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Some people become heroes of gossip columns and news releases, thanks to luxury, excesses, etc., but the young American Andrew Hyde became famous not at all for this reason. On the contrary, he does not observe excesses in anything. The American has nothing ... except 15 things that are also of little value. They are simply necessary for normal life. An American minimalist lives with just 15 items.
Main field of activity
If you think that Andrew is homeless or a beggar, you are deeply mistaken. With housing and work, the American is in perfect order. The thing is, Hyde is a so-called tech tycoon. He is engaged in consulting in one of the large American companies and concurrently is the founder of the international movement for the development of new web projects "Startup Weekend". Hyde successfully organizes various conferences and events dedicated to the search for new ideas in the field of high technology, in the field of art and design.
The young American lives in 2 houses: he is constantly "torn" between work in New York and Silicon Valley. Hyde has no permanent residence. If the active Andrew has at least some free time, he prefers to spend it on travel, while he takes with him only the 15 most necessary things.
It is they, according to the American, that are necessary for the life of a modern person. All other items are excesses that should be excluded from daily use.
Essential items for survival
The young innovator says he has always liked minimalism in everything. Andrew was also attracted to the idea of using a minimum of things in everyday life. A couple of years ago, he decided to see if he could get by with just a hundred household items. And it looks like he's had a great life using a limited amount of stuff.
After some time, Hyde decided to go even further. He sold all his possessions, including wardrobe, appliances and dishes. The American left himself only 15 of the most necessary, in his opinion, things:
1. Backpack with a total capacity of 30 kg
4. T-shirt
5. Lightweight shorts
6. Towel
7. Warm jacket
8. A set of toiletries, including a razor and soap
9. Sunglasses
10. Wallet
11. MacBook Air computer
13. Long sleeve shirt
14. Jeans
15. Sneakers
Surely, each of you noted that this list does not include socks and underwear. Hyde has enough of these little things in store. The American left himself a minimum of clothing. According to him, now he does not need to waste time thinking about what to wear to work, what to wear to a party, and what to wear for a walk. Waking up every morning, he simply takes out of the closet that shirt or T-shirt that he did not wear yesterday. Having no choice makes life easier. The American was convinced of this from his own experience.
Minimum of things
However, according to Hyde, it was very difficult and problematic to reduce his property to a minimum. As Andrew himself recalls, he began to cut his wardrobe gradually. First he took two shirts, one pair of jeans and one pair of shorts. He also brought one pair of sandals, sunglasses, and, of course, underwear.
An iPad and a camera also became mandatory items that the American took with him. In the list of necessary things, he added a backpack, some toiletries, a towel. Andrew also needed some small items such as a pen, connector cable and iPad chargers.
After all the things were packed into a backpack, an enterprising American went on a trip to try to live with this set of things. As a result, during a trip that lasted almost 5 weeks, the traveler-experimenter needed even fewer things than he took with him.
Modern man wants everything at once. These days, the average woman alone has about 20 pairs of shoes, a wardrobe of hundreds of outfits. And some people live all alone in huge mansions. The young rich man Andrew Hyde, by his example, demonstrates to society that you can get by with little, and it is not at all necessary to have millions in order to be happy.
1. Write down all your ideas
Get a notebook in which you will write down all the ideas and interesting thoughts that come to your mind. So you definitely won’t forget anything important, and when you need to come up with something, the blanks will already be at your fingertips.
2. Visualize the result
Visualization will help you overcome obstacles that seemed insurmountable and get closer to your cherished goal.
3. Take time to be alone with yourself
Close your eyes and be alone with your thoughts. It is very important to be alone sometimes and listen to yourself.
4. Express gratitude
Often we already have a lot of what we want, but we don't appreciate it. Try to write down every day what you are grateful for. Even if it's some small thing.
Finance
5. Track your spending
Keep track of every ruble spent, do not miss a single expense. Knowing how much and on what you spend, you will see what you can save on.
6. Regularly reflect on your financial goals
It is advisable to do this every day. Be honest with yourself, evaluate how much you have, how much you have spent and received. This will make it easier for you to move towards your goals.
7. Make shopping lists
Don't go shopping without a list or you'll end up buying too much.
8. Don't accumulate unpaid bills
Relations
9. Go for walks
Walk in the park or just around the house, hold hands and talk. This is great for strengthening relationships.
10. Do something together
Find a hobby that both of you enjoy and do it together regularly.
