Brilliant steel wool hacks you’ll wish you knew sooner

If your miniature Monet was inspired to create a masterpiece with crayons on your wallpaper, don’t despair. Steel wool is just abrasive enough to remove the crayon marks. Just make sure to test it in an inconspicuous spot first.

This is an old carpenter’s trick: If you have a screw hole that’s too big, just wrap a bit of steel wool around the screw before you drive it in. It provides just enough friction to hold the screw firmly in place and takes less fiddling than trying to fill a hole and re-drill.

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Source: RD Canada