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Heart of Gold - Neil Young

some excellent tips

03.10.07 (7:07 am) [edit]

Reheat Pizza

Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick skillet on top of the stove, This keeps the crust crispy.

Deviled Eggs

Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients in recipe, 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.

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.
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.

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 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, especially 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.

posted by: LadyG (reply)
post date: 03.10.07 (2:36 pm)

Wonderful tips mimi, some new ones for me.

posted by: appletree (reply)
post date: 03.10.07 (5:14 pm)

Nice tips. Thank you for sharing.

posted by: lostin2007 (reply)
post date: 03.11.07 (7:52 pm)

Thanks for sharing these tips. I'm definitely going to try them. :)

posted by: ggirl (reply)
post date: 03.13.07 (7:50 am)

Definitely great tips...several of which I really needed.

posted by: FinalyFree (reply)
post date: 03.13.07 (4:32 pm)

Fantastic tips Mimi! I've been looking for a non-toxic way to get rid of ants :)

posted by: lorischuster (reply)
post date: 03.13.07 (6:24 pm)

I've never heard of most of these...what great ideas. I'll print this up and put it in my notebook. Yes, I'm a geek with a notebook.

posted by: commontater (reply)
post date: 03.14.07 (10:28 pm)

Hello again, merry Mimi! These are wonderful tips (reminds me of Heloise :>) and some will be put to good use. Thank you for sharing and I appreciate time- and mind-savers, so keep them coming. Hope all is well with you and April! I've been out of commission for awhile due to a bad fall and I'm just getting back into the groove (I hope!)
XOXOX

PuC

posted by: mimi (reply)
post date: 03.15.07 (4:00 am)

Reply to: commontater
oh, dear! hope you are on the mend and feeling better! i am so sorry to hear you got hurt. wishing you a speedy recovery! xoxox

posted by: apyjo (reply)
post date: 03.18.07 (6:41 am)

interesting tips !

posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 03.20.07 (6:39 am)

You're getting as bad as I am about not posting. ;) I'm glad you are busy with other things, but still checking in once in a while. I'm definitely going o give some of these tips a try. I like practical, common sense help. :)) Hope you are doing alright in swampland.

posted by: swanktrendz (reply)
post date: 03.22.07 (7:02 pm)

I have to try the safety pin in the skirt suggestion (to stop static cling). It drives me nuts when I have static cling so I am really looking forward to trying this.