Tips and Tricks
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- Growing a Pineapple Plant/Pineapple
- I have a pineapple plant, which I have grown from a pineapple that I purchased from a grocery store. The plant is 2-3 years of age, and has a beautiful pineapple which is aproximately 5 months old now. It has not reache...
- Homemade Facial Scrub
- FACIAL SCRUB Honey is an astringent and is soothing. Cornmeal is a very milk abrasive and helps massage away the dead skin, dirt, oil and makeup. 1 1/2 tsp. cornmeal 1/2 tsp. water 1 tsp. honey Mix cornmeal w...
- Dents in the carpet
- I do this for dents in the carpet. Lay an ice cube in the dent.....It disappears as the ice cube melts. That's all! ...
- Cleaning Cast Iron Cookware
- I took my cornstick pan to a machine shop and had it shot blasted and it came out looking brand new. The guy remembered his grandmother having one when he was a kid and didn't charge me...
- Bamboo plant making alcohol
- What is happening is your plant is to wet it is fermenting and needs drying out a bit. You can get hydrogen peroxide 50% use it at 20 ml in a litre of water to help kill the moss etc. This will increase the plants enrgy ...
- kill germs in sponge
- Simply put the sponge in microwave on high for a minute it kills the germs and all bad...
- Clean Silver with Kitchen Ingredients
- I stumbled across a wonderful, and CHEAP way of effectively cleaning silver. At the time I discovered this, I had managed to turn a sterling silver claddaugh ring black that my husband had got me for an anniversary pres...
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- Gnat Removal Solution - Thank You
- I had tried everthing...even smelly sprays...you rock for sharing this with everyone!!. My kitchen and dining room are now bug free, finally I can enjoy my...
- Prevent Sauce Stains in Plastic Containers
- Want to avoid that saucy-red stain on your plastic microwaveable containers? Simply make sure to cool the food first, and then lightly coat the containers with cooking spray before putting the leftovers in it. When you...
- How to remove burned on food from non stick pan
- Mix Oxi Clean with hot water in the pan and let sit for one or two hours....
- Removing Ink stains
- This original question is quite old, and I'm not sure my reply will be helpful to you anymore, but... On leather (and a LOT of other surfaces), a wonderful invention that would probably work to remove the ink from the...
- Trick for removing gnats
- Use a baby food jar. Fill partly with vinegar and cover with plastic wrap and secure with a rubber band. Cut a small opening in the plastic wrap. Place jar where the heaviest concentration of gnats is. Within a few day...
- Relief from poison ivy
- When a poison ivy rash appears, washing with fels-naptha soap will give nearly immedate...
- bug repellent
- I've had little trouble with bugs in my small apartment herb garden. But...I once had a bunch of black caterpillars that almost stripped my bee balm and a few others to the ground. I added about 1 teaspoon cayenne and ...
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- Cucumber, Papaya, and Chamomile Facial Mask
- CUCUMBER, PAPAYA, AND CHAMOMILE FACIAL MASK "This refreshing mask, especially soothing after being in the hot sun, reduces puffiness, soothes sunburn, and rejuvenates your delicate complexion. If needed, repeat every ...
- Homemade Massage Oil
- MASSAGE OIL 1/2 cup citrus zest 1/2 cup heated oil (preferably almond, grape seed or olive) Put citrus zest in a bowl and pour hot oil over it. Cover and let stand 30 minutes. Strain out zest for a fantastic mas...
- Excerpt from The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining by Colleen Rush
- SCHMOOZING THE STAFF LIKE A SEASONED DINER Excerpt from The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining by Colleen Rush The first rule of mastering fine dining: Get over yourself. An overdeveloped or fragile ego does nothing ...
- Starting a pineapple, David Friend Sarasota,FL
- I cut the top off and put it in potting soil. I have 2 growing at the moment. I keep them with my pot plants outside under the trees and picked a pineapple last...
- Mighty Mosquito Mix
- MIGHTY MOSQUITO MIX 1 cup of lemon scented ammonia 1/4 cup of lemon-scented dish soap (another recipe on the internet had 1/2 cup) warm water Put ammonia and dish soap in your 20 gallon hose-end sprayer, filling ...
- Laundry Solutions - it must be Coke
- I live in an industrial area coal mining and oil mining.. so there is lots of greasy clothes one thing you can do is put a can of coke a cola in the wash with it and your clothes should come out clean... it must be the a...
- Tip: How to clean your drain with baking soda and vinegar
- If any of you are like me and live in an old house that doesn't have a garbage disposal (or even if you do) and every once in awhile your drain gets to smelling used. I do this at least once a month. It helps cut any res...
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- Easy way to pick buffalo berries
- After the berries frost, lay a tarp or sheet below bush. Beat or hit the bush with a lg stick or board. Berries fall off easily. scoop up, sort berries from leaves, wash and prepare for...
- How to Clean a Straw Pocketbook - Also, A Vinegar Wipe Down Might Help....
- Dear Pat, I agree with Marilyn on using Febreeze inside and cleaning the outside with Oxy-Clean. Before using the Febreeze, I would dampen a terry facecloth with white vinegar and give it a good wiping inside. The...
- Cleaning a leather Lazy Boy chair
- Clean leather Lazy Boy chair with Orange Glo, It really works...
- How to remove a furniture dent in carpet
- Just put an ice cube on the dent let melt wipe it up. Carpet should be like...
- How to add vinegar for Front load washers
- Lori, I, too, have a front load washer. I add vinegar to my laundry all the time (I've got 4 boys...and smelly laundry! LOL) I just put the vinegar into the cup for fabric softener. I put it in when I put in the de...
- Green Bamboo / Lucky Bamboo Warnings
- my husband and son got very sick from green bamboo,when they handled it. I advise you wash your hand good or wear gloves if handling it. A Note from Betsy at Recipelink.com: Hi Barbara, Thank you for posting the ...
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- Lucky Bamboo
- The stalk won't grow any taller once cut, as it's the leaves of the plant that grow and slowly develop into stalks themselves. Once a leaf has developed into a stalk, it can be clipped as its base - where it was sproute...
- Lucky Bamboo Growing Tips - Chinese Water Bamboo is dying...... the research that i did...
- My bamboo is dying... after thriving for 3 years in water & growing to over 3 times its original height, its stalks and leaves are now turning yellow & for the first time the water smells bad & feels slimy. I normally ch...