Ultimate Life Hacks: Things You Never Knew About Aluminum Foil and Plastic Wrap

Aluminum Jewelry Benefits

You might not know this yet but aluminum is actually a fantastic material for making jewelry. It is light, it doesn’t rust (like iron, which a lot of cheap jewelry is made from), it is easy to clean, it doesn’t tarnish, and unless you have a metal allergy it is also hypoallergenic, as it doesn’t contain nickel which is a more common allergen. It is also extremely malleable meaning it is a great material for making DIY jewelry from!

Aluminum Jewelry Benefits

Keeping Matchsticks Dry

The discovery of fire undoubtedly changed humanity forever, amongst other things allowing humans to cook their food as well as keep warm. However, we have come a long way since the days of our ancestors who had to produce fire by creating friction between two stones. If you are camping, matchsticks are the best option. More importantly, dry matchsticks.

Keeping Matchsticks Dry

The last thing you want when you finally find somewhere dry to camp for the night and start setting up your campfire is to discover that your matches are too wet to light. A small bit of aluminum can save the day. Just roll some matchsticks in a bit of aluminum when preparing your camping gear and you’re good to go.

Avoid Welcoming Cockroaches into Your Kitchen

Many of us have some cabinets in our kitchen or elsewhere where the shelves or drawers are quite deep, making it very likely that they don’t get any natural light at the back. This is most welcoming to the least favorite creepy-crawly; cockroaches.

Avoid Welcoming Cockroaches Into Your Kitchen

The solution to this is placing aluminum foil on the shelves themselves which will reflect light onto all corners of the cabinet, which in turn increases the light which will decrease the number of insect visitors.

Low-Cost Boost to Radiator Efficiency

When it is cold outside the one consolation is coming into a warm house, but sometimes a standard radiator just doesn’t quite do the trick. Of course, it is possible to upgrade it or even buy another one, but both of those options mean more expensive electricity and gas bills.

Low-Cost Boost To Radiator Efficiency

The extremely low cost and the easy homemade solution comes in the form of aluminum and some cardboard. Just put some flaps of foil over the cardboard and place it around the heat source which will reflect heat further and increase the rate of heat distribution, increasing the efficiency of your radiator.

Dealing with Dirt or Rust

So you are all ready for an important meeting, about to grab your bag and rush out of the door, until you notice a wrinkle on your shirt… Shouldn’t be too complicated, right? Just take the shirt off and iron it quickly. Easy. Unless the iron has accumulated dirt or rust. One swipe of that and your fresh, smart shirt will be a total mess.

Dealing With Dirt Or Rust

Luckily, your kitchen has a quick fix ready. Just grab a sheet of aluminum foil, roll it into a ball, and scrub the surface of the iron while hot, and all the dirt will come off. There may be a scratch or two, but it will be worth it.

Moving Furniture without Leaving a Scratch

The most gorgeous pieces of furniture are often quite bulky or heavy, and trying to move them around the room can often end up in disaster as you try to drag it around the room, leaving scratch marks on your floor.

Moving Furniture Without Leaving A Scratch

You can avoid all of that with this simple hack; Just put a layer of foil underneath each corner of the furniture.

Keeping Bananas Fresh for Longer

Here are a couple of interesting facts for you; bananas are actually the only fruit that never face an insect attack, but they also contain quite high amounts of reacting agents compared to other fruits, which make it more likely to decay faster. Oddly, by breaking the air contact with aluminum foil the rotting process can actually be slowed down.

Keeping Bananas Fresh For Longer

Wrapping the top stem of the banana with aluminum will delay the decaying process, slowing the reaction enough to allow you to enjoy your bananas for days and days longer.

Protect Door Knobs from Fresh Paint

Whatever your painting project involves, if it is a full house or just a room, there are always some spots you don’t want to touch. Using paper and tape is a great option for protecting ceilings and door frames, but what about the curvy doorknob?

Protect Door Knobs From Fresh Paint

Another scenario where aluminum foil can save the day; it easily molds into the shape of the knob as well as catching all the drops of paint, and after the paint dries you can just chuck the protector in the trash and have no worries about any leftover marks.

