DarkAeon’s top household tips

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And yes, these are genuine tips that readers have written into The Sun with! There’s nothing Lauren and I enjoy more on a Saturday night than opening up the latest woman’s weeklies and having a titter at some of the crap things that people do in the name of saving a few pennies hehe!

The link even has pictures!!

A few choice tips include;

MAIL-Y GOOD TIP

When drilling holes, hold an open envelope underneath to catch the sawdust. This will save a lot of clearing up.

Jacqueline Wilkins, 31, Frome, Somerset

EGGS-TRAORDINARY

Make a cheap toy for a rabbit or guinea pig by filling an egg box with grass, spinach, hay and carrots – then close it. They have just as much fun chewing through the cardboard to get to the food as they do eating it!

Kate Plumb, 28, Elmswell, Suffolk

VIDEO BAG

Get a hot new look with your old video cases. Simply attach a shoe lace to the empty video box on either side and slip in your favourite articles where the cover used to be. Chuck in your things, snap it shut and sling it over your shoulder. And if you get bored your can re-read your fave mag’s stories.

Pat Tipps, 44, Hove, East Sussex

MIRROR, MIRROR

My old steering wheel cover didn’t fit my new car but I couldn’t bear to part with it. So I used it to jazz up an old round mirror. It looks great and has pride of place on my bedroom wall.

Jodie Anthony, 19, Ystylafera, Swansea

OUT IN THE COLD

To save room in your freezer, take food out of big, bulky boxes, cut out the cooking instructions and using a fridge magnet, stick them to the freezer door. This will save you room for more ice cream! 

(DA: In fairness, this is actually quite a good one for people like me who have small freezer compartments!)

TAKE THE PLUNGE

If the handle on your chest of drawers is broken and you can’t open it, use a sink plunger. It helps you open your drawer so you can fix it.

Michelle Underwood, 30, Woking, Surrey

SNAKE IN THE GRASS

A trick to keep cats off your flower bed is to put a snake there.

Roy Wood, 45, Barnfield Mistley, Essex

SET IT STRAIGHT

I always panicked half way to work that I’d left my hair straighteners on and had to risk being late for work to go back and check. But now I’ve started taking a snap of my unplugged straighteners before I leave the house in the morning. So when my heart begins to pound I can look at my phone pic with the time and date underneath. No more worrying about burning the place down!

Karen Ramsey-Hampshire, 23, Northampton

GET IT STRAIGHT

If you’re in a rush to go to work and haven’t ironed your clothes just get your straighteners out and iron it with them. It’s quick and easy.

Tracy Mary Wood, 37, Croxteth, Liverpool

WHISK IT

When you’ve opened a window too far and are struggling to close it simply reach for your whisk. You can trap the window handle in the prongs and pull it shut. Magic.

Donna Bartlett 42, Sudbury, Suffolk

PIECE OF CAKE

The packaging from four little cakes makes a handy drinks tray. No more spills!

Hugh Joseph, 51, Cornwall

PERSONAL TOUCH

Save money on birthday presents by giving your friends and family personal vouchers, which will really help them out. ‘This voucher entitles you to three evenings of baby sitting, a massage, home cooked meal.’ Handwrite them or use the computer to make them look more professional.

 Rebecca Flick, 18, Nottingham

BAL-LOONY

Do you always spend ages hunting for your car in massive car parks? Why not attach a brightly coloured balloon to your aerial so you’ll spot the vehicle a mile off.

Steph Cuthbert, 22, Southwold, Suffolk

AND MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE….

THAT’S PANTS

If you really need to remember something, write it on a post it note and stick it to your knickers. Don’t remove it until the jobs done.

 

Karen Mills, 43, Exeter

The Show Must Go On

So, I have an extended metaphor for you which came to me earlier on today.

I would say that I am not usually flowery and icky when it comes to these kind of things… well, maybe at times(!)… but I do kinda like this one hehe.

As a bit of background, my media player always manages to play the most inappropriate songs at the wrong times… e.g. I am currently getting Christmas songs and when I broke up with Danny it wouldn’t stop playing “All By Myself” but occasionally it gets it right – such as when I’m in a delicate mood, it’ll play Evanescence’s “My Immortal”, and if I’m feeling camp and hyper, it always seems to stick “Under The Sea” from the Little Mermaid OBC on hehe.

Today, in succession, it played “Goodbye to the Circus” (Aqua) and then “The Show Must Go On” (Queen).

Click me to listen to Goodbye to the Circus (opens in a new window).

To quote Liza, if I may, it made me realise how life is a cabaret old chum, and that simply put it is just one big show. I know there are lots of songs which already use this metaphor (such as “Razzle Dazzle” in Chicago and “Shine” in Billy Elliot… and those are just the musicals!) however this was the first time that I’d been able to apply such a metaphor to my situation.

My realisation was that each night an audience gather themselves together to watch a performance; the curtain rises and the performers do their thing. [This 'in-between' bit is where the music came in] The very next evening, that same curtain can rise to show a different cast than the night before but acting out the same story, albeit with their own little qwerks and slant on the roles. Usually the leading man or leading lady has changed, and although some people may be disappointed for the first few minutes, the majority of people will take the opinion that the cast change was really beneficial and actually worked a lot better than it may have done had they been the night before – you just never know until the performance has started to run it’s course.

Anyway… badly worded/explained flowery insane moment over – just the pairing of those two songs really made me pensive earlier! Plus I’ve managed to use the word ‘icky’ twice today – woo! hehe.

Thanks for reading my random ramblings :oP xx