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Garlic and onion are essential ingredients in anybody’s kitchen precisely because they give that tasty and aromatic touch to most of our dishes. And because of that we also end up with their smell on our hands. Unfortunately, this strange aroma can linger on our hands for hours, and somehow, it doesn’t matter how hard we try to remove it, it stays there. 5-Minute Crafts will show you 7 ways to get rid of it.

Usually, glasses fog up if there’s a sudden change in temperature, especially in winter when the cold weather mixes with the warmth of your body. 5-Minute Crafts would like to tell you how to keep your glasses from misting up in 4 simple steps.

Coins lose their shine and color over time. With a few simple tricks, you can restore them to look as if they were just made. However, you should be careful not to apply these tricks to collectible coins, as you could damage them. Even old coins could get damaged with tap water. 5-Minute Crafts is showing you 3 methods to help you properly clean your coins and make them look as good as new. Don’t miss the bonus at the end of the article, where we’ll show you how to clean coins made of 3 different metals: gold, silver, and bronze.

Sewing on a button is a basic skill that will help you prolong the life of your favorite clothes. This process may seem easy at first, but you need to know the right techniques to make sure the button is properly secured.

There are so many computer chairs to choose from nowadays. Even if you are looking for something simple, there are still a lot of details you need to pay attention to, like the ability to adjust the seat depth, the height of the armrests, the type of wheels, and many other things.

It’s inevitable: at some point in our lives, our cars may acquire scratches caused by small accidents. But these unsightly nicks are usually quite fixable. 5-Minute Crafts has 2 methods to help you get rid of this kind of damage and give your car some shine.

When there is a baby at home, we take all the hygienic measures, especially when it comes to bottles and pacifiers. Parents are often terrified that the baby will put something dirty in their mouth, and there can also be a lot of doubts about the best way to clean them.

Setting a table is an important part of any good dinner. When a table is set well, it makes us want to eat more, and it’s an indicator that the host is paying special attention to everyone in the room.

Natural insecticides and repellants can be excellent and efficient solutions for people who don’t want to use chemicals and strive to be more environment-friendly. 5-Minute Crafts has selected some alternative recipes to make your own repellants and insecticides to help you fight various pests in your home or garden.

Using earplugs can help you protect your ears from loud sounds, get a better night’s sleep, and keep water out when swimming. 5-Minute Crafts will tell you how to insert and remove foam and wax earplugs properly.

Diamonds are precious stones that look stunning and have specific characteristics. However, they can be easily confused with other gems at first glance. 5-Minute crafts has compiled 6 quick tests to check if your diamond is real or fake.

Motion sickness is usually caused by an imbalance between what you see and what you feel when you’re traveling in a car, bus, train, plane, or boat. In this case, your inner ear and your eyes send different signals to your brain. These confusing signals can make you experience dizziness, loss of appetite, pale skin, and even vomiting. In this article, 5-Minute Crafts will give you some pieces of advice on how to prevent motion sickness and relieve the symptoms of it.

You may not be aware of the amount of salt you eat as part of your diet, but if you started to measure it, we’re sure that you’d be surprised. Yet, it’s very important to try to eat a low sodium diet. Doing so will help you better take care of your heart and blood pressure. That’s why today 5-Minute Crafts wanted to suggest a few ideas to spice up your meals and give them flavor without adding salt.

Before fixing any scratches, you should bear in mind that there are different types of glass, each of which has different applications. The methods 5-Minute Crafts gathered below work best for tempered glass, which is commonly found in glass tables, car windshields, and windows. Also, remember that while some scratches can be fixed, some others can’t or require specialized equipment like buffers or sanders (see section B point 3).

Some children, especially of a younger age, may have problems with regulating their emotions because they don’t know how to distinguish and control them yet. So tantrums, crying, and fighting with their peers can become a regular problem. While such behavior may be overwhelming for parents, there are ways to deal with children’s emotional outbreaks in a healthy way.

If you wear prescription glasses or sunglasses, you will notice that they fog up when you wear a face mask. This can be very uncomfortable since it decreases your vision. 5 Minute Crafts wants to show you 5 homemade methods for preventing your glasses from fogging up when wearing a face mask.

The question of how to remove ink from white and light clothes is for office workers, and for the parents of school kids and small kids who can draw their clothes. If you try to simply wash an item of clothing stained with ink, you can worsen the situation. Ink can absorb into the fabric fibers if you wash your clothes in hot water and will become even more difficult or even impossible to remove.

Sooner or later, limescale will form on the surface of your kettle. This deposit makes the performance of the kettle a little worse because it increases the time necessary to boil the water. When it comes to electric kettles, they can break down even faster if there’s limescale on the heating part or on the inside surfaces.

Sometimes, we really want to play whatever’s on an old CD we’ve stored, but it can easily become scratched, making it nearly impossible to play. 5-Minute Crafts has a list of 6 different methods to help you solve this problem so you can bring your discs back to life.

Those who have cooked before know that salt can enhance the taste of a dish, but too much of it can really ruin things. However, experienced chefs know how to save an oversalted dish without compromising on taste.