40 Quick Home Hacks That Make Us Say "Why Didn't We Know About These Sooner"

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Make Your Windows Look Bigger

While this little trick won't actually change the size of your windows, it will create an optical illusion that makes them seem bigger than they are. Simply by hanging your curtains in a wider and higher manner, your windows will appear much bigger than they really are.

You may wonder why this would be worth doing, but the illusion of bigger windows means an illusion of more light and a less cloistered room, and what you perceive can be just as important to your happiness as what really is. So why not?

Grocery Bag Storage

There's no reason to throw away grocery bags you get from the store. Those things can be really useful! That said, if you have a lot of grocery bags, you may not know where to put them. The answer for this hack is... a tissue box. You can store all those bags in a tissue box.

Then you can keep them all in one tidy place, and pull them out of the box one by one as you need them for whatever you need them to do. It's a great way to reuse something that many people would otherwise throw away, even though they shouldn't.

Headphone Hangers

Anyone that has a pair of headphones knows the difficulty that is finding somewhere to put them when not in use. They have a tendency to fall when we really don't want them to. In order to get around that, consider using a banana hanger: it's perfect for the job.

It will hold your headphones with little trouble, and stop them from falling all over the place, which is all any of us can really ask for in an easy home hack. Of course, there's lots of other places you could hang some headphones, but this one works particularly well.

Storing Spherical Ornaments

A whole lot of ornaments are round or spherical in some way or form. Storing them can become a big headache if you don't really have the containers to do that properly. The good news is that there are plenty of useful alternatives: have you ever seen a Costco apple container?

They are the perfect shape to store all the ornaments you need, keeping them secure no matter where you choose to store them. And of course, apples aren't particularly expensive, so getting your hands on these plastic containers is pretty easy and cheap.

Make Your Own Flexible Adhesive Cover for Cords

Speaking of hiding cords, it can be kind of difficult to do that when those cords twist and bend around in many ways. But you can hide any cord if you use scissors to break adhesive cord-cutters into smaller pieces. By doing this, you can cover nearly any cord.

No matter how tricky it may be to hide a cord that is all twisted and weird, by cutting up your adhesive covers into small pieces, there's pretty much no cord that you can't hide, and all it takes is a little bit of time and some scissors.