11. Listen to your partner
16. Exercise every day
Try not to miss a single day, even if once the workouts are short.
Achievements of goals
17. Track your progress
Mark each day as you get closer to your goal to help keep you motivated.
18. Learn something new
Try to study every day. When you don't have time, at least watch one, so you will learn something new and useful.
19. Test your goal in action
If you dream of buying a house, go and see different houses. If you want to buy a car, ask the dealership for a test drive. Find as much information as possible about what you are aiming for and start planning to make the goal more realistic.
20. Change your perspective
Think about what you have already achieved, what you have already done on the way to the goal. Try to remember this when it starts to seem to you that you are not getting closer to achieving what you want.
Career
21. Keep in touch
Keep in touch with the people with whom you are at different work events, do not forget about them after a week or two.
22. Be Responsible
Summarize and report back. At the end of the day, write yourself to people who promised to answer you, but did not answer.
23. Write well
Practice writing: spelling, grammar, word usage. Your writing style creates an impression of you among your colleagues.
24. Be polite
Always. If you find yourself getting irritated, apologize. Try to make politeness a habit.
Spiritual values
25. Share something with others
Be generous. Give without expecting anything in return. It doesn't have to be about donations, you can give your time and energy to help those in need.
26. Treat others with understanding
Do not hold evil on others, forgive insults. Accept the fact that everyone is different. But don't forget that we all have a lot in common.
27. Laugh more often
Laughter is good for health. Don't take everything too seriously. Try to laugh every day, no matter what your life situation is.
28. Appreciate the little things
Notice the beauty of simple things that we usually take for granted.
- Here's what you need to do to bra straps not peeking out from under the clothes! A simple but cool trick.
- Interesting solution! A couple of eyelets and contrasting fabric are all you need to implement this trick.
- Things that have shrunken after washing will be saved by baby shampoo! Wash clothes in it, stretch a little while drying, and it will take the desired shape.
- Idea for this summer: patchwork will make ripped jeans unique!
- A regular paperclip will help you wear T-shirts comfortably. Looks neat!
- Double the space in your closet with tin lids! Each hanger will hold one more. utterly useful for home invention!
- Baby powder very good at removing greasy stains on clothes! Even better than salt.
- A piece of fabric that is attached to the tags on clothes is very important. After washing it, you will understand how the thing will behave during washing. After all, any fabric can shed or sit down!
- An easy way to quickly hang several things on a hanger at once! Why didn't I do this before?
- That's how you can get the lace with a plastic straw!
- Soda and vegetable oil will clean any, even the most difficult stains on kitchen furniture.
- Easy way to peel ginger! A spoon is much better than a knife.
- Boiling eggs with a slice of lemon makes them easy to peel and delicious!
- This is how real women open bottles! If you don't have an opener handy, you can use an eyelash curler.
- If you do this, the lips will look more voluminous.
- Massaging with a moisturizing mascara wand will leave lips remarkably soft and improve their color as blood circulation increases.
- A pocket for money and documents, which will come in handy when traveling! It's very easy to make one yourself.
- The napkin can be used as a funnel for bulk products! I always do this when I pour coffee into a jar.
- By wetting the cake spatula, you can put each piece on a plate in perfect shape!
Poor is not the one who has little,
and the one who wants to have more.
Seneca. "Moral letters
to Lucilius. (II)
There are different ways to be poor. If you are poor because you are underpaid for hard work, that is one thing. And if a small income is explained by a lot of leisure, this is another matter. There are many pleasant and useful activities available without money: reading, socializing with members of the opposite sex, sleeping, walking, socializing, daydreaming, narcissism, writing, philosophizing, etc. Most natural pleasures cost nothing or are very cheap. But much suffering is caused by envy, memories of lost opportunities, persistent attempts to get rich. Moderate poverty is not harmful to health, and in some respects even beneficial. To get sick less, you need to avoid overeating, eat rough food, sometimes starve, often freeze.
Poverty helps maintain a high level of personal qualities essential for survival, including observation, enterprise, ingenuity ("Need to invent cunning"). The increased mortality of the poor (if it occurs) helps to maintain the quality of the gene pool in their environment. People are afraid of poverty mainly because it is not prestigious, but also because they have to pay for the treatment of diseases acquired in the pursuit of prosperity. The standard of living is understood as the amount of goods consumed, while the quality of life is the degree of its correspondence to the optimum. The optimum involves the lack of some benefits and moderate suffering - to maintain the body's ability to withstand difficulties. One and the same (by value) amount of goods can be picked up in a more or less useful composition and consumed with more or less efficiency. Moreover, the growth of people's living standards usually lags behind the growth of their incomes - because with the growth of incomes, the desire to save decreases and wasteful spending increases.
