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cateyes1

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Who Knew???
« on: June 11, 2014, 03:22:07 am »



 THINGS YOUR MOTHER SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOU

 1. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

 2. Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

 3. 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.

 4. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

 5. 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.

 6. 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.

 7. 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.

 8. 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!

 9. 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.

 10. 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.

 11. 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.

 12. 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.

 13. 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.

 14. Broken Glass
 Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.

 15. No More Mosquitoes
 Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

 16. 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.

 17. 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.

 18. 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 ... guess what! ... static is gone.

 19. 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. (Or spray the measuring cup or spoon with Pam before using)

 20. 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!

 21. Re-opening envelopes
 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.

 22. 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.

 23. 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!

 24. 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!

 25. Dryer Filter
 Even if you are very diligent about cleaning the lint filter in your dryer it still may be causing you a problem. If you use dryer sheets a waxy build up could be accumulating on the filter causing your dryer to over heat. The solution to this is to clean your filter with with a toothbrush and hot soapy water every 6 months.


 

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2014, 04:50:54 am »
Thanks These were different and informative  :thumbsup:

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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2014, 07:32:44 am »
Thanks a bunch!  I learned some new tips today!!
Have a wonderful day!

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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2014, 08:38:08 pm »
I'll definitely have to try #15. Thanks!

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2014, 08:39:22 am »
Thanks, cateyes1.  None of those ever occurred to me, but they are worth trying to see if they worked. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :rainbow: :rose:

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2014, 04:48:36 pm »
Wow! thanks for all the info! I am going to try # 24 and see if it works.

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2014, 05:02:17 pm »
I have to try the corn meal for the ants....ty.....

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2014, 05:02:54 pm »
Hey I love this list! I'm gonna have to bookmark this page because my momma was not on the ball and didn't tell me over half of this stuff!  ;)
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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2014, 05:19:20 pm »
 ???  wow - that was an amazing list of good ideas.  A few of these I knew about but most I didn't and so I really appreciate the information.  I can't believe I'm 60 years old and knew about so few of these ideas !!

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2014, 06:29:08 pm »
thank I didn't know that .how did you find that out?do u know anything else like that

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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2014, 08:55:39 pm »

I use to have a cookbook that that had all the tips and tricks of getting serveral different kinds of stains out of clothing. The book wore too old to use and was thrown out among other reasons. Doe anyone know of such a book books that has a directory style stain index to find the stain you are trying to washout like example, grapefruite stains, then tells you step by step how to get get the stain to come out of whether it be a surface, clothing etc.etc.  Thanks All.

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2014, 09:45:04 pm »
Cool I need to give these a try.

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2014, 06:41:22 am »
I knew most of these. Some by trail and error and some well...

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« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2014, 08:14:59 am »
Thank for the info. I copied and pasted, love the information.

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Re: Who Knew???
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2014, 08:55:14 am »
What great ideas. A few of these I knew, but a lot I didn't. Thanks for sharing these. I'll definitely be putting them to use  :) :)

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