By Lyn Funnell
Free showercaps are often found in hotel bathrooms.
I always put them in my bag and take them home as they come in very useful.
Here are 30 uses for a showercap. I’m sure you can think of a few of your own.
- If you’re having a drink in the garden, put a showercap over your glass. It protects your drink from wasps, flies and other midges.
- Wrap up your wet toothbrush and face flannel if you’re on holiday and packing to go home.
- If you’re out shopping and you’re unsure when you’ll have time for your next meal, make a sandwich before you go out and wrap it in a showercap.
- Are you cold? Wear a showercap on each foot, inside your boots or shoes.
- If you have to unexpectedly cross a field or walk through mud, place a showercap over each shoe.
- When you’re going out on a hot day, soak your flannel in cold water, wring it out, wrap a couple of ice-cubes in the flannel and place it inside a showercap. You can rub it over your face, up your arms, etc.
- Showercaps are great for parties and barbecues. Cover your bowl of salad, plates of meat, etc with them.
- When baking your own bread, cover the bowl with a showercap while the dough is rising. (I was given this idea by the Fabulous Baker Brothers.)
- Peeling beetroot, an onion, or doing something smelly or messy, like painting? Wear a showercap over each hand.
- Colouring your hair can be a time-waster. While waiting 20 minutes for the colour to work, cover your hair with a showercap, then you can get on with something while you wait, without the colour dripping on anything.
- Taking photos in the rain? Cover your camera with a showercap! You can hold it off the lense while taking a photo.
- You don’t need to ask for a doggy bag in busy restaurants. Use a showercap to take home your uneaten food.
- Cover your kitchen mixer, breadmaker, etc with showercaps to keep them clean.
- If you have to pack anything in your case that may leak or break, like perfume or bottles, wrap it in a showercap, then place it back in the box, and wrap it in your clothes.
- Propagating plants and seeds. Place a showercap over the pots.
- Protect CDs or DVDs without covers.
- Knitting and other crafts, in between working on them, or to work on them while you’re travelling.
- If you’re knitting, rest your balls of wool in a showercap to prevent hairs on the carpet, and the wool getting dirty.
- Walking the dog and picking up mess. Use a showercap to protect your hands, then place the mess in a bag.
- A hood to keep your dog dry in the rain.
- A steering-wheel cover. Great on hot days.
- Mobile phone cover. You can still talk in the rain. And it protects your phone in your pocket.
- A temporary cover for your smoke alarm if you’re using a chef’s blowlamp in the kitchen to caramelise the top, for instance. But don’t forget to remove it afterwards!
- If you have the builders in, or are doing some DIY, loosely cover the smoke alarm to keep the building dust from making it go off. Again, don’t forget to remove it afterwards.
- If you have to take your shoes off at the airport security, cover your feet with showercaps for hygene’s sake. I can’t bear walking where dirty socks, trainers, and goodness knows what else have walked!
- Ditto in Mosques, where you have to remove your shoes. Although the floors are washed regularly, I was horrified to see the colour of my feet afterwards. Thank goodness for wet wipes!
- Travelling and commuting in general. When I see the numbers of people using handrails in public places, I often discreetly slip a showercap over my right hand.
- When you’ve temporarily finished painting, wrap your dirty paintbrushes in a showercap instead of rinsing them out.
- Cover the paintpot with a showercap instead of struggling to force the lid on and off again.
30.Cover your computer keyboard with a showercap. They get so dusty in between the keys!
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