Got a great email from my parents yesterday that should help us all work smarter and not harder. LOVE IT and hope you do, as well. Keep in mind, this is an email chain that I’m sure has made the rounds a few times so the original author is unknown. If you know who I can credit these pics with, please let me know. Otherwise, enjoy and feel free to share this wisdom.
Use a (clean) dustpan to fill a container that doesn’t fit in the sink
Place a rubber band around an open paint can to wipe your brush on, and keep paint off the side of the can
Use a staple remover to save your fingernails when trying to add things to your key ring!
Put wooden spoon across boiling pot of water to keep from boiling over. (Sidenote: this really does work, I’ve tried it!!)
Use bread clips to save flip-flops with split holes.
How to put shoes in the dryer
Use sunglasses or a small convex mirror to avoid people sneaking up on you while wearing headphones at work
How to keep the straw from rising out of your soda can
Use a microfiber cloth to prevent frost from forming on the windshield.
Use a Comb to Keep a Nail Steady for Hammering
Use a post it note to catch drilling debris.
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
WHAT ABOUT YOU? WHAT GREAT TIPS, SHORTCUTS, IDEAS CAN YOU SHARE WITH US TO HELP US WORK SMARTER??
brilliant work!!!
Thanks, I’m eager to try a few of them out, but like I said in the post I have tried the wooden spoon trick and it does work. I’m sure there’s some awesome science involved, but that is definitely my worse subject! LOL
These are great ideas. I love it.
Me too, thanks for the visit Ms Thaler!!
These are from a user run site, which I forget, where people have submitted hundreds of ideas… I spent a good couple of hours going through it.
Oh wow! If you think of the address, please let me know. I’d love to browse through it and learn some more wonderful tricks!
Thanks for visiting!
Well, these are just about the neatest ideas I’ve seen in awhile! Thanks for sharing them!
I thought so too Jim! Thanks for dropping by and visitin’ my lil ol’ blog!
Finally a blog with advice I can use…hahaha.
Be encouraged!
Awesome compliment Stephen! Thank you, I aim to please, hahaha. Happy Bloggin’!
LOL, I have never seen any of these before, love it….going to share it.
Wonderful Nancy! All were new to me but the spoon. I’m eager to try the rest out though
Love it!
Aren’t they though…very clever. I’m definitely going to try out the shoe in the dryer trick. Nothing worse than loud clunking coming from the laundryroom. Hahaha!
Some of these are so amazing and simple I’m pissed I didn’t think of them first.
LOL! I know, right?! Me too Cally, me too.
I like the makeshift method for filling the mop bucket and the staple puller for the key ring–pure genius!
I do too and I like the rubber band method for keeping the paint can clean! Brilliant, but so darn simple.
Oh my God, these are great!!! I plan on using them.
Me too! Isn’t it amazing how simple brilliance can be? (and we didn’t think of them first??!!) Thanks for visiting
you are welcome!
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
Anytime! Good to “see” you again, hope all is well
The shoe trick…OMG – you just saved me from putting more dents in my dryer…clunk….clunk…clunk
Your dryer just called me and said thanks!!
Haha…
LOL……
How do you use the micro fibre cloth to prevent freezing?
You just put them flat against your windshield the night before and it’ll stick to it. Then when the freezing happens, it’ll freeze the cloth and not your windshield. Remove the frozen cloths and your windshield is free of any ice, frost, snow, etc…piece o’cake!!