10 Tricks Our Grandparents Used That Will Help You Every Day

If you don’t have a knife-sharpener at hand, all you need to do is to turn around a mug or a plate and rub the knife against the bottom edge.

The easiest way to make breadcrumbs is to freeze a loaf of bread and then grate it on the smallest holes’ side.

Use salt instead of cream cleaner. All you need to do is to put a lot of salt onto the burnt surface. Leave it there until the cooker cools down and clean with a wet cloth. No need to scrub!

It’s much easier to peel a carrot with a scourer. Remember to use a new one, not the one you have just used to wash up!

To prevent any holes in your rubber gloves and damaging your new nails, make some cotton wool balls into the rubber glove fingers.

Preserve the taste of garlic leaving it in a container with some salt. It won’t go dry and tasteless.

The best way to dry a woolen sweater is to put… pantyhose inside. Pull the legs of pantyhose through the sweater sleeves. Hang it the way shown in the photo. The sweater won’t get stretched and will dry much faster.

It is easier to remove a broken egg from the floor if you pour it with some salt. Leave it there for about 5 minutes and clean it all with a dustpan and a brush.

Put some talcum powder on a tightly tangled shoelaces. You will undo them more easily.

Put a bay leaf inside a sugar bowl, bread bin or plant pots. That will keep away ants, midges and other insects.