Cutting Out the Mess in BBQs

Everyone loves a BBQ meal with family and friends on a lovely sunny day, but there is less love for the mess they leave behind. Cleaning the grill after a good old barbeque can take hours of hard work.

Cutting Out The Mess In BBQs

Just put some layers of aluminum on top of each other and lay them on the grill in order to prevent dripping. When you’re finished with the BBQ just add some soapy water to the same foil, give the rack a scrub, and you will clean rack quickly and easily.

Glue Gun Saver

Anyone who has used one before knows just how incredible glue guns are. The hot melted glue dispensed from the gun, keeping your hands clean, is perfect for sealing, sticking, and all sorts of fun stuff. But when you finish there tends to be an adhesive layer left on the tip.

Glue Gun Saver

Aluminum foil is your best bet here. Just give the tip a little scrub and it will clear off all excess in no time, keeping it clean for the next use.

Re-Sealing Open Bags

Often one doesn’t know exactly how much nibbles to buy for a little gathering of friends, or you want variety and end up buying a good number of family packs of chips so that you can have a pick and mix. Which is all well and good, until those extras left in the bag spill out of the cabinet all over the kitchen floor.

Re-Sealing Open Bags

We have a good solution to this problem, and you don’t even need any special equipment. Just a hot iron and a strip of aluminum foil will do the trick.

Making Old Mirrors Bright Again

If you pick up any interior design magazine you will notice that mirrors are key in making a space seem brighter and more spacious. But with time, the reflective layer on the mirror gets affected, resulting in ugly spots appearing.

Making Old Mirrors Bright Again

There is usually a reflective paint on the circumference of the mirror which is similar to the silver surface of tin foil. Take a strip of aluminum, tape it to the frame of the mirror and voila! Mirror healed!

A Handy and Transferable Frying Pan

For most of us who love camping trips one of the highlights is the bonfires and the campfire cooking. But often there is so much to remember to pack when going camping that essential things like frying pans are often forgotten.

A Handy And Transferable Frying Pan

A roll of aluminum foil will save the day. Make a little stack of some layers of foil, bend them into the desired shape, and your pan is ready for cooking.

Remedy for Vinyl Tile Hassle

Vinyl tiles, and particularly bathroom ones, have an annoying habit of getting loose over time. But you don’t have to worry about replacing them or ripping up the whole floor to remedy these small blemishes.

Remedy For Vinyl Tile Hassle

Just put the tile back into its place, cover it with a layer of aluminum, get your trust iron and iron over it. The heat from the iron will warm up the adhesive, setting the vinyl tile back into its position.

A Protective Credit Card Cover

The new RFID credit cards are very convenient and easy to use; you can pay just by tapping the card to the machine. But the lack of pin also makes it vulnerable to unauthorized payments.

A Protective Credit Card Cover

So how do you protect yourself? Aluminum to the rescue yet again! Using the foil, you can make a little pouch for your card, and the aluminum will act as a protective barrier from unwanted purchases, as it won’t allow for scanning or reading the card data while wrapped in the foil.

Getting the Light Right

All beginner photographers know that one of the most frustrating issues in trying to get the photograph right is getting the lighting right. As amateurs we mostly don’t have access to all the high-end flashes and light reflectors, so end up compromising with underexposed images.

Getting The Light Right

But fear not! As aluminum is here to help yet again! Wrap a couple of layers around a piece of cardboard and you have your very own portable light reflector, allowing you to focus all the ambient light onto a single subject.

Soap Trick

Cleaning is absolutely necessary, there is no doubt about that. However, if you wash your hands a lot during the day (which one should!) then your soap bar becomes a soapy mess in the dish with the residue soap and water.

Soap Trick

Surprisingly, aluminum can be of assistance in this situation too. A little strip of foil on the bottom of the soap will keep the bar in good shape, absorb some harmful chemicals, making it kinder to skin, and all in all increase its lifespan.