Minimum housing
You can temporarily put up with low pay if the job provides some additional benefits in addition to earnings: it allows you to improve your skills in a profession that is in demand, brings useful contacts, provides access to information you need for some personal purposes, etc. It may be that job responsibilities in and of themselves do not contribute to the development of skills, but they leave time for this and give access to the necessary resources. The less you are paid and the worse the prospect of changing this situation, the more you should be concerned with preparing for a job change, rather than performing office tasks. There is no need to engage in self-deception and assure yourself that you have settled down relatively well: moderate dissatisfaction with your position is always quite appropriate.
In general, one must always be ready for a change of place of work - even if it is good, and even more so if it leaves much to be desired. You should change your job at least in order to expand the range of your impressions and more adequately judge the world. Of course, the old job is good because it does not particularly require updating your knowledge and skills (and therefore, perhaps, leaves you strength for personal affairs), and also because it allows you to wait for the moment for career growth, but it is often more profitable to go to the rank and file employees to a thriving enterprise than to remain a middle manager in a struggling enterprise. The ability to change is an essential quality for survival, which must be maintained in oneself. There are no offenses at all, but if the offenses are small, then it is better to quit so that there is an opportunity to return. As you go through life, leave behind a trail of people who have a favorable opinion of you.
Unemployment
In order not to fall into despair when you find yourself out of work, you need to pay more attention to the beneficial aspects of this position: the availability of free time, the opportunity to try on various social roles, re-evaluate yourself, look at yourself through the eyes of others. It is necessary to use a variety of vacancies: not only the labor exchange, newspaper ads and acquaintances. You can contact the personnel departments directly, use the services of private intermediary firms and public organizations. If in some advantageous place they seem to intend to take you, but they ask you to wait a while, you should not assume that you have already found a job, but you must continue to search.
It's best to show up to interviews decently dressed and eager to make a good impression, but without much hope of success or you'll be overwhelmed by rejection. In a conversation with a potential employer, one must take into account that no one will appreciate your modesty and self-criticism, and that, on the other hand, excessive self-confidence will form an unfavorable opinion about you. You should not ascribe to yourself virtues that you do not have, and which you cannot acquire before the people who trusted you and hired you begin to regret their decision.
As for mediation in employment, it must be borne in mind that in this area one can often encounter. A necessary sign of fraud is the prepayment of services. In order to lull vigilance, it may not be required immediately, but after some kind of free, but of little use courtesy. All widely publicized job advertisements that promise particularly high pay should be viewed with the utmost suspicion. It is better to ignore them at all, and not to analyze what exactly the catch is in each case: in some kind of sophisticated deception or in the offer of something unworthy or too risky.
If you have a difficult and highly paid profession, do not grab a temporary low-skilled job, even if it pays well: you will lose your skills and lower your social status, after which the chance to return to work in your specialty will decrease significantly. Keep things in order, take care of your appearance. Keep at least one decent suit for when you go to apply for a good position. One of the main dangers that await the unemployed is the absence of an external disciplining factor, which leads to the strengthening of various personal vices. Personality degradation is a hard-to-reverse process, so if one day you find that you normally went without washing for a whole month, it means that maybe you have one last chance to pull yourself together.
Procurement
Some things when buying them in bulk are much cheaper per unit of goods and the savings are much more noticeable than when buying at retail. If these are non-perishable and regularly consumed things, then two goals can be achieved in this way at once: not only save money, but also. Otherwise, you should team up with several people for joint wholesale purchases. Goods can have significantly different prices from different sellers, so you must first research the situation on the market and only then spend money. Keep in mind that cheap items often turn out to be defective, although the seller usually has another convincing explanation for their low price ready. If there is no defect, then the reason for cheapness may be a small supply of resources, high cost of consumables, low reliability, and difficulty in repair.
Nutrition
The main food products with a lack of funds are bread, cereals, milk, root crops. The daily diet with a minimum diet includes the following products:
- 0.5 kg of bread or porridge;
- 1 liter of milk or 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 100 g vegetables, e.g. potatoes, carrots, beets;
- 20 g of sugar;
- 30 g of vegetable oil;
- vitamin preparations.
