Money-Saving Household Tips #3
There are hundreds of household tips for you to use around the house that will save you loads of money. The best part is, you already have most of the ingredients for them lying around your house! Listed below are just a few of these great tips:
*Nail polish remover removes tar and grease from white leather shoes.
*White shoe polish will apply more evenly if you rub the shoes with a raw potato or rubbing alcohol before polishing. Spray the shoe with hair spray after it is dry. (It will not smear.)
*Vinegar and water will remove salt stains from shoes and boots.
*New white canvas shoes will stay that way if you spray them heavily with starch.
*Perk up soggy lettuce by soaking in cold water with some lemon juice. To store, place in a zip lock bag with paper towel to absorb moisture.
*NEVER pour water on flaming fat or oil you will spread the fire.
If the fire is 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.
*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, or to cover a dish you are microwaving.
*To remove pesky bottle tops and jar lids, don a pair of rubber gloves.
*Use top-quality typewriter correction fluid to cover nicks, chips, and scratches on enameled ranges and refrigerators, porcelain tiles, and sinks. Works like a charm and it comes in a variety of colors.
*Never use disinfectants to clean the refrigerator; foods will pick up taste and odor.
*Apply spray starch to doors and to painted walls along hallways and stairways where fingerprints accumulate. The coating will resist marks better.
*Place a piece of white chalk in your silver chest or jewel box to absorb moisture and help prevent tarnishing of silverware and jewelry.
*Keep your extension cords from getting tangled.
Insert them into an empty toilet paper roll to store.
*Drain de-clogger: ? cup baking soda & ? cup vinegar. Pour baking soda down drain followed by the vinegar. Close drain and let sit until bubbling has stopped. Follow with a bucket of boiling water.
*Refrigerate candles for several hours before lighting. It will cause fewer drips.
*Mix half pure vanilla and half water to deter mosquitoes and ticks.
*Vick's Vapo Rub wards off ticks.
*Ant repellent: Mix 2/3 cup water, 1/3 cup white vinegar, and 3 Tbsp.
of dish soap.
*To remove skid marks on linoleum, rub the spot with toothpaste before washing the floor.
*Shower curtains can be renovated by being washed, on gentle cycle, with a pint of white vinegar.
*Build-up on shower doors: Wipe with lemon oil. Removes buildup and keeps doors protected longer.
*Children's stickers can be removed from wood by applying white vinegar to the sticker, letting it soak and then scraping off.
*Use crumpled up black and white newspaper dipped in vinegar to wash windows. Dip paper in vinegar and wipe the glass until almost dry, then shine with dry newspaper or cloth.
*Make your own furniture polish: 1 tsp olive oil, juice of a lemon, 1 tsp whisky or brandy, 1 tsp water. Mix together and rub on furniture with cloth, buff for a deep shine.
*Clean those dirty, dusty, mini-blinds in your house in a snap.
Fill the bathtub with warm, soapy water and let the blinds soak. If they are white blinds, add a little bleach to get rid of any stains.
*Mayonnaise will KILL LICE. It will also condition your hair.
*Remove labels off glassware etc. by rubbing with peanut butter!
*Use Listerine to kill dirty grout.
*Peanut butter will get scratches out of CD's. Wipe off with coffee filter paper.
*Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie rubber band around a section of the t-shirt and soak.
*To preserve a newspaper clipping, mix a large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 minutes and let dry. It will last for many years.
*To make fresh flowers last longer; add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or use 7-up instead of water.
*Put petroleum jelly on your glue cap to prevent it from sticking to the bottle when you put the cap back on.
*Use old cardboard tubes from paper towel rolls to store reusable plastic bags.
*PAM No-Stick Cooking Spray removes paint and grease from your hands and dries nail polish..
2nd-to-no-1-in-shoes.com Offers Advice and Guidance for Anyone Looking for Reliable, Comfortable Shoes As Well As Recommendations of Shoe Companies That Provide Excellent Customer Service and Products
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According to http://2nd-to-no-1-in shoes.com, "It is important to run in the right kind of running shoes as this will prevent injury and improve performance."
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It is all about the Medal
It is all about the medal
Running a marathon is like life. There is a beginning, middle and end. Not only that there are the obstacles that come up. For the average person a marathon will take at least four hours. This is four hours of a conversation in your head.
The marathon is run in your mind. The stories I told myself were amazing. The stories were all based on my experiences of life. Some of these stories were empowering and supportive but others were not. The marathon was like a rerun of my life and my opinion of myself determined my outcome.
When they put the medal on me I felt acknowledged, not only for finishing the marathon but for being a success in life. I have never been the same since. My life works because I have the medal to prove it. Life is about saying what I am going to do and doing it. Doing the marathon is a condensed version of a commitment.
If you stop while running it is unlikely you will start again. My body froze up. I could...
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How To Add Emotional Value To Your Offer!
Your ad copy can trigger your prospects to becomeemotionally attached to your product. Emotion is afeeling or human reaction to an inner or outer event.People go from one emotion to the next all day long.Your ad needs to create an emotion that persuadesthem to buy.Before you write your product ad you need to figureout which emotions will influence your audience tobuy. You could imagine being in their shoes, surveythem, interview some of them and communicate withthem regularly.There are many channels nowadays which you canuse to communicate with them like e-mail, chat rooms,message boards, phone, instant messaging, videoconferencing, etc. Once you know the emotions totrigger you now have know how to deliver them toyour prospects.One of the best ways to trigger a particular emotion isby arousing your prospects imagination. For example,imagine meeting the person of your dreams.
Thatsimple statement can create mental movies that thencreate your targeted emotions. You can have themimagine...
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A Review of Popular Baseball Gloves
When shopping for a new baseball glove, one has many brands, styles and fits to choose from.
Companies make many gloves from various materials that can cost as little as $10 or as much as $250 for a custom made glove. The following is a brief review of companies that offer some of the best gloves on the market.
Rawlings Baseball Gloves
Perhaps the best-known and respected baseball glove is manufactured by Rawlings. Rawlings baseball gloves have been a favorite of amateurs and professionals for over eight years. They are most admired for their comfort and safety features as well as the range of prices.
You can purchase the most expensive line of gloves for $300 or so, but Rawlings baseball gloves also come in cheaper versions, sometimes for $10 or less.
Nike Baseball Gloves
Nike is probably best known for its athletic shoes and other lines of athletic clothing. The company, however, has recently begun to manufacture its own...
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Oshkosh Selects ITTIA Database Solution and Joins Club ITTIA
Oshkosh, known for making some of the toughest trucks in the world, selected an ITTIA database solution and joined Club ITTIA, the ITTIA database community. Oshkosh is using db.* for ARM/Linux in an upcoming version of their A3 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) military vehicle.No matter if you need to plow your way through Saharan sands or Arctic snow ? Oshkosh offers a vehicle. The company makes heavy-duty vehicles for the defense, fire emergency and commercial industries. Oshkosh's...
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