Use a rail to be able to reach your cleaning products easily

The cupboard under the sink is always a pain to delve into, particularly if you're looking for a particular spray in a red-wine-on-the-carpet emergency amongst the cluttered bottles of cleaning products. But installing a short curtain rod under the sink means you can hang cleaning sprays from it to reach easily. And hopefully become more keen on cleaning as a result.

Set a monetary value on your work time

Most of us know how much we earn per hour - or it's easy to calculate by dividing a monthly salary by 20 (the average amount of working days in a month), then by the average amount of hours you work each day. So if you spend an hour a day on Facebook, think how much that's costing you. If you know how much your time is worth, you will use it more efficiently, both at work and away from it.

Use an old CD rack to store tupperware lids

It's a sad fact of the modern world that our CD collections are more or less useless now, with all our music stored on computers and in clouds. But you can repurpose a CD holder to store tupperware lids so that you don't waste ten minutes every morning trying to find which one fits the box you've pulled out to put your lunch in.

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