<p>Whether you own, rent, or whether you still live with your parents, there&#8217;s no doubt about the fact that homes require constant maintenance. From clearing out the gutters to filling holes in walls, keeping a house clean, tidy, and in full working order often feels like a full-time job. But this is a job that takes money from your dwindling bank account rather than tops it up &#8211; and nobody wants that. </p>

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<p>Thankfully, you and your bank account can now rest easy. At Popular Everything we&#8217;ve collected the ultimate home repair hacks that don&#8217;t require any specialist equipment or professional knowledge. This means you don&#8217;t have to pay expensive call-out charges and there&#8217;s no need to have to shell out for the most expensive tools in the business. Sometimes all you need is already right there in your house.</p>

<p>Let&#8217;s be honest; anything that deals with garbage on a regular basis isn&#8217;t going to smell so fresh. And if you have a garbage disposal, you&#8217;re probably used to the slight stench of rotting eggshells and vegetable peels that have stuck to the blades. But a garbage disposal isn&#8217;t the kind of thing you can just stick your hand down and clean &#8211; which is where ice cubes come into play.</p>

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<p>Although you can mask the smell of garbage disposal by putting lemon rind down it, this doesn&#8217;t actually clean the grinders themselves. Thankfully, the easiest trick in the book is to pour in ice cubes and let the broken-down ice wipe away the excess food and waste. Then, pour some hot water and lemon over the top when you&#8217;re done for that extra freshness!</p>

<p>There&#8217;s nothing worse than being rumbled during your midnight trip to the refrigerator. And it&#8217;s fair to say that creaky floorboards are always the ones who snitch and blow your cover. But unless you have the option to switch out your wooden boards with tile flooring, you&#8217;re just going to have to live with them. And whip out the baby powder at the same time, of course!</p>

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<p>Yep, baby powder is the perfect antidote to this creaking noise. That&#8217;s because this irritating addition to your home is normally caused when pieces of wood rub together. But when you add baby powder it creates a barrier between them. Either squeeze it in between the gaps or use a small brush to push it down, and you&#8217;ll be eating your midnight snacks again in no time. </p>

<p>Although nobody sets out to break a glass or drop a lightbulb, these things do happen. But we all know that picking up broken shards of glass with your bare hands isn&#8217;t going to end well &#8211; so what do you do instead? It turns out that one of the easiest home hacks of all time only requires one thing&#8230; a potato! </p>

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<p>Potatoes are not only the most versatile and most delicious food of all time, but they&#8217;re also pretty handy around the house. That&#8217;s because you can wipe the potato over the shards of glass and they will immediately latch onto the flesh of the root vegetable. This means that the whole process will be much safer than using your hands &#8211; as long as you throw the potato away afterward!</p>

<p>If you have kids or young relatives who get a little too crayon-happy for your liking, you probably get a bit nervous when they get close to your walls. After all, you&#8217;re happy to stick their drawings on the refrigerator &#8211; but not so happy for them to use your white walls as their expressionist canvas. But what if we told you that drawing on your own walls could work in your favor? Especially if you have nail holes all over the place. </p>

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<p>While you could just head to the DIY store and pick up some filler, there&#8217;s no point doing that if you have a box of crayons in the playroom. To fill these holes and leave your walls blemish-free, all you have to do is find a crayon that&#8217;s closest in color to your walls and press it into the hole. The wax in the crayon should fill the gap and you&#8217;ll instantly forget it was even there in the first place. Finally, the white crayon can come to good use!</p>

<p>Nobody wants to be stuck outside their house because the key or the lock on their door is stuck. But unfortunately, this happens all too often &#8211; especially with outside locks. As the weather turns and moisture gets into the mechanisms, both keys and door locks start to stick and begin to rust. But it&#8217;s nothing a pencil can&#8217;t handle. </p>

