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.

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

Boiling

 Chicken Facts

The safest method for thawing out poultry, is to place it in a bowl of cold water. If you add some salt to the water, it not only will provide some flavor, but will provide a measure of additional cleaning.

When stuffing your bird, the opening may be sealed with a piece of raw potato.

The dark meat on the bird is a result of using, the breast muscles more, providing them with a greater blood supply. 

Broiler/Fryers are 7 week old birds that weigh from 3

Cooking Tips Of Long ago

If your food is boiling over, place a wooden spoon across the top of the pot. Or rub some butter along the inside rim of your pot.

All methods of  cooking, will lower fat content, except frying in oil.

Depending on what type of metal your wok is made of, it will rust. So always wipe off the inner surface with vegetable oil after each use.

To prevent splattering, always wipe off foods before placing in hot oil.

Always cook a roast in a shallow pot. This will allow air to circulate more efficiently. Place some fresh celery stalks under the roast . It will also help.

Don

Fish Facts

The skin on the fish should always have a shiny look to it, and when finger pressure is applied, it should easily spring back to it

Going fishing Need Worms

Just hook up the hot line of an A C power outlet to a copper rod. Now shove it into the ground and plug it in.  Stay off the ground while it is plugged in. Stand back and watch  for worms.

These suckers are so expensive in the bait stores. So collect your own.

Insects and other pests

Fleas  can be eliminated by, vacuuming with a high powered vacuum cleaner such as Electrolux, with a good sealing bag. But remove bag after vacuuming immediately.

Citronella oil candles will rid your house of mosquitoes.

Next time you change the litter box, try sprinkling a small layer of baking soda on the bottom to absorb the odors.

Keep the cat in the house. If you want to remove a grease stain from your drive way, try rubbing kitty liter into the stain. Allow it to stand for 1- 2 hours before sweeping it up.

Hang small pieces of a deodorant soap, on trees to keep deer away. Especially  fruit trees.

Or use pieces of clothing. They don

Kitchen Helpers

Store your flour in the freezer to prevent eggs from hatching.  Insects and bugs set up residence when the grain is warehoused, during transit., or even in your home.

Beware when purchasing rye bread. Really read that label. Most rye bread contains white flour. Very little rye. So make sure the label says Whole Rye Flour.

Good quality white bread will read unbleached flour, not flour, or white flour.

Never place hot pans next to each other. Hot air needs to circulate and not be blocked.

Never place yeast in a bowl, and pour water on it. The yeast is easily damaged and the weight of the falling water can harm too many of the yeasties.

Always store dry yeast in the refrigerator. But then allow it to warm to room temperature before using.

The best way of cooling hot bread, is to place it on a wire rack. This will allow air to circulate around the bread.

Before purchasing those little bread sticks, read the directions. They may contain up to 40% fat.

When making biscuits, never over work the dough. They will become tough

Try substituting buttermilk in a muffin recipe for the lightest muffins ever.

Now if you want soft biscuits, brush them with milk or melted unsalted butter.Place them in a pan so they touch each other.

When buying white bread look for the word enriched. This is the best. Many do not.

Never use compressed fresh yeast in a bread baking machine. Always dry yeast.

 Let

Car

Before going on a vacation, check out your hoses for cracks, and bulges.  If More than two years old, it wouldn

 Gardening Tips

 Years ago the only things available for mulching were straw and leaves. Now you can use grass clippings, cocoa bean hulls, black plastic, roofing paper, and newspapers. This will keep the soil in the garden from drying out, on hot days, and from washing away during a thunderstorm.

Have you noticed that right after a thunderstorm you

More Kitchen Helpers

Remove lumps from soups, and gravies  with a wire whisk.

To make your soup go further, just add some pasta, rice, or barley.

To change your stew a little.-  Just add a stack of cut long thin strips, of corn tortillas the last 15 mins.

The tannic acid in strong tea can, tenderize meat and reduce your cooking time. Just add

More old Time Tipsters

The best juice to buy is is the juice that is squeezed and sold fresh in the markets. All commercially bottled juices are pasteurized and the natural enzymes are destroyed by the heat. Now frozen orange juice only loses about 2 % of its Vit C content over a 3 month period of home freezer storage.

 You can store cooked vegetables in a well

More Tips Of Long ago

More tips We Can All Use

To protect your flashlight in the rain, maybe looking for fishing worms, put it in a plastic bag. Close the opening with a rubber band. You can turn it on and off as needed. It will provide a bright light right through the bag.

Freeze wet wash cloths in a plastic bag. Come in handy for cuts, bruises, teething, burns, or just plain cooling off.