Putting the Sparkle Back into your Jewelry

Everyone knows that jewelry can be what completes your outfit, however it only really gives it that extra level of pizazz when the jewelry is shiny and clean. But the last thing one wants is to spend a lot of time scrubbing and rubbing with smelly chemicals.

Putting The Sparkle Back Into Your Jewelry

Easy-peasy aluminum hack alert! For a good professional (but at home!) clean, just put the jewelry in a bowl with some soapy water and a piece of aluminum foil, and watch your jewelry get its shine back!

Insect Protection with Enhanced Plant Growth

If you are someone who takes pride in your garden then you will be familiar with the dramatic and disastrous effect unwanted bugs can have on it. What you may not know is how aluminum foil can help prevent this.

Insect Protection With Enhanced Plant Growth

This metal from the crust of the earth is an effective remedy for all sorts of insects and bacteria. Additionally, everyone knows that sunlight is critical for plant health and growth, and the foil can help spread sunlight and focus it on the plants.

Patching Clothes without Ruining Your Ironing Board

Getting a tear in your jeans is not a difficult problem to solve as you just have to stick a patch onto the ripped spot. However, there is risk involved as the spot is prone to heat and while ironing it on your clothes it can stick to the ironing board, which can ruin both the clothing and the board.

Patching Clothes Without Ruining Your Ironing Board

A little piece of aluminum can assist the situation. Slide a bit of foil under the hole which will form a layer of material that is heat absorbent, and that will stop any unwanted sticking happening.

Garden Solar Light Distributor

Sun is not just a source of life for plants, but for all living things, so getting as much sun in every part of your garden will really give it the extra boost.

Garden Solar Light Distributor

Get a pretty lamp or just an attractive hanging light fixture and attach a piece of aluminum to it, making sure to adjust the foil so that it can get a good balance of light distribution, aiming it in whatever direction you choose.

Decorative Cakes

You know when you walk past a baker’s shop window and the display is full of those intricately designed cakes, and you wonder how on earth they do that? And is it possible for an amateur baker to create those decorative embellishments at home?

Decorative Cakes

Well, we can’t really give you an answer to the first part of the question, but we do have one to the second. You can create whatever form you like for the decoration out of aluminum foil, then coat it with paints, cream, or icing, and just pop them on your cake to impress your guests! Just make sure they know they are not for eating!

A Helping Hand for Santa

What most people do know about aluminum is that it can sustain quite high levels of heat. But you may have not thought about how it can help keep your fireplace neat and tidy. It is amazing for getting rid of the hassle involved in removing soot, ash, and all the other muck involved in having a lovely fire burning in your front room.

A Helping Hand For Santa

A few layers of foil will allow you to create a temporary platform that you can remove and chuck in the garbage whenever it is necessary.

Create Sunshine Heaven for your Plants

If you have some areas in your garden that receive less sunlight than others then the plants in the low sunlight areas don’t have a big chance of survival. Of course, one option is moving the plant, but if that is not possible then a sunbed for your plants is the next best thing.

Create Sunshine Heaven For Your Plants

Find a four-sided box, remove one of the sides, and then cover the remaining three sides with aluminum foil. Put the three-sided reflector by the potted plant and make sure it is facing in the direction of the sunlight. This will serve as a light-focuser for the plant, which in turn will boost the photosynthesis process crucial for the plant’s health.

A Painter’s Trusty Friend

Whether you paint professionally or just for fun, there are some common problems for all painters. One of the worst and most common is losing the cap of a paint jar or the lid of a tube, which allows for oxidation of the paint as well as drying it up.

A Painter’s Trusty Friend

Tinfoil comes in handy here too. Just fold some foil over the jar which will prevent air contact eliminating oxidation. Aluminum foil is also perfect for creating a temporary palette for your paints

Safety Ensured Hair Curlers

Those wanting lovely flowing curls, then hair curlers are a safe bet. However, it comes with its own risk or burning your hair, or even your hands or face.

Safety Ensured Hair Curlers

Luckily, aluminum is a great heat conductor and placing a layer of it on your curlers can save you from harm, and you can just focus on getting the right kind of curl.

