Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you my
viewers' best mom hacks. Some of you will know, I've made so many mom hacks videos here
on YouTube. I'll link all of my other ones down below, but I've made so many, I have
nearly run out of hacks. Just kidding, I have loads up my sleeve. But I thought it'd be
really interesting to see what you guys do, any tips and tricks that you do at home to
make mom life that little bit easier.
I put something out on Instagram and I said, "What are your best mom hacks?" and I have
got some really interesting ones here. I'm going to test them out with you today. Some
I think sound really, really good, some I'm not too sure about so I'll be interested to
try. But yeah, we're just going to get into it. I hope you really enjoy this. I will of
course tag anyone, any of the mom hacks that I use, I'm going to tag that person on the
screen. Thanks so much for sending that in. If you guys don't follow me over on Instagram,
make sure that you do so that you can take part in stuff like this in the future. Without
further ado, let's get into the hacks.
This first one is a really simple but effective way to store your frozen food. If you don't
want to use a clip, they basically just cut a strip off of their frozen food, like this,
and then use that to tie the food up. I like that one.
This next viewer's mom hack was that they love to use a grape slicer. This is a gadget
I've never had in my kitchen before and I almost don't want it to work because I have
been cutting up grapes for nine years because my boys love grapes, and I've never owned
one of these. I'm going to test it out now, see what it's like. I always cut the grapes.
I always joke with the boys that I'm going to cut them till they're 18 years old because
I have heard some horror stories in the past, so it's something that I always do. Let's
see if it's any good. Right, so I think you literally just put it in there and then you
go ...
The grape slicer that I got cut my grapes into quarters, so they are really small. I
think this would be perfect for a weaning baby if they really like grapes. For me, I'm
wondering now if they do one like this that just cuts in half because these are quite
small from my boys. But yeah, quite a cool little gadget.
For this next hack, someone sent in that they use their device, I've got a Google, but if
you have an Alexa, whatever you have, they use this for their routines, like tidy up
time or getting the toothbrushing song, things like that. You could literally say, "Hey,
Google. Play the tidy up song."
Time to Tidy Up by Dave Moran, sure. Playing on Spotify.
And then you can get your kids to help you tidy up to this song. I actually do this quite
often and it's the same song that they use at the kids' school, so that's quite a good
one.
This next viewer's hack is for the creative kids out there. If your kids love to do crafting
and make a bit of a mess with glitter, an easy way to clean it up is use Play-Doh. I'm
not really sure why I haven't thought about this before, but I'm going to show you. I
mean it's quite self-explanatory, but I'll show you how it works.
This one works really, really well and the benefit is we now have glitter Play-Doh as
well.
This next hack is a great laundry hack, especially if you don't like by ironing. If you need
your child's school shirt crease-free in a hurry, a great way to do this is to stick
it into your tumble dryer but with a wet flannel, then leave that in the tumble dryer for about
five minutes. The wet flannel almost steams the school shirts and gets a lot of the creases
out. This is a really quick, easy one if you need it in a hurry. It's not going to be perfectly
ironed, but it looks so much better.
This next viewer's hack is a great laundry one, and one that I'm now thinking why have
I not done this one before? When you do a wash, anything that you would naturally just
put straight in the wardrobe, like on a hanger, why not hang it straight on a hanger when
it's damp or wet and then just let it dry that way. Then once it's dry, you don't have
to then take it off of your clothes horse and then hang it up into the closet. You can
then just put that straight into the closet and it just saves you a step.
Another simple hack if your child likes to draw or color, but the page moves around on
the table when they're doing it. Basically, they said when their child is coloring, all
they do is tape the page to the table so that it doesn't move around.
For this next hack, I needed my little model,
Fraser. This one's quite a cool one. The woman who wrote it in said that she applies a suncream
to her children using a big makeup brush. So I bought a brand new one here and I thought
it would give it a go. I'm just going to put some cream on it and let's see if it works,
yeah?
It feels weird.
