Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all doing really well. Today, I wanted to share
with you 10 home essentials that you didn't know that you need. I wasn't actually sure what to
call this video because today I'm sharing with you some home hacks, some products and a service that
I love, that just make my life easier and more organized around the house. So hope you really
enjoy this video. Give it a thumbs up if you do and subscribe for more content like this and with
all that said let's get into today's home hacks. Okay. So the first home hack that I wanted to
share with you is very simple, but it's also genius if you're doing any DIY around the house.
We moved into this house a year ago and we have been renovating it and extending it and although
I can't do loads in terms of DIY, one thing I can do is hang a picture, but I have no idea
where Matt keeps a leveler. It's somewhere in the garage, but I don't actually need to know because
if you go onto the App store, there are so many free leveler apps, so you can just download one
and use that on your phone. They're really precise and then you can use this if you are trying to
figure out if a picture frame is straight or if you're hanging up some shelves as well.
It's so simple. It's easy because I always have my phone on me. So yeah, it's a great little hack.
The next product or gadget that you didn't know you needed is this bag sealer. This
heats up and will seal a bag shut so that it is air tight and I actually saw this on TikTok
and I think I justified trying out products like this because I think I'll just let my
viewers know if they're any good. But you take the protective clip off and then you squeeze it down
for five seconds and it heats up real quickly and then you just glide it along a bag of crisps or a
bag that you want to seal and it just seals it up like as good as new. It does definitely take some
getting used to. I feel like I've mastered it now and obviously you don't need this. You could use
bag clips, but it is really cool. So, if your kids ever leave a half eaten bag of crisps like this,
you can just seal it up and it is literally as good as new. It just is all airtight as well.
I do find that I use this for Cheerios. I decant my Cheerios into Tupperware, but a whole box
never fits. So then, I'll just seal up the remaining Cheerios and then they're all airtight
for when I do need them again and it's just a really cool gadget. When you're not using it,
you just put the clip back on because it only heats up when you squeeze it together and it
prevents it from heating up. I wanted to show you that. I feel like it's quite a cool product.
The next home essential that I wanted to show you guys is something I should have bought
years ago and actually only got this because someone commented on a cleaning video,
that I should invest in a microwave cover. I think I was sharing how I cleaned my microwave
in a video because I do clean it every week. We get so much mess because of leftovers and
my kids love to eat beans, so it always gets everywhere. And of course I've tried covering
it with plates and bowls, but it's always still a bit of a mess. I decided to just get one of these
online and I cannot tell you how great it is. Once you've microwaved your food, it just all
goes onto this cover, which you can stick in the dishwasher. It's a game changer and I love it.
The next home hack that I wanted to share with you is an incredible service, which has saved me
so many times. It means you never run out of ink and your printer is pretty much always ready
to go. So it's the HP Instant Ink Service and HP have actually sponsored this section of the video,
but we've used them for over five years now. We have a HP printer and it's the easiest way to
order your ink. It basically links up to it and as soon as your printer is running low,
they just ship you out more ink and it just lands on your doorstep, as if by magic, so that when it
does actually run out, you have the ink cartridge just ready to put them in and it's easy to manage.
It's all done on an app and you can actually choose your print plan based on how many pages
you print per month. I think the lowest one is just 99p and that's if you print about 15 pages
per month. But say when we went into lockdown, I upped my print package to 1.99 per month
and if you don't use pages one month, it just rolls over to the next and it's just great. It
means you never run out of ink and you also save money. You save up to 70% on ink and it's very
easy to change or cancel at any time. There is no fee and it's always the original HP ink or toner.
Also, what I love is they have an incredible recycling program. They send you the prepaid
envelope, so when you have got empty cartridges, it's very easy to just pop them into it and then
into the post and you know they're being recycled. HP also have a great printable section on their
website, which you can either go on to the desktop and do it but I actually do it from the app.
It's so easy to print from my phone. So if I ever have a day in with the kids,
I can print out coloring pages, worksheets. There's loads of different learning on there. I
saw those even vision boards and planning as well. So definitely check it out. I'll put a link in the
description so you can check out the principles or the instant ink. I would really recommend it.