By changing cereals, vegetables, you can provide some. It is a dull diet, but it is harmless, sufficient, tolerable for a long time. Blame yourself if you can't provide something else. Better not very tasty than begging or stealing. Even simple foods can be quite tasty if they are fresh or cooked in some suitable way. Unrefined products are cheaper and healthier than refined ones: yellow sugar, unrefined sunflower oil, black bread. To compile a cheap diet, use the following tables:
Proteins:
Carbohydrates:
Vitamin C:
If animal protein is absorbed by the body by almost 100%, then vegetable protein by about 80%. The protein of the seeds of leguminous plants (peas, beans, soybeans) contains all the amino acids necessary for a person and is a complete substitute for animal protein.
An adult needs per day: carbohydrates: 300..500 g; fats: 80 g (of which 40 g are vegetable); proteins: 80..100 g (of which 50% are animals); vitamin C: 150 mg; kilocalories: 1500..4000.
Calories per gram Nutrients: Carbohydrates: 4.1 kcal; fat: 9.3 kcal; proteins: 4.1 kcal.
It is better to provide the daily dose of fats at the expense of vegetable oils. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that not every oil contains in sufficient quantities (or contains at all) some fatty acids necessary for the body. Sunflower oil is complete, for example, rapeseed oil is inferior. Margarine is usually inferior to animal and vegetable oil in terms of the content of deficient fatty acids. Lard is good only as a source of calories: it does not contain substances that have any other usefulness. The advantage of lard may be that under conditions of radioactive contamination of the environment, unlike other animal products, almost no radionuclides are detected in it.
Save on food, do not deprive yourself of vitamins. The most important of them:
- VITAMIN C. Contained in raw vegetables and fruits, especially cabbage, apples, tomatoes, green onions. The daily requirement is from 70 to 200 mg (depending on the load on the body).
- VITAMIN A. Contained in butter, egg yolk, liver, carrots, pumpkins, tomatoes, nettles. It is absorbed into the intestine only together with fats.
- VITAMIN D. Contained in egg white, milk, butter. Synthesized by the body under the influence of ultraviolet rays. Especially needed for small children. With its shortage, children suffer from rickets.
- VITAMIN E. Contained in the germs of wheat and corn (you can eat soaked sprouted grains), in vegetable oils. The lack of this vitamin leads to infertility, in children - to visual impairment.
- VITAMIN K. Especially a lot of it is found in fish, liver, pumpkin, carrots, nettles. In a healthy intestine, it is synthesized by intestinal bacteria in sufficient quantities.
- VITAMIN PP (B5, nicotinic acid). Contained in the liver, yeast, carrots, tomatoes. There is a lot of "anti-vitamin" PP in corn, so it is harmful to eat a lot of corn.
Pharmacy vitamin preparations are usually much cheaper than vitamins from natural products. The intestinal bacterial flora synthesizes many vitamins. Antibiotics suppress this flora and can therefore cause beriberi. Sprouted grains of wheat, oats, rice, barley, etc. contain many different vitamins. How to germinate grains: pour the grains into a plate, put it in a warm place and periodically moisten them with water (only rice grains can be completely filled with water). Sprouted grains can be treated for scurvy.
The most important trace elements:
- CALCIUM. Found in milk, dairy products, vegetable leaves. It is poorly absorbed if the food is not combined with phosphorus and fats. Natural sources can be replaced with calcium gluconate or calcium glycerophosphate tablets.
- PHOSPHORUS. Contained in eggs, fish, liver, beans, soy.
- IODINE. Contained in sea fish, sea kale.
You can get food in the natural environment. The following describes methods of obtaining food from wild plants, which require time and the use of some non-portable items and therefore not previously considered. The following plants have edible roots consumed as flour:
- dandelion;
- the capsule is yellow;
- highlander snake;
- water lily white;
- highlander viviparous;
- goose cinquefoil;
- tuberous zopnik;
- cattail broadleaf;
- marsh marigold;
- susak umbrella;
- sea tubers.
The roots are cut, dried, ground. Dough is made from flour, cakes are baked from dough. Root flour can be added to cereal flour. You can ferment flour: add ordinary bread or crackers, soak and put in a warm place until bubbles and a sour smell appear. Flour from the roots of the water lily must be soaked for several hours, changing the water, to remove soluble harmful substances. A good porridge is cooked from the ground rhizome of the lake reed.
