Fifty Handy Household Tricks & Tips

We are always looking for tried and true ways to make our lives a little easier. Taking advice from others can be sketchy if you aren't able to see the end product or result, but today you can. Instructables currently has a compiled list of 50 tips and tricks to make life easier. Click through the jump for our favorites and links.

Cleaning Over Sized Rugs Via Powerwasher

Cleaning Scuff Marks With A Tennis Ball

Easy Saw Horses

Duct Tape Couch

The Best Way To Hang Bicycles In A Shared Space

Pallet Sawhorses

Use A Car Seat Cover On An Office Chair

Removing Stickers With A Blowdryer

You can read the full list over at Instructables. Some of them aren't ones we could put to use, but maybe you can--check it out for yourself!

Photos courtesy of Instrutables.

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If you have a carpet of any quality - please do not use a pressure washer on it. Handwashing it out on clean pavement or on a deck is fine, but be very cautious about what sort of cleaners you use. If you have a handwoven wool or silk rug, the dyes and fibers would get very damaged by a pressure washer.

Think of the carpet like an antique fabric which should be handled and cleaned gently with a very dilute solution of cleanser. If you use a dilute detergent (like woolite), make sure you rinse very, very well. Any residue will cause the carpet to get very dirty very fast as dirt will stick to the residue. Wash both sides of the carpet and, finally, don't let it dry in the sun! The sun will effectively bleach out color.

posted by laila on January 28th 2009 at 8:35pm
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