15 Random Household Tips From Cyberspace
Posted on January 28, 2008 by Melissa
Filed Under Household
This weekend, I received an email from my father-in-law that had all sorts of household tips in it. Some of the tips I knew about but some I hadn’t seen before. I thought the 15 tips below were interesting enough to share with everyone. Hopefully you will find them helpful as well!
I haven’t tested these out yet but I did write some comments below.
If you have tried any of these tricks before please share with us if they really work!
1. Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
I may try this out on my leftover pizza for lunch today. It’s worth a shot!
2. Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
3. Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
4. Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
5. Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Weeds can get through plastic but not wet newspaper? Hmmm.
6. Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.
I use a damp paper towel – that way my hands are protected and I can cover a larger area
7. Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.
I wonder if this would get expensive? I wouldn’t do this around pets - the cayenne can irritate their eyes and nose.
8. Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
9. Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and — ta da! — static is gone.
This could come in handy - I’ve always had to use a static spray.
10. Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
I like to rub my cups with a dab of oil so the ingredients slide out.
11. Foggy Windshields
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
12. Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
Putting the envelope in the microwave for a few seconds is quicker. I tried it out here.
13. Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.
Great idea! I bet this would work just fine if you used a thin layer.
14. Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2″ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
15. Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it “home,” can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
I’ve had ant problems before but never heard of this method.
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Great tips! Thanks for sharing.
I can attest to the newspaper. My mom didn’t believe me. When we moved to our house, I did that for the side and part of the front part of our beds when we planted them and we ran out of newspapers. Mom said it didn’t matter and we went ahead and planted the other half of the front. Now she (and I) both say we should have waited and did the same thing to it. I did call the newspaper company first to make sure they used soy-based ink too. We are going to have to dig up and replant the other half of the front beds. I still get some weeds but it’s nothing like the other side.
Equal (aspartame) will also kill ants - sprinkle it on the mounds.
Makes you thing twice about that Diet Coke, doesn’t it!
The conditioner as shaving cream works very well.
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I can vouch for the pizza, deviled eggs, frosting and conditioner tips.
The fruit flies tip reminds me of a fleas tip I use… if you have fleas, fill a shallow dish with diswashing detergent and water. Put a large lighted candle in the dish, and put in a dark room (make sure it’s not near anything combustible or somewhere where a pet can knock it over). The fleas will jump towards the light, fall into the dishwashing solution and drown. Works like a charm.
The bread tip works, and it also works to soften up day old bagels, but you can’t toast them afterwards.