Set Yourself Free With These Spring Cleaning Life Hacks

Use Rubbing Alcohol to Remove Nail Polish from a Carpet

If you don't have any vodka on hand, rubbing alcohol will do the same thing in a pinch. Additionally, if you have regular nail polish remover (without any added color), this will do the trick just as well. Nail polish remover is just alcohol with some skin safe additives, so you're pretty good with any choice in this department. 

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The More You Know

  • In a pinch for labels? Just reach for the rubber bands. Wrap ’em around your mason jars and you’ll never mistake salt for sugar again.
  • With the water running at about half throttle, drop in orange or lemon peels. Run the disposer for five seconds. Citric acid from the peels softens crusty waste and attacks smelly bacteria. Give the acid about 15 minutes to do its work.
  • Dab a dot of toothpaste onto a bug bite to reduce the itchiness and swelling, and get back to the great outdoors!
  • Pump up the volume at any impromptu party by putting your smartphone in a bowl: The concave shape will amplify the music from its speaker.
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