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27 Pool Noodle Hacks That Will Improve Your Life

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Hanging Clothes

Here’s a closet storage hack you won’t want to miss. Keep your dress pants, shawls or scarves crease-free the cheap and easy way by covering a clothes hanger with a section from a pool noodle.

Cut the noodle to the length of the lower hanger rod. Then cut a slit the length of the noodle to make it easy to slip it onto the hanger.

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a man holding a lawn mower handle that has a blue pool noodle on it for comfort

More Comfortable Mowing

I don’t mind mowing my lawn, but the vibration from my lawn mower handle aggravated the arthritis in my hands. Then I taped a piece of a pool noodle over the handle. Mowing the grass is much more comfortable, and my hands don’t ache when I’m done. – Phillip E. Oinonen.

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small paint brushes resting in a slits in a green pool noodle that has been placed on the edge of a plastic container that holds paint rinse water

Nifty Paintbrush Holder

Keep your watercolor paintbrushes dry and handy! Cut a short section of pool noodle, slice it part of the way through and insert brushes.

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using a knife to cut a section off of a pink pool noodle

How to Slice a Noodle

Use a sharp serrated kitchen knife to cut a pool noodle into sections.

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using a box cutter to cut a slit down the center of a small pink pool noodle

How to Slit a Noodle

Use a utility knife to cut a slit in a noodle lengthwise. The shorter blade cuts only the top side.

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