Rasoi
Ice tray for leftover ginger-garlic paste
Freeze the paste in an ice tray, then knock the cubes into a bag. One cube is roughly one meal, it keeps for months, and you stop throwing out a spoiled jar every fortnight.
Jugaads for “paste”
9 resultsGhar
Deewar par nail hole? Toothpaste
Safed toothpaste hole mein bharo, finger se seedha karo, sookhne do. Safed deewar par bilkul nahi dikhta. Rangeen deewar par pehle kone mein try karna.
Ghar
Toothpaste on a scratched screen? No — use it on the wall
White toothpaste on a dry cloth lifts pencil, crayon and scuff marks off a painted wall without taking the paint with it. Test one corner first on a dark wall. It does not fix scratched screens, whatever the internet says.
GharToothpaste over a nail hole
Moving out and the wall has picture nails all over it? White toothpaste, pressed in with a finger and wiped flat, fills small holes convincingly on white walls. Let it dry fully before the landlord walks in.
Ghar
Bathroom ki tiles par baking soda
Baking soda aur sirke ka paste tiles ke joint par lagao, das minute chhodo, purane toothbrush se ragdo. Bazaar ke cleaner se sasta aur utna hi asardaar.
Bijli
Purani battery rolling se do din aur
Remote ki battery nikaal ke ungliyon ke beech ghumao aur wapas daalo. Andar ka paste phail jaata hai — aadhi baar kaam kar jaata hai, das second ka kaam hai.
BijliRoll the remote batteries before replacing them
Before you run to the shop, pop the batteries out, roll each one between your fingers, and put them back. Redistributing the paste inside buys you another week or two. Works about half the time, which is a great return on ten seconds.
GharCandle wax on a sticky drawer
Rub a plain candle along the wooden runners of a jammed drawer or window. The wax fills the rough grain and the drawer glides. Better than oil, which just collects dust and turns into paste.
Paisa
Thok mein sirf woh lo jo kharab na ho
Daal, chawal aur atta thok mein sasta padta hai. Tel wali cheezein — meva, besan, masala — chhota lo, warna kharab hoke poora paisa doob jaata hai.
That is all 9 of them. बस, इतना ही।