Use a Blow Dryer to Smooth Wrinkled Leather Furniture
Photo: Maksim Ladouski (Shutterstock) In addition to visible signs of wear, pieces of leather furniture that are frequently in use—like a living room couch or office chair—may start to wrinkle…
Why Your Dryer Is Making Weird Noises and What to Do About It
You’ve just put a load of laundry into your dryer and it starts squeaking. Or it sounds like you have a brick rolling around clunking and thumping. Whatever noise your…
Try These Cheap Fixes Before Replacing an Appliance
I come from a family of replacers, not fixers. Whenever an appliance stopped working, we would give it away to someone in the neighborhood to fix while my mother would…
Three Surprisingly Practical Uses for Dryer Lint
Cleaning your dryer’s lint trap after every load is a must if you want to keep the machine running efficiently and safely. Scraping out that pile of bluish-grayish-pinkish fluff is…
How to Get Wrinkles Out of Your Clothes Without an Iron or Dryer
Photo: HK.Studio (Shutterstock) For the most part, it’s entirely possible live without an iron and still manage to avoid walking around looking like a mess. But every so often, a…
Blast Your Toaster With a Hair Dryer
Photo: Akintevs (Shutterstock) Cleaning a toaster is more involved than you might think, but one of the most important steps is just getting all the crumbs out. But there’s an…
The Easiest Ways to Dry Your Laundry Faster
Photo: Darryl Brooks (Shutterstock) You have better things to do than wait for your laundry to dry (like folding your laundry and remaking the bed and getting on with your…
Use a Hairdryer on Your Sheets This Winter
Photo: K-Angle (Shutterstock) Once again, I am here to advocate for something small that I believe in in a big way, and it is this: If you’re cold and you…
Optimize Your Trash Can With a Drill, Command Hooks, and Dryer Sheets
We all have the same problems with our trash can: The bag falls in, you can’t pull the bag out, it smells terrible, etc. So we put together our favorite…
Dryer Sheets Can Clean, Polish, and Make Almost Anything Smell Fresh
The humble dryer sheet may seem like the uni-tasker of the laundry room, but in reality, it can improve your life in myriad ways. Instead of discarding used dryer sheets,…