Ways to preserve edible leaves: - dry; - ferment like cabbage (this is how, for example, young dandelion leaves are processed); - make sour-salty puree (to do this, add vinegar and salt) and store in the cold.
Herbal tea is a source of vitamins and other beneficial substances. Suitable for tea: - flowers and leaves of St. - leaves of nettle, plantain, currant, fireweed, lungwort, coltsfoot, primrose; - the fruits of lingonberries, mountain ash, black elderberry; - flowers, leaves, rose hips, hawthorn.
To make it easier to endure the period of insufficient calorie nutrition, it is necessary to dress warmer. The latter contributes to the fact that the body spends less energy on self-heating.
Heat saving
Seal window cracks with paper only if they are large. If it blows a little through the cracks, you can simply open the window less often for ventilation. To reduce heat dissipation through window panes, additional panes should be inserted or transparent plastic film should be stretched over the window frames. Curtains should be drawn on the windows at night. During the absence of people in the home, as well as at night, you can turn off the heating. Even at a negative temperature in the home, you can provide thermal comfort during sleep if you sleep not completely undressed and under a thick blanket. Since the head is significant in the body, it is necessary to cover it with a blanket (leaving the face open) or put on a soft cap.
It takes ten times less heat to warm a bed than to heat a room. You can put a heating pad in bed - a flask or a plastic bottle with boiling water. As an electric heater, you can, in extreme cases, use a plugged-in electric light bulb with a power of approximately 30 watts, fixed, for example, inside a tin can. In this case, it must be borne in mind that when the spiral of the bulb is heated, even a slight shaking can lead to its rupture.
Saving electricity
Light colors should be chosen for the walls of the room: they reflect light better and make it possible to use less powerful lamps for lighting. Do not hang dark carpets on the walls. The section of the wall near the desktop can be covered with white paper. Lampshades should be removed from ceiling lamps or at least dusted regularly. It is better to screw in light bulbs of low power everywhere, and turn on bright lighting only for work. Fluorescent lamps are more economical than incandescent lamps and generally last longer. Change your daily routine in such a way as to make full use of the daylight hours. Use a TV with low electrical power. Typically, the smaller the TV screen, the less electrical energy it requires.
Do not iron bed linen. For a shirt worn under a jacket, only visible areas can be ironed. To prevent the shirt from becoming too wrinkled after washing, you should not squeeze it out, but straighten it and let the water drain. Put the refrigerator in a place with good air ventilation and not close to the wall. To reduce the load on the electric stove, eat raw and undercooked foods whenever possible. (They also have more vitamins. Of course, it is better to subject raw foods to surface heat treatment - to protect against worms, bacteria, etc. Generally speaking, you have to find a compromise between the need to save energy plus provide the body with vitamins and the need to protect yourself from infection.)
You can save a significant amount of energy by streamlining food preparation. Pots and pans must be the right size for the burners, have a flat bottom that fits snugly against the burners, and be used only with lids. When cooking, it is necessary to reduce the heat of the burner to a minimum immediately after the boil has begun. To make rice, peas, etc. cook faster, it is recommended to pre-soak them. 10 minutes before the end of cooking or frying, you can turn off the burner completely and leave the pot or pan on the still hot stove. A boiler is more economical than an electric stove. With the help of a boiler, even peas can be cooked - by repeatedly bringing to a boil, followed by five minute breaks.
Extending the life of things
The life of some items can be extended by strengthening their most worn or vulnerable components in advance, and by updating or rebuilding these components as they become unusable. For example, you should not wait until the sole of the shoe is worn off: you need to stick and nail pieces of leather or rubber onto the heel. After these stickers are worn off, they can be replaced with others. On the child's pants, you can sew decorative patches on the knees in advance. It is better to repair things at the first manifestation of a defect (rupture, crack, etc.), and not when this defect increases so much that it becomes impossible to use them.
For example, if the seams of the shoes began to diverge or the sole began to lag behind, these processes can be delayed without much difficulty and for quite a long time. To perform this kind of work, you need to stock up on small nails, nylon thread, an awl, needles with a wide eye, skin glue, a clamp (it is needed to compress the surfaces to be glued). It is necessary, if possible, not to throw away old things, as they can serve as a source of parts and materials for the repair of other products. In addition, your circumstances may worsen so much that the use of these things for their intended purpose becomes acceptable to you.
