Posted on 08/17/2013 5:27:15 PM PDT by virgil283
bfl
Vegetable oils decompose after a bit and turn into sludge. Rancid, unwashed sheephugging ghetto-bum smell that just does not go away.
I have to say that I’ve (thankfully!) never encountered that situation/smell ;)
Anything that sprays with a petroleum base will kill bugs. It absorbs into their bodies and they die.
Put baby powder in floorboards to stop the creaking.
Baking soda and vinegar cleans anything, especially garbage disposals. Add shaved lemon, lime or orange rind for better smell.
Couldn’t figure out what to do with old telephone books. Use them as targets. Also something to beat liberals senseless with.
Think: attempting to take a sip out of a glass or mug at someone's house who has been casual about cleaning them after using them to hold milk. Even more noticeable with a container with many little scratches inside that have accumulated over time and hold tiny pieces of spoiled milk chunksies within the cracks, like an old plastic container that has been washed for quite some time. Sponges do not get into the cracks, so debris tends to accumulate.
Good to know the baby powder in the floorboards tip. Thanks!
Life hacks I’ve found:
* Ration snacks by buying few. Propose them as birthday and Christmas presents. Kids get something they like, but appreciate Hostess cupcakes and expensive jerky because it’s rare.
* Inform family that if they want to give money to a child but are reluctant to do so, I can give them the 529 account information. It goes to the child’s college fund, no misuse.
* Take the shower mat and flip it over every two or three days to air out. Once a week, leave it outside in the sun to get sanitized. You’ll use a lot less mold-killer in the bathroom.
* Air dry towels on the back of a couch under a fan so you don’t have to wash them each day.
* Here is a spoon. Here is a metal thing I don’t care about. Go ahead kids, have a party.
Good point. Less risk of food poisoning.
Or use pre-cooked bacon from a pack at the store to make the pancakes.
20-somethings think of shortcuts as “hacks”. Thus shortcuts in life are “life hacks”.
The term is popularized by a book “Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better”.
I use Sharpies on small permanent stains, they have so many colors. Recently, I had a brand new pair of black Skechers and I got a drop of white paint on them, just covered over it with a black Sharpie.
Never try to kill them with a brick... You'll just piss them off, and now you've armed them!
Mark
I used to work in an auto parts store machine shop. We tried a lot of the different sprays available (including WD-40), but what we found to be the best was "Gunk Engine Brite," which appeared to dissolve wasp wings on contact. They'd just drop out of the air once hit.
Whoa! Great minds, and all that!
Mark
Hahahahahaha...I remember when we moved to Japan, they had the biggest roaches I had ever seen, and they were called by some other name by the navy housing people...I remember my mother huffing and exclaiming “They can call those G*damn things whatever they want, but they are still roaches!”
If she were alive today, she would say “Palmetto bugs my ass!”
Hahahaha...I always thought it was duct tape that was the universal male aphrodisiac!
Hey! That ain’t funny.
“...to pull out her cars dipstick and she have the drop she needed.”
Smart. I oiled up all the hinges on the doors in the house. Two of the doors weren’t hung right I guess, so they would swing shut now that they were all oiled up! Annoying.
Rather than rehang the doors, I bent the pins a bit with a hammer to put a bit of stress on the hinge so they’ll stay put.
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