Spring Cleaning Hacks You'll Wish You'd Found Out Years Ago

Use a Lemon if Cream of Tartar Doesn't Work

Lemons can work instantly to clean high-carbon knives. The tarnish that develops on knives is a form of platina, and if you have to clean your knife with a lemon, that means it's a quality one. Don't sweat over the effort over cleaning expensive cutlery - it's worth it in the longrun. 

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The More You Know

  • When you go to the beach and take your cooler with you, sprinkle salt on the ice so that it stays frozen for much longer.
  • Next time you oversalt a soup, toss in a few wedges of raw apple or potato. Simmer for 10 minutes and discard the wedges to get the flavor back to normal.
  • Help keep your home office space organized by using PVC pipe to hide cords. Just wrangle all those computer, mouse, monitor and phone cords and hide them in some PVC pipe.
  • As trash bags start to fill up, the bag slithers into the bin and you have to dig it out. To keep handled or drawstring trash bags in place, all you need are two medium or large self-adhesive command hooks.
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