The next hack that I wanted to share with you is great if you also have kids and
any fragile ornaments or vases around that you really want to stay put. I've ordered these
glue dots on Amazon in the past and they're great. They're double-sided, very sticky,
a little bit moldable as well. So if there's anything that you've really want to stay put,
you can just stick these onto the bottom of it and then peel them off so that it's sticky
and it will literally stay put really well. You can also get a putty for like awkwardly
shaped things. I think it's called Quake Shake, as an earthquake shake,
and you can stick that onto the bottom and it will ensure that it doesn't move around even
if the kids are running around like crazy. It also makes it easy if I'm just cleaning
around this vase, I know it's not going to move or fall at all. I really like using it.
For this next hack, I would love to know in the comments, does this happen to anyone else's kids
bedding, that their duvet falls down half the way inside the bed sheet? I don't know why this
happens. I don't know how they sleep, but I have a hack to fix it. So all I've done here
is lay out the bed sheet inside out, and then I'm laying out the duvet on top and I'm going to use
binder clips. These are great because I have tried safety pins in the past,
but then I've still been worried that they're going to actually like hurt the children. But a
binder clip has no sharp parts on it. You just put that onto each corner and then that will
actually ensure that the duvet stays in place. I just love this hack. You can actually get a proper
product. I found it online but it is visible on the bedding, whereas this is kind of hidden.
I'm just going to go around to each corner and then turn it the right way round again
and this will actually stay in place. You can feel it if you are looking for them,
but the kids still haven't noticed. So, it's just great. It keeps your duvet nice.
Another product that I love in terms of home organization is drawer dividers. So normally
in drawers we have these little inserts, but in our bathroom we actually only have drawers. So for
the cleaning products, they did just look a bit of a mess in the drawer. I found these dividers
online and I love them. They are adjustable. They're very easy to place in the drawer, so if
you had bigger drawers, you could actually extend them as well. You could just put the products in,
then just put the divider next to it. I've also used these in my son's drawers to break up his
football kits, to his match kits and you could use these for so many different things. I just
love the way that it makes the drawers look so nice and clean and organized.
My next hack is for anyone who has a rug that moves around that looks a bit messy and also
becomes a bit of a safety hazard when it does. So if your rug does not have a grip on the bottom
of it, then I have the solution for you. We used to have loads of problems with the rug
in our playroom, so we just got some sided grip tape for that rug and it's so easy to put on.
You can either do it on each side, each corner, or all the way around, depending on how much traffic
is in that area. It's very simple. You just stick it on and then pull off the other side
and then stick it onto the floor and then it will just ensure that it doesn't move around at
all. It looks nice and clean, but it also won't damage your floor and it's very simple to do.
Next up, I wanted to show you our under-the-sink storage, which really allows us to maximize
the amount of space that we have under the sink. The other day, I was clearing it out,
taking all the products out, and I thought that this was worth showing you. I've had this shelf
forever. It's extendable. It will fit around any pipes that you have under your sink and it comes
with these little inserts, so that you can create shelves and it's very easy to just pop them on
around the pipes that you do have and then you have a bit more space
for all of your products and cloths and everything that you have. Even if it's beauty products
in a bathroom as well, I find it really handy. Then I got these little clear storage containers
as well, for our bin bags, for our cloths, for our gloves, for everything really and it means
that we can fit so many things under the sink and I just find it really handy and it's a great
hack that we've used for quite a long time. The last home essential that I wanted to share
with you, I feel like might be quite niche, so I put it at the end of this video. But when we moved
into this house, the taps on the bath and some of the sinks were all separate, so the hot and
the cold come out like as two taps, so you're either burning yourself or freezing yourself.
I found this attachment on Amazon and it's brilliant. It makes the two taps into one
and I could even get a shower head as well. So in the bath, because there isn't a shower
head in here, it means that I can actually wash Jackson's hair very easily with this. You
just stick them on and you can also get these for sink taps as well and it just means that
you can actually have a mix of hot and cold, not just one or the other and honestly,
it's been life changing. I know it's such a simple thing, but I really love it.
But anyway, that is it for this video. That is all the hacks I wanted to share with you.
Let me know in the comments down below, which one was your favorite or that you are likely to try
and thank you so much for watching. I'll see you with my next one. Bye, guys.