Household Tips for a Lifetime
1. To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.
2. To prevent egg shells from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard-boiling.
3. To get the most juice out of fresh lemons, bring them to room temperature &
roll them under your palm against the kitchen counter before squeezing.
4. When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead
-- no white mess on the outside of the cake.
5. If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato --
it absorbs the excess salt for an instant "fix me up."
6. Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator, it will keep for weeks.
7. Place a slice of apple in hardened brown sugar to soften it back up.
8. When boiling corn on the cob, add a pinch of sugar to help bring out the corn's natural sweetness.
9. To determine whether an egg is fresh, immerse it in a pan of cool, salted water.
If it sinks, it is fresh -- if it rises to the surface, throw it away.
10. Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead.
The throbbing will go away.
11. Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers.
Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water.
12. To get rid of itch from mosquito bite: try applying soap on the area, instant relief.
13. Ants, ants, ants everywhere ... Well, they are said to never cross a chalk line.
So get your chalk out and draw a line on the floor or wherever ants tend to march --
see for yourself.
14. When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle.
Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, then pull it off.
Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily.
15. NOW Look what you can do with Alka-Seltzer:
a. Clean a toilet -- drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush and flush.
The citric acid and effervescent action clean vitreous china.
b. Clean a vase -- to remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet,
fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets.
c. Polish jewelry -- drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and
immerse the jewelry for two minutes.
d. Clean a thermos bottle -- fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets,
and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary).
e. Unclog a drain -- clear the sink drain by dropping three Alka-Seltzer tablets
down the drain followed by a cup of Heinz White Vinegar.
Wait a few minutes, then run the hot water.