This hack did work quite well, especially to get under their eyes. My boys tend to burn
right here, so I always try and get that bit covered. This did work. I think it would work
great as well if a little girl liked the idea of having makeup put on. There is something
quite scary about an adult coming towards you with your hands rubbing your face, so
I quite liked this one. Another one that someone sent in was that in the morning when they
want to wipe their little girl's face, like get the food off of their face, they take
a baby wipe and they say, "Come here, I'm going to put your makeup on," and then they
basically do that all over their face and it works wonders.
This next hack was from someone who said that their mom used to always have a basket for
each child, and then they would put their washing into those baskets, as well as any
toys or chargers or books or anything for school that they needed to go upstairs with
them into the baskets. Then at the end of the day, they would each take their basket
and it would be their responsibilities, put everything away that was in it. I thought
that was a really nice one. I've got these three baskets, I just got them on Amazon.
I'm going to put all of the boys' stuff in here. Then another person sent in that when
they're a little bit older you could, just when you do the washing, just chuck their
stuff in unfolded into their baskets and then it's their responsibility to take them up
to their room, fold their clothes in it, and then put that away. I don't know if I'm quite
there just yet, but I really liked this hack.
Another hack that a viewer sent in it was to do toy rotation. This is something I definitely
need to start doing. We have so many toys, but they do lose their interest when they're
just all out all the time. What she does is put a bunch of the toys into her garage or
loft, and then on a rainy day or after a few months, she'll just bring them out and they're
again interested in those toys. Something else that I do, because my boys they all have
birthdays around Christmas, we just have this massive influx of toys during December, so
sometimes I'll put away a few of the birthday toys, and again, bring them out on a rainy
day, like maybe a LEGO set. If they've got a lot of them, I can just put one away and
then it's really exciting when we do bring it out later on.
This next viewer's hack is so simple, but genius. When she gives her child a juice box,
all she does is pull up the little triangle flaps on the side like this and then tells
her child to hold them. This way they're not holding this bit and squeezing all of the
juice out. They can just hold this and the juice will stay in the box.
This next hack is a great one if you, like me, forget what's actually in your freezer.
This viewer keeps a list of exactly what's inside. So I went and bought this magnetic
list for this one. It's quite large, I didn't actually read the measurements, but you can
put it inside the door or even on your phone. Just have a place where you know what's in
your freezer and then you can write it on there. You'll know, also your partner will
know, what's in there and then you know what to use up as well.
This next hack is one I use almost every day. I have shared it before on this channel, but
it's one that I really love. She basically said to cut everything with a pizza cutter,
stuff like pancakes, or toast as well. Basically, I use this for so many things, like omelets,
whatever. It just makes life so much easier. But the funny thing is, she also said you
can use scissors. Basically, I tend to use a pizza cutter for everything, but then when
it comes to pizza, sometimes I'll use scissors.
For my next hack, a viewer wrote in to say that they set their washing machine on a timer
to start washing quite early in the morning, so that when they wake up at like 7:00 AM
it's all done and ready to be put out to dry or into the tumble dryer. My washing machine
doesn't actually have a timer setting on it, but I checked my dishwasher and that does,
so I can actually delay the start, which is actually so good because normally I have to
remember to put it on because I don't want the noise while we're sat watching TV. So
that is something I would definitely do in the future.
This next hack was from a viewer who said that they tend to do things in the bathroom
while their children are playing in the bath. This is also something that I've started doing
now that the boys are that little bit older and they're happily playing together and I'm
not worried, they're not little babies anymore. I can get on and do a few bits, like wipe
the floors, wipe down the sink, or I've even started sometimes doing my skincare routine
while they're happily playing. I'll just be here and there'll be there. So yeah, it's
a great way to use dead time, because they're just playing with their toys and each other,
you can get a few bits down in the bathroom.
Right, so that's it for this video. I really hope you enjoyed it. Let me know which one
was your favorite in the comments below. Better than that, if you have any of your own tips
and tricks that you do to make your life a little bit easier, I would love to hear them.
They might even feature in another mom hacks video. But thank you so much for watching,
I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.