Christmas hacks

Amazing hacks to help your Christmas run smoothly

Ironing board hack

Set up your ironing board so it is the right height for you to be comfortable then no stretching or back ache, grab your presents and wrap away.

Putting up a fake tree

Pop on a pair of rubber gloves when fluffing up your fake Christmas tree to save all the scratches on your arms.

Christmas Lights Hacks

If like most of us your Christmas lights come out all tangled and the elves get blamed for the mess, then you need this hack!

Grab yourself a coat hanger and simply hook one end of the lights to the hook on the hanger and wrap around or use the tube from your wrapping paper and wrap around. The following Christmas your lights will be tangle free.

Wrapping storage bag

If you hate your wrapping paper being everywhere and never being able to find your scissors then you need to get yourself a wrapping storage bag.

Put all the wrapping paper tubes inside along with the tags, ribbon, bows etc and you will have everything to hand.

Toilet paper tube

Keep of hold of your toilet paper tubes, cut along and then use this to keep your roll of wrapping paper in tack.

Sharpen your scissors

Kitchen foil will never sharpen your scissors, but it can certainly improve their performance, because the foil will clean the blades and remove little burs from the cutting edge. So grab a piece of foil and get them scissors performing better.

Smells like Christmas

Imagine giving your Christmas cards then scent of Christmas.

Pop your cards in an airtight container or sealed bag and add in a few cotton balls with your festive smelling essential oils such as evergreen or peppermint. Leave over night and then your cards will smell like Christmas.

Send off and the card will hang onto the smell for 2 weeks.

Glitter hack

Clean up glitter from Christmas cards and decorations by placing an old pair of tights over your vacuum nozzle. 

Or

Try the balloon trick. Blow it up, rub it on the carpet (or your hair!) to create some static electricity.

Roll the balloon over the leftover glitter and you’ll be left with a sparkle covered sphere!

The Dreaded Pine Needles

As beautiful as real Christmas trees are, if you have carpets and have tried hoovering the needles up, you’ll know the only time they ever seem to come out of the carpet easily is when they are stuck in your feet! 

Plus who wants to get the vacuum out for a few stray needles 

Duct tape is the answer! 

Simply wrap around your hand a two or three times, sticky side out, and use to remove them quickly and easily.

Polish up your silverware for Christmas dining

Don’t spoil a delicious Christmas dinners with tarnished silverware. 

Make your cutlery shine with a bicarbonate of soda and salt.

Lay your silver wear in a bowl of warm water and sprinkle in a good helping of both

Leave soaking for 15 minutes.

Dry and buff using a lint free cloth. 

Christmas dirty dishes

Who has time for scrubbing dirty bunt pans over the Christmas period.

You can rescue them quickly and save yourself lots of scrubbing time by adding in a used tea bags. 

Wet the marked area with warm water and pop in your used tea bag.

Enjoy your dinner.

Then once finished easting simply pour away and the burnt bits will disappear before your eyes.

Wrap wine bottles with socks

Grab a pair of festive fluffy socks, pop the bottle of wine into one of the socks, fold the other other and tie around the neck to look like a scarf, this makes a great pressie and they get two lovely presents in one.

demo here

Label gifts with family photos

Use family photos instead of gifts tags, adds a nice little touch plus when you are out and about delivering makes it easy to recognise whose is who.

Christmas day box

Keep your essentials handy for Christmas day, add in batteries, screw driver, bin bags and anything else you may need to access quickly to keep the kids happy when opening the presents.

Dinner table

Collect wine corks to use as place settings. Simply slit along the long side of the cork and slide in a name card for a quick and easy place setting.

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