In this Chowhound YouTube video, Jill Santopietro shows us an easy way to make a funnel. Plastic bottles come in many different sizes with different size openings. Choose one that will work for the type of transfer you want to make, i.e. 32 oz Gatorade bottles work great for transferring grains like flour or oatmeal, whereas a 12 oz. water bottle top works great for liquids such as juice, wine or water. I absolutely love this plastic bottle top funnel hack!
This is a great DIY dustpan cleaning hack you can make in a pinch! Simply find a large, empty plastic container to up-cycle. It can be a plastic gallon milk container or any large plastic container that has a handle and flat side. All you need is the container, scissors or knife (I used both) and a marker to outline around the handle and flat side. You want create a useful flat shovel-like tool that you can easily sweep your pile of dirt into.
Learn how to grow a potato tower, it’s a great garden space saver! Instead of growing them in horizontal rows, grow potatoes vertically. It is possible to grow 100 lbs of taters in a 4×4 area of your garden. For the perimeter you will need chicken wire or big-holed wire (tires or wooden boards also work), as well as dirt, hay and seed potatoes.
Build a circular or square fence in the shape you would like your tower, fill the first row with hay, then create a hole or divot in the center of the hay, fill with dirt, approximately 6″, then seed potatoes, 6″ of dirt, then drench tower with water. Potatoes love water! Plant your potatoes around the edges of your tower four to six inches apart. You can also plant 1-3 in the center as long your spacing is consistent. Allow the first layer to sprout leaves, do not build your tower all at once. Once you see the sprouted leaves repeat the layers, allow to sprout, repeat layers. I suggest up to four layers of potatoes, but wait until previous layer sprouts. Once the leaves turn brown and fall off, wait a week then harvest.
Next time you use up your stick of butter don’t throw away the wrapper. Save the wrapper of the butter stick, fold it up and place it in the refrigerator. The next time you need to grease a pan just pull out the wrapper, unfold, and grease away.
It’s sort of amazing how much lint and dirt gets into your smartphone’s headphone jack. No worries, its nothing this headphone jack lint remover hack can’t cure. All you need to do this simple hack is a paper clip and scotch tape. Unbend the paper clip then wrap a piece of tape, sticky side out, around the end, finally just insert into your headphone jack. Not only does this work for smartphones, it also works on tablets and computers with headphone jacks.
Learn this remove gum from carpet hack from YouTube’s CupRockTV. If you have ever had the misfortune of finding a wad of gum stuck to your carpet then you’ll appreciate this hack. The materials required include ice cubes, rubbing alcohol, gum stuck to carpet and a brush. As a bonus you will also learn how to remove gum from clothes and hair as well.
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