Last updated on March 7th, 2024 at 08:46 pm
Introducing Casey Major-Bunce, a 32 -year-old Mum of four from Portsmouth, heralded ‘an inspiration‘ and ‘a genius’ by other mums for her real-life Mum Hacks. Casey’s cost-effective and fun hacks have earned her over 200k Instagram followers, including Mrs Hinch, Stacey Soloman and Miss Greedy.
Casey is on a mission to empower Mums to save time, money and stress and create joyful family moments.
Starting her Instagram account during the lockdown and after the birth of her twins, busy mum Casey Major-Bunce wanted to make real connections with other mums. She began to share her hacks in October 2022. Her first reel reached 10k people, and she gained over 20K followers in just eight weeks. Now Casey has over 200K followers. Mums continue to flock to her page to get inspired by her imaginative hacks and seasonal tips and tricks.
Casey is sharing just a few of her favourite Christmas hacks, to make your festive season run more smoothly…
Driving to Visit Friends & Family?
Car journeys can be very stressful not to mention when your kids are asking for things, and you’re supposed to be keeping an eye on the road!
Keep them entertained – before you leave, take the headrest off one of the front seats. Using a sandwich bag, place it on the headrest and then put the headrest on top the bag inside, making sure the zip part of the bag is pointing downwards -add a phone or ipad. If you have a new style headrest and you cannot remove it, just make two holes in the top of the sandwich bag and tie some string or ribbon and tie them on that way. Children can now watch cartoons or play games easily without a holder or dropping the phone or ipad.
Put their snacks and drinks in a caddy to minimise spillage – and you’re ready to go.
Christmas Morning
Hate messy wrapping paper and binbags ruining your lovely photos when the children are unwrapping their gifts? Just gift wrap a large box – and have the children throw their used wrapping paper in as they go along.
When they finished unwrapping their presents, pop their items into a laundry basket to easily carry to their rooms in one go.
Festive Food Hack & Easy Sweet Treats
When you are rushing to prepare the Christmas dinner it’s easy to accidently cut yourself when peeling the potatoes, hold the spud in place with a fork on top before using the peeler.
A festive hot chocolate makes a lovely treat -for one of my favourite hot chocolate hacks get some squirty cream add it to cupcake cases, add some sprinkles – and pop in the freezer. Add it the top of a hot chocolate for a festive feel and to cool it down so little ones can drink more quickly. You can also personalise your kid’s initial to make is even more fun.
My simple Snowman cinnamon roll is fun and super easy to make. Buy some Jus-Rol (or similar) ready to bake cinnamon swirls. Arrange them onto a baking tray on baking parchment in in 3 sections for the body + a hat. Once baked -add some icing sugar to decorate and grab some candy canes for arms, a sweet bootlace for a scarf etc – tear and share for a sweet festive breakfast treat.
7 Second Bauble Treats – these look really great with very little effort involved! All you need is a packet of Snow Enrobed Oreos as the bauble, decorate quickly with an icing pen and add a Reeces mini peanut butter cup to the top. Cheap and simple – and the kids loved making them too.
Packing Away Decorations
Save time and money -store your decorations away easily for next year with my free storage solution hacks – I love recycling things!
- Place beaded garlands into an empty water bottle – and stick the end to the inside of a cap. This keeps ensures less tangles and gives fragile decorations some protection.
- Store pretty baubles safely by using cardboard egg boxes for smaller ones and stacking 4-6 baubles in Pringles tubes. A plastic cupcake holder works great for larger baubles.
- Place clingfilm around decorations such as wreaths
- Save untangling your Christmas lights next year by wrapping them around an old coat hanger.
- Want to change your colour scheme next year but don’t want to waste money? Just buy balloons in your chosen colour – cut the of the balloon off and then pull them over your existing baubles.
For more hacks follow Casey Major-Bunce on Instagram: @majormumhacks
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