Home & living
The house, the kitchen, the leaking tap. 14 fixes across 4 categories.
Use the cooker steam water for the next day's dough
Softer rotis, and nothing goes down the drain.
A wooden spoon across the pot stops milk boiling over
Works for the first minute or so, then stops — not something to leave unattended.
Baking soda then vinegar unclogs a kitchen drain
The fizz is the two cancelling each other out.
Wrap coriander in a dry cloth before it goes in the fridge
Lasts two weeks instead of three days.
Toothpicks and wood glue fix a stripped screw hole
Holds a curtain rod or hinge as well as new wood.
Rub a candle on a zip that keeps sticking
Two seconds, and the bag lasts another year.
Fold a bedsheet set inside its own pillowcase
One bundle per set. The almirah stops being an avalanche.
A vertical file rack in the cabinet holds pan lids upright
No more digging through a stack to find one lid.
Newspaper under the drying rack plus a fan beats any heater
Indoor drying in monsoon without the damp smell.
Half a cup of salt in the first wash of new dark clothes
Less colour bleeding for the next few washes.
Lemon half dipped in salt cleans brass better than polish
Works on diyas, urlis, old handles.
Roll a lemon hard on the counter before you cut it
Noticeably more juice from the same lemon.
Freeze ginger-garlic paste in an ice tray, decant into a bag
One cube is one meal. No preservatives, no weekly grinding.
Two dried neem leaves in the atta container keeps weevils out
No insects for a whole season, no chemical smell.