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Home Life, Raising Kids and Managing Money This forum is for support and questions about family life, such as paying bills, DIY, caring for others or even planning for a wedding!
* Pam will also remove paint,and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage
* Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
* When the doll clothes are hard to put on,sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
* Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
* Body paint - Crisco mixed with food colouring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave,pour into an empty film container and mix with the food colour of your choice! (great in the bedroom... LOL!)
* Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container,tie a rubber band around a section of the t-shirt and soak..
* Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia,soak for 20 min. and let dry,will last for many years!
* A Slinky will hold toast and CDs!
* To keep goggles and glasses from fogging,coat with Colgate toothpaste (I presume you then wipe it off!)
* Wine stains,pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
* To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain,it will absorb into the towel.
* Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with peanut butter!
* Baked on food - Fill container with water,get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Or you can use 2 Efferdent tablets,soak overnight!
* Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
* Dirty grout - Listerine
* Stains on clothes - Colgate
* Grass stains - Karo Syrup
* Grease Stains- Coca Cola,it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from batteries!
* Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax - sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
* To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox,or 2 Bayer aspirin,or just use 7-up instead of water.
* If you get regular pen ink on your clothes,hairspray should get it right out. Just spray it over the area you got it on,let it sit then wash out.
* Toothpaste can get scratches out of CDs and DVDs.
Re: Helpful household tips (add your own if you want to!) -
Today, 05:05 PM
I feel like the one about keeping glasses from clouding would be horrible if you can't get it all off sometimes stuff smears really bad on glasses and takes forever to wash off. They do have anti-fog wipes nowadays.
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