Monday is a good day to clean...

With a cardboard box

For Storage

Protect glassware or lightbulbs

Safely store fine crystal glassware by putting it in an empty wine or liquor carton with partitions. This also works well when moving - saves time from wrapping everything in newspaper and no need to wash before unpacking! Your can also use it for storing lightbulbs, but be sure to sort the bulbs by wattage so that it's easy to find the right one when you need it.

Store Christmas ornaments

Wrap each ornament in tissue paper or bubble wrap and store it in an empty liquor box with partitions. Each of the segments can hold several ornaments.

For the do-it-yourselfer

Protect your fingers

To keep from hitting your fingers with a hammer, stick the nail through a small piece of thin cardboard before you do your hammering. Hold the cardboard by an edge, position the nail, and pound it home. When you're done, use your bruise-free fingers to tear away the cardboard.

Keep upholstery tacks straight and evenly spaced

Mark the spacing along the edge of a light-weight cardboard strip and press the tacks into it. After driving all of the tacks most of the way in, tug on the strip to pull the edge free before hammering them in the rest of the way.

For the kids

Play liquor box "ski ball"

Place a liquor box with the partitions still in place at an angle and build a small ramp in front (a rubber mat over a pile of books will do). Assign numbered values to each section of the box, grab a few tennis or golf balls and you're ready to roll.