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Absorb Trash Can Odors With Newspaper

Don't you just hate it when a trash can stinks out your whole house? Although we know that adding leftover food and rotten vegetable peelings into a trash can won't leave it smelling like roses, it's still a shock to the system when it burns your nostrils. This grandma hack can solve that problem, though. Back in the day, our grandmas would line the bottom of their trash cans with newspaper - but for some reason, we've stopped doing that.

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However, this old-school hack is extremely effective as it acts as an absorbent layer to soak up spills and odours. It's also a cheap hack, as you probably have some newspaper lying around the house anyway.