Bring the Fish In With Added Light

If you have ever been fishing you will probably know that fish are attracted towards bright sunlight. Have you ever considered using this light as bait instead of the regular worms?

Bring The Fish In With Added Light

It may sound a bit crazy but it has been proven to work. Just wrap a little tin foil around your fish hook, and you will soon see how glistening of the light on the foil attracts the fish to your rod.

Bye Bye Blunt Scissors

You know that annoying moment when you need to cut something open with your kitchen scissors and you discover that they are too blunt to cut anything with, and wasted time trying? Well, as long as you have some aluminum in your kitchen drawer it won’t happen again.

Bye Bye Blunt Scissors

Just grab some aluminum foil and begin cutting it with the scissors, after a while you’ll notice that the cuts actually become smoother, and voila! you have sharpened your scissors without any special equipment.

Save Money with this Smartphone Pen

Many people find it easier using a stylus for their touch screen gadgets and tend to spend quite a bit of cash on an advanced smartphone stylus.

Save Money With This Smartphone Pen

Save your dosh with this hack. Just wrap a bit of foil on the tip of a regular pen or stick, and you’re good to go! Of course, make sure it is smooth so you don’t scratch your screen!

Perfect Pie Crusts

After all the energy and effort that goes into creating the perfect pie, the worst thing is when the shape of the crust gets ruined or falls apart.

Perfect Pie Crusts

Tinfoil to the rescue, yet again! Just wrap your finished pie in aluminum foil which will also maintain the form of the pie and keep the pastry warm for longer.

Creative Party Cakes

Have you ever wanted to create the perfect custom-made birthday cake, but just the idea of how you would get the pastry into the right shape scared you off? Well, all you need is the belief in your creative abilities and some aluminum foil.

Creative Party Cakes

Shape some aluminum foil into the desired shape, and put it into a baking pan. It can help to look at a picture of whatever shape you are aiming for while doing this.

Locking in Flavors

Freezing foods, of all varieties, is helped by using aluminum foil as by successfully trapping all the particles inside it really locks in all the flavors for longer.

Locking In Flavors

So whenever you next have lots of leftovers and want to put them in the freezer for a later date, just wrap them in aluminum foil and when you take them out to reheat they will taste fresh and tasty.

Preserving Steel Wool for Longer

Steel wool is a great tool for cleaning stubborn gunk on your sink or dishes, but the annoying thing is that just after a couple of uses it can get rusty and quickly loses its shape.

Preserving Steel Wool For Longer

But don’t throw it out at the first sign of rust. Wrapping it up in foil and putting it in the freezer can really help increase the longevity of the steel wool, saving you both time and money.

Keeping Out Excess Moisture from your Sleeping Bag

When you go camping with friends or family, often there are long days of hiking or just general survival stuff involved in camping like making fires and cooking. Turns out, your sleeping bag can build up moisture due to sweating during the night as well as the perspiration the friction between the sleeping bag and the bottom of the tent can create.

Keeping Out Excess Moisture From Your Sleeping Bag

So instead of getting to the end of the day and rolling out a wet sleeping bag, just place a long piece of foil under yourself which will act as an insulator and prevent and additional moisture from building up while you sleep.

Roller Pan Liners

Getting the paint rollers clean after use can be such a pain, which is the reason most people use disposable plastic liners. But that can be expensive as well as a waste of plastic.

Roller Pan Liners

Instead just use some foil as your pan next time and you will save both time and money in the long run!

Prevent Paint Skinning

Those who do their own DIY projects will probably be familiar with the notion of skinning paint. It is basically what happens when a can of paint has been left open (even just a little bit!) for a few days. The paint solidifies making it impossible to use for your next job.

Prevent Paint Skinning

To avoid this just put some foil in the can, and blow some air into it as you are closing the paint can lid. The carbon dioxide you blow onto it helps prevent oxidation.

Ad-hoc Baking Platter

Has it ever happened to you where you suddenly have a creative burst and fancy baking something but find you don’t have the right sized platter?

Ad Hoc Baking Platter

Well, aluminum foil can help keep your creative flow flowing. Just wrap some around some cardboard and it is as easy as that!

