Tip of the Day #195: Toilet Bowl Stain/Ring Remover

Borax
Lemon juice

Flush toilet then make a paste of the above ingredients. Apply with toilet brush, leave overnight, scrub in the morning.

CROCKPOT APPLESAUCE

I thought I would share my delicious recipe for my homemade crockpot applesauce!

Ingredients:
8-10 medium size apples (I use a mixture of Golden Delicious & Empire, but the choice is up to you)
1 cinnamon stick
2 pieces of lemon zest
4 tbsp of brown sugar

Peel and cut apples and place in crock pot with all other ingredients. Cook on low heat for 6 hours. One hour before completion, open lid and stir apples--they should be soft by now. Once done, let cool and serve. Very easy and yummy! :)

Tip of the Day #194: All in one!

Create a shaker consisting of 75 percent salt and 25 percent pepper for an all-in-one flavour!

Tip of the Day #193: Kitchen Solutions

Build a tray stand to hold your kitchen necessities--purchase a candle stand and a cake plate or tray from your local dollar store and hot glue them together. This will keep items dry and out of the way while working in the kitchen!

Tip of the Day #192: Organizing Games & Puzzles

In my home, it is inevitable that game boxes get torn and broken, and pieces of these games or puzzles always go missing. That is until I thought of this idea--I purchased multiple zippered pouches from my local dollar store, labeled each one along with a picture of the game/puzzle, and placed all contents inside. These pouches now stay up HIGH until the kids want to play with them lol. It has definitely helped in salvaging the kids nice things! :)

Tip of the Day #191: Trapping Wasps

Wasps can really be a nuisance! Add a mixture of vinegar(1 cup), sugar( 1tbsp) and salt(1tbsp) in a dish or use the bottom half of a 2L pop bottle and place around your yard. The wasps are attracted to the sweet and sour scent. Bees will be safe as they don’t seem to be attracted by this sour mixture.

Tip of the Day # 190: Dusting Lamps

When dusting, I insist on using a lint roller on my lamp shades. After completion, they always look brand new!

Tip of the Day #189: Vacuuming Tips

1. To find something on the floor: place a stocking over the vacuum cleaner nozzle and vacuum the area

2. Add a paper towel or wrapping paper tube to the end of your vacuum hose to act as an 'extender' to get under tough to reach areas like your refrigerator, stove or couches.

Tip of the Day #188: Natural Oven Cleaner

Looking to clean the inside of your oven and even the door??? Sprinkle baking soda over the entire surface then pour lemon juice over top. It should fizz, then allow to sit for approximately one hour. All debris should wipe away very easily! Repeat if necessary, but you can swap lemon juice for vinegar!

Tip of the Day #187: Traction in the Snow

Keep a small bucket or tub of kitty litter in your trunk during the winter months--when your car is stuck in snow, sprinkle the litter around your tires and you will be out in no time!
This actually works drastically better than using sand :)

Tip of the Day #186: Vehicle Fresheners

1. Put a sheet of fabric softener underneath each seat in the car to make it smell nice.

2. For bad odours in cars, put some new ground up coffee beans in area where odor is. Leave for a few days if possible and vacuum it up. The odour should be gone and the car will smell 100 times better!

Tip of the Day # 185: Dealing with Ants

1. If you have a problem with ants coming in your door,  take a piece of white chalk and draw a line. The ants will not cross the line!

OR

2. Buy Corn Meal and sprinkle lightly around wherever the ants have built their colonies. They will flock to the the pile immediately, eat them, and the corn meal will make the ants implode and destroy them.

OR

3. Ants don't like cayenne pepper sprinkled around their anthills, or cucumber peelings.

Tip of the Day # 184: REMOVAL OF ADHESIVE STICKERS

For stickers on glass, use vegetable oil--soak the item in oil for a couple minutes to remove the sticker easily.

For plastic, use WD-40--let it soak on the item for a couple minutes to remove easily.

For metal, use nail polish remover on a cotton ball and let soak in for a couple minutes

For wood, use vegetable oil and let it soak in for thirty minutes. Scrape off sticker with a Teflon scraper.

Tip of the Day # 183: REVIVE OLD MARKERS

Acetone nail polish remover will revive an old marker pen when it becomes dried up. Simply dip the tip part in the acetone & recap. Within a couple of hours, you will be able to re-use it.

Craft Ideas--Valentines Day Inspiration

Why spend your money on expensive crafts when you can make lovely art with items already in your home?!
Your children will have a blast dipping paint in various objects to see what design each makes!
Here are two examples of household things you can use:

1. Save the end of a stalk of celery--when dipped in paint, the stamp makes a ROSE impression.

2. Save toilet paper tubes--they can easily turn into a HEART stamp! If need be, tape the heart tube in place while in use :)

HAVE FUN!!!

Tip of the Day #182: Spice Organization

If you are like me, you have countless small packets of random spices you have only used once or twice--and everytime you go looking for something else in your pantry, you have to sort through their scattered mess. Well today ends that frustration--buy a small box or tin with a lid, place all packets inside (you can even paperclip or bulldog clip the top of any that are open) and label the box.
I say a box with a LID because I had placed all my packages in a small plastic tray, and they STILL managed to be everywhere they werent supposed to!
Hope this tip helpw many of you!

Tip of the Day #181: Repairing Scratches on Glass

If you have thin surface scratches on glass, rub a little toothpaste over the surface. Finishing by polishing off with a soft cloth.

Tip of the Day #180: Ironing Time-Saver

Cut your ironing time by putting a piece of aluminum foil under the ironing board cover. The foil will reflect heat so you're actually ironing from both sides at once. 

Tip of the Day # 181: Removing Chewing Gum

To remove chewing gum from clothing, upholstery or carpets, heat some white vinegar in a pan and apply it to the gum. This is quicker and more effective than the normal method of freezing with ice cubes.

Tip of the Day # 180: Drying Wet Shoes

Dry wet shoes more quickly by putting crumpled balls of newspaper inside them. This will also absorb any odors that would normally linger inside the shoe from dampness.