Home hacks are tips that help us do things more easily in our homes and lives. When someone devises an efficient way to do or clean something, these things often get shared as “home hacks”.

1. Better Water Efficiency In Toilet Tank

Just add a jar of water inside the toilet tank. This reduces the amount of water you use when you flush the toilet. Thus, lowering your water bill.

2. Cleaner Window Screens:

Did you know that you could “defuzz” your window screens? Just use a lint roller.

Now how easy does that sound to clear your window screens of all the stuff that ends up stuck on them?

3. For Wicks Too Low In Candles:

Do you ever end up with candles where the wick is suddenly so small you can no longer light it?

Then just stick a thin piece of spaghetti in it and light that! What a game changer. I don’t have to toss my candles.

4. Use Pool Noodle To Fill Container With Water:

Do you ever find yourself needing to fill a container with water but the container won’t fit under the spigot?

Get a pool noodle. Slip the pool noodle over the faucet and let it run down to the container on the floor. No spills!

5. Remove Any Carpet Stain:

A container of hydrogen peroxide and Dawn dish washing liquid

Add 1/2 cup hydrogen peroxide and 1/2 cup water in a small spray bottle. Then pour in 1/2 teaspoon dawn dish detergent.

Close bottle and shake before each use. Spray over the stained area of the carpet and allow to sit for about 2-5 minutes.

6. Polish Copper With Ketchup:

In home hacks you wish you'd known, polish copper with salt

If your copper looks tarnished, squirt ketchup on a cloth rag. Rub the mixture on the copper until it is completely covered.

Then rinse with warm water and dry normally.

7. Get Egg Shells To Slide Off Eggs:

If you add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to your pan of water when boiling eggs, the shells should slide right off the eggs when done.

8. Softer Ice Cream Trick:

In home hacks you wish you'd known, put ice cream in ziplock bag before putting it in freezer to make it softer

If you store your ice cream in a ziplock freezer bag, it will be softer when you’re ready to scoop it out.

9. Clean Clogged Toilet Without A Plunger:

This idea does not work for a toilet that is overflowing.

  • Step 1. Squirt a good amount of dish soap or shampoo into the toilet.
  • Step 2. Add a gallon of very hot (but never boiling) water into the toilet bowl
  • Step 3. Wait a few minutes. The water should break up the toilet paper and the soap should help it go down the pipe. You may need to repeat steps one and two.

10. Get Wrinkles Out Of Clothing:

To get wrinkles out of clothing, throw a few ice cubes or a wet washcloth into the dryer with your wrinkled clothes.

As the ice melts and the water turns into steam, it will remove the wrinkles. This trick is not as effective with heavier clothing.

I hope you can use some of these home hacks to make your life easier. Do you have some nifty home hacks you’d like to share?

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I'm Brenda, creator of Cozy Little House. I live with my cat, Ivy, who keeps me laughing. I graduated from journalism school with a degree in professional writing and won awards for feature writing. I practice gratitude and enjoy my solitude. The glass is always half-full.

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  1. For burnt on food and grease I fill the pot or pan with hot water a squirt of Dawn and 1 dryer sheet. Let sit for about 20 minutes and the yucky stuff comes right off

  2. Thank you for these wonderful hacks. It sure would of made my life a little easier if I knew these when I was younger. Thank you again.

  4. I’ve been using pumice stone to scrub off the “ring” stains in the toilet, ugh. While it works well for difficult stains, I’ll try your magic eraser trick. I hope it works.

  5. You are an inspiration.You write what I think and feel. Glad I found your blog.

  6. I love Dawn ! 🙂 But as to the boiled eggs, I just bring mine to a boil, lower the heat for ten minutes more, cool them down a bit and peel right away: ) This was a fun compilation of tips.

  7. Interesting. I’m going to try these! I use ketchup (I buy a cheapo brand for this) to remove food burned on pans. The acid loosens the burned bits. Sometimes it has to sit for a couple of days, but it beats scrubbing. Happily I don’t burn food often.
    Also, to remove calluses on feet, soak your feet in warm water with a good dose of vinegar. Again, the acid does the trick, this time softening the dead skin, which is then easy to pumice off.

  8. Hi Brenda! Do I live under a rock? I don’t think I’ve heard any of these accept maybe the nail polish one. Love the recipe for paint (I’m an art docent at the boys’ school), we need the clogged toilet one (no comment) and does baking soda really do the job of bleach? Hope to give these a try soon. Thank you! ~julie

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