Local solutions for Island life
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Home Life
Boil white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to descale your kettle once. Then boil your kettle with water for a further three times to give you a shiny, new kettle inside and out.
Descale Your Kettle
When you’ve popped open a tub of Pringles, the empty container
makes the perfect store for keeping spaghetti and other
uncooked pasta dry.
Pringles to Pasta
Do you get quite emotional when cutting onions? Try chewing gum and the tears will
be held at bay. Singing works too!
Emotional Cooking
To remove stems from strawberries, simply poke a straw from the bottom
through the middle of the fruit.
Strawberry Skills
Struggling to keep your recipe book open at the right page? Simply hook a trouser hanger
on a cupboard and clip the recipe pages to it.
Hanger Stand
Want to light a candle but the wick is hard to reach? Light a stick of spaghetti; it makes a great, extra long matchstick.
Spaghetti Lighter
Rather than struggling to open sti� jar lids, put a
rubber band round the lid and try again. The lid will
be o� in no time.
Easy Jar Opener
Only need the egg whites or yolk for your recipe? Crack the egg into a bowl. Squeeze a plastic bottle over the yolk
and watch it get sucked up as you let it expand, leaving the whites.
Egg Separator
Re-decorating but run out of masking tape? Use tin foil to cover light switches and door
handles instead.
Tin Foil Tips
If you’ve bought rings that aren’t real gold or silver, paint the inside with clear nail polish
to stop getting green rings around your fingers.
Green Fingers
Reaching the end of the Nutella jar? Don’t waste any. Just add a few scoops of ice cream to finish on
nutty-high!
Nutella No More Instead of using a spoon to scoop out a mango, simply
cut the fruit in half and peel it down the side of a glass cup
to easily remove the flesh.
Juicy Mangoes
When heating food up in the microwave, make a well in
the middle of your food so it heats up more evenly.
Microwave Magic
If the grooves in your screw head are worn down, place
an elastic band over the top and try screwing in.
Works like magic!
Nailed ItPut an elastic band round and over the top of your paint pot.
Wipe excess paint o� your brush against the band to avoid paint
drips and mess.
Rubber Band Brilliance
Hang a shoe organiser on the back of your door and add in all cleaning products/supplies
so they’re easier to find.
Easy CleanDon’t ditch an old wooden ladder. Bring it back to life with a lick of paint and it makes a great bathroom
towel rail.
Ladder Towel HolderUse your toothpaste to
clean any plastic items or PVC windows in your home.
Toothpaste Cleaner
To check if eggs are still fresh, drop them in a glass of
water. If they sink they’re fresh, if they float they’re bad.
Good Egg?
Put a magnetic strip on the inside of a cupboard or wardrobe to stick belts,
pins, or even spare coins to.
Magnetic Strips
Nail polish isn’t just for your nails. Paint your keys di�erent colours so you can easily
remember which one opens which door.
Key CleverAdd peppermint oil to water
and spray around your garage and door/window
frames to keep pesky spiders and mice away.
Mint RepellentAl fresco dining? Prevent bugs in
your drink. Get a mu�n case, cut a small hole in the centre and
place it over the glass. Poke a straw through for a DIY lid.
Buzz Off
If you have fleas in your home, add a flea collar to your hoover to prevent
any eggs from hatching.
Flea Killer
Do you have old leather suitcases lying around
collecting dust? Why not stack them up and use them as a side table?
Suitcase Stack
If you spill red wine on your carpet, quickly use white wine or salt to prevent a
stain from showing.
Wine = Wine
Stick a post-it horizontally underneath where you will
be drilling. Bend the bottom half up to catch
any dust that falls.
Post-It Dust Buster
We’ve all had a sip of tea, co�ee or soup and accidently
burnt our tongue. Add sugar to your tongue and it miraculously
clears the pain.
Tongue Burn
If you have a water stain on a wooden item in your home, add some mayonnaise, leave
for an hour and wipe o�. The stain will vanish!
Mayo Stain Cleaner
If you are running low on mobile phone battery,
turn it to Airplane Mode.It preserves the battery and also charges faster.
Airplane Mode
If you have lost something on your floor/carpet, put a sock or tights over the end
of the hoover tube so it doesn’t get sucked up.
Sock Hoover
Toilet, sea or sink phone disaster? If you drop your
mobile in water, put it in a bag of rice, in the airing cupboard,
and wait a couple of days.
Rice Rescue