Self service
In conditions of poverty, one can do many of the things that money usually buys as a service. Having a small supply of materials in the house is useful one way or another - in case it is not possible to turn to more skilled people for help. Some tools have a wide range of uses, and materials can be recycled, so setting up a home workshop for basic work is not an expensive undertaking, and the cost savings will be decent. Activities such as home canning or, for example, haircuts are simple and do not require complex material support. As for the independent performance of more complex work that requires special adaptations and regular practice, this may be acceptable only as a permanent extra. If there is some interest in working with hands, one of the following list may be chosen:
- sewing clothes;
- machine knitting;
- shoe repair;
- construction;
- finishing facilities;
- locksmith work;
- repair of electrical and electronic devices.
A tolerable short haircut can be done without outside help even by yourself - spending forty minutes on it. The principle of haircuts: pinch and cut off bundles of hair, measuring the desired length with your fingers. The more buns you cut, the smoother your hair will be.
A lot of useful little things for the home every day make our life a little more comfortable and easier. Rollers for cleaning clothes, all kinds of panicles and rags from different materials for dust control, hooks, mops and garbage containers have become a part of our everyday life and facilitate hard daily household work.
And what other little things for the house will be useful to housewives? Let's dig on the AliExpress website (a Chinese online store with a large assortment of goods) - maybe we will find something interesting? So...
Machine for removing pellets from clothes
Photo: img.alibaba.com
Average unit price: 6,9$
This most convenient invention has replaced the "folk" methods of removing pellets. The machine is easy to use and allows you to quickly remove unsightly pellets from clothes. Easy to clean and thanks to its compact size it won't take up much space in your home. A huge advantage of this device is that it does not run on batteries, but on the mains. Therefore, having spent only $ 6.9 once, you do not have to periodically fork out for batteries for it. I think that the machine for removing pellets can definitely come in handy.
Storage bag - free up space for what you need!
Average unit price: 4$
It will appeal to everyone who loves order and finding things in their places. This is a great invention for storing winter clothes in the summer and vice versa. A transparent window will allow you to see exactly what is in a particular bag, so as not to turn all things upside down in search of the one you need. AliExpress offers a variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Accordingly, their prices vary slightly. In any case, in my opinion, a uniquely useful thing for the home.
Slippers for rubbing the floor
Photo: i00.i.aliimg.com
Average price for a set of three pairs: 9$
Comfortable microfiber slippers will help to rub the floor without effort and labor. You can move around the house and clean at the same time. A funny invention, in my opinion. Not the most necessary, of course, but very useful. Alternatively, you can invite guests, give them slippers and arrange a disco. And as a result, get a clean floor and a great mood.
Vacuum storage bags - save space
Photo: g04.s.alicdn.com
Average price for a set of 10 bags: 17,7$
If you know firsthand what a lack of free space for storing things is, whether it be clothes, bed linen or blankets, then this trifle for your home will certainly come in handy. It solves the problem of storing things in a limited space. The vacuum bag saves more than 70% space. In addition, insects, dust or moisture will never get to the things stored in it. To use, you just need to put everything in a bag, close the valve and pump out the air with a vacuum cleaner or air pump. Believe me, the result will pleasantly surprise you. And by the way, the price of AliExpess is absolutely not overpriced compared to the retail sale of vacuum bags in stationary stores. Apparently, therefore, the number of buyers of this product is impressive.
Air vacuum pump
Photo: img.alibaba.com
Average unit price: 5,1$
In addition to the packages from the previous position, you can also purchase a vacuum pump for pumping out air. However, before making this purchase, you need to clarify whether the diameter of its pump nozzle is suitable for the opening of your vacuum bags.
Bag for washing delicate items - usefulness for good hostesses
Photo: i00.i.aliimg.com
Average unit price: 1,4$
Another useful device to make life easier for women. This laundry bag will save various small items from stretching and losing their shape. Its fabric absolutely does not interfere with the flow of water, whether it is washing in an automatic washing machine or a semi-automatic model. It's really handy and useful. And for washing children's socks is simply irreplaceable. After all, after the end of the washing cycle, you do not have to choose them from the entire pile of laundry. Simply remove the container from the machine and get the bag.
