4 creative ways to fix annoying problems around your house

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Learning to be self sufficient means that you have to find creative ways to fix common problems around your house. If you can avoid calling someone else to fix the problem, it is in your best interest to do so!

Trick 1

Take a look around your home at every piece of furniture you own with a knob. These knobs are typically there to allow you to easily close and open drawers. Now go around and jiggle these knobs. How many are loose?

You can easily solve this problem with the help of a cheap bottle of clear nail polish. Remove the screw holding the knob onto the drawer. Coat the screw with a layer of nail polish. While the nail polish is still wet, use the screw to reattach the knob to the drawer. After the nail polish dries, your knob will no longer jiggle and you won’t have to worry about constantly tightening it!

Trick 2

Do you hate the way your house smells after you cook? This is particularly annoying if you have made a smelly meal like fish. You can easily solve this problem by boiling a pot of water on your stove. To the water, add some cloves. For an extra kick, add the peel of a citrus fruit to the mix. After the solution has boiled for a bit, simply turn off the burner and let the scent flow through your home. It will drown out the other smelly scents!

Trick 3

Stickers. They might be price tags or name tags or something else altogether. Stickers can be so annoying when it is time to remove them. They tear and leave behind gunk and sticker remnants. There are a few easy ways to remove this stuff. One of them involves squirting the sticky area with a bit of WD-40. Rub it in and then easily wipe off the sticky leftover! Sometimes smooth peanut butter can eliminate sticker gunk too!

Trick 4

Are you sick of replacing your shower curtain because it gets coated with soap buildup? You can save money by simply throwing it into the washing machine. Make sure to spin it out well because you don’t want to put it into the dryer. Simply hang it back in the shower and let it air dry naturally!