No home should be without a few lemons.  Sure it's refreshing to have a glass of fresh-squeezed lemonade or to squeeze a lemon over a fresly grilled fish, but lemons can do more than give your food an extra zing.  Here are 25 more reasons to love those little yellow fruits.

FOR A FRESH SCENT

• Throwing a few lemon peels into the winter fire will give your home a fresh, citrus fragrance.
• Stop ugly odors in your kitchen sink by grinding a few lemon peels thoruhg the disposal.
• If you chop something smelly on your wooden chopping board (onions, fish, et.c), clean the borad and rub lemon over it to remove the odor.

IN THE HOME

• Remove tarnish on copper objects by cutting a lemon in half, dipping the cut half in salt, and rubbing the lemon on the object.
• Likewise, lemon juice works well on rust stains.  Cover the rust stain with lemon juice followed by salt.  Let it dry for an hour, preferably in the sun.  Rinse and wash.
• For ink stains, squeeze lemon juice on the stain, place stained item between two pieces of cloth, and press ink stain onto the surrounding fabric.  Wash as usual.
• Soak your white laundry in lemon juice and water.  Lemons have a natural bleaching ingredient and can be used to whiten clothes.
• Remove stains from berries, beets, or any other discoloring on your skin by rubbing lemon over the stained spots.
• Make your glasses extra shiny by adding lemon peels to the water they are rinsed in.  The lemon acid released gives glasses a clear shine.

NATURAL TREATMENTS

• For relief of a common cough, mix honey and lemon together.  Roast a lemon until it breaks open, mix a teaspoon of warm lemon juice with half a teaspoon of honey, and take every half hour until cough goes away.
• For sore throat relief, mix a tablespoon of honey and the juice of one lemon into a cup of warm water, and sip.
• Car sick or just plain queasy?  Sucking on a wedge of lemon will make you feel better.  But be sure to rinse your mouth afterwards as lemon corrodes teeth enamel.
• To relieve corns, try this before you go to sleep.  Take a lemon, slice off one end so that the "hole" that remains is the size of a penny.  Inset the toe with the corn into the lemon.  Put a sock on your foot to keep the lemon in place and repeat nightly until corn disappears.
• A cotton ball dampened with lemon juice works to relieve hemorrhoidal symptoms.
• To diffuse a boil or pimple add two tablespoons of lemon to a cup of just boiled water.  Soak, clean, and disinfect the area with a cotton ball.
• Hiccups?  Suck a wedge of lemon doused with Worcestershire sauce.

PESTS

• Moths don't like lemons, just as much as they don't like moth balls.  For a natural substitute, use dried lemon peels as a moth deterrent.
• For a non-toxic and repellent, use a lemon.  Drip lemon juice into floor boards, window sill,s cracks in the walls, or any other place where ants appear.
• For fleas on your dog or cat, cut two lemons into small pieces, place into a quart of water, and boil for an hour.  Steep overnight and sponge down your dog.  While fleas are repelled by citrus oil, your pet will smell good, and the lemon water will help soothe your dog's flea bites.

PAMPER YOURSELF

• Make a homemade face mask for dry skin by mixing 2 egg yolks, 1 tsp. of olive oil and 1 tsp. of lemon.  Wash your face, spread on the mixture, leave it on for ten minutes, and wash it off.
• Dip fingernails (and even toenails) into half a lemon to remove the yellowish color caused by nail polish.
• Help bring out blond highlights in hair by squeezing lemon into hair.  Combine this treatment while sitting in the sun for stronger effect.
• Make your own hand lotion using glycerin and lemon (1 tsp. of lemon for every 2 tsp. of glycerin).
• Put lemon in your bath, or let the water run through a ruined pair of pantyhose.  Lemon peels have natural oils that invigorate your skin.
• Dry, rough feet?  Soak them for 15 to 20 minutes in a bowl of warm water mixed with the juice form one lemon.

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