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<p>There&#8217;s absolutely no need to buy store-bought lubricants to unstick these locks, as all you have to do is run a graphite pencil over your key a few times. The graphite will act as a natural lubricant and allow the key to slide easily into the lock without any problems. And you can still use the pencil afterward, so you really do have nothing to lose! </p>

<p>Whether you&#8217;ve noticed your bath is coming away from the tiles or there&#8217;s a slight gap in your window and the wall, caulk can solve all of your problems. But unless you&#8217;re the kind of person that can hit a bullseye every time you throw a dart, it&#8217;s impossible to create a perfectly straight line of caulk. At least that&#8217;s what we thought, anyway. It turns out that all you need to nail this hack is a bit of painter&#8217;s tape. </p>

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<p>Simply layout this tape around the area you need to caulk to create a perfectly straight barrier, and you can then use this as a guide. It&#8217;s just like coloring in within the lines! But the trick with this hack is to remove the tape before the caulk dries. If you start pulling it off while it&#8217;s dry, you&#8217;ll rip up all of your precise work at the same time.  </p>

<p>Hands up if you just love a hot cup of tea? We don&#8217;t blame you. Tea is refreshing and warming, but you might think that throwing tea bags away after your drink has brewed seems like a bit of a waste. Because of this, you might happy to learn that they can actually come in pretty handy if you&#8217;re looking to spruce up your house. </p>

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<p>Tea bags are full of tannins &#8211; a naturally-occurring chemical that gives the tea its distinctive and often bitter taste. But what you might not know is that tannins also have the ability to remove grease and stains from your dishes. So if you have any leftover tea bags, simply pop them into a bowl of hot water and give them a good scrub. Then just let the tannins do all the dirty work. </p>

<p>No matter which room you enter in your home, there will be screws everywhere. From the bathroom to the living room, screws hold furniture together, they attach shelves to the wall, and they keep mirrors in place. But annoyingly, screws become stripped all the time. And when the head is so damaged and bored out, it seems almost impossible to remove them. </p>

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<p>But you&#8217;ll be happy to know that there is something you can do to remove a stripped screw. All you have to do is place a rubber band between the head of the screw and the screwdriver, and this will replace the friction and grip that&#8217;s missing. You&#8217;ll be able to remove it in no time, and never have to worry about stripped screws ever again!</p>

<p>While most people want their houses to be perfect all day, every day, that just isn&#8217;t possible. You would have to stand completely still in the same spot for the rest of your life and refuse to touch anything in your home for it to remain pristine forever! So, it&#8217;s natural for wooden furniture or floors to get a few dents here and there. That doesn&#8217;t mean you just have to live with them, though. </p>

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<p>It&#8217;s super easy to repair dents in wooden items, and all it requires is a hot iron, some water, and a moist towel &#8211; which you probably already have in your home. Simply wet the area around the indentation with some water and cover up with a moist towel. Then, place the hot iron over the towel and move it around in circles for a minute, and voila!</p>

<p>Anyone else feel like they&#8217;re constantly cleaning their home? And then as soon as you&#8217;re done cleaning, it&#8217;s a complete mess again. It&#8217;s a vicious cycle that leaves your hands chapped and your back aching, but it doesn&#8217;t need to be as hard as it seems. Sometimes all you need is some dish soap and a long-handled broom, and then you&#8217;re golden. </p>

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<p>That&#8217;s because one of the best and most efficient ways to clean your bathtub is to squeeze a whole load of dish soap into the tub and use the bristles of the broom to clean every inch of it. This not only helps your back as you don&#8217;t need to bend down to get into every nook and cranny, but the cleaning agents in the soap will also break down the mildew and scum that often accumulates there. </p>

<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of cooking &#8211; or even if you can&#8217;t seem to cook anything without burning it &#8211; you may find that your pots and pans get pretty dirty the more you use them. And sometimes soap and a sponge just don&#8217;t cut the mustard when it comes to cleaning these items. But you don&#8217;t need to throw them away and buy new ones. All you need is some aluminum foil. </p>