Improve Outdoor Lighting

Not only do plants need lighting, but humans do too. We all need some extra light and especially if your front or back porch is too dark. If you think your outdoor space could use a little ramping up, put some foil outside.

Improve Outdoor Lighting

You can make a fancy decoration, and play around with it in a way that balances the light in a nice way. Stick it down with tape and see how lovely your garden just lightened up!

No More Plant Tangles

After you have used the hack, and successfully placed foil around the seeds, and your plant is already growing, you will need the next hack to help deal with the cuttings.

No More Plant Tangles

Part of the process of being a proud owner of beautiful plants is how you help make sure they grow strong. Put your plants into containers, then cover them with foil and poke some holes into them. This will help retain the water for longer as well as reduce the rate of watering it so often.

Giving your Tree Trunks Protection

Trees in your back garden are both a blessing and a curse. A blessing as they are beautiful, and ancient sources of life, but a curse because, particularly during winter, animals such as rabbits, foxes, and mice, use the tree bark for food and shelter, which in turn can harm the tree’s development.

Giving Your Tree Trunks Protection

It can help to wrap some tin foil around the base of the tree trunk when winter is about to begin, and remove it again at the start of spring.

Pressure Cooker Assistance

Those who have used pressure cookers before know how difficult and even dangerous, lifting things in and out of the pan can be. Aluminum foil is the perfect solution for eliminating this problem.

Pressure Cooker Assistance

You just need a piece of the foil about the size of the bowl you are using with an extra eight or so inches to make a sort of a sling with makeshift aluminum handles. Fold the handles down when cooking, then use them to lift the bowl safely out of the pressure cooker.

Keeping your Fruit Trees Bird Free

It turns out that some birds are deterred by shiny things. So if you have a fruit tree you are trying to protect aluminum foil can come in handy.

Keeping Your Fruit Trees Bird Free

Just dangle some from the tree and the light-sensitive birdies will be averted from feasting on your lovely fruit.

Wifi Signal Booster

Is your internet connection slower than you would like it to be? Here’s what you do: fold some tin foil into a parabolic dish if you want to boost your wi-fi signal from your router.

Wifi Signal Booster

Sure, it can look strange, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do in order to see cats on YouTube at high speed.

Wet Bed Prevention

Placing a layer of foil between the bedsheet and the mattress may sound weird but trust us, it is effective, and anyone with young children who still wet the bed at night knows what a big job it is to clean the mattress every other night.

Wet Bed Prevention

Using a layer of aluminum will act as a waterproof layer for the mattress. If you are worried about the sounds or texture causing an uncomfortable night’s sleep, just place a soft towel on top of the foil in between the sheets. The towel may get ruined over time but it is much easier to wash and much cheaper than a new mattress.

Avoiding Melted Ice-Cream Disasters

Children are well known for not being the cleanest or tidiest of creatures, but eating ice-cream can be a particularly messy disaster as it can cause clothes stains, mucky hands, and general all-around stickiness.

Avoiding Melted Ice Cream Disasters

The solution to the mess has been in your kitchen drawer this whole time. The next time you give your kids ice-cream just wrap it with aluminum foil which will create a type of barrier between the cone and their hands, and collect all of the dripping ice-cream in the foil instead of on their clothes and your kitchen floor.

Wrinkle-Free Clothes

Everyone knows that a crisply ironed shirt makes a much better impression than a crumpled one. However, if you regularly iron your shirt on a base that is not smooth you can actually create wrinkles that will become very difficult to remove.

Wrinkle-Free Clothes

The perfect solution is of course right there in your kitchen. Just wrap some aluminum foil under the cloth of the ironing board. The metal will help absorb the heat from the iron and you will have a crisply smooth surface in a matter of moments.

Antifreeze Paintbrush Covers

Getting a whole room painted in one single go is practically impossible, especially if doing it alone. Breaks are needed but you don’t want to have to clean your brush each time you take a moment in between painting, but if you don’t the brush could dry out.

