I love — and also hate — that moment when I discover that something I thought I knew how to do can be done a much smarter way. The first time I used a squeegee instead of paper towels to clean a window, for example, I was embarrassed by how often I had said, “I don’t do windows.” If I’d known cleaning windows was that fast (and fun, actually) I would have happily done windows all along. The same thing happened when I installed a bidet. For weeks afterward, I lamented how barbaric toilet paper is and wondered who had been feeding us anti-bidet misinformation for so long. But it’s not just me. Recently a friend said to me, “I love my husband but was about to move out of the bedroom because of his snoring. Then the friend laughed at me and bought me a sound machine. How did I not know the answer was that simple for all these years?” Here are 40 things you're doing wrong around the house that you'll wish you'd realized sooner.
