8 brilliant ideas to change your everyday life
There are small annoyances that recur from time every time when we have to attend to common chores, and we often resign ourselves to always facing them in the same way. But if the right inspiration comes along, we discover a solution that was always under our noses and that can free us from some of these daily annoyance.
You can thread the eye of the needle without making mistakes, you can wash an pile of children's toys without lifting a finger, you can use any laptop in broad daylight outside, and not only these: find out how by reading on below:
Do you want to hurry up and cut all your cherry tomatoes all at once? Just place them between two plastic lids or plates (or between a cutting board and a plastic lid or other flat and transparent object that is not too heavy) and press down just so as not to let them escape as you pass through the middle of them with the blade - a bit like what you do with a sandwich!
If you need to wash LEGO, or other very small plastic or rubber toys that your children play with every day, you can do them in the dishwasher (or even the washing machine). Just put them in the net bags that are also used for delicate garments, so that they do not end up everywhere during the wash, with the risk of damaging the appliance as well.
If you want to heat a sandwich without worrying about having to clean up the crumbs, wrap it in parchment paper first!
Do you want to use your laptop or tablet outside when it is sunny? All you need to do is create a cover with an old shoe box, or the cardboard ones from the packages we all receive in the mail. Make sure it is wide enough not to be too close to the screen and use shims under the keyboard, so as to always let some air pass through and avoid the machine from overheating.
If you do not have time to open the dishwasher as soon as the washing cycle ends, and you want to avoid finding wet dishes and glasses inside, open the door and place a towel or dishcloth inside it, letting just a flap come out on the outside and close the door gently. Dry fabric will absorb all the steam before it condenses.
Are you sick of the light that peeks in between curtains that do not close completely? Use the clothes clips of hangers as clips to close them.
If you have difficulty in threading thread into the eye of the needle, help yourself with a toothbrush: in fact, if you slide a little thread between the bristles of the toothbrush, and place the eye over the thread, then you just have to press the needle down. In this way, the bristles push the thread up into the eye. With your hands, tweezers (or even another needle or a toothpick), you can then pull up the thread buttonhole that has been created on top and slide the thread into the needle.
Use kitchen sponges instead of plastic or wooden colored bricks: sponges for the dishes can be stacked together for construction, since the abrasive part is a friction / adhesion point with the soft part of the next sponge, keeping everything firmly in place. And you can cut them into equal pieces for a game like Jenga. Kids will have fun all the same, but there will be no risk of accidentally stepping on painful toys!
