Helpful Household Hints
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold! Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking. To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up. For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples.. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm! 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. 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. 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 for- get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers. Broken Glass Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily. 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. 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 nar- row 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 ... ta da! ... static is gone. 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. Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car . When the window s 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. Viola! It unseals easily. Conditioner Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's 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 dish washing 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, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed! 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 fil- ter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over to the sink and 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 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! |
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| ooooooooh, interesting!!!!!!!!!!! I put my bananas in the fridge for them to last longer (brown skin but inside never is!!), but now I'll separate them as well.
I also really like the pizza idea! ...and using container frosting is a no-no!!  |
| Who uses hair conditioner that's cheaper than shaving cream? |
Quote: ...and using container frosting is a no-no!! EXACTLY! plus is leaves a funny taste in your mouth. Quote: Who uses hair conditioner that's cheaper than shaving cream? yeah
Use a teaspoon of white wine in your waffle batter to eliminate sticking. When putting fresh cake onto a plate for presentation, put a thin layer of sugar on the plate beforehand to eliminate the cake from sticking. Have trouble getting those graham cracker base pie out of the pan without crumbling? Dip the bottom of the pie pan on warm water for 10 seconds to slighly melt the butter in the crust making for a clean removal. Making pancakes? Use club soda instead of milk or water in the recipe. Light and airy. Like clear noodle soup? Cook the noodles separate and add them just before serving. |
| Those are GREAT tips sheepieboss! Learned some new things.
I use babyoil for shaving. Closest shave I can get and leaves it smooth all day. When not wearing something to impress, I use my soap. |
| I use bar soap for shaving, too. |
At this point I'm glad that I can still reach my legs to shave them!  I have used conditioner, soap, shaving cream, all of it......didn't think of baby oil though, might have to try that one. |
| Cool re static... wonder if I could put a tiny safety pin on the dogs' collar for the show ring? LOL The dog gets staticky.... |
| By the way, the pizza on the stove thing is the ONLY way to reheat pizza. Once you try it, you'll never do it any other way. Although the list doesn't mention it - and this is important - it needs to be a covered skillet. Medium heat, 6-8 minutes.
Seriously, I like it reheated on the stove top way better than when it's first delivered! |
rdf wrote: By the way, the pizza on the stove thing is the ONLY way to reheat pizza. Once you try it, you'll never do it any other way. Although the list doesn't mention it - and this is important - it needs to be a covered skillet. Medium heat, 6-8 minutes.
Seriously, I like it reheated on the stove top way better than when it's first delivered! I had never heard of this before. But re-heated (in microwave or toaster oven) never seems to work right. I'm excited about trying this one! |
| Suave hair conditioner can be bought on sale for less than $1 and I've used conditioner when I've run out of shaving cream. Works fine. I like the shaving gel and the cheapest I've ever gotten that is $1.99 (Target brand).
LEFTOVER SNICKERS???? Who has leftover Snickers? |
Paula O. wrote: LEFTOVER SNICKERS???? Who has leftover Snickers?
Very true!!! |
sneakysheepie wrote: Paula O. wrote: LEFTOVER SNICKERS???? Who has leftover Snickers? Very true!!! i do. in fact, i still have leftover chocolate turkeys left from thanksgiving |
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You sound like mr. j and that disgusts me.  I think it's neglect or some form of abuse to the chocolate to grab one little piece or break off a bit ...then leave it there for months. You make OTHER people in the house fat due to your chocolate abuse. |
| Ha ha...you sound like my daughter! There are candy bars I love. They're from the Hershey Store. They are dark chocolate with chili bits. Its really good. Its about the size of a regular Hershey bar. I can make one last for 1 - 2 months. I do the same with Hershey bars. My daughter always tells me, I'm a sick, sick person.... |
Joahaeyo wrote: ^
You sound like mr. j and that disgusts me. I think it's neglect or some form of abuse to the chocolate to grab one little piece or break off a bit ...then leave it there for months. You make OTHER people in the house fat due to your chocolate abuse. I still have leftover chocolate cigars from when T was born last June...And I JUST threw out LAST Halloween's candy... |
| Halloween candy is excuseable. More than half of it is cheap candy that no one likes. ...but those chocolate cigars?!?! I don't know why but those are the best. Maybe it's b/c you get to pretend? I just know I love them. |
| You know what I think it is with the cigars that we didn't eat them? They were shipped to us from a grandparent and they melted, and we froze them so they reformed, but they weren't as pretty as they used to be...even though they tasted good they just didn't look so appetizing (which would make you think we'd eat them faster to get them out of the way!) |
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