Two Lil' Tidbits Tuesday

So this week I thought it would be fun to switch things up a bit and give you two bits of random "domestic" advice I have recently heard and thought worth sharing!

1. You should always leave your washing machine lid UP when you aren't using it. This keeps it from smelling musty and damp. My obsessive compulsive side does NOT like this, but over the last few months, this is something I have come to do ALL the time! Awhile back I was noticing a funny smell in the washer and then I just happened on to an article in a magazine that talked about this exact same thing!! I ran it a couple of times with hot water and bleach to kill any germs or odors that might have been lingering and the rest is history! Pop in on me any time and you'll find the lid up!!
2. Stick a piece of bread into your brown sugar canister and your brown sugar won't harden up!! We have battled hardened brown sugar FOREVER!! I just don't cook or bake often enough to go through it that quickly and therefore, it gets hard! When our friends Gareth and Megan were out in May, Megan told us to stick a piece of bread into the canister. We did and what do you know?! That bread quickly became rock hard but our brown sugar is soft as can be!! 
   

Hope you found something in there you can use!! Maybe this is stuff everyone knows already, but it was news to me so I decided to pass it along! 

Have a Happy Tuesday!