22 Dirt Cheap Parenting Hacks To Get An Upper Hand On Those Rugrats

Have a way to make my life any easier as a parent? I'll take it. Hand it over. At this point, I'm willing to take any advice I can get. Also as a parent, I'm looking to spend about 0 dollars. I know I'm severely limiting what I can do by offering to pay nothing, but there are a surprising number of cheap genius hacks out there to help out your parenting game. 
Here are 22 parenting hacks that cost almost nothing to take advantage of. I've already used a few of these in my own life already and they've saved me a good amount of cash. See #8 and you'll know what I'm talking about. 

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1. Kids can be a handful sometimes, and they definitely wouldn't admit it.

Let's get an upper hand on the rugrats with these hacks. 

2. Put a popsicle stick into the top of your kid's yogurt and put it in the freezer.

Bam, your kids have an "ice cream" pop. 

3. Keep those pacifiers clean in your pocket, or at the bottom of your bag, by putting them in condiment containers. 

4. Instead of cutting yourself repeatedly with a regular knife, use a pizza cutter to quickly cut food into tiny bits for that baby learning to eat solids. 

5. Put a rubber band on your dispensers with pumps so your kids won't make a mess or waste it.

6. Everyone pay attention for this one, because it's the one I'm the most excited about. Cover your child's toy speakers with tape to reduce the volume.

You can keep piling on the tape if the toy is loud enough.

7. Spending too much time trying to balance those tiny toothbrushes against the bathroom wall? Use a clothespin!

Plus your kid will think it looks cool. 

8. If your kids are getting annoyed by all of their dolls having tangled hair, mix two tablespoons of fabric softener and mix it with water.

Put this in a spray bottle and the doll's hair will brush out pretty easily. 

9. Buy some time on the flight by entertaining your kids with window stickers. 

10. For those future artists, use a pizza box as a large canvas for their work. 

11. To keep a leg up on the enormous amount of trash that accumulates in a car with children, use those cereal containers as a trash can that won't spill when tipped. 

12. The best way for a kid to eat a burrito without the entire thing ending up on the floor is to stand it up in a mason jar. 

No drip out the back as well!

13. Or you can use a chip clip. 

Just make sure they don't chomp down on it! Can you tell I'm hungry for burritos?

14. Dish racks are also incredibly helpful if you need to organize your kid's school supplies. 

15. To clean all those Lego bricks that have been kicking around the floor for a while, put them into a laundry bag and plop them in the washing machine!

16. For me, this is a genius hack. Get a really big box and let your kid go to town coloring inside of it. 

Not only do they get to color on a cool surface, they aren't going to be coloring your furniture. Incredible.

17. Tear a sticker in two and place them on the inside of your child's shoes to teach them left versus right. 

18. Teach your child the joy of cleaning with this little tape game. 

The key word to use in this case is "game."

19. Use toothpaste to help remove the permanent marker that graces all of your stuff now. 

20. To prevent your kids from pulling too much toilet paper off of the roll, set up a fun sticker boundary on the wall to give them a place to stop. 

21. We all know how much kids love their bubbles. Contain all the mess by strapping the bubble containers to a post!

22. If your child doesn't like taking medication, pair it with that pacifier they love so much. 

23. If your kid always takes their diaper off, challenge them with this pajama arrangement. 

24. There you have it! Your life just became way easier. 

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