This winning hack from Peanuts earns the FOREHEAD SMACK OF BRILLIANCE:
You can make any bottle -- glass or plastic -- easier to grip and hold by stretching a few rubber bands around the body of the container. Great for shampoo bottles in the shower.
Other options: Silly Bandz and silicone bracelets! (Great Parenthacker minds...)
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Rubber bands also work great as jar opener grips. Put one around the lid to a jar you can't get open and it gives enough extra grip-action to open it right away.
Posted by: erika | 21 May 2012 at 05:51 AM
Finally a use for Silly Bandz and silicone bracelets- the kids wear them for 10 minutes then abandon them (for the baby to find and chew on- oy).
Posted by: adrienne | 21 May 2012 at 09:49 PM
and to make it free, use the free rubberbands from the grocery store, that are around veggies like asparagus.
Posted by: wendy | 18 June 2012 at 12:46 PM