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GREAT HOUSEHOLD HINTS!

by: 9239kathryn( 612Feedback score is 500 to 999) Top 5000 Reviewer
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Guide viewed: 1627 times Tags: Household Help | Fruit flies | Vacumm cleaners | Bed linens


Hello everyone, I have some great household helpers I would like to share with you.  I can't take credit for thinking them up, and I don't know who did, but some of these, I have been using for years and they really work.  I won't list them all in this guide, there are too many, but I will write another guide on this same subject and I will continue with the rest them.

#1 Bed Sheets; After drying bed sheets, and folding them, put both sheets and 1 pillow case inside the other pillow case, fold neatly in a square. Next time you change sheets, you will have no need to look for matched sets.

#2 Easy Deviled Eggs; Put cooked egg yokes in a zip lock bag, seal, and mash until all are broken up.  Add your remaining ingredients, reseal, keep mashing until all is mixed well.  Cut the tip of the bag, and squeeze mixture into boiled egg white, and then toss the bag.  Easy clean up.

#3 Reheating Bread; To warm biscuits, pancakes, cornbread or muffins, place them in the microwave with about a cup of water.  The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.  No more brick bread!

#4 Broken Glass; Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little slivers of broken glass, the fibers catch the ones you can't see.

#5 Bicycle ID; If you buy a new bike for your child, or yourself, place a picture with ID information on back of picture, put this in a baggie, and place inside the handle bar, before you put the handle grips on.  If the bike gets stolen and later found, your proof of ownership is in the handle bar!

#6 Flexible Vacuum; To get something out of a heat vent, or from under the Fridge, add on an empty paper towel roll, or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum hose.  It can be bent or flattened to get into narrow openings!

#7 Foggy Windshield; Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it handy in your glove box.  When the window fogs up, just erase the fog, it works better than a cloth!

#8 Get rid of Ants; Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat the cornmeal, ants can't belch or digest the cornmeal, goodbye ants!  Yor kids and pets are safe also!

#9 Good-Bye Fruit flies; To get rid of pesky Fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it with about a 1/2 inch of cider vinegar and a couple of drops of dish washing liquid, mix well.  You will find those flies drawn to the glass of liquid and gone forever.

I am dedicating # 9 to my blogging buddy Josea, he will know why!!!!!!!  I hope this guide has been helpful, there will be more to come in a continued version of Household Helpers!


Guide ID: 10000000001984145Guide created: 10/04/06 (updated 05/27/08)

 
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