Helpful Tips!

I hate when sites make you click arrows to "next page" for every single tip. You have to keep re-loading pages (and ads!). If you have a site like that please change it! I do like helpful tips and alternative uses, though, so I suffer though. I found a "50 alternate uses" pin and I do like some of them. I've "snipped" my favorites so you don't have to suffer my fate. If you're curious about the rest, visit its original site: http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/new-uses-for-old-things/28-uses-for-every-day-items-00000000007991/index.html

My husband (being the good Sailor he is) is obsessed with shoe shining. I've gotten into wearing boots at work to keep my legs warmer and have fallen into his ways with them; we spend the weekends bonding while watching TV & shining our shoes. I'm going to see if I can use this tip to skip weeks of shining, though. It IS a lot of work on the fingers. That's time that can be better spent knitting or playing computer games. 

I don't know why I didn't think of this. I also use rubber bands around opened chip bags and to contain the extra cord mess under my entertainment stand and computer.

I wish I read this last weekend when I  re-potting my plants.

I've seen this on other blogs and tip sites but I love it so much I have to share it on my own. Now I just need to get the tip to motivate me to actually make the pancake batter...