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Useful tips

Useful tips

Useful tips

 

How to make the mirror in the bathroom not fog up after a hot shower? Apply a small amount of car wax to the mirror surface, and when it dries, take a soft, dry cloth and smooth over the top.

 

How not to break your nails if you need to unclench the ring of the key fob to remove or hang the key there? Use for this purpose an anti-stapler, which is also called an expander.

Sometimes it is difficult to find small objects that have fallen on the carpet or floor: an earring, a paper clip, a bead, a pill, a coin... A vacuum cleaner and ... old nylon tights will help in this. Put a piece of the tights on the outlet end of the hose, securing it with an elastic band so that it does not fly off, and begin to vacuum over the place where the small objects were dropped. They will be drawn by the vacuum cleaner and be held by the fabric of the tights.

 

Julia Zachesova

As-Salam correspondent

 

2026-10-01 (Rabi-ul-ahir 1448) №10.


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