FReeper Canteen ~ Household Hints ~ 17 May 2007

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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: Kathy in Alaska

Prayers for Brad’s Grandma and her husband.

741 posted on 05/17/2007 12:57:15 PM PDT by kitkat

LOL!... Just pokin' around, checking to see if anybodys home.

Hey, we're having some of your weather this weekend. mid 50's at night, 70's in the daytime. Must be global warming...

742 posted on 05/17/2007 1:00:06 PM PDT by GrandEagle

Hey Tom!
How ya doin’ friend?
Go Cubbies!!!

743 posted on 05/17/2007 1:09:11 PM PDT by MeekMom (Present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.)

Unfortunately, they just blew it in the bottom of the ninth, & lost!

744 posted on 05/17/2007 1:13:21 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

Did they ever get the cassino boat back in the Gulf, after Katrina blew it in shore?

745 posted on 05/17/2007 1:15:58 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

To: GrandEagle; SevenofNine

746 posted on 05/17/2007 1:16:37 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

747 posted on 05/17/2007 1:16:55 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

748 posted on 05/17/2007 1:16:56 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

749 posted on 05/17/2007 1:16:58 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

750 posted on 05/17/2007 1:16:58 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

Wanna race
Sure... But with this dial-up you will have to give me a head start!

751 posted on 05/17/2007 1:19:22 PM PDT by GrandEagle

OK! How much of a head start do ya need?

752 posted on 05/17/2007 1:22:04 PM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)

753 posted on 05/17/2007 1:27:36 PM PDT by GrandEagle

To: Kathy in Alaska; Brad's Gramma

Prayers continue.

Safe trip if you must travel.

754 posted on 05/17/2007 1:38:51 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)

To: stephenjohnbanker; Kathy in Alaska; All

Per a 10:00 phone call and NOT from a doc, but from the nurse, he has a sort of blood clot on the cranium. He had not had the MRI yet nor the EKG......

We’re hanging on with everyone’s prayers ...... and I’m waiting to see if I hightail it over there.

Gotta go get ready to get Brad from school....PLEASE keep prayin’...

755 posted on 05/17/2007 1:47:09 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (See HiJinx's tag line....then DO it!!!!)

756 posted on 05/17/2007 2:00:11 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

To: Brad's Gramma

((((((hugs)))))

The prayers continue for your dear husband!

God be with you both, and God grant him healing.

757 posted on 05/17/2007 2:01:17 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

To: Kathy in Alaska

THANKS!

free dixie,sw

758 posted on 05/17/2007 2:05:43 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Hee-hee!

Love peeps....not the edible kind, though. Because they aren’t!

Thanks, Kathy.

759 posted on 05/17/2007 2:17:37 PM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)

To: El Gran Salseron

Thanks for that tip.

Would heating it in the microwave be any different.

I’m not sure my oven WILL heat...as it’s been sooooo long since I cooked anything in it! LOL!

760 posted on 05/17/2007 2:19:10 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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