TRIVIA:
Better
label = Tips and Hints! Thanks to Bud Casselberry.
Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick 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.
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.
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/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.
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.
Broken Glass
Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken
glass pieces of glass - the fibers catch ones you can't see!
No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will
keep the mosquitoes away.
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.
Easier Thank You's
When you throw a bridal/baby shower, buy a
pack of thank you cards for the guest of honor. During the party, pass
out the envelopes and have everyone put their address on one. When the
bride/new mom sends the thank you's, they're all addressed!
MINE!!!!!
If you purchase a new bike for your child,
place their picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on.
If the bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is
your proof who owns the bike.
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.
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 - voila - static is gone.
Measuring Cups
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...
Good-bye 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!
Take baby powder to the beach
Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your
beach bag. When you're ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids
with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin.
QUOTES:
The sign of intelligent
people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
--Marya Mannes
To do the useful
thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing:
that is enough for one man's life.
--T.S. Eliot
Tact is the knack
of making a point without making an enemy.
--Howard W. Newton
He who finds diamonds
must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished
stones. They are made.
--Henry B. Wilson
In times of universal
deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
It is never too
late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot