1. Salvage your hallway carpet with a translucent scratch stopper to park right outside your bedroom door. KittySmart is a small business that invented the CarPet Scratch Stopper so scratched carpet would never be a concern, hoping to reduce declawing in cats.

Promising review : "My kitten used to be obsessed with scratching the carpet at door entry. Slipped this right in, and the problem no longer exists. Now, she rests on top of it.

The clear plastic isn’t an eyesore either." — Rita Serrano Get it from Amazon for $21.99+ (available in five sizes).

2. Invest in a crack weeder tool that'll help target those weeds that seem to pop up in some of the most impossible places, like between your paver cracks. This tool gets into those tight spots to annihilate weeds, thistles, and moss so you can move on with your life.

Promising review: " I've been searching for something to remove the weeds for a while and came across this amazing tool. Since I refuse to use chemicals in my yard, I've been left with scraped knuckles every time I attempt to remove weeds. The weeds have grown so tightly in the concrete cracks that I pretty much gave up; even weed-whacking it didn't help much.

Yes, you do have to use a little bit of effort but the end result was so worth it!" — Shelley Arakaki Get it from Amazon for $18.99 (available in nine styles and multipacks). 3.

Create a whimsical display out of thin air by mounting a unique squiggle shelf to your bare wall space. It looks so cool solo, b.