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<p>Although it&#8217;s important to note that you can&#8217;t use this nifty trick on non-stick pans, crumpling up a sheet of aluminum foil can bring your chrome pots and pans back to life. All you have to do is scrunch it into a ball and scrub the grimy surface. The abrasive material will help to remove even the most stubborn stains, leaving them sparkling clean and like new. </p>

<p>You probably don&#8217;t need us to tell you that Magic Erasers are pretty magical. After all, the clue is in the name. This item can clean anything, and it&#8217;s particularly useful if you find that your walls get dirty. It can clean stains or just brightens your walls up, and it seems as though Magic Erasers can also clean those pesky pen marks that always seem to end up on your white walls.</p>

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<p>Whether your kids want to showcase their drawing skills or whether you accidentally brushed past the wall with your pen, all you have to do is wipe the Magic Eraser over the wall and let the magic happen. Your walls will be sparkling clean in an instant and look as though they&#8217;ve been freshly painted &#8211; completely free of pen marks!</p>

<p>There&#8217;s nothing more bone-chilling than hearing a door slam. The noise seems to make its way through your body and rattle your brain &#8211; and it&#8217;s even more annoying when your hands are full with groceries! When this happens you have to put all of your fresh produce and snacks on the floor and open the door back up again, which seems like a huge waste of your time. </p>

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<p>But you can rest easy knowing that you don&#8217;t need to waste any more of your precious time. If you want to prevent a door from slamming, simply tie a rubber band around the doorknobs on both sides. This will stop the latch from closing, allowing you to just push your body weight against it to open it. It also won&#8217;t slam so loudly!</p>

<p>Unless you choose to stay off your carpet for the rest of your days, you&#8217;re probably going to encounter a few carpet dents in your home. These dents are caused when heavy furniture stands on it for long lengths of time, and it&#8217;s impossible to stop them from making their mark. But it&#8217;s not impossible to get rid of them. In fact, it&#8217;s pretty easy!</p>

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<p>If you&#8217;ve moved a piece of furniture and can&#8217;t stand the sight of the carpet dents left behind, all you have to do is go to your freezer and grab a few ice cubes. Then, place the ice cubes on the dented area and allow them to melt. This should help the fibers spring back up to where they should be, but if they need a little extra coaxing simply brush them up with your hand. </p>

<p>A shower without good pressure is like walking on the beach with your shoes on. It&#8217;s just not quite right and doesn&#8217;t feel the way it&#8217;s supposed to. But you don&#8217;t have to call the plumber out every time your water pressure begins to dip. First and foremost, you should check whether your showerhead needs a good clean. </p>

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<p>Sometimes when grime and mineral deposits build up in and around your showerhead, it can affect the pressure of the water &#8211; but it&#8217;s an easy fix. All you had to do is soak your showerhead in vinegar. You can either take the showerhead off and place it into a bowl of vinegar overnight, or you can wrap a bag of vinegar around the head. Either way, it&#8217;ll work wonders. </p>

<p>While you probably don&#8217;t want to damage anything that you own, there&#8217;s a high chance that damaging your car or garage would be a complete nightmare. Taking your car to the local mechanic or building a new wall can be expensive, after all. But when you only have a small space to park in, it can be difficult to drive your car safely into your garage without hitting anything. </p>

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<p>But one of the easiest hacks you could ever learn is to hang a tennis ball on a piece of rope or string from your garage ceiling. If you hang this just in front of where you need to stop your car, you can create the ultimate buffer. So, as soon as you hit that tennis ball, you know you need to pump the brakes to avoid an expensive accident!</p>

<p>Animals are pretty awesome. They&#8217;re cute, they&#8217;re cuddly, and they&#8217;re an adorable part of your family. And although much of their cuteness may stem from the fact that they&#8217;re super fluffy, it&#8217;s this fluff that can also cause you nightmares. Because when that fluff comes off, it&#8217;s going straight on the floor!</p>

