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Cool ideas!! I haven't heard of many of these before.

Bed Sheets
After drying my sheets, put both sheets and one
pillowcase in the other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square.
Next time you change sheets, you just take the one pillow case and all the
sheets and pillow case are inside. No need to look for matches.

Clean your glass shower
To clean the glass in your shower easily, apply lemon
juice to the glass with a sponge. Then, take newspaper and wipe
the lemon juice off the glass. It will be clean and sparkle with no
scrubbing!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick 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.

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/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.

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 forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic, they
will not get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken pieces of
glass - the fibers catch ones you can't see!

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes
away.

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.

Easy Thank You's
When you throw a bridal/baby shower, buy a pack of thank
you cards for the guest of honor. During the party, pass out the
envelopes and have everyone put their address on one. When the
bride/new mother sends the thank you's, they're all addressed!

MINE!!!!!
If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their
picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on. If the
bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is your
proof who owns the bike.


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.

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 --
voila -- static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup,
fill it with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry the
cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how
easily
it comes right out.

Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep
it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with
the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
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. Voila! It unseals easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot
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...

Good-bye 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 dishwashing 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, esp. if it rains, but it works & you don't have the
worry about pets or small children being harmed!

Take baby powder to the beach Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag.
When you're ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids
with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin .


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Post by dab19 »

...Must remember one or two of these, Wiz!!! :) :)

...especially the Static Cling and the Conditioner ones.....VERY useful!!!

As for the Kid's Bike.....what's wrong with stamping a Post Code (or Zip Code as I guess this is from our dear friends!!) on the frame?. 'Course, they could use an indelible ink pen thingy and chalk under the seat (for e.g.).

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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dab19 wrote:...Must remember one or two of these, Wiz!!! :) :)

...especially the Static Cling and the Conditioner ones.....VERY useful!!!

As for the Kid's Bike.....what's wrong with stamping a Post Code (or Zip Code as I guess this is from our dear friends!!) on the frame?. 'Course, they could use an indelible ink pen thingy and chalk under the seat (for e.g.). :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:
Good idea Dabby. :D
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Some good tips there Wiz. Ta :D
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No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes
away.

[face=Comic Sans MS]Perhaps I need to remember that one for when I visit Luxor! Then again, mosquitos's in my pocket aren't the problem. ;) [/face]

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.

[face=Comic Sans MS]Must remember this one for next spring. Bloomin' squirrels snatched the tops off all my lovely pale daffodils and ran up the tree with them![/face]

Easy Thank You's
When you throw a bridal/baby shower, buy a pack of thank
you cards for the guest of honor. During the party, pass out the
envelopes and have everyone put their address on one. When the
bride/new mother sends the thank you's, they're all addressed!

[face=Comic Sans MS]How rude and ungracious! I think if I went to a bride/baby shower and was given the envelope of a thank you card given to me to self address I'd probably ask if they wanted me to write the card and provide the stamp too before taking my gift back and leaving. :x [/face]
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Post by Annadongela »

You're a clever so and so Wiz!
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Bed Sheets
After drying my sheets, put both sheets and one
pillowcase in the other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square.
Next time you change sheets, you just take the one pillow case and all the
sheets and pillow case are inside. No need to look for matches.


Being doing this for years now :)

Some other useful ones there Wiz :D
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No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes
away.
I wonder how that works then ? :?
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Bed Sheets
After drying my sheets, put both sheets and one
pillowcase in the other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square.
Next time you change sheets, you just take the one pillow case and all the sheets and pillow case are inside. No need to look for matches.
I haven't Kiya :oops: I think it's a brilliant idea, it would work for the duvet case too :)
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tried the conditioner for shaving my legs years ago, it works really well and great if you forget your shaving gel
when she was good she was very very good but when she was bad she was better :snig:
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i'll bare that in mind when i'm next tinkering with my eyebrows ;)
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jojo wrote:i'll bare that in mind when i'm next tinkering with my eyebrows ;)
noooo, leave them alone :lol:
when she was good she was very very good but when she was bad she was better :snig:
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Post by Phantom »

Does it work for baby wabbits too - our local ones should be really fat now after eating all of my newly planted marigolds :x
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Post by HEPZIBAH »

[face=Comic Sans MS] :roll: Opened up this thread, started reading and thought to myself 'Oh dear! this looks familiar, poor Wiz is repeating his posts.' Never mind, I kept on reading, found some interesting and useful and another annoying. Was about to reply when knock my curser and see that there are already quite a few replys. Then I see it, the pink elephant wondering lonely across the blue screen. Silly fool! I'd already posted a reply - in Apri! :oops:

So Wiz, I owe you an appology. :) It's not you that's losing the plot, 'tis I. :(

One good thing though, I agreed with myself and was consistant in what I found helpful and what I found annoying and socialy unacceptable. :D [/face]
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