Mix meat loaf ingredients in a zip lock bag. Knead and squish all together. There no messy dishes. Do meatballs, and bread dough the same way.

They say to keep down odors in the frig, just pop in an open box of soda. Well girls you can pop one in your freezer too. In the frig put it in the back.

Ring around the collar, use baby shampoo.

Now lets make some colored ice for a punch bowl. You can fill a clean balloon with tinted water or punch. Place this in a bowl and pop it into the freezer. Peel off the balloon when the liquid is frozen. The ice ball, is now ready for the punch bowl.

Lets blow up a balloon. Now plop it into your paint can. This will prevent a skin from forming on the top of your paint. Just use a balloon that

More TipsTo Help Yas

You can use dental floss to cut a cake.

You can use dental floss to sew on buttons.

 Use can use a buffer to polish your nails.

You can use pledge to clean your plastic glasses.

You can shine your teeth with baking soda.

You can shine leather shoes with mineral oil.

If you have to take a V C R or some electronic item in for repair. Put an address sticker on it. These get moved around so much, and they end up losing the paper work on it.

Spray your grater with a vegetable spray. Then grate your cheese. Easy clean up.

Spray your measuring cups with vegetable spray, before filling with syrups. It will come out easy.

Remember a pinch of something is 1/8 tsp.

Fill ice cube trays with hot water. They

More Useful Help

When cutting hedges outside. Take an put down an old sheet to catch the clippings. Later drag it to the disposing area.

You can clean your phone with alcohol.

If you freeze your meat for about 20

More wonderful tips

Hairspray. Boil 2 cups of water. Fine chop 2 lemons and add. Simmer on low until the lemons are soft. Now cool and strain. Then put it in a pray bottle. If too sticky add more water. Now you can add 1 tbsp of vodka, or witch hazel, or rubbing alcohol for a preservative.  Keep in refrigerator for about a week. O.k. just spray at the roots only for an uplift.

If your hair is thinning, eat foods with iodine. Or drink buttermilk.

Spray on conditioner.Take 1 part conditioner, and 5 parts of water. Put it in a spray bottle, and shake it up. Spray on hair.

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Frizzies. Switch to a satin pillow case and frizzies with disappear.

Eat molasses. You

Still More Wounderful Tips

Enjoy a cold drink outdoors by covering your glass tightly, with a piece of aluminum foil and sticking, a straw through it to keep insects out.

Now gals if you

Kitchen Tips Part 1

If you

Nice Breasts Tips For Ya

Overripe and Mushy Bananas

Don

Party Tips

It

Planting Seed Tips

 Here is a chart to determine the planting depth, and number of days it takes to harvest.

Lima beans- plant  2

Facts About Water

Doc says:

The average person consumes over 15,000 gallons of water if they live to age 68.

Water must be filtered if you want clear ice cubes.

However if you boil the water before placing it into trays, this will allow a number of minerals that cause the cloudiness to dissipate into the air.

If you are thirsty, remember that the body prefers, a cool supply of water, which it can absorb easily. Hot water in the form of tea or coffee, is not absorbed as well and may act as a diuretic ,and actually cause the body to excrete more water.

About 70 % of the human body is water. If you weigh 150 lbs, your body contains about 90 lbs of water.

If you suffer from any form of Cardiovascular disease, it would be best not to drink ice cold water. The cold may cause a sudden drop in tissue temperature, and may cause unnecessary shock to the system. Also the digestive system will function more efficiently if you drink tepid water. However it is best if we don

Tips For Using Mayonnaise

You can remove white rings and spots on wood furniture with mayonnaise. Just wipe on some mayonnaise, let stand for an hour an wipe off.

Stubborn spots rub gently with mayonnaise to which some fine wood ashes have been added

Use mayonnaise  as a soothing cream for skin that has been over

Tomato Tips

Canned

Canned  tomatoes sometimes get unpleasantly acidic in taste. So you can add a teaspoon of sugar to a 2 pound can or so to combat this.

Too Bland

Often in the winter time canned tomatoes will have more taste than fresh in the supermarkets.

Cooked

These   tomatoes go nicely with basil, celery, ground cloves, oregano, or sage.

Green

These will ripen off the vine when wrapped in newspapers, and stored in a cool place.

But they will ripen fairly slowly. It will take 4 or 5 days from green to red. Be patient.

Hard To Peel

Pour boiling water over them, and let sit for 3 minutes.Or hold them over an open flame  skewed on a long fork, until the skin breaks.

Have One Kind, Need Another

In cooking one can of canned tomatoes is equivalent to 1