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<p>While you can buy an expensive vacuum that sucks up the pet hair from your carpet, why spend oodles of cash when you could just buy a squeegee from the dollar store? By pulling this squeegee along your carpet you will be able to pick up all of the pet hair stuck between the fibers. It might make you wonder how your pet has any hair left, but you won&#8217;t be able to deny how effective it is.</p>

<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like eating food that&#8217;s fresh off the grill. This food normally symbolizes warm summer nights, gatherings with family and quality time in the backyard with friends. But if you&#8217;ve ever had plans to barbecue your food and then realized that your grill is covered in grime and old food, you&#8217;ll know just how annoying this can be. </p>

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<p>And while you can use chemicals and brushes to clean your grill, there&#8217;s a high chance that you already have everything you need to achieve the same results in a more natural way. Yes, onions are perfect for cleaning grills! All you have to do is stick half an onion on a fork and glide it over the grill to watch all of the grime wipe away. </p>

<p>Most of your home is probably full of furniture, and even if you&#8217;re not the biggest fan of wood, there&#8217;s a high chance that you have some kind of wooden object under your roof. And when natural wood is involved, you can almost guarantee that you&#8217;ll see a few scratches here and there. Much to your dismay.</p>

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<p>But do you want to learn a super easy home repair hack? Well, you don&#8217;t have to completely re-stain the wood or even throw the furniture out to rid your home of these scratches. All you have to do is grab a walnut, crack it, and rub the meat of it over the blemish. If you do this for a few minutes, the natural oils within the nut will seal the scratch and make them disappear&#8230; Just like magic! </p>

<p>There are two kinds of people in this world. There are those who prefer drapes. And then there are those who prefer blinds. If you&#8217;re the kind of person who prefers blinds, then you probably love many things about them &#8211; but you may also hate the fact that they get so dusty. And with so many sections to clean, it can often seem like an impossible task. </p>

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<p>But if you&#8217;ve shelled out on expensive blind-cleaning gadgets and have twisted your hands into awkward positions to clean these things, you&#8217;ll be relieved to know that an easier solution is here. To clean your blinds without any hassle or ligament damage, grab your kitchen tongs and cover each side with a small towel and brush the dust away! </p>

<p>We&#8217;re just going to go ahead and assume that most people don&#8217;t like cleaning their toilets. Sure, there&#8217;s something quite satisfying about seeing a gleaming vessel in front of you &#8211; but how do you get there? While some people will buy all of the bathroom cleaners under the sun, it seems as though the best toilet product can actually be found in your kitchen. </p>

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<p>Cola-Cola may be delicious, but it&#8217;s also been used by savvy homeowners for many years now. The carbonation of this fizzy soda works wonders on porcelain bathroom units, and they can lift off stains in your toilet with little to no scrubbing. Simply pour a bottle into your toilet and let it work its magic overnight. When you flush in the morning it&#8217;ll be sparkling clean! </p>

<p>From front doors to kitchen cabinets, you probably have more hinges in your home than you could possibly count. As these hinges are made from metal, time and usage can take their toll on them. Before too long they&#8217;re starting to squeak and you can&#8217;t even open up your snack cupboard without announcing it to the whole house. And a trip to the snack cupboard should be private, right?</p>

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<p>While it&#8217;s easy to head to the nearest store and buy a can of WD-40 to fix this squeaking, what you might not have realized is that you don&#8217;t need to buy anything at all! Yep, if you have a can of cooking spray in your kitchen, you can just use that instead. This spray will oil up the hinges and allow you to open them without creating an operatic symphony. </p>

<p>No matter how tight you think you&#8217;ve screwed a screw, there will always be occasions where it comes loose anyway. That&#8217;s just the way the world works, but this can actually cause serious injury if you&#8217;re not careful. So if you don&#8217;t want to take that risk, why not head into your bedroom and whip out your nail polish?</p>

