Tips, continued…
I have some more tips that you can keep in mind and use it when you have a chance. I tried the #5 this pass spring and so far no weeds coming out from that spot… They worth a try.
1. 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.
2. 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 for easy clean up.
3. 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 AND you eat less sugar and calories per serving.
4. Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated: place them in a
microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and
help it reheat faster.
5. Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers and put
layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds.
Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
6. Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.
7. No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
8. 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.
9. Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel
roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
10. Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress.
11. Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as
peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
12. Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box
of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
13. Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something, just
place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
14. Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot cheaper than shaving cream
and leaves your 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…
15. Goodbye 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 dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
16. 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, especially if it rains, but
it works & you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
17. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things
around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went
over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean
the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to
show us something; he took the filter over to the sink, ran hot water over it.
The lint filter is made of a mesh material – I’m sure you know what your dryer’s
lint filter looks like. WELL…the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It
didn’t go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that
mesh that’s what burns out the heating unit. You can’t SEE the film , but it’s
there. It’s what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static
free – t hat nice fragrance too, you know how they can feel waxy when you take
them out of the box, well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint
screen. This is also what causes dryer units to catch fire & potentially burn
your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a
very long time (& to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out &
wash it with hot soapy water & an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every
six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long!
We learn something new everyday! I newer knew dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I’d share!
Thanks for the info… i’ll put it to good use