If there's one place in the house that's a magnet for dust, it's your skirting boards. How often do you clean your skirting boards? It's not a job that's particularly high on many to-do lists, but given that they're so close to your floors - something that should be regularly cleaned - you would think that they get a lot more attention than they actually do. Skirting boards attract dust at a rate that few other places in the house manage to, but they can be a pain to clean.
No one wants to get down on their hands and knees to wipe them down with a damp cloth, and using the smaller attachments on your vacuum never seems to get them as gleaming as you would expect. But what if we told you there was a way to pick up the dust on your skirting boards without any of the hassle of bending down? According to one TikTok user, there's a "life-changing" hack you can use to clean the fiddly areas of your home with your vacuum in a way that actually picks up the dust - and leaves your home smelling fresh at the same time. Nicole shared a video on TikTok in which she said all you have to do is take a "dryer sheet" and attach it to the end of the thin nozzle attachment that comes with your vacuum using a hair tie.
She explained: "The single best hack I've learned in 2024 is this, and it's going to change your life. Take your vacuum, whichever one you have, take this little attachment and put it on the end. "Now take a dryer sheet and secure it onto the end with a hair tie, and then use this.