Awesome Paper Towel Hack – How to Simplify Every Day
Awesome paper towel hack; easily maintain your home!
Efficiently labeling and storing your paper towels, helps you save so much time!
This awesome paper towel hack is from my new series, Organizing Hacks: Jul’s, WTF?! Itty bitty tips that add up to save you significant time and mental energy.
To clarify; in my new series, Organizing Hacks: WTF, Jul’s - WTF? stands for - What’s That For? 😉
Organizing That Makes Sense
Inventing my own organizing solutions was born of not finding fixes that worked for me.
I’m notorious for repurposing items for my organizing hacks and systems. I’ll admit, only to you, I often haven’t a clue the item’s original intended purpose.
Friends and family see my unusual (ok, weird) hacks and exclaim, “Jul’s, what’s that for?” Once I show them, they try them. Then they report back they’re tickled with delight because of the benefits.
Therefore, today I’m sharing my paper towel hack with you.
Paper Towel Uses
For certain situations, for example my juicing, I use Bounty® regular size paper towels. I wash my veggies and fruit, lay them out, cover and pat dry with full paper towel sheets. {Get my healthy green juice recipe in a past post.}
The brilliant invention of the perforated half paper towel sheet, itself an awesome paper towel hack, was a game changer. Often half a sheet is actually all that’s needed, and I love using less paper towels!
I’m loyal to my Bounty® Select-A-Size® though one of my friend prefers Brawny® Pick-A-Size®. What’s your favorite brand?
Awesome Paper Towel Hack - WTF?!
I use the half sheet rolls in my kitchen paper towel holder. When the roll becomes empty, I go to my mudroom supply closet for a new roll.
My space constraints mean I store both rolls of paper towel sizes together. Trouble is, the regular and half size paper towel rolls look exactly the same.
Each time I opened a new roll I’d have to pull the first sheet to see if perforations were down the middle or not. Often the roll would fall out of my hands and unravel.
This little action wasted so. much. time. Not to mention the cloying frustration discovering I’d grabbed the wrong size roll.
My solution is so simple you’ll find it pretty awesome.
I took stickers and only put one on each first sheet of the half sheet rolls.
Now I grab the correct roll for the given task!
So there you have it, my awesome paper towel hack! Tell me in the comments of organizing frustrations for which you wish there was a better a solution.
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Hi Jul’s! I don’t use different sizes of paper towels but I might now! I like to use the empty cardboard tubes to keep plastic bags together, just stuff them in and they’re condensed, all in one place and pull out like kleenex from the box.
I love this empty paper towel cardboard tube for a plastic bag insert! I shall have to add this to my WTF post series—awesome. Love reusing and re-purposing! Thanks Michelle!
Smart! And this is a cool thing I could assign my child to help with!
Thanks Lovely! I am a huge believer in having our children join in the organizing game and helping! I would simplify and get my boys in on the act, and the result is they learned to help, learned to feel useful and valued and they are super organized chaps now!
Jul’s,
I love this. I use papertowels the exact same way! I’ve never thought of adding stickers like that. You’re so creative and fun! I absolutely love it.
Hey Angela!
It’s funny, I thought I was the only one who used paper towels with different sizes for different tasks, but turns out so many people have told me they love my tip. Thank you so much!
Using stickers to distinguish the regular size paper towel rolls and half size ones is a brilliant idea. The same as April, I use different rolls for different household duties and I usually mark them or put different size of the rolls in different places. I will try the stickers next time. It seems more time-efficient.
Jul’s, what a fun hack!! I also use the different rolls for different purposes and this will make it easier for me to select the right one for the job! Plus, having a cute little sticker to greet me will cheer me up before going to clean up a big mess! 🙂
It is a fun hack isn’t it? Simple, but honestly it’s made my life easier, and I smile every time I go for the new paper towel role, and am able to pick the right kind for the job! So glad you are going to try this.