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Place bay leaves in kitchen drawers and in flour and sugar sacks to keep crawling insects away.

Dry Mustard will remove onion odors from your hands or cutting board. Rub in, then rinse off.

Lemon extract will remove scuff marks from luggage.

Refrigerate candles for several hours before lighting; it will cause fewer drips.

Drain de-clogger: 1/4 cup baking soda and 1/4 cup vinegar. Pour baking soda down drain first then follow with the vinegar. Close drain and let sit until bubbling has stopped then follow with a bucket of hot boiling water.

To keep your extension cords from getting tangled, insert them into a empty toilet paper roll to store.

Crumbled newspapers lining the vegetable compartments of a refrigerator will keep veggies crisp.

Wiping the inside of the fridge with vinegar helps prevent mildew because acid kills mildew fungus.

Freezers run more efficiently when they're three-quarters or more full. When provisions drop, fill milk cartons or jugs with water and put them in the freezer to take up empty space.

Place a piece of white chalk in your silver chest or jewel box to absorb moisture and help prevent tarnishing of silverware and jewelry.

Apply spray starch to doors and to painted walls along hallways and stairways where fingerprints accumulate. The coating will resist marks better.

Never use disinfectants to clean the fridge, foods will pick up taste and odor.

When your cookbook won't lie flat when opened on the counter, place a glass baking dish on the pages (you can read through the glass) or secure each side with a rubber band.

If you store your best silver in self-sealing plastic bags, it will tarnish much more slowly.

To remove pesky bottle tops and jar lids, don a pair of rubber gloves. Or twist a fat rubber band around the lid, then twist open. Works like a charm.

Before heating a nonstick pan, always coat it with nonstick vegetable cooking spray and never heat the pan more than 3 minutes before adding food.

Wax paper is endlessly useful. Use it: To catch grated cheese, to place under seasoned flour for breading or spices for blackening, to tear into strips to slip under a cake you are icing, to cover a dish you are microwaving.

Never, never pour water on flaming fat or oil you'll spread the fire. If the fire's inside a pan, slap on the lid. If outside, turn off the heat and douse the flames by tossing on a handful of baking soda or salt.

Old eggs are smooth and shiny. They will float in a glass of water. The egg-white is watery and the yolk is flat in an egg roughly 3 weeks old.

Fresh eggs are rough and chalky . They will sink and stay horizontal on the bottom of a glass of water. The egg-white is viscous and close around the plump yolk.

New white canvas shoes will stay that way if you spray them heavily with starch.

Vinegar and water will remove salt stains from shoes and boots.

Nail polish remover removes tar and grease from white leather shoes.

Zippers won't stick if you rub them with the edge of a bar of soap.

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