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Do you have a secret trick?

YoungBlueEyes
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Do you have a way of doing something that makes it easier or more efficient? Something that you do but you’re not sure if everybody knows about it?
If so, share it on this thread 🙂
Here’s mine. When you’re putting up a washing line, make sure it’s good and long. Then you can do a double string, and use it to split your sheets etc. Larger surface area means it dries quicker.
Here’s mine. When you’re putting up a washing line, make sure it’s good and long. Then you can do a double string, and use it to split your sheets etc. Larger surface area means it dries quicker.
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So how about you? What’s your trick?
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mine is the sushi roll duvet cover. i can't change one by myself the traditional turn it inside out and shake way but i can roll it out (and ive trained the kids so they can do there own!)
still need oh to flip the matresses tho.https://youtu.be/c1IzS2oBBN0
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If you're doing jacket spuds, don't pierce them with a fork to stop the skin splitting. Use a sharp knife to cut a shallow groove round the long circumference of the potato. It will stop it exploding in the oven, and when it's cooked the potato will neatly split in half without needing a knife, ready for eating.Life is mainly froth and bubble: two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.28
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I need to learn that @ariarnia. I still do the shaking let-gravity-do-it thing 🤨Ooh that’s a good one @PollyWollyDoodle. I coulda done with that a coupla hours ago when I was doing dinner ha haa!Thanks for explaining the word 'many' to me. It means a lot.8
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Definitely need to try the California roll! At the moment DH and I do it together to make things easy but if I can do it by myself I won't have to wait for him to be available to help!
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Those sheets on the washing line look like huge men's underpants!
I always throw my laundry over the bannister downstairs. It is because I have very weak wrists from having fibromyalgia. My Mum used to do the same thing, actually, rather than carrying it all down the stairs.
I always put a spare plate out when I'm chopping veggies to put all the peelings and stalks in the bin afterwards.12 -
ariarnia said:mine is the sushi roll duvet cover. i can't change one by myself the traditional turn it inside out and shake way but i can roll it out (and ive trained the kids so they can do there own!)
still need oh to flip the matresses tho.https://youtu.be/c1IzS2oBBN0
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Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.15 -
Turn microwaves and electric ovens off when not in use as the clocks use energy 24/7. A battery analogue clock in the kitchen is much cheaper.
The sushi roll duvet change is a great idea.11 -
I have some large nappy pins that I put in the corners of the top of the duvet, the corners and along the bottom of the duvet. Keeps the duvet from sliding aorund inside and leaving you with a few inches of just divert cover at the top and a lump of duvet in the bottom.I used to do the jelly roll but now I just put it on inside out and nappy pin the edges, it's much easier to shiggle it down.Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi15
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With the washing, if you have a rotary airer and can't do what YBE suggests, when you hang your sheets and duvet covers, don't hang them down the middle of the sheet. Let one side hang longer than the other, preferably the shorter side on the outside then the wind will get between the sheet easier and flap it about so it'll dry quicker than if there are two equal sides.
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That’s what I used to do Slinky, til I thought of splitting them.I use big hair clips to hold the top of the duvet in place while I’m shaking it about. It kinda works but I’m gonna practise the California roll cos it looks better. Or it will be, if I can crack the practise bit
Wednesday2000 - that made me laugh 😆 I wish I’d taken a new pic when I had my good bedding out. I used the same pic I’d put on another thread about it. Least it wasn’t actually himself’s underpants tho!Thanks for explaining the word 'many' to me. It means a lot.3
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