Genius Parenting Hacks That Make Life With Kids So Much Easier

Clean Toys

Sick of dirty toys? Well, say goodbye to the germs living in your child's playpen. Did you know most of your child's toys are dishwasher safe? Simply load up the drawers with drool soaked games and wait for the timer to be up. Once it is, you and your child will be safe from all those gross diseases. They won't even notice the absence, but you certainly will!

The More You Know

Instead of spending hours untangling your Christmas lights every year, simply wrap them around the bar portion of a pants hanger and clip each end—they'll remain untangled all year.
Keep elastic hair bands in one place—not scattered in drawers or in the bathroom sink or all over the floor. Slide them onto an empty toilet paper roll, which can then be neatly tucked into a drawer.
In a pinch, like when you're traveling, you can spruce up wrinkled clothes by hanging them in the bathroom while you shower.
If you have all matching clothes hangers in your closet and sometimes you get one of the really cheap, plastic ones when you need an anti-slip hanger. One solution is to wrap pipe cleaners around the clothes hanger.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.