FReeper Canteen ~ Household Hints ~ 17 May 2007

May 16, 2007 | Entertaining the Troops Committee

[beachn4fun]

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

HINT & TIPS

Welcome to the FReeper Canteen Hints & Tips that can be make your life easier. Or not! Hopefully, you'll find something here that will make your life easier. Or maybe someone you know could use one of these ideas. If you have a hint or tip of your own, be sure to leave it behind before you leave the Canteen.

Ma can always use helpful ideas on how to keep the Canteen clean with all the youngsters running around.

Let's start with some general household hints.

*** Use of soap wrapper: Don't throw away the wrapper after removing a bar of soap. Place it inside your shoe cabinet or shoe box. It's a cheap way of filling the air with a nice smell.

*** If your polished furniture has small scratches: Try rubbing them with a shelled walnut. You'll see the scratches just disappear!

*** If you have problem with slippery shoelaces which refuse to stay tied: Rub them with a candle and make them less slippery so that knots stay put.

*** To keep lint and dust off glass top tables, wash them in a solution of warm water and fabric softener. Add one tablespoon of liquid fabric softener to one quart of warm water. The fabric softener will clean the glass inexpensively and will help keep lint from gathering on the glass. Also great for computer screens and TV's

*** Don't throw away odd socks or socks with holes in them, use them to make a mop. Tie several socks (10-12 works best) to a mop or broom handle and use just like you would a regular mop. White cotton socks work best for this project and by the time the "sock mop" wears out, you'll probably have plenty more socks to make a new one.

***Get rid of pet hair on upholstery effortlessly by wiping the furniture with a slightly dampened sponge.

(All hints found on websites. Management makes no claims to the effectiveness of any hints)

Join us again next week for more hints.

[tomkow6]

mine

[EsmeraldaA]

Hey Tom!

[beachn4fun]

Hey, thanks for that hint ElGran

[Fawnn]

Prayers lifted.

[El Gran Salseron]

"Hey, thanks for that hint ElGran"

Well, whaddaya know? I AM good for something, after all!

Wait'll I tell my wife!

[EsmeraldaA]

*Wait’ll I tell my wife*

WHHHAAT?!?

I was about to ask you to marry me!!

LOL!

[StarCMC]

Fly-by post: We went to the recruiter's office today for ORA - I just wanted to share the picture.

*HUGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Very cool....I will get started in about an hour when I go to the pizza place and place my order. I wish Ashlie was here to help me deliver....an extra pair of hands. Good looking “hands” you have there.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, Pusterfuss...((HUGS))...hope Thursday is going well. 3 day weekend coming up?

[El Gran Salseron]

Well, she’s always mumbling, “Bueno para nada.”

I’m going to “bueno-para-nada” her one of these days as soon as I find out what it means.

[SevenofNine]

Breaking news off Fox news alert report that US Senate has granted maybe amsnety to illegal workers here in the US with new immigration BILL

[SevenofNine]

Breaking news off Fox news alert report that US Senate has granted maybe amsnety to illegal workers here in the US with new immigration BILL

[beachn4fun]

LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

wh!!

Luv w.....#400!!
beachy.....#500!!
GB.....#550!!

[EsmeraldaA]

Do you really want to know?

I could tell you exactly what it means.
But you do know........don't you?

[Kathy in Alaska]

tom.....the hat trick.....#600, #650, #700!!

[beachn4fun]

LOL

I love that chicky

[SevenofNine]

HEY TOMKOW the game is on WGN Superstation right now

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mayor, for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[Kathy in Alaska]

He is cute....LOL!!