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10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

We all have tennis balls at home.

Either for the children or for the dog... But in the end, we don't use it much.

What if we told you that there are 10 ways to use them in a very useful way on a daily basis?

And when you've discovered them, you'll be eager to get your hands on those pretty yellow balls.

1. To protect your wooden floor

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

Having a damaged floor repaired is expensive and, in any case, nobody wants to come to that.

So, to prevent the legs of your chairs from scraping, here's our solution:plant each foot in a ball.

In this way, the chairs slide better and do not damage anything.

And if you don't have tennis balls, you can opt for something more discreet.

2. To soften laundry

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

The softener can easily weigh on the wallet and moreover, it is chemical.

So rather than ruin yourself, adopt our method to have such soft laundry:throw two or three tennis balls in your washing machine then start your laundry.

It works particularly well with towels, but beware of more fragile clothes. Otherwise, white vinegar is not bad either.

3. To park easily

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

Not hitting the bottom of your garage can still be a bit difficult, even after years of experience.

So to always be sure of where you need to stop, try dangling a tennis ball so that it hits your windshield when you're in the right place. We explain everything here.

No more scratches, we guarantee it.

4. To clean the pool

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

You know that film of oil that appears on the surface of the water when a lot of people have bathed in the pool?

Tennis balls can help you clean it up! Just throw a few in your pool and wait:they'll soak up a good chunk of it.

5. To clean floor scratches

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

Parquet, linoleum, tiles... It works for everything!

No need to clean for hours like Cinderella. All you need to do is put a tennis ball on the end of a stick and rub it against the scratch. Not long, it will go away on its own.

Or, just use a nut.

6. To massage your back

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

After a long day of work, you have back pain and no one to massage you? No worries, the tennis ball is always there for you.

You can either lie on it or wedge it between you and a wall. Place it on the area that hurts you, move a little and go!

If you have kids, you can also try this.

7. To protect children from table corners

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

Children banging their heads against table corners is the classic blow.

So to avoid that, you can wedge tennis balls in each corner. Yup, as easy as that.

8. For sanding round surfaces

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

Most of the time sanding isn't splintering, but on rounded surfaces it's even worse. In general, it is difficult to have a uniform result with your hand and sometimes, you even deform the furniture...

To eliminate this problem, try wrapping the sandpaper around a tennis ball. The fact that it is round will help you a lot!

9. To unscrew a lid

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

You know that jam jar that never wants to open? Well, instead of desperately tapping on it with a spoon, you could use a tennis ball.

Just cut it following its lines, then use the rounded shape you get to open the lid. Otherwise you can try like this.

10. To put things in

10 Surprising Ways to Use a Tennis Ball Everyday.

For some reason, you don't want someone to stumble upon a note you wrote or the money you're carrying?

Opt for our infallible camouflage technique:the tennis ball. The inside is hollow, so you actually only need to make a cut in it to put things in.

In your gym bag, people will see nothing but fire!

Your turn...

Have you tried any of these tricks with a tennis ball? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!