Differentiate foods

Use differently colored or labeled toothpicks to mark foods with different ingredients or cooked to different levels. For example, you can mark wheat and gluten-free rolls, or meat and vegetarian dumplings, or rare, medium and well-done burgers.

Design icing

The thin tip of a toothpick makes a nice "pencil" for sketching out designs and words on the cake before permanently applying your decorations in icing.

Rust-free gardening tools

Pack a few sticks of blackboard chalk with your tools, inside of your toolbox. The water-absorbing gypsum soaks up rust-causing moisture that collects inside the container before it can tarnish the metal.

Revive your black clothes

Add 2tbsp unbrewed coffee grounds to your washer during the rinse cycle. When the ground mix with warm water, they release tannic acid (pigmentation), and your garments will darken evenly.

Clean pet-hair quickly

Guests are on their way to your house and your couch has unpleasant fur from your dog. Grab an old fleece jacket and use it to wipe down the sofa. The electro-static charge of the synthetic fabric attracts fur and locks it in its nappy texture.

Trimming green beans

To speed your time in the kitchen trimming beans, instead of using a knife, grab your kitchen scissors, gather several beans in your hand and snip off their ends.

The creamiest cheesecake

To prevent your cheesecake from shrinking and forming lines, run a knife around its edges right after it comes out of the oven. Separating it from the pan prevents the resistance that causes cracks.

Moisturizing your skin

Warm 3 cups of milk in the microwave for about a minute, then add to running bath water. Lie back for 15 minutes before rinsing. The result is a silky skin that lasts.