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Natural Household Tips
Tip #1
You have driven over a newly blacktopped road and there are patches of tar splattered on the side of your car. Did you know that peanut butter will take the tar off of your car without taking the paint with it?
Tip #2
By sprinkling flour or corn starch onto a patch of oil left by a vehicle, your driveway will be nice and clean when the next rain washes it away. The flour or corn starch will soak up the oil, so there will be little to no stain left behind.
Tip #3
For a quick pewter clean–up, rub it with cabbage leaves.
Tip #4
To ripen green tomatoes or green bananas, wrap them in a damp dishtowel and place them in a paper sack. Sunlight will soften red tomatoes, not ripen them.
Tip #5
To get that nasty dust off of silk flowers, shake in a bag with table salt. Put 1/2 to 3/4 cup salt in a bag, put in flowers and shake what your momma gave you.
Tip #6
What will keep freshly grated parmesan cheese from caking up in the shaker? By putting one or two large uncooked noodles in it will keep the cheese’s moisture content constant and will not harm the flavor.
Tip #7
Throw out those cling sheets to reduce the static in clothing, try putting hand lotion on your hands and rubbing them in between two fabrics, slide a metal hanger (or any conductive metal) or simply mist the clothing with water.
Tip #8
Add 1/2 cup of white vinegar to the rinse cycle as a fabric softener. The mild acid of the vinegar neutralizes the detergent remaining on the clothes that keeps the fibers matted down. Without the residual detergent, the clothes will be naturally softer. The vinegar should not affect the color of clothes, but to be on the safe side, pour the vinegar in the rinse water in an area where clothes aren’t and swish it around a bit.
Tip #9
Keep a piece of chalk, charcoal or a dessicant pack from new shoes or a medicine bottle in your toolbox to absorb moisture and prevent rusting.
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