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!