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  • 11 Mar

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    Helpful Tips For Housework Part 2

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    no housework(1) Helpful Tips For Housework Part 2

    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



  • 09 Mar

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    Helpful Tips For Housework Part 1

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    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 icon smile Helpful Tips For Housework Part 1   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

  • 05 Mar

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    Useful Products For Everyday Life

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    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." » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 02 Mar

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    Pest & Weed Control Tips

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    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.

  • 01 Mar

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    Food Tips & Tricks

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    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.

  • 28 Feb

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    Tidbits You Should Know Part 3

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    1. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
    2. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
    3. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk’s mask painted white.
    4. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
    5. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
    6. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
    7. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
    8. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples!
    9. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
    10. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
    11. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
    12. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
  • 27 Feb

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    Tidbits You Should Know Part 2

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    1. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

    2 Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

    3. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

    4. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

    5. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

    6. Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case’ letters ere stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

    7. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time . hence, multi-tasking was invented.

    8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

    9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

    10. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

  • 27 Feb

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    Tidbits You Should Know

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    1 . Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton..

    2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

    3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

    4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

    5. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

    6. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

    7. The ‘spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

    8. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

    9. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

  • 23 Feb

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    Random Helpful Tidbits

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    Ant problem? They are said to never cross a chalk line. So, get you chalk out and draw a line on the floor or wherever ants tend to march. See for yourself.

    For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: get warm water and put Dawn dish washing liquid on it. Pour it all over the steps. They won’t refreeze.

    To remove old wax from a glass candle holder, put it in the freezer for a few hours. Then take the candle holder out and turn it upside down. The wax will fall out.

    To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover the bottom of the pan, and bring to a boil on stove top.

    Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half, and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.

    When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle. Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, and then pull it off. Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily.

     

     

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