Antifreeze Paintbrush Covers

Just wrap your paintbrush in a piece of foil when you take a break. The aluminum has antifreeze qualities which help keep the paint and brush in the same consistency.

Stop Aliens Reading From Your Mind

Ok, so this one will not speak to everyone, but it is for those who believe in the conspiracy theories that tell us that aliens can come to our planet Earth and read our minds, causing havoc among us. Well, a lot of those theorists wear aluminum foil to avoid such dangers. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

Stop Aliens Reading From Your Mind

Since we knew you would love these aluminum foil hacks we compiled for you, we thought we’d make another compilation of hacks you never thought of, involving another regular household item. Behold, saran wrap!

Next, All The Hacks You Never Thought Of For Plastic Wrap

Poached Eggs

Poached eggs are a particular favorite as a way to spice up breakfast or brunch, but they are not so easy to make if you don’t have a trick that works for you already. Little pouches out of plastic wrap will give you a poached egg in no time.

Poached Eggs

Line a very small cup or bowl with plastic wrap that flows over the edges of the utensil, give it a layer of oil or butter, crack an egg inside, gather up the sides, and twist them into a pouch for the egg. Drop the pouches into a saucepan with boiling water, and when they’re ready just cut the wrap with some scissors and serve.

Device Protector

Many of us nowadays use our tablets or phones as our cookbooks, getting recipes off the internet, or watching a tutorial online. The problem with that is that it means having to have your device in the kitchen while cooking, making it very likely to get messy.

Device Protector

Just give your device a layer of saran wrap and you have the protective layer you need, while still allowing you to use the touchscreen easily!

Keep Paint Fresher for Longer

Plastic wrap can really come in handy when you decide to do some painting, both as a protection for your hands and for the paint!

Keep Paint Fresher For Longer

Cover the handle in several layers of plastic wrap which will help prevent blisters as well as improve your grip for precision. Additionally, to avoid the roller drying out, you can wrap it tightly in some saran wrap. All of that and you are basically a pro!

Sticker Free Jars

We just love to re-use glass jars instead of throwing them out, but it is a well-known frustration trying to get those annoying old labels off the jars, no matter how much scrubbing you do!

Sticker Free Jars

The solution is simple. Fully immerse the container in warm soapy water (best to use washing-up liquid), and let it soak for a while. Then wrap the wet jar with plastic wrap and let it sit for about 3-5 minutes. The next step is just to remove the wrap and give it a wipe clean! Who knew it could be so easy!

Rolling Out Dough

Some people like to use baking paper to roll out their dough but is often quite rigid which makes it more difficult compared to plastic wrap.

Rolling Out Dough

Just roll out the dough in between two sheets of saran wrap, and you will also save yourself a lot of cleaning up afterwards!

Save Ice Cream From Freezer Burn

Freezer burn is one of those annoying things that happen to the best of our foods that find themselves in the freezer. And it would be a shame if you didn’t eat your favorite ice cream after it got “burnt” by the freezer a bit.

Save Ice Cream From Freezer Burn

All you do is place some saran wrap directly on top of the ice cream itself as well as around the inside of the carton. This will seal the ice out and prevent it from forming on the ice cream.

Fresher Bananas for Longer

It is pretty annoying when you buy a lovely bunch of bananas and then just two days later half of them are already brown and mushy. But buying just two or three bananas is a pain too!

Fresher Bananas For Longer

A solution to this problem is right there in your roll of plastic wrap. To slow down the browning process just put some plastic wrap around the stems of the bananas and you will keep them fresher for longer.

Easy DIY Cups for Kids

Anybody with young kids knows that giving your toddler a “grown-up” cup can be a disaster in the making, and it is not often that you go somewhere where they have kids’ cups on hand.

Easy DIY Cups For Kids

It’s super easy and super useful! Just pull some plastic wrap over the top of the regular cup, pressing it tightly around the sides, poke a straw through, and there you have it; a DIY spill-free cup!

Keeping Jewelry Tangle Free When Packing

Everyone knows that moving house can be a real headache so any available hacks can make it a little easier. Packing up your jewelry can be an added nightmare as it can take ages to untangle when you eventually unpack.

