FReeper Canteen ~ Household Hints ~ 17 May 2007

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.

To: AZamericonnie

I look so forward to showing you. :)
Thanks
Hugs!

261 posted on 05/16/2007 8:07:12 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. It Prayers said for our Heroes!)

To: AZamericonnie

Good evening, AZ.....how are the eyes? Feeling better? How are your ducks?

262 posted on 05/16/2007 8:08:32 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)

hydrocortisone cream and oatmeal.

Another use for an old sock.. Handful of oatmeal. Wet it with warm water, scrunge it and pat the milk on.

You can also do an oatmeal bath a lot cheaper than aveeno with 10% of the mess.

Oatmeal in the leg of a stocking and tie it on the spigot of the bath tub. The good stuff comes out in the bath water and the mess stays in the stocking.

Also stay away from hot showers or hot baths, will make the itch flare up something awful.

263 posted on 05/16/2007 8:08:42 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)

To: Kathy in Alaska; Brad's Gramma

Prayers on the way for Brad’s Gramma and her husband.

264 posted on 05/16/2007 8:09:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)

They will be beautiful when you return home :)

265 posted on 05/16/2007 8:10:17 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. It Prayers said for our Heroes!)

To: TASMANIANRED

We use Windex to get too-tight rings off fingers at work. It’s cold and slick and they just slide right off.

Sometimes all I have to do is say “I’ll get the Windex to take it off”...and some people get it off themselves! LOL!

266 posted on 05/16/2007 8:10:48 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

To: StarCMC; Bethbg79; EsmeraldaA; MoJo2001; Kathy in Alaska; Brad's Gramma; laurenmarlowe; ...

Sierra Vista AZ

Tonight Mostly Cloudy

Currently
73°F at 8:02 pm
Feels Like 73°F Low: 53°F

Today
High: 87°F
Humidity: 40% Pressure: 29.83 in
Visibility: 35 mi
Wind: N 1 mph

Thu
52°F/89°F
Fri
62°F/90°F
Sat
60°F/91°F
Sun
57°F/90°F

267 posted on 05/16/2007 8:11:15 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

I am anxious to finally see them bloom. They have had many hazards this spring to set them back.

268 posted on 05/16/2007 8:11:34 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

These are great ideas! Thank You!

269 posted on 05/16/2007 8:11:56 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (I'd rather be LUCKY than GOOD!)

To: Kathy in Alaska; Brad's Gramma

her husband are in urgent need of prayer.

I spoke with him Saturday and he sounded pretty good, except for that cough. I guess it got worse.

Prayer's up for Brad's Grampa, hang in there FRiend, we're pulling for you.

271 posted on 05/16/2007 8:13:23 PM PDT by HiJinx (Ask me about Troop Support...)

To: beachn4fun; AZamericonnie; LUV W; MeekMom; Mrs.Nooseman; GodBlessUSA; Jet Jaguar

Thanks everyone! I got an early present from my older boy, a new tackle box to go with the new rod and reel he got me for Mother’s Day!

Today (the 16th) would have been my father’s 87th birthday and tomorrow I will be another year closer to the half century mark! NOOOOOOOOO!

272 posted on 05/16/2007 8:14:51 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)

To: TASMANIANRED

Thanks Taz :)
Oatmeal is a great idea. I forgot about this one. My Mom always had an oatmeal soap for us kids. :) At this point I’m tempted to make oatmeal and apply it. LOL I'm definitely going to try the hydrocortisone also.

273 posted on 05/16/2007 8:15:07 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. It Prayers said for our Heroes!)

Send them to me! I recycle to earn my way in this crazy state!

274 posted on 05/16/2007 8:15:17 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (I'd rather be LUCKY than GOOD!)

What a great gift and your son was very thoughtful to combine the two gifts for you.

You must love to fish!

God rest your dear father’s soul!

275 posted on 05/16/2007 8:17:24 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

Can you believe that it’s only 56 degrees here right now...and we got another 6/10ths of an inch of rain? We won’t be a desert if this keeps up. We’ll be tropical! LOL!

276 posted on 05/16/2007 8:18:37 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

There is a product called IVY Chex..that you scrub after exposure.
Washes the oil off.

277 posted on 05/16/2007 8:18:45 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)

Yay... Enjoy fishing. What a thoughtful son. :)
A beautiful day of honoring your Dad and then your Bday follows. I hope you have a wonderful day!

278 posted on 05/16/2007 8:18:58 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. It Prayers said for our Heroes!)

We’d like a little of tht moisture.

279 posted on 05/16/2007 8:19:39 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

I am totally amazed that we have gotten so much.

It’s supposed to keep raining off and on through the
weekend.

My grass is beautiful! Hubby hates it...he has to mow it! LOL!

280 posted on 05/16/2007 8:21:49 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

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