To get crayon marks cleaned off walls, wipe with a damp rag dipped in baking soda. Almost effortless!
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Tip for Traveling with Kids
When traveling with kids, place a folded flat sheet over the back seat where the kids are sitting. When you stop, simply take out the sheet and shake it to get rid of crumbs, crayon shavings, etc., and the seat upholstery will be kept much cleaner.
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Toilet Training Tip
If you put a few drops of blue food coloring in the toilet you can show your child that the color turns green when he or she goes.
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Coffee Filters – Look what they can do!
Coffee filters ..who knew! And you can buy 1,000 for almost nothing.
- Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.
- Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.
- Protect China. Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter between each dish.
- Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
- Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
- Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
- Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
- Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
- Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
- Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.
- Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
- Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters.
- Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.
- Keep in the bathroom. They make Great “razor nick fixers.”
- OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS!
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Coupons for Kids
Make little good-behavior coupons for children. Print the coupons on different colors of paper for each child. Use the coupons as rewards for doing good things. The face value of the coupon can be whatever you decide is appropriate. Be creative – use coupons to be cashed in for activities or other rewards, or maybe they can be like real coupons and used for items the child can save up for when they go shopping with you.
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