Peroxide, the plain bottle of 3% peroxide you can get for under $1.00 at any drug store is better and cheaper than bleach. Take one capful (the little white cap that comes with the bottle) and hold it in your mouth for 10 seconds daily, then spit it out. No more canker sores, and your teeth will be whiter without expensive pastes. Use it instead of mouthwash. Let your toothbrushes soak in a cup of peroxide to keep them free of germs. Clean your counters and table tops with peroxide to kill germs and leave a fresh smell. Simply put a little on your dishcloth when you wipe, or spray it on the counters. After rinsing off your wooden cutting board, pour peroxide on it to kill salmonella and other bacteria. Spray 50/50 mixture of peroxide and water on your feet every night and let dry to kill fungus on my feet, especially the toes. Soak any infections or cuts in 3% peroxide for five to ten minutes several times a day. People who had gangrene that would not heal with any medicine, soaked in peroxide which effectively killed the gangrene.For burns, first run cold faucet water on it, then separate 2 egg whites from the yolks, beat them slightly and apply to the burn. The whites will dry and form a protective layer. Continue for at least one hour to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg whites. In a few hours the patient will feel hardly any pain and the next day there will hardly be a trace of the burn. Ten days later no trace will be left at all and the patient’s skin will regained its normal color. The burned area will be totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins.
Get Rid of Bugs.
* No More Mosquitoes. Place a dryer sheet in your pocket, or tie a dryer sheet around your ankles and stick one in your collar. You’ll have no trouble with mosquitoes. It will keep the mosquitoes away. Or pour half a cup of apple cider vinegar and half a cup of witch hazel into a spray bottle, and add eight drops of citronella or eucalyptus essential oil. Shake the bottle and spray it lightly onto exposed skin and presto, no mosquitoes. See other tips at http://www.unknownnews.org/diy.html
* Goodbye Fruit Flies. To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
* Get Rid of Ants. Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
* Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
Gardening.
* Newspaper weeds away…Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for- get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Dress.
* Reducing Static Cling.. Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and ... ta da! ... static is gone.
* Conditioner. Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
Food Tips.
* Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to
pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it.
* Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
* Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
* Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
* Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
* To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
* For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
* Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
* Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!
* Reheat Pizza… Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy.. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
* Easy Deviled Eggs…Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
* Expanding Frosting. When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
* Reheating refrigerated bread…To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
* Measuring Cups. Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
Coffee Filters: Not just for making coffee....
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.
2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave
windows sparkling.
3. Protect China
4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.
11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters.
13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.
14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."
Cleaning.
* Broken Glass….Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
* Flexible vacuum.. To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
* Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Clothes Dryers
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us mething; he took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material ... I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like. Well the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static free ... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel waxy when you take them out of the box .... well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old tooth brush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that.
Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I ashed it with warm soapy water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it ... the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about!
Miscellaneous
* Reopening Envelopes. If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
* See “Helpful Household Hints” @
http://www.askyourneighbor.com/hhints.htmBounce. All this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer!
1. It will
chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them. It also repels mice.
2. Spread
sheets around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it
keeps mice from entering your vehicle.
3. It takes
the odour out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.
4. It repels
mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during
mosquito season.
5. Eliminate
static electricity from your television (or computer) screen.
6. Since
Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen
with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling..
7. Dissolve
soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
8. To
freshen the air in your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer
or hang in the closet.
9. Put Bounce
sheet in vacuum cleaner.
10. Prevent
thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before
beginning to sew.
11. Prevent
musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage
before storing.
12. To freshen
the air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.
13. Clean
baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let
sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the
bond between the food and the pan..
14.
Eliminate odours in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the
wastebasket.
15. Collect
cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all
the loose hairs.
16.
Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds..Wipe the blinds with a sheet
of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
17. Wipe up
sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect
sawdust like a tack cloth.
18.
Eliminate odours in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the
bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
19.
Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers
overnight.
20. Golfers
put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to
Keep the
bees away.
21. Put a
Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. It
will keep them smelling fresh.
22. Wet a
Bounce sheet, hose down your car, and wipe love bugs off easily with the wet
Bounce.
23. Put a
sheet of Bounce in your suitcase when traveling, it will help keep mites or any
other critters out of it. While you are at it, travel with several Bounce
sheets and run them up and down your bed linen before getting into bed, it will
cause all the critters already in your bed to run. Keep a sheet in your
suitcase even after you have unpacked to protect your suitcases from bugs
nesting in it.
24. Put a sheet
of Bounce in your pocket to keep insects and yellow-jackets away.
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