Original Purpose: Softening clothes and reducing static cling.
Aha! Use: Refreshing smelly shoes and sneakers. Put half a scented Bounce sheet in each shoe.
Reward: Shoes that aren’t banished to the garage over-night.
Simply ball up some aluminum foil and use it to “scrub” the surface of the grill. It gets right in there, easily scraping off any bits and pieces you don’t want hanging around.
A pinch of salt added to the water of fresh cut flowers will make them last longer.
Clean artificial flowers by putting them in a bag containing salt. Shake bag for well for about one minute. Take flowers out, shake off excess salt.
Sprinkle salt at doorways, window sills and anywhere else ants manage to get into your house. Ants won’t walk across salt and they will stay outside where they belong.
Here are some tips to keep your garbage disposal in tip top shape.
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This ones especially useful for those of you with young children.
Take a piece of bread, roll it up into a tight ball and rub back and forth over the crayon markings.
This may take some time and you may have to re-roll up the bread a couple of times depending on how big the markings are.
Other cleaners and such may work as well, but the chemicals may damage the paint on your walls…
While most of us may not spend a lot of time thinking about color, it affects every day of our lives. Color can influence our mood and our thoughts. Colors affect people in many ways, depending upon one’s age, gender, ethnic background or local climate. Certain colors or groups of colors tend to get a similar reaction from most people – the overall difference being in the shade or tones used. So it’s important to choose wisely.