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25 Creative Uses for Everyday Items

January 26, 2021 by Jackie

This morning, I found that my SIX year old daughter had drawn something (with blue pen) on the back seat of my husband’s new truck. Needless to say, he’s not happy. I have been looking up ways to get pen off of upholstery. I came across all kinds of creative uses for everyday items for!

Sunlitspaces.com will make you more efficient all around! Save money and time with these creative new uses for the everyday items you have lying around!
Contents
1 Creative Uses For Everyday Items
1.1 Lemons
1.2 Olive Oil
1.3 Dryer Sheets
1.4 Alka Seltzer or Coke
1.5 Coffee Filters
1.6 Pants hanger
1.7 White bread
1.8 Sponges
1.9 Colored rubber bands
1.10 Hair dryer
1.11 Hair dryer
1.12 Wine rack
1.13 Makeup brushes
1.14 Old magazines or newspaper
1.15 Vinegar

Creative Uses For Everyday Items 

Lemons

  • Sanitize chopping block (I’ve done this!)
  • Keep fruit from browning (Do this all the time!)
  • Use in vases or jars to decorate (love this! cute for centerpieces)
  • whiten fingernails (really?  Gonna try it.)
Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Olive Oil

  • Shave- closer shave than shaving cream (I’m going to try it!)
  • makeup remover (works great!)
  • moisturize cuticles (yes it does!)
  • dust furniture/polish- can also use mineral oil (tried it, looks great!)
  • squeaky hinges (or WD-40?)
Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Dryer Sheets

  • Dust blinds (might try this one day)
  • Remove static (yes!)
  • Clean pet hair (No pets here)
  • Freshen smelly shoes (I have boys- definitely noted)
Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Alka Seltzer or Coke

Use this to clean your toilet. It may seem like a strange solution, but let it sit in the toilet for a little bit and then it’ll help get your toilet back to clean and sparkling!

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Coffee Filters

These can be used as snack holders or appetizer trays. This is especially useful for your kids in the car if they tend to make messes (which all kids do).

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Pants hanger

Pant hangers can be used to keep your recipe book open (hanging on cabinet). It may look a bit silly, but when you’re juggling spices, measuring cups, and other cooking materials, this will definitely come in handy.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

White bread

White bread removes grease fingerprints from walls. Just press (and rub, if needed) on the grease stains and they should come out. Do this as soon as possible so the grease doesn’t set it.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Sponges

These soaked in water and frozen can be used as ice packs. They’re reusable and they don’t leave a drippy mess as they thaw out.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Colored rubber bands

Use these to wrap presents instead of ribbon to give modern look. They’re actually a lot easier to use than ribbon an still look great.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Hair dryer

Use a hair dryer to de-wrinkle tablecloths or curtains. It may take a little time, but it’s a lot more financially efficient than taking them to a dry cleaners or doing something else with them.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Hair dryer

You can also use a hair dryer to to set frosting (cold shot) and give a glossy and bright finish, use hot air.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Wine rack

Instead of buying a whole organizational set for your craft room, just use a wine rack to organize your spray paint. You can use this to organize any of your art supplies that fit in it, really.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Makeup brushes

These aren’t just for putting on makeup! Use one of these brushes to clean your keyboard off! It’s great for keeping the keys clean and also getting any gunk of the cracks.

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Old magazines or newspaper

Old magazines and newspapers are great for wrapping presents. They give a nice, old-timey feel to your presents and you don’t have to spend any extra money on wrapping paper!

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Vinegar

Use vinegar to clean and do laundry. Vinegar actually has some really powerful cleansing agents, so it’s great for around the kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, and anywhere else!

Creative Uses For Everyday Items

Which of these creative uses for everyday items will you try? Leave a comment below!

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Comments

  1. Tammy says

    February 21, 2013 at

    Hair spray gets ink out

  2. Amanda says

    February 22, 2013 at

    Not sure if it will work but my daughter’s got permanent marker on fabric and vegetable oil & baking soda 1:1 got it out and I also used dawn dish soap to wash it up. Like it was never there!

  3. cherish says

    February 27, 2013 at

    oxi clean works better then anything I’ve ever used to remove anything!

    • Melanie says

      February 28, 2013 at

      I have had good experiences with Oxi Clean too, but usually doing laundry. Do they have an upholstery product or do you just use the laundry product? Great idea, thank you!

      • Karen says

        March 3, 2013 at

        Hairspray – every teacher’s magic solution for getting ink stains off their clothing. Use the aerosol kind then blot with clear water and a soft cloth (like and old T-shirt or diaper) to rinse.

  4. andyj says

    March 12, 2013 at

    i was always told anything alcohol-based or naptha gets out ink. We have used rubbing alcohol, lighter fluid, and hair spray successfully for years.

  5. bvlgari バッグ says

    August 17, 2013 at

    Solely invested in a different netbook, unsure no matter if there’s an easy solution to have chrome social book marks with out of date netbook that will innovative netbook… Many thanks..

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