Category: Quick tips

Remember the last project you completed that relied heavily on a hot glue gun? I’ll bet by the time you were done, it had lots of those dangling “spider web” threads of hot glue all over it. As careful as you try to be, those things just seem to be impossible to avoid. […]

We use our empty tissue boxes as trash containers in our car. The taller ones fit perfectly in the console of my husband’s Honda Pilot. When it’s full, we just toss the whole container and replace it with a new one!

I read a great tip in Real Simple magazine the other day I wanted to share with you all. It suggested storing pills in a contact lens case. It can easily hold a few essential non-prescription medicines such as Benadryl or aspirin. “Pop one into your handbag and you’ll have a headache […]

Nothing ruins a pair of drawstring pants faster than when the drawstring gets pulled completely into the hole, where you can no longer reach the end to tie the pants. It’s nearly impossible to get that flimsy string threaded back through the opening!
Well, the next time that happens, just pull the drawstring […]

My daughter has really long, thick hair for a toddler. She loves her hair but doesn’t love it when I have to spend a lot of time getting the tangles out of it. I used the spray-on detangler, I used conditioner, creams, everything you could imagine. They helped but it was still […]

My grandmother thought to use one of the heavy duty measuring scoops that comes with our laundry detergent to rinse my daughter’s hair in the bathtub. It works perfectly and it didn’t cost a thing!