[custom_adv] If you can eat with chopsticks, you can use them for chips and any other food that dirties your hands and has a smell which isn’t so easy to get rid of. Eat chips with chopsticks to keep your hands clean. [custom_adv] This tip will come in handy for those who love making apple pies, fruit salads, or taking apple slices to work as a snack. Squeeze lemon onto sliced apples, sprinkle with a little salt, and you won’t have to worry about their color. Lemon juice and salt keep sliced apples from browning. [custom_adv] This is convenient when you don’t have enough time to iron your clothes in the morning or if you stay at a hotel without an iron. If you hang your clothes in the bathroom and leave them there while taking a shower, the steam will dewrinkle them Bathroom steam will get wrinkles out of your clothes without an iron. [custom_adv] Not every resident of Asian countries has air conditioning at home, so a hot climate makes them improvise. One of the most common ways to cool down is to attach bottles with ice or cold water to a fan. An "air conditioner" made from ice bottles and a fan. [custom_adv] If you’ve suddenly run out of paper glue, boiled sticky rice will replace it perfectly. By the way, rice glue is widely used for making traditional Japanese paper crafts. Rice will replace paper glue. [custom_adv] If salt, pepper, and other seasonings get damp quickly and it becomes impossible to get them out of the shaker, put several rice grains inside. It absorbs excess moisture and prevents lumps. Several rice grains will remove excess moisture from seasonings. [custom_adv] Few people know this, but soy sauce relieves pain and eliminates redness in the case of small burns — for example, drops of hot oil from a frying pan. Soy sauce will relieve pain from slight burns. [custom_adv] This oil is appreciated in Eastern countries for a reason: it helps with colds, heartburn (in this case it’s applied to the stomach area and slightly rubbed in), headaches, toothache, muscle pains, insect bites, and many other cases. Tea leaves remove smells from the fridge. [custom_adv] They’re quite simple to make: fill an old sock with rice (you can also add a couple of drops of any essential oil), tie it or sew it up, and then put it into the microwave for 40 seconds. Eucalyptus oil is a universal remedy for sickness. [custom_adv] Rice compresses will relieve back and neck pain. [custom_adv] Of course, the size should be indicated on the clothing, but we all know that different manufacturers have different ideas about sizes. Fortunately, we can check pants and jeans without putting them on. Simply wrap the waistband of buttoned jeans around your neck, and if the ends meet, they will fit you. It’s believed that a person’s neck girth is equal to half of their waist girth, and the wrist is half the neck’s girth. A trick that will let you know if a pair of jeans fits you without putting them on. [custom_adv] This is a good way to save money on buying special cleaning wipes for windows because newspapers don’t concede anything to them. Newspaper has abrasive properties, but it doesn’t leave scratches on the glass. Your windows will shine! Newspapers instead of wipes to wash windows. [custom_adv] One more way of using waste paper at home, offered by Asian bloggers: turn unnecessary paper into small trash baskets. Wastebaskets from leftover papers.