Seltzer water will revive gold jewelry if you combine it with dish soap and let it soak for five minutes.
Use your vacuum cleaner to find tiny items you've lost, such as earrings. Just cover the end of a vacuum cleaner with a stocking or pantyhose, and start your search.
Put some aluminum foil in the bottom of your fireplace before you lay down your logs.
Garage floors are puddle prone: springtime floods, melting ice from tires, you name it. You can keep that water away from your tools and toys with a dam made of expanding foam.