Hack Of The Day! (Or am I just tight?)

Cheeznmite

I just realised that when an emery board goes bald along the edges, you can cut it in half lengthways and use the middle! 😉

Brie

I was told by a chiropodist that I should only use an emery board once on my toes and then throw it away.  Instead I cut it into short lengths so I would get a few uses out of each board.  Easier for me to hold too!!

Northern_Wanderer

If you buy one of those glass ones it lasts for years and can be recycled....

Cheeznmite

I also cut sheets of kitchen roll into 4 (6 or 8 for the bigger thicker stuff) to have a little pile for small spills…

and snip washing up sponges into 2 or 3. If you are washing up after a curry you don’t write off a whole one!

Cheeznmite

Northern_Wanderer said:

If you buy one of those glass ones it lasts for years and can be recycled....

 Well I’ll be… just looked them up… never knew they existed! When I have run out I may have to invest in one ! 👍

Northern_Wanderer

Cheeznmite said:

Northern_Wanderer said:

If you buy one of those glass ones it lasts for years and can be recycled....

 Well I’ll be… just looked them up… never knew they existed! When I have run out I may have to invest in one ! 👍

I have no idea how long I have been using mine for, it must be at least 8 years! It doesn't ever seem to blunt.

Cheeznmite

Blimey! Seems like they vary a lot in price… are the cheap ones just as good as the more expensive?

London_1

I have a small plate with several gnashers on it, I break the denture cleaning tablet in half, and as its a small plate, I only need half of one in the small denture bath at night. So a tube of 20 tablets become 40, so a small saving but it only goes down the loo once i've removed it in the morning.

I also cut in half those square yellow scouring pads when using them for washing up
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Every little helps.

My hand soap slivers go into an old soap dish, and once I have enoughI put a small amount of water in there to make sure they are soft, then mould them together into a small bar to use for quick hand washing when I've been doing a grubby job, or in the garden after potting bits up or weeding. Zero waste in my house thats for sure, but then I grew up with austerity and rationing of the 1940s-50s so in those far off days everything was reused and recycled

JackieO xx

annieb64

I will try cutting the scouring pads in half, Jackie, thanks for the tip.

My soap slivers go in a sisal bag that I bought from a wholefood shop years ago.It hangs on a hook in the shower. 

Have just made a draft excluder from the old sitting room curtain. The curtain came from my Mother's house. She died in 1996. We still have a full length curtain from her house over the front door.

General_Grant

No waste of soap in my household either.
When bar soap becomes a sliver I add it to the new bar.  So no collecting bits together and making into a new bar, just carry on using it till it has disappeared.

Nelliegrace

I keep an earthenware pot of small clean rags, mainly cut up old cotton socks, for all sorts of cleaning jobs, spills on the cooker hob, mopping up grease, spot treating stains, a quick rub of shoes, etc. instead of kitchen roll. Old T-shirts cut up for dish cloths and dusters. 

I have an assortment of inexpensive vintage cotton and linen napkins in a wire basket on the kitchen table and have got back into the habit of using them. It is much easier to get food stains from those than from clothes.