Things with additional, unintended uses.

I use a crystal file on my fingernails, but will never get rid of my old metal file...the rounded tip doubles as a screwdriver, even on Phillips screws, and the pointy end cleans out all the grot from the plastic grips on my father-in-law's specs!

Great solution ClicketyClick

I couldn't reach the top of the stairwell in the hall to remove the last bit of wallpaper so decided to sit in the garden with a coffee having a rest. Then a brainwave moment came. I used the garden hoe to reach those high parts of the wall. Worked a treat and no teetering on ladders as just had to lean over the upstairs bannister.

I use an old fashioned nutcracker to get twist lids off bottles and draining spoons are good for reaching up to top litchen cupoard shelves to pull thing sforward so that they are reachable.

My late mum used to use a snooker cue to press the buttons on her tv, to change channels. Saved her getting up and down.

(Not sure why she didn’t have a remote? Maybe before they were a ‘thing’).

Elowen33

Allira

There's no spare Coca Cola in this house because I refuse to buy it.

I do remember a teacher getting the children to take a baby tooth in each and watch it dissolve in Coca Cola 😯

Any food and drink with high acidity or sugar will effect teeth without sufficient dental hygiene.

Dissolving teeth in Coke over night is an urban myth.

Not overnight! I didn't say that.

No, it wasn't an urban myth.
Coke contains an acids (citric and phosphoric acids) which erode tooth enamel over time.
Anything which discourages children from drinking it is fine by me!

I use my nutcrackers to open bottles etc. works especially well on bleach bottles where you have to press in and turn. I use a ladle to close the window over the kitchen sink, a child’s loo step to reach higher shelves and spice jars to keep paper clips etc in my desk.

Left over hair dye is brilliant for cleaning my chrome bathroom fittings. Comes up gleaming. A walking stick turns off the fire alarm. An old washing machine glass door/window used for an outside plant saucer.

One of my daughters used to clean her bike with Coca Cola back in the day. She said it was good for removing rust. I can’t stand the stuff but my Dad loved it and he said during the war it used to have cocaine in it. Would have been interesting.

Elowen the overnight bit maybe an urban myth but it doesn't take very long.

oreo, one of my walkin kitchen cupboards has been taken over by my O H, it's full of coffee jars with nails of different lengths screws and nuts and bolts, tools that he can't use now as he has alzheimers...

henetha

My air vent thing in the kitchen only works if I hit it hard with a wooden spoon.

I find the same thing with DP funnily enough.The mere fact of seeing a waved wooden spoon gets him moving.🤭

MiniMoon

I can't reach the kitchen window over the sink. DH opens it for me, but to close it I have found a solution. A spaghetti spoon.

I use a long-handled pot scourer which just nicely hooks over the window handle.

Elless

Another Ikea double up here - we all have a long handled shoe horn that we use as a back scratcher 🤣

Me, too Elless! 😅

Super big jam tubs with lids from the bakery.
Store my cleaning stuff upstairs. Husband uses his for carrying tools, mixing plaster.
Got my friend two, she’s using them to clean her dogs paws in the back of her car after a muddy walk.

Astitchintime

MiniMoon

I can't reach the kitchen window over the sink. DH opens it for me, but to close it I have found a solution. A spaghetti spoon.

I use the top end of my long Ikea shoe horn for exactly the same purpose.

The potato masher works too.

Allira

There's no spare Coca Cola in this house because I refuse to buy it.

I do remember a teacher getting the children to take a baby tooth in each and watch it dissolve in Coca Cola 😯

Any food and drink with high acidity or sugar will effect teeth without sufficient dental hygiene.

Dissolving teeth in Coke over night is an urban myth.

Oreo

Also coffee jars when empty and washed make brill containers for all sorts of stuff, nails, screws, rubber bands, you name it.

Mustard pots.
The garage has shelves of jars containing items which might come in useful one day.

My air vent thing in the kitchen only works if I hit it hard with a wooden spoon.

Also coffee jars when empty and washed make brill containers for all sorts of stuff, nails, screws, rubber bands, you name it.

Am sure many already do this but I keep ice cream containers and takeaway containers and use them like Tupperware.
The big yogurt buckets are also handy.

Magenta8

I once used my eyebrow tweezers to pull a broken Yale key out of a lock.

I wish we'd met earlier. I had to use a very expensive locksmith.

There's no spare Coca Cola in this house because I refuse to buy it.

I do remember a teacher getting the children to take a baby tooth in each and watch it dissolve in Coca Cola 😯

Any spare Coke in the can, pour it down the loo and leave overnight.
Gawd knows what it does to your insides😲