Keeping Jewelry Tangle Free When Packing

A good solution for this is just to lay your jewelry on a layer of some plastic wrap, then press another layer on top of the jewelry and another underneath. Then place it back in the jewelry box. This will help keep it from sliding around and stay in place.

Keeping your Refrigerator Cleaner for Longer

Cleaning the refrigerator is probably one of the least fun housekeeping tasks there is! But this hack cuts out a lot of that hassle! Just line your fridge shelves with plastic wrap.

Keeping Your Refrigerator Cleaner For Longer

It sticks perfectly to the refrigerator shelves, so it won’t crease or move around. If something spills you just have to chuck that layer in the trash and reapply a new one.

Suitcase Content Protector

Although it doesn’t happen often, it can certainly happen when traveling high up; bottles of liquid can explode from the pressure of the elevation and you can end up in a right mess with it all over the contents of your suitcase.

Suitcase Content Protector

Yes, it is rare but what a nightmare if it were to happen. Just remove the lids from the bottles, put a piece of the wrap over the top and screw the lid back on over it.

Bye Bye Fruit Flies

Fruit flies are just the worst! You buy a bunch of succulent fresh fruit and then you have all these yukky flies buzzing about. Here is a simple solution to keep them away.

Bye Bye Fruit Flies

Just cut up a few pieces of fruit and put them in a bowl or large cup, place some plastic wrap over the top of the bowl and poke a small hole in the top. The flies will get trapped inside and will stop bugging you!

Marbled Nail Polish

This is a great trick if you want nails that look like you have gone to the salon but actually did it yourself at home. Begin by giving your nails a base coat, wait until they are completely dry, and then paint over them with a different color.

Marbled Nail Polish

Before the topcoat dries, crumple up a bit of plastic wrap and drop it on top of your nails just for a few moments, and when you take it off you will see a cool marble effect.

Check out the next few photos for some more useful hacks using things you already own!

Ice Cubes to the Wrinkle Rescue

Putting ice cubes in your dryer could actually help get your clothes out of the dryer wrinkle-free! Just put two or three cubes directly in the dryer with up to a couple of pieces of clothing and turn the dryer on to the hottest setting.

Ice Cubes To The Wrinkle Rescue

The process is that the ice will melt and turn into steam which will eradicate wrinkles in the fabric. This hack is not so relevant when it comes to heavier clothing but is great for lighter fabrics. The best bit is that you don’t need to have the dryer on for much longer than about 10 minutes!

Vinegar for Cleaning

This useful cooking product is actually a great help in cleaning. A little bit of white vinegar will cut your scrubbing time in more than half when trying to get cloudy water stains out of glasses.

Vinegar For Cleaning

You can either soak them in some diluted white vinegar or just dip a rag in some vinegar and clean as usual. You can use this trick for dirty faucets, as it can also help get rid of the build-up of limescale, as well as for dirty blinds!

Bread to the Rescue!

Glasses can be dropped even by the best of us. Picking up all those pieces of shattered glass can be dangerous, not to mention quite difficult! You probably wouldn’t have guessed it, but bread is here to help.

Bread To The Rescue

Sprinkle some water onto a piece of bread, and just gently press it into the floor where the pieces of shattered glass are. It is much easier than trying to get every last piece with a dustpan and brush!

Shaving Cream to Clean

You probably didn’t know that shaving cream works as a great glass cleaner as well! Just put regular shaving cream on your mirror and give it a wipe down with a rag or paper towel and your mirror will be smudge and streak-free in no time.

Shaving Cream To Clean

It’s not just that though! This trick will also prevent the mirror from getting foggy while you shower for at least a couple of weeks. You can use this hack to clean your glasses and car windows as well.

Lemons are Natural Cleaners

Microwaves can get seriously filthy and pretty quickly too. Instead of going through the hassle of all the difficult scrubbing and scraping, try this hack. All you need is a cup of water and one lemon.

