Useful Inventions to make things a doddle

Turn your muffin pan upside down, bake cookie-dough over the top and voila – you have cookie bowls for fruit or ice-cream. Click here for recipe.

Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band

Overhaul your linen cupboard – store bed linen sets inside one of their own

pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match.

Use egg cartons to separate and store your Christmas decorations

Gotcha! Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose

For those who can't stand the scrunching and bunching:  how to perfectly

fold a fitted sheet.

Gutter Garden. Create a window-box veggie patch using guttering

Valentines Egg. Win friends at breakfast with this heart-shaped egg tutorial. How sweet

Bake cupcakes directly in ice-cream cones – so much more fun and easier for kids

to eat.

Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone / iPod in a bowl – the concave shape

amplifies the music

Forever losing your bathroom essentials? Use magnetic strips to store bobby

pins (and tweezers and clippers) behind a vanity door

A muffin pan becomes a craft caddy. Magnets hold the plastic cups down to

make them tip-resistant

Microwave your own popcorn in a plain brown paper bag. Much healthier and

cheaper than the packet stuff

Add this item to your beach bag. Baby powder gets sand off your skin easily –

who knew?!

Brilliant space-saver: install a tension rod to hang your spray bottles. Fekking Genius!

A tip for holiday packing. Store shoes inside shower caps to stop dirty soles

rubbing on your clothes. And you can find them in just about every hotel

Hull strawberries easily using a straw.

Bread tags make the perfect-sized cord labels

Attach a Velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys

Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes

Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40

(also works on walls).

This one is for Kelley!  Look up! Use wire to make a space to store gift wrap rolls against the ceiling,

rather than cluttering up the floor

Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags

Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a box lid