cohort of self-taught craftsmen, try to make the simple crafts presented to your attention. Perhaps over time, you will develop a taste for handicraft, and you will become a genius master or even an inventor.

Or make the housework better. Today, there are also many similar recommendations, so we will look at the most useful tips for home that can be useful to everyone.

Every girl wears perfume. But if your favorite scent has already ended, do not rush to throw away the bottle. You need to remove the spray cap, pour half a jar of water and put a few wooden sticks. By absorbing the fragrant liquid, they will fill your room with fragrance.

Every woman has flowers in a vase from time to time. To make them last longer, add one or two drops to the water.But it is important not to pour too much product, otherwise it will accelerate the fading of the flowers.

Cleaning of the apartment

Any housewife will need these helpful tips for cleaning the house. Sometimes on tile or plumbers appear ugly rust stains and plaque. A mass made from soda will help get rid of this scourge. It must be slightly diluted with water to a thick gruel. Apply the agent to a rusty area and wait until it dries. Remove the baking soda with a brush or hard sponge and wash the surface well.

The following tips for the home are about floors. It is important to know that carpets need to be thoroughly cleaned twice a year. You will need a hair brush for this procedure. Two tablespoons are added to a liter of water. This simple mixture moistens the brush and cleans the carpet. After that, the pile is wiped with dry rags. Heavily contaminated areas require re-treatment. But if the carpet is cleaned in this way twice a year, you will no longer need to purchase chemical compounds.

You can also update linoleum on your own. Dishwashing liquid is added to warm water. This mixture will remove grease and dirt stains. The second time the floor is washed with clean water. Without waiting for the linoleum to dry, polish it using a dry cloth with a few drops of linseed oil or ordinary sunflower oil... If this cleaning is carried out every six weeks, flooring will last longer than usual.

Clean things

Helpful home tips are essential when your personal items are out of shape. For example, ink stains often appear on leather clothing. You can get rid of them with wet salt. To do this, rub it with a slightly dampened cloth into the painted place.

Sometimes, yellowish iron marks may appear on clothes. You can eliminate this problem with a solution of borax. Two teaspoons of the product are diluted in a liter of water.

Another problem can be yellowish spots in the armpits. You can remove them with aspirin. Soak two tablets in a small container of water. After waiting for about seven minutes, rub the gruel into the yellowed place. Leave it on for 20 minutes, then just wash and dry.

Household help

These useful tips for home have already been tested by more than one housewife, so you can safely follow their example. You can clean the soleplate of the iron with a liquid of vinegar mixed with ammonia... In this mixture, moisten a cloth and rub the sole until shiny.

Here are some more tricks:

Kitchen tricks

And here are some useful tips for home and family that will help you become a good housewife in the kitchen. If you're making vegetable soup, avoid adding spices, especially bay leaves. It is better to complement the finished dish with chopped herbs.

To keep the wood clean, they are treated with vinegar mixed with water.

A saucepan with salted will help cool the cooked compote faster cold water bigger size.

Aside from the usual tricks, there are some very useful home tips that are also easy to follow. For example, a small amount of wine is often left on the table after a meal. In order not to pour it out, pour into molds and put in the freezer. When preparing a meal, you can use frozen wine or add it to sauces.

Each housewife periodically burns rice, what to do? A piece of white bread placed on top will help get rid of the burnt aftertaste.

If you are in the country

Below are useful tips for home and gardening to become a good gardener.

To your country cottage area it is important to attract birds that fight insects and caterpillars. They need to be fed back in winter. For this, a feeder is made from an ordinary glass jars... It must be hung horizontally on a branch with strings. The feeder is ready.

We have more useful tips for the home in stock. You can make many interesting gizmos with your own hands. If you have children, then the problem with scattered toys is familiar to you. You can make a bright box with your own hands, in which the kid will put his things. You will need old postcards, glue, and a cardboard box of the size you want. Carefully glue the box with beautiful postcards. You can leave it at home, or you can take it to the dacha so that your baby has fun in nature. To make it last longer, you can glue it with wide tape.

The above tips for home are simple, but if you remember them, you can make your life a lot easier.

Useful Tips

In order not to litter your house or apartment with small things, there are various devices: organizers, cupboards, shelves, and so on.

But the problem may lie in the fact that there is not always enough money or it is difficult to find a device suitable in size and color. And then do-it-yourself fakes can come to the rescue and our helpfuladvice .

Read also: 10+ life hacks that will make your life easier

Studs are constantly lost? This problem can be easily solved by attaching magnetic tape using glue or nails to any wooden object in the house.

Housewives often have a problem - a washcloth for washing dishes is constantly lost somewhere. Just clip on plastic pocket on the faucet near the sink and the problem disappears.

In this case, the pocket is cut from a plastic shampoo bottle.

A very convenient device for storing canned food is racks. You may have these old racks, if not, you can get them at the hardware store.

A reliable headphone organizer is obtained by gluing two clothespins.

If you attach a small rail with a pre-installed rope, as shown in the photo, you get a hanger for small things.

DIY organizer

Here is such convenient organizer you can do it yourself from old small boxes.

If you have a small child, then for sure you have encountered the problem of toys scattered throughout the house. The figure shows one of the options for solving such a problem. Just attach plastic trays on the wall or cabinet.

Interesting shelves for iron toys can be made from magnetic tape.

Such a stylish wardrobe can be built do it yourself from baskets and folders.