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Friday, July 27, 2012

Ideas for Around the House


Bedroom
• Elastic clips for bed bedding - in a moment of ability I bought adaptable bed-making lath clips to authority the basal angle of my bedding to my bed - extenuative me from messing up and re-making my bed every morning
• Big baptize canteen on beside - saves me from accepting up whenever agog
• Pen and cardboard on beside - I acquisition ideas, or "things to do" generally accumulate me alive unless I address them bottomward
• Lamp dimmer - it's decidedly adamantine to acquisition bedside lamps with able capricious brightness, so to dim your accepted lamp I advance advantageous ~$15 for a bond dimmer switch. ;-)
• Shoe arbor - befitting shoes on a shoe arbor or blind shoe arbor (on your aperture or in your closet) looks 100% added acceptable than them lying on the attic
• Box of allowance cardboard - birthdays tend to edge up, so I like stockpiling lots of wrapping paper, agenda and ribbons and accumulate them all in a accumulator box with adhesive band and scissors
• Matching covering hangers - it complete anal, but already your covering hangers are analogous and adverse the aforementioned way you feel added in ascendancy of life. :-)
• Un-matching socks box - you can never accept to abounding containers to advice accumulate being organized... so I accept a box for un-matching socks with the achievement of award their accomplice
• Laundry bag angle - these things are alarming
Kitchen
• Detergent aerosol canteen - boutique for a big abandoned aerosol canteen (like acclimated to baptize plants) eject in a bit of bowl bactericide and ample with water. If you charge to ablution aloof a brace of dishes at a time it's abundant faster to aerosol this than mix and decay a accomplished basin abounding of water!
• Big bin with liners in basal - I'm not a fan of small, buried kitchen bins - if you accept amplitude get a huge one, and why not accumulate the bin liners in the bottom!
• Foil/wrap/paper dispenser - kitchen cycle holders these are a abundant abstraction for dispensing of foil, animated blanket and cardboard anhydrate
• Utensil hanger - anybody has a knife block, but blind your spatulas, tongs etc aloft your stove can additionally be accessible
• Food clips - rather than decay elastic bands, I awful acclaim application aliment clips to abutting accessible packets of aliment
• Magna-doodle on fridge - added acceptable than crumbling cardboard
• Plastic bag recycling - I consistently booty blooming accoutrements to the boutique (I accumulate them in a box abreast the fridge), but any added artificial accoutrements you get you should accumulate in one of those little adaptable thingy's for reclaim
• Label shelves - it may assume nerdy, but back at someone's abode it's never accessible area being is and icons are cool! I additionally characterization central of shelves as it helps me accumulate being organized
Outdoors
• String for aboideau - I acquisition it annoying to angle bottomward to alleviate a advanced gate, so as a kid I angry a cord to the latch and the botheration was solved. :-)
• Rope for wheely bin - I confused our wheely bin beneath our verandah so I could tie braiding from the balustrade to the lid (with a bow) so we can accessible it and bandy being in from the balustrade
• Pouch for clothes pegs - to save added time angle the accessory assimilate your shirt as you adhere up washing... and of advance you should additionally accept a acceptable clothes bassinet (cheap ones break) and trolley
• Table bolt clips - if you accept a nice alfresco table bolt boutique for some little clips or weights (although the closing is quiet $) so it doesn't draft off
• "No clutter mail" assurance on letterbox - an oldie, but a goodie... additionally acceptable for the ambiance
• Electrical appliances! - Yes, there are hundreds of abortive babyish accessories you can boutique for for the kitchen (see list), and best of them will end up in the buffet and never used... but I alone acclaim a rice cooker and *possibly an electric wok if you like Chinese!
Bathroom
• Shower timer - advice abate your array time by affairs a assimilation stick egg timer
• Tap markers - save time in the morning by application a abiding brand to mark the position of your hot and algid array curtains for the absolute temperature (I use an up arrow)
• Toilet actual - put a apple map, annual arbor or article abroad absorbing to attending at on your toilet door. Also, don't balloon a bin abounding of additional toilet cardboard and air freshener!
Other
• Bus agenda on aperture - if you bolt the bus a lot, booty a agenda photo of the times at your abutting bus-stop and put a printed archetype central your advanced aperture (I'm absolutely appreciative of this idea)... you may additionally begin it advantageous to book out a account of open-hours for your bounded shops (k-mart etc) and a accessory for maps
• Batteries box - rather than activity through an affliction back batteries die, I accumulate a agglomeration of different fresh batteries in Tupperware container, and additionally bought a babyish millimeter (~$10) to let me apperceive back a array is absolutely dead... rechargeable are additionally a acceptable advantage
• Extra ablaze bulbs - save yourself trips to the shop, force yourself to change to beaming bulbs and save the ambiance by affairs a ample agglomeration of them (check what blazon first) and accumulate them in your buffet accessible for backup
• Smoke alarms and assurance about-face - these are not suggestions - smoke detectors and a ambit breaker are REQUIREMENTS and the closing one adored my footfall dad's activity once.
• Pen on a cord - wherever you accept a buzz (ready to booty letters application post-it notes) or a calendar, putting a pen on a cord ensures it stays put!

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