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<p>To reduce the chances of your screw coming loose, all you have to do is coat it with a layer of nail polish. This acts as a replacement glue and keeps the screw in place. This will stop furniture from falling apart, this will stop cupboard doors from coming off their hinges, and it will stop you from having to head to the hardware store to buy new ones. What more could you want?</p>

<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to have your own outdoor space, you&#8217;ll know what a privilege it is to have space to roam and play. But what you might also know is that having a yard requires all kinds of maintenance. And this is especially true if you live in a hot country with minimal rain. Grass struggles to survive in this hot and bright weather, and sprinkler systems can be pretty pricey!</p>

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<p>Thankfully, you don&#8217;t have to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a legitimate sprinkler system. Not when you have old plastic bottles around the house, anyway. You can make your own by poking holes around the bottle, before attaching it to your hose. Once the hose is turned on and the bottle is on the grass, you&#8217;ll see this self-watering contraption in action! </p>

<p>Many modern chests of drawers you buy come on metal runners that normally stand the test of time. But if you&#8217;re someone who prefers a vintage style or old-school pieces, you may have procured a wooden chest of drawers without these modern additions. And when wood rubs together for a certain length of time, it&#8217;s going to start getting sticky. And nobody wants sticky drawers. </p>

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<p>This is easily fixable, though. And it won&#8217;t even cost you a fortune to unstick them. All you have to do is head to your bathroom and pick up your bar of soap. Then, rub the bar around the opening and the sliders within the draw to lubricate them and stop them from sticking. Before too long they&#8217;ll be good as new. </p>

<p>Hammers are a pretty dangerous tool if you&#8217;re not used to using them on a regular basis. One wrong move and you&#8217;re hammering your thumb into the wall and dealing a big ol&#8217; bruise. But there are ways to make hammering easier, whether you&#8217;re a novice or whether you just want to speed up the process. </p>

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<p>Most accidents with hammers occur because a nail moves out of its position before the hammer can power down onto it. So why not stop that from happening with the clothes pegs we all have in our homes? By holding the nail in place with the clothes peg, you can ensure that you&#8217;re only hitting the nail &#8211; and not your thumb. And that&#8217;s always a bonus. </p>

<p>Whenever you buy something new, you can almost guarantee that it&#8217;s going to come with a label or sticker. This normally has the price on it, as well as the barcode and its unique product code. And while this is handy for the stores that sell these items, it&#8217;s pretty annoying for homeowners who can&#8217;t peel them off without leaving a sticky residue. </p>

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<p>But it seems as though we&#8217;ve been removing these labels all wrong. Instead of trying to peel it off there and then, grab your hairdryer first. Hold the hairdryer on its hottest setting over the sticker for a minute or two. As the heat melts the adhesive, you should find that it will easily peel off after this little blow dry.  </p>

<p>There&#8217;s a high chance that you use your scissors on an extremely regular basis. You might use them in the kitchen, for your crafts, or even to cut the flowers in your garden. But after a lot of use, scissors can start to go blunt &#8211; and once that happens they become more and more useless by the day. Scissor sharpeners do exist, but why buy one when you can DIY?</p>

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<p>One of the easiest and cheapest ways to sharpen your scissors at home is to use aluminum foil. If you use your scissors to cut strips in the foil, this movement against both metals will instantly begin to sharpen the scissor blades. And the more strips you cut, the sharper your scissors will be.</p>

<p>Many people find painting extremely therapeutic, and we understand why. The brush strokes and the gradual transformation can make you pretty happy, but one annoying aspect of the whole process is the mess of the paint. As soon as you dip your brush into the paint pot, you have to deal with all of the extra dripping off&#8230; or do you?</p>

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<p>By wrapping a rubber band around the paint pot &#8211; so it goes right through the middle of the opening &#8211; you can wipe off any excess before you lift the brush up. This will stop it from dripping on the floor, dripping on your clothes, or just dripping on bits of wall you don&#8217;t want to paint. The band may be small, but pretty powerful.</p>

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