Simple Mistakes We All Make: Misusing Common Best-Selling Products

5. Old sheets

Best places to buy: Bed Bath & Beyond, Amazon, and Target. Average product price ranges from $20 to $40. deal you have old sheets that you're not sure what to deal with? Instead of transforming them into clothing (as seen in The Sound of Music), consider using them as reusable shopping bags. Most of us have one or two of these bags lying around, and we could always use more.

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Converting Old Sheets into Shopping Bags @vintagesheets/Pinterest You'll need some sewing skills and materials, but fortunately, there are lots of lessons on YouTube from accounts like @Howcast that can help. This manner, you avoid throwing additional fabric into landfills while also upcycling your old linens into something useful.

6. Dry spaghetti noodle.

Best places to buy: grocery stores, Amazon, Costco, and Sam's Club. The average product price is $1.09 per pound. When baking, you should always check to ensure that your cakes, cookies, brownies and other sweet delicacies are done before removing them from the oven. Sure, you want to eat them right immediately, but an uncooked pastry could result in a horrible stomach sickness.

@ciaobellissima/Pinterest: Dry spaghetti noodles used as toothpicks. The most frequent approach to determine whether one of these baked items is done is to use a toothpick or a fork. But what happens if you run out of toothpicks and your forks are in the dishwasher? You can substitute a dry, uncooked spaghetti noodle for the same reason.