How to easily and quickly dry your shoes!

 Tie the shoe laces together tightly.

Put the shoes in the dryer, but have the shoe laces to be outside of the dryer. This allows the shoes to dangle against the door in the dryer. Put on low heat and dry your shoes!

12 Tips to Revolutionize How You Use Your Fridge/Freezer (part 2)

Everyone likes making their life a little easier. Luckily, we have 12 tips and tricks to make your food and fridge/freezer work a little harder for you.

7. Stand your condiment bottles upside down to get the condiments easily accessible and in an egg carton or organization



8. Glue magnets on the bottom of containers so they can be put on the side of your fridge



9. Instead of reaching far back, just rotate it to you with a Lazy Susan



10. For chest freezers, put food in reusable fabric shopping bags so you can pull things out easily



11. Paint your fridge with chalkboard paint to stay organized with notes and a written weekly menu



12. Create uniformity and save space by transferring condiments to matching squeeze bottles

12 Tips to Revolutionize How You Use Your Fridge/Freezer (part 1)

Everyone likes making their life a little easier. Luckily, we have 12 tips and tricks to make your food and fridge/freezer work a little harder for you.

1. Stop wasting food by putting food expiring soon in an “Eat Me First” box



2. Make spills easy to clean up by covering refrigerator shelves with plastic wrap



3. Create freezer shelves by stacking magazine holders on their sides



4. Organize your food by putting it in baskets



5. Make a "snack zone" for a quick bite



6. Put frozen bagged foods on binder clips to make more room in your freezer

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Wrap your meat for an efficient freezing

This is an illustrated guide to wrapping meat in freezer paper for an airtight seal. It's not hard to learn, as the major trick is folding and re-folding the creases to push out the air, along with keeping the fold tight while you tape it off. Once you've mastered the "drugstore wrap," you'll get better-quality reheats, frostless meat, and a lot less guilt at freezer-cleaning time (as you end up tossing fewer arctic-frosted cuts).

Foods of highest quality, properly prepared for freezing, can lose color, flavor, texture and nutritive value if packaged improperly.

Proper packaging methods mean:

Using moisture-vapor-proof paper or containers

Removing as much air as possible from package

Carefully sealing tightly wrapped package

Labeling package for usage within recommended storage time.

1. Place meat on paper.

Tear off enough paper to go about one and a half times around meat, put shiny side next to meat (if using wax coated paper). Lay meat on center of paper and allow ample paper at sides.

2. Bring ends together.

Start folding ends of paper together over center of meat. Turn edges over to make a fold about an inch deep. Run your fingers along fold to make a good crease.

3. Fold to meat.

Keep turning paper over and crease each fold. The last fold should pull paper tight around meat. You want to get all the air out of package to prevent “freezer burn”.

4. Fold ends.

Press paper down close to sides of meat. Press out all the air you can to make a tight package. Fold in each of the four corners of paper. This will make a point at each end.

5. Turn under ends.

Turn pointed ends of paper under package. Then fold under about an inch at each end of package. You have made a tight package that will keep air out and moisture in.

6. Seal and label.

Seal with tape (you can use masking tape or freezer tape). Label each package with kind and amount of meat and date you put into your freezer. Now it’s ready to go into freezer.

This method of meat wrapping is also known as “The Drug Store Wrap“.

Tip: Store wrapped items seam side down to protect seal. You can double wrap meat if the freezer paper you’re using isn’t the best quality (or use one layer aluminum foil or plastic wrap then cover with freezer paper).

Refrigerators are, despite advances in their design, terribly inefficient. Every time you open the door, the cold air comes cascading right out onto the floor. Chest freezers don't suffer from this draft effect, and can be converted into super-efficient refrigerators.

How super-efficient? Energy usage with a chest-freezer-turned-fridge is barely 0.1kWh a day. Modern stand-up refrigerators use around 1kWh a day.

Tom Chalko, an extremely energy-conscious Australian, modified a chest freezer into a refrigerator to cut down on the pull a standard refrigerator would place on the solar/wind system that runs his home. He started off with a simple thermostat to control the on/off cycle of his chest refrigerator, but after becoming dissatisfied with the cheap—and sometimes dangerous—quality of the products, he built his own thermostat timer.

For more information about his journey towards an ultra-efficient, off-the-grid refrigerator, check out his website here.

Keepin' it fresh

Jazz up a boring washer and dryer set

Doing laundry can be a little be more fun if your laundry room is happy and cute. If painting is a bit too daring for you, or you rent, a good option is electrical tape. It comes in lots of colors and leaves no residue.

Check out this striped and polka-dot set!

If stripes aren't your thing, you can also use vinyl lettering and designs.



These are some fun, non-permanent ways to add some flair to your daily chores.