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- Spring planting supplies are on sale now in home improvement stores, and here is a handy and fun twine keeper that you can make with your kids using two repurposed clay flowerpots with drain holes. Choose a size that can easily fit a ball of twine or thin rope. Set the ball inside and invert one pot on top of the other, threading the line through the drain hole of the top pot. Secure with tape or even hot glue. Pull twine through the hole, and the ball doesn’t get tangled up.
- “If you have a poster that has been rolled up and you want to hang it up, try rolling it the opposite way overnight. When you unroll it, there will be less bumps and the edges won’t curl so bad.” – R.L. in Idaho
- The best way to cool canned and bottled drinks down fast is in a mix of ice and water. The water is a better conductor of the cool. Then make your ice last longer and stay colder by sprinkling a little salt on the ice/water mixture.
- “After too many mornings of rushing to find uniform pieces before a game, we decided to get smart. Now, sports uniforms get hung up with all accessories in the coat closet right after washing. They’re ready as soon as it’s game night – no looking under beds or in the back of overstuffed teenager closets!” – P.P. in Texas
- “To hold all my daughter’s bobby pins, I mounted a plastic cup with double-stick tape right to her vanity mirror. I used to vacuum them up all the time, but now that she has a place to put them, it’s better.” – L.E. in New Hampshire
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