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Helpful Tips For Housework Part 2

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

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1. Need to paint a room, but hate the noxious fumes? Add two teaspoons of pure vanilla extract to a gallon of (water based) paint. It neutralizes the odor.

2. If you have stains on your golf balls or piano keys, erase them-with an old fashioned pink eraser.

2. Did you spill coffee on the carpet? Sop it up with a baby wipe. It won’t even stain.

4. To prevent tools from rusting, keep a charcoal briquette inside the toolbox. It absorbs moisture.

5. Don’t use paper towels or rags to clean windows and mirrors. They’ve got lint on them. Instead, use coffee filters. They’re lint-free

6. Attention cheaters: Lipstick stains on a collar go away with a dab of petroleum jelly.

7. Ink is one of the hardest substances to get off of skin. If a pen leaks on your hand, rub shortening on it to help remove the stain.

8. Hard-to-remove price stickers can be taken off with a dollop of corn oil.

9. Denture-cleaning tablets don’t clean just fake teeth. Dissolve one in water to polish diamonds…or hubcaps.

10. Toothache? Apply a dab of Tabasco sauce to the gum.

11. When a metal shaving-cream can gets wet and rusts on the bottom, it can stain a shelf or counter top. To prevent this, apply a coat of nail polish to the bottom of the can and let dry.

Tips from bathroomreader.com

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Helpful Tips For Housework Part 1

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

housework wont kill you Helpful Tips For Housework Part 1

1. Having a copper-polish emergency? Look in the fridge: Ketchup eliminates tarnish from copper.

2. It’s really gross to find meal worms in your cereal bowl. Keep them out of the cupboard with a few sticks of wrapped spearmint gum on the shelf. They hate the smell.

3. To repel ants, find where they’re coming into the house and spray the area with a mixture of equal parts water and vinegar. They hate the smell and it’s non-toxic.

4. Besides being great on steak, Worcestershire sauce makes an excellent brass polish. It also repairs scratched wood.

5. If you’ve got a dirty toilet bowl and you’re all out of cleanser you, try Tang.

6. Emergency shaving cream substitutes: Whipped Cream (not Cool Whip) or peanut butter(not the chunky kind)

7. More Shaving Cream Substitutes for the people who don’t like to use food :)  Conditioner - Use your hair conditioner to shave. It’s a lot cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your face/legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

8. Broken Glass - Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken glass pieces of glass - The fibers catch ones you can’t see!

9. Reopening envelope - If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour. Voila! It unseals easily.

10. Over time, a thermos will absorb the stains and odors of whatever you put in it. To undo the damage, pour in a tablespoon of uncooked rice and a cup of warm water. Then shake it up and rinse it out.

Tips from Bathroomreader.com

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Useful Products For Everyday Life

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

This list of goodies was sent to me via email, it has some very good information in it, so I thought what better place to post it then on howbits.com. So enjoy and I hope it helps out some people, I am going to add two remedies to the bottom of the list that have worked great for me.

WHO KNEW???

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Eliminate ear mites. All it takes is a few drops of Wesson corn oil in your cat’s ear…Massage it in, then clean with a cotton ball. Repeat daily for 3 days. The oil soothes the cat’s skin, smothers the mites, and accelerates healing.

 

 

 

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Kills fleas instantly…Dawn dish washing liquid does the trick. Add a few drops to your dog’s bath and shampoo the animal thoroughly. Rinse well to avoid skin irritations. Good-bye fleas.

 

 

bounce Useful Products For Everyday Life Rainy day cure for dog odor. Next time your dog comes in from the rain, simply wipe down the animal with Bounce or any dryer sheet, instantly making your dog smell springtime fresh.

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Did You Know that drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately– without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional "pain relievers." (more…)

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Pest & Weed Control Tips

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Good-bye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dishwashing liquid and mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," & can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so,  esp. if it rains, but it works & you don’t have the worry about pets or  small children being harmed!

Newspaper keeps weeds away
Start putting in your plants, then wet some newspapers and put layers around the plant overlapping as you go cover with mulch / Dirt and forget about weeds. Weeds will go through some gardening plastic, but  they will not get through wet newspapers.

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Food Tips & Tricks

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy.. No soggy microwave pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up.
Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up , mixing thoroughly .
Cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes.
You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount.
You also eat less sugar/calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water, a glass cup works best.
The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry the cup.
Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

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