Lemons Are Natural Cleaners

Squeeze the lemon juice into a cup half full with water and then put the rest of the lemon into the cup too. Put this concoction into the microwave for long enough to come to a boil (usually around three minutes), allowing the steamed mixture to fill your microwave. Let it sit for a further five minutes before you open it, take the bowl out, and easily wipe the inside for a practically hassle-free clean microwave.

Easy Rinse for Blender

Disassembling your blender after use in order to clean it by hand, as well as getting dangerously close to those very sharp blades, is a real hassle. But there is a much simpler solution saving you a lot of energy and possibly some fingers too.

Easy Rinse For Blender

Just half fill the blender with hot water and some washing-up liquid, close the lid, and turn it on. Voila – you have a mini-dishwasher!

Grapefruit as a Natural Cleaner

Another citrus fruit that is great for cleaning is the grapefruit. It can be a great help when it comes to cleaning your bathtub, bathroom sink, or faucets. Get the tub fully wet, cut the grapefruit in half, add a lot of salt to the fruit, and you’re ready to start scrubbing!

Grapefruit As A Natural Cleaner

The citrus fruit combined with the salt easily removes stains while leaving a lovely fresh odor.

De-Rusting Chrome

Many of our home appliances and gadgets have an added layer of chrome to give them extra shine as well as giving it some weather resistance. But chrome is still a metal and will eventually become rusty too.

De Rusting Chrome

As chrome is quite a scratch-resistant material, a scrunched up ball of aluminum will allow you to easily scrub the rust off without risk of scratching the surface.

Savior Soap

Most of us have A drawer that gets stuck every time! Probably your sock drawer! And each time you have to open the drawer it becomes an unnecessary chore. Well, a simple bar of soap could fix this.

Savior Soap

Just slide the soap bar across the drawer glides and it will act as a lubricant, allowing the drawer to glide open and shut easily again.

Homemade Sprinkler

If you don’t have a sprinkler or yours has broken, you can use this DIY hack in the meantime. You just need an empty plastic bottle and some water.

Homemade Sprinkler

Pierce an empty soda bottle to create some holes, and then attach the neck of the bottle to your garden hose, and there you have it, your very own temporary DIY sprinkler.

Pocket-Sized Cookie Shapers

Everyone, no matter what age, enjoys making cookies, especially when they can be of various shapes, sizes, and flavors, and even more so as a family activity where the interaction is important and learning can also take place through fun.

Pocket Sized Cookie Shapers

The best part of the cookie making experience is all the different shapes and sizes you can make. But you don’t have to spend money on all sorts of molds, which can also be limiting too! Just get some aluminum foil which you can fold into a strip that you can then curve, bend, and mold into whatever shape you desire! Let your imagination run wild while you create both memories and something yummy.

No More Sticking While Cooking

Cooking food like eggs or bacon often results in half on your plate and half stuck to the pan, especially if you are trying to minimize the use of butter and oil. Not only does this result in a waste of food but also makes cleaning much more of an effort.

No More Sticking While Cooking

Just place a layer of foil and you will have zero stickiness as well as practically zero cleanings.

Better Phone Signal

Believe it or not, it’s said that aluminum foil can actually give a real boost for your phone and wifi signal. We don’t actually know if this is true! But if it does work it could let your videos load a bit quicker. Some suggest cleaning the metallic part of your cell phone with some aluminum foil, which helps clean the antenna.

Better Phone Signal

Avoid Static

It has been said that dryer sheets can leave a chemical layer on the things it is in the machine with as well as compromising the absorbency in towels. Just switch from using dryer sheets to using aluminum foil instead.

Avoid Static

Create a small ball with the foil and toss it into the dryer. Another interesting hack we’ll throw in here for free is that you can also use a tennis ball to speed up the drying time. You’re welcome.

Keeping a Clean Oven

Giving your oven an extra layer of protection will prevent you from having to clean it every time you cook something, as there are often inevitable spills from crumbs or things bubbling over.

Keeping A Clean Oven

Just place a layer of aluminum under whatever it is you are cooking or on the baking tray or rack itself. Just don’t put the foil on the actual floor of the oven as it could result in a build-up of heat which could warp the appliance itself.