• If the hanger breaks on the back of a picture, replace it with a soda can tab and hot glue.

• Keep old toothbrushes to use as scrub brushes for small areas.

• Store plastic grocery sacks in a paper tube from a paper towel roll. It keeps them all together and manageable. If the roll gets too full, take your extra plastic sacks to your local grocery store. Many, like Wal-mart, have recycling bins for used sacks just inside the door.