15 Tips for the Housewife or Husband That Gets The Short End Of The Stick
by Ruby Hawk on Jul 29, 2007 with 7 Comments
Handy tips to help you with your day-to-day chores.
- To get whole walnuts out of the shell, soak then over night in salt water before you crack them.
- When you cream butter and sugar together, rinse your dish in hot water. They will cream faster.
- Finger nail polish remover gets tape marks off with ease.
- If someone is sick and can’t sit up, they can drink more easily from a tea pot spout.
- Its handy to keep a powder puff in the flour bin for dusting cookie, cake or bread pans.
- You can make a good emergency ice bag by putting crushed ice in a rubber glove and tying it closed tightly.
- When you burn your self in the kitchen, apply a little vanilla or a paste of soda and water.
- To make chromium shin, polish it with dry baking soda and a dry cloth.
- Remove the white membrane from oranges by soaking them in boiling water for five minutes.
- Cellophane tape a pattern to your fabric instead of using pins. It will stay flatter and you can cut right through it.
- Buttons will stay on clothing longer if you coat the thread with finger nail polish.
- If your sleeper sleeps through the ring of an alarm clock, Place the clock in a tin plate.
- To make your sink brighter, line the sink with paper towels. Pour on bleach till the towels are soaked. Let them stay for half an hour then scrub your sink with cleaning powder.
- Tooth paste is excellent for polishing jewelry.
- For fluffy scrambled eggs, put a little vinegar in the broken eggs and beat before cooking
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Lucy Lockett | Aug 3, 2007 | Reply
I know I learned a couple of new tricks! Thanks Ruby.
Nancy | Aug 7, 2007 | Reply
Some good ideas to help me out. thanks
Randy | Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
I get the short end of the stick often enough to apreciate some of these tips.
Marie | Aug 26, 2007 | Reply
Good helpful hints here.
Malendaz | Dec 16, 2008 | Reply
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Rydith | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
Oooh! Awesome tips! Thanks!
Sandy | Apr 21, 2009 | Reply
I don’t know. There are some strange ones here: vanilla on burns? You need to cool it first. Boiling orange peels will take out the oils you presumably need for a recipe. Likewise, I might not like the taste of salty nuts (sorry Alec Baldwin). Did you get this out of an old book? I haven’t heard chrome called “chromium” and not too many people use wind up alarm clocks now.