Our Sister Darlene sent me some TIPS
I reproduce them here
that they might be helpful to others
Some surprisingly good tips!
GREAT TIPS:
1. Reheat Pizza - Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 and calories per serving.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6 Broken Glass - Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small
shards of glass you can't see easily.
7. No More M osquitoes - Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep
the mosquitoes away.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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 -- and TA DA -- static is gone.
11. Measuring Cups - Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring
cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup.
Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily
it comes right out.
12. 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!
13. Reopening An 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. Viola! It unseals easily
14. 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 didn't like when you tried it in your hair...
15. 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 dish washing
liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone
forever!
16. 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, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't
have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
17. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS - The heating unit went out on my dryer!
The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he
wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out
the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter
after every load clothes.) he took the filter over to the sink, ran hot
water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material - I'm sure you
know what your dryer's lint filter looks like.
WELL...the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through
it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh
that's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film,
but it's there.
It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft
and static free -
that nice fragrance too, you know how they can feel waxy
when you take them out of the box, well this stuff
builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen.
This is also what causes dryer units to catch fire
and potentially burn your house down with it!
He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time
(and to keep your electric bill lower)
is to take that filter out and wash it with hot soapy water
and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months.
He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long!
How about that!!
Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that.
So, I thought I'd share!
Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it.
The water ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in
the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water and a nylon
b rush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it the water ran
right Thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all!
That repairman knew what he was talking about!
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME,
BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
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Thank you Darlene
dave
