Some Useful Tips To Make Life Easier!!
Useful Tips for An Easier Life
REHEATING PIZZA TIP
Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick skillet on top of the stove,
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza.
(**Seen on The Cooking Channel, it really works!!)
TAKE BABY POWDER TO THE BEACH
Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag.
When your ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and
kids with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin.
Broken Glass
Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken glass pieces of glass-
the fibers catch ones you can't see!
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!!.
MAXIMIZING THE AMOUNT OF FROSTING YOU HAVE
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.
STOP WEEDS WITH NEWSPAPER
Start putting in your plants; work the nutrients in your soil.
Wet newspapers put layers around the plants over lapping as you go cover with
mulch and forget about weeds.
Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
NO MORE MOSQUITOS
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
SQUIRRELS-B-GONE
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.
VACUUM TIP-
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper
towel roll or empty gif wrap roll to your vacuum.
It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
REDUCING STATIC ELECTRICITY
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 CUP TIP
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...
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 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!
(I guess a Yankee wrote this and didn't know that grits do the same thing!-Momz Note)
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