Household Tips and Tricks

Perfect bathtub storage for kids toys.  A curtain rod paced low at the back of the bathtub and attach baskets with shower hooks!  I love it!

 

 

 

 

Tick Removal:
Spring is here and  the ticks will soon be showing their heads.  Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a  try.

“I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great because it works in
those places where it’s sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of
dark hair, etc.”  “Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20); the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift      it away.  This technique has worked every time I’ve used it (and that was frequently), and it’s much less traumatic
for the patient and  easier for me..”   “Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can’t see that  this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor’s wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn’t   reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say, “It worked!”

Make a pocket built into  gift wrap for the card!  Brilliant!!

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning

• Mix rubbing alcohol with your Windex.  It will kill germs while you shine!
• Make a small cleaning bucket to store in each of your bathrooms.  It makes cleaning quick and easy.
• Bounty paper towels are great for scrubbing.  (No dirty cleaning rags) The only time I use a cleaning rag is for dusting.
• 1/2 cup vinegar in microwave for 2 minutes on high.  Let sit for 20 minutes and wipe down inside microwave.

• Pringles Chip can is great for storing Pasta.  Simply cover the can with decorative paper and you are good to go!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to fold a fitted sheet

 

When traveling, thread your necklaces through a drinking straw to keep from getting tangled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put a dryer sheet in your back pocket to repel mosquitoes.

 

 

 

 

Did you know this was built into the box?

 

 

 

 

Cereal container = great trash can for your car!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remove stripped screws with a rubber band.

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know if you put a wooden spoon over a pot of boiling water, it won’t boil over?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who knew? Apparently Mr Clean Magic Erasers are just this stuff called Melamine Foam? You can buy it in bulk on Amazon for WAY less than Mr Clean brand name!

 

 

 

 

 

Just think of all the ways you could use this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIY ice pack: This was made from 2 cups of DAWN and 1 cup of rubbing alcohol. Use the good ziplock bags- one inside on another with one zipper side down inside the other with the zip on top. Loosely wrap in a thin dishtowel or into a old pillow case. Mine started leaking after about a year so I just poured it into new bags. It freezes nearly solid but becomes maleable quickly. Don’t use on bare skin without a cover- they are really, really cold.

 

 

 

Ever forget when you gave the last does?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homemade swifter covers out of microfiber.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take your favorite liquid fabric softener and soak an old hand towel or flour cloth completely with it. Wring it out and let it dry completely, then throw it in with your next load. This mega-fabric softener sheet should be good for at least 40 loads of laundry, stretching out softener use and lessening waste. In other words, save money.

 

 

 

 

magazine rack for canned goods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toss marshmallows into open bag to keep your brown sugar from getting hard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nails stained from dark polish?  Use whitening toothpaste

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keeps your fruit from turning before you eat it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great idea to prevent a mess!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who needs a strawberry huller?  Just use a drinking straw!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place your sheet set inside one of the pillow cases, then fold neatly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t throw out the water your boil your eggs in. This water contains tons of calcium that your plants will love. Just let the water cool and dump it on your plants. I also save my egg shells, rinse them out real well, smash them up then mix them with dirt and/or potting soil before planting any plants. For someone who doesn’t have a green thumb, I have had great success with this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mix fabric softener with water.  Wet doll hair with mixture and comb!

 

 

 

 

Fun for your little girls –

For little girls that like to play with baby dolls, take a real baby bottle, roll up a sheet of copy paper (fit to length of bottle), insert it into bottle and it looks like a bottle of milk. You can put different color construction paper such as orange for orange juice.

For the serious “little” mommy, take the paper off of a brown crayon and break in to pieces, put the pieces inside the baby doll’s diaper (instant poop). This will keep them busy for hours! (Not recommended for little girls that still put stuff in their mouths)

Did you know that drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately-without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional pain relievers? Did you know that Colgate Toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns?

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