When you are out working in your yard, wear your golf shoes (or soccer shoes, etc.). This will help to break up the surface, and the grass will grow better. Well, it works on golf courses, doesn’t it?
Great Ideas
Here’s some great ideas! Helpful household hints and tips for you to use every day. You’ll find helpful suggestions for cleaning chores, gardening, cooking, and more. These tips will help you save time, money, and frustration. Please be aware, however, that we have not personally tried all the tips you’ll find here, so we cannot guarrantee that they will always work for you – many are shared with us by our readers, and seemed to have worked well for them. The home remedies should never replace instructions from your personal physician, and you should use caution when trying any new remedy for the first time.
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Beauty Mask
If you have oily skin, apply pepto bismol (generic would also work) to your face like a mask, let it dry, then rinse with warm water. if you have combination skin then just apply to your oily area.
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Keep Ants Off Peonies
I’ve heard that putting cucumber peelings around the bottom of peony plants will keep ants away. I wonder if that will keep ants away from other places, as well. . . .hmmm.
By the way, ants are NOT needed to help the flowers open on peonies.
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Fresher Kitty Litter
Sprinkle 16 ounces of baking soda into the litter box before putting in the kitty litter, and the odor won’t be quite as bad.
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Garden Pest Control
Instead of using toxic pesticides, mix your own natural spray. Here is the recipe:
2 whole heads of garlic
2 hot peppers (can use jalapeno or cayenne or scotch bonnets)
Blend the garlic and peppers in a food processor. Strain the juice into a gallon jug and fill the rest with water. This will be your base concentrate.
To use, mix a third of a cup of the concentrate with a gallon of water. Put it in a spray bottle, and there you go!
Keep in mind, this should only be used outside!
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Shoe Deoderizer
To deodorize shoes or sneakers, place a sheet of fabric softener in them and leave overnight.
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Pet Hair
Remove pet hair by rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce. It will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
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Dish Washing Tips
Clean baked-on foods from a pan. Put a fabric softener sheet in the pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. Supposedly, the anti-static agent weakens the bond between the food and the pan.
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Static Cling
Rub a sheet of fabric softener on the underside of your skirt, or on your legs to prevent your skirt from clinging. This also works on pants.
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Aches & Pains
Keep a bag of unpopped popcorn kernels in the freezer to use as an icepack for bumps, bruises and swelling. It’s easy to mold to any body part, and there’s no melting! If you don’t want to use popcorn, try a bag of frozen peas, corn or other small vegetable – they work just as well.
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