FREEZE YOUR PAINTBRUSH
Many painting projects, especially painting the exteriors of your home can take a few days. Cleanup with latex paints requires only soap and water. But if using oil base paints, cleaning your brushes with mineral spirits or cleaner at the end of each days work can take a lot of time as well as expensive mineral spirits. But you don't have to clean brushes used with oil-based paint until your job is finished; instead, you can simply wrap them tightly in aluminum foil or saran wrap and place them in the freezer. They won't freeze, but they won't dry out for several days, either. When you are ready to start painting again, just take the brushes out an hour or two ahead of time and pick up where you left off. This also works good with varnish painting too.