Organizer for women's bag
Photo: i00.i.aliimg.com
Average unit price: 4,7$
Every woman at least once in her life faced the following problem. Deciding to leave the house with another bag, we sometimes leave something important in that one, in a hurry forgetting to transfer it to a new one. So, to eradicate this problem, this organizer was invented. By placing it inside the bag, you can fill all the pockets and compartments with the necessary little things. And when you decide to change the bag, you just need to move the organizer along with all its contents. Now you can change bags without tiring piece shifting of little things and the risk of forgetting something important. In my opinion, this is just a super useful acquisition for the beautiful half of humanity.
A shirt folder is a trifle,
that will make life easier for every woman
Photo: img.alibaba.com
Average unit price: 8,3$
With this device, you can quickly and easily fold a shirt or sweater. On the page of the sellers of this product there is also a detailed instruction for folding. Of course, you can do without this invention, but still it will not become superfluous among all sorts of household "needs".
Door and drawer locks
Photo: i00.i.aliimg.com
Average unit price: 1,4$
If you have small children, the door lock is exactly what you need. With it, you can lock all the doors and drawers in your house so that the baby cannot open them. To do this, you just need to attach the blockers to the opening points, peeling off the protective coating from the sticky layer. They look neat and therefore will not be able to spoil the external design of your furniture. After using the attachment point, you can wipe it with glass cleaner to completely clean the traces of the sticky layer.
Hairdryer holder - handy stylish feature
Photo: i00.i.aliimg.com
Average unit price: 14,9$
For me personally, this is just a super useful acquisition, since I constantly tried to land my hair dryer somewhere. I had to put it on the washing machine, then on the laundry basket. But with the advent of this simple-looking little thing, this problem was solved easily and simply. Now I return the hair dryer to its place every time after use. And this holder fits into the design of the bathroom as harmoniously as possible. In general, the purchase did not disappoint.
Suction cup towel holder
Photo: i01.i.aliimg.com
Average unit price: 1$
Well, in pursuit of the previous paragraph, I would like to note this product. There is nothing supernatural here. In principle, ordinary hooks for towels. Attaches to tiles with suction cups. If the suction cups have lost their "tenacious" qualities, then it is recommended to soak them for 5-6 minutes in hot water - then you can use them again. This is their advantage over hooks fastened with ordinary Velcro. By the way, these hooks are rotatable. Colors and options are presented in assortment. If you write a personal letter to the seller, you can make a reservation with him and he will send you exactly those options that you like. Otherwise, you can get a "surprise".
Infrared liquid soap dispenser is a useful bathroom accessory
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Average unit price: 13,5$
The cordless dispenser is made from stainless steel, making it last longer than its plastic counterparts. One has only to bring a hand to his spout, as the required amount of soap for washing hands will be immediately measured. This item is especially convenient in a house where there are children. Thus, you will significantly save liquid soap, as well as interest the child in regular hand washing. The dispenser is powered by AAA batteries. You will need 4 pieces. True, they are not included in the kit, so you have to purchase them separately. But the kit comes with instructions for use. Although, in principle, this unit does not represent anything complicated.
Toothpaste squeeze dispenser
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Average unit price: 0,9$
To be honest, this penny thing is more likely to appeal to your children. After all, it is made in the form of funny animals. But personally, this invention noticeably lifts my mood in the morning with its appearance. A dispenser for evenly squeezing out toothpaste will help to ensure that the tube looks neat, and there is no excess left inside that is difficult to get. For such a low price, it will not be superfluous. Here is such a fun accessory for the bathroom.
Luminous faucet nozzle with temperature control
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Average unit price: 2,4$
This device will allow you to determine the approximate temperature of the water. The nozzle will glow blue if the water temperature in the tap is less than 32 degrees, green from 33 to 41 degrees, and red from 42 to 45 degrees. If the water temperature exceeds 46 degrees, the nozzle will flash red. An interesting trifle for the house - I think it's worth buying.
A folding bucket for fishing or car washing is a useful little thing for men
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Average price: 6,2$
The volume of the bucket is 9 liters, it is made of waterproof fabric. It won't take up much space in your car. Perfect for fishing, relaxing or washing the car. Folds and unfolds quickly.
Summing up
The list of necessary, useful and funny little things for the home, of course, does not end there. Perhaps what I liked will seem useless to you, or vice versa - I missed something interesting that will become an indispensable assistant in your home. Therefore, in stores and on websites, pay attention to the shelves and sections with various little things - and you will find many useful finds.
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