Miscellaneous Tips

Place an address sticker on all home electronic equipment. When taken in for repairs. Too many times they have lost, the information You provided. Now if it comes up missing your name is on it. Those techs get careless.

You can Get yourself either a ketsup or mustard squeeze bottle. Now use it to blow off your keyboard when dusty. Or you can use an electrostatic cloth. Designed to attact dust.

You can clean off your t. v. screen with a fabric softener sheet.Or use the electrostatic cloth. Your t. v. is like a magnet. Grabs everything.

When packing some small electronic device for a trip. Take the batteries out, and turn them around. Now it won't accidentally come on.

You can put 4 moth balls in your cleaner bag. Now vacuum your rugs. When you store the machine no fleas will come crawling out. That is if you had some in your carpets. The moth balls will kill them. Other wise when you vacuum, they'll just come crawling back out of your power nozzle. Waisted effort.

Spray a vegetable spray on your grater. Now cut cheese or whatever. Easy clean up.

When you mix up something in your blender. Use low - speed first. Then increase. If you having problems getting started use a little liquid. Depending on what your mixing up. Use a juice to go with it. Or water.

If your leaving home for any length of time. Unplug your garage door opener. Now lock the door. Thieves like to patrol the neighborhood. Trying to see if their opener will open your door. Some controllers do. After they find out it does, they'll sit on a corner watching for the right move. I was shocked to find out others have my same controller.

Hi!

 Great helpful post!

 I like the vegetable spray on the grater before shredding cheese, cool!

 Would like to add some more. We purchased at Builder's Square a sliding bar. This is a fairly long black bar. You attach it to the side of your garage door. When you retire for the evening, slide it across the door. Now no one will be able to lift it.

You can also spray your measuring cups with a cooking oil. Next time you put in something like a honey, it will slide right out. Measuring spoons too.

You can spray the inside of a plastic bowl, then pour in a spaghetti sauce. No stains.

You can use the mesh bag onions come in for a pot scrubber.

You can blow up beach balls or inflateables with a turkey baster. Just remove the bulb from the baster. Now insert the small end into the toy. Blow into the large end.

You can water a christmas tree, with a turkey baster.

You can blow up a balloon and plop it into a paint can. This will keep a skin from forming on any unused paint.

You can make a funnel for liquids, by snipping one corner of a plastic bag.

Got dents in a carpet from moving furniture, put some ice cubes in them. Dents will come out as ice melts.

You can keep your small xmas cards you receive. Now next year use them as name tags.

Put a tennis ball in your dryer. It will pluff up your blankets when you wash them.

Get a dent out of a ping pong ball. Put it in hot salty water.

Easy plant watering. Give it a few ice cubes.

If your watering a hanging plant inside, put a shower cap on the bottom.

If you need to cure a squeaky floor, put dusting powder along the edges.

Great thread.

Here's my two cents.

For tough food stains and burns on the stove top, dampen the area and/or make a paste of baking soda with water and let it stand and wipe clean after I guess about 20 - 30 minutes.  I usually spinkle over the area after dinner and wipe clean before bedtime or the next day....I'm sorta lazy sometimes.

Oh, and my favorite because I'm a big green tea drinker...

To remove tea and coffee stains, etc..either

1/Add to your hot dishwater a small amount of bleach or a teaspoon of bleach to each coffee mug and fill it to the rim with water, let set overnight.

or for a more natural solution,

2/Soak overnight your coffee mugs with enough vinegar to cover the bottom of cup and fill to the rim with water.

Cereal And fussy Kids

If kids  turn up their noses to hot cereals, than try these suggestions.:

Make the cereal with chocolate milk.

Stir in some canned chop fruit

Put 1 tbsp of jam in a bowl. Add little milk, Mush them up and then add cereal. You  can do this with hot or cold cereal.

You can put chocolate bits in oatmeal cereal. Think about those oatmeal cookies.

You can eat cold cereal with some eggnog, or malted milk.

You can add some ice cream to cereal.

If cold cereal is too soggy. Then pour it on a cookie sheet. Set the temp for 350 and bake 2 or 3 minutes. It will crisp back up.

 Useful Hints

Go to a  wall paper store and ask if they have any old catalogs.  They only toss these out.  Get the one that has pre pasted wall paper in it. Go home and check it out. Look for some that has prints appropriate for a baby