Clever Uses for Everyday Items

Make everyday home and old items you thought you would never use again extraordinary.

Jewelry: Dress up your refrigerator with brooches. Instead of tossing out seldom worn or broken brooches, remove the pins with a wire cutter, glue a magnet to the back of each, and then use them to mount postcards, children’s artwork, or this week’s grocery list.

Dish Towels: Use dish towels as placemats. Let a colorful dish towel span the center of your table, and you’ll get two placemats for the price of an easy wash-and-dry staple.

Binder Clips: Store sets of napkins clipped together and they’ll always be ready to set the scene at dinnertime.

Used Calendars: Turn old calendar pages into gift wrap. Personalize a birthday present by taking a page from that month and circling the special day.

Mismatched Silverware: Make hooks out of old silverware. Make sure to ask for assistance in forming them into a unique and quirky item to hang your clothes or jewelry.

Mayonnaise: Use as an adhesive remover that banishes old stickers from mirrors, glass, and bumpers. Apply a generous helping to persistent adhesives and coax off with a flexible putty knife.

Ladder: Instead of installing a typical metal rack to hold your towels, enlist a ladder made of bamboo (or some other wood that can withstand humidity) to do the job. No tools required.

Towel Rack: Who says a towel rack has to be the dedicated realm of, well, towels? Mounted over the kitchen sink, it can also hold a collection of cleansers. (Adapted by Jessy Pearl)

Source: www.myhomeideas.com