Spring Cleaning Hacks You'll Wish You'd Found Out Years Ago

Buff Out Scratches With a Walnut

If you have dings in your wooden table, the waxy coating on a walnut can help buff it out in a second. It might sound like a weird trick, but it's been proven to work for centuries. Try it next time you notice a nick in your tables or chairs.

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Slip PVC pipes over the handles of your pruning shears and tape them in place to extend your reach and clip high branches without a ladder.
To keep your pot from boiling over, put a wooden spoon over the top of it. If it starts to boil up too high, the spoon will pop the bubbles and keep it from overflowing quickly.
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.
Buy a ring binder and keep insurance papers, repair receipts and all other paperwork pertaining to the house in it. Storing all your house information in one handy place makes life easier.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.