- Perfume your lingerie
When you have just dabbed the last drop of your favourite perfume on your wrist, you can still enjoy its fragrance if you put the empty bottle in your lingerie drawer. The scent will waft up each time you open the drawer and will perfume your underwear as well.
- Eliminate unwanted trouser creases using bubble wrap
How many times have you pulled on a pair of trousers only to take them off because coat hanger creases have made them unwearable? Wrap the hanger bar in a layer of bubble wrap with the smooth side facing out (secure the wrap with gaffer tape). Other coverings that work just as well are strips of quilt batting or soft foam sheets used as filler in packing boxes.
- Hang spaghetti straps securely
If tops and dresses with spaghetti straps are forever slipping off their hangers, the easiest way to secure them is simply to clip both straps to the hanger with clothes pegs. Or sew a button to a padded hanger to provide a stop for the strap.
- Stay-put scarves
A neat way to store scarves so that each is within easy reach is to attach a few shower curtain rings to the bottom bar of a coat hanger, thread a scarf though each one and then hang them on the wardrobe rail. Arrange them by colour and you’ll find that it’s much easier than rummaging through a pile of scarves in your drawer to find the one you want.
- Cedar scent
Cedar blocks have long been used as an alternative to strong-smelling camphor to keep moths from eating holes in your clothes. If your cedar has lost its woodland fragrance, don’t spend money to replace the blocks. Just use sandpaper or an emery board to roughen up the wood and release the scent.
Moths also shy away from a host of other strong natural fragrances including the scent of dried bay leaves, dried lavender, dried orange peel, cloves and whole peppercorns. Place some of these in the feet of a pair of old pantihose to make cheap and inconspicuous sachets for your wardrobe or drawer.
Credit: Reader’s Digest
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