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#12
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: No. California
Posts: 2,130
To dispose of liquid medicines, first put some cat litter in a plastic container, then dump the medicine into the litter.....Label trash run some tape around the lid and container and dispose of. I was told this by a pharmacy. I also have found out that I can buy a prepaid envelope in which to put hard pills into and mail to a disposal site. I bought mine at the HMO pharmacy.....$4.95.
PS. I like this thread.......
PS. I like this thread.......
#13
I use some empty plastic coffee containers for outside water bowls for when my bigger dogs are outside. I put a few together in the same place so they always know where they are.
I use a wide plastic lid to draw out a circle needed for such things as a round mug rug etc.
I use a wide plastic lid to draw out a circle needed for such things as a round mug rug etc.
#15
my tip
When drying blankets or big towells in the dryer, I throw in a tennis ball. It helps to decrease the static cling and seems to make them dry faster, and the tennis ball is the perfect weight for the dryer.
#16
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
Posts: 7,695
I wait until after Christmas to buy the super soft lap blankets ($10 regular price, and goes down to about $2.50 after Christmas!) to make custom bathrobes, and to back quilts with. Below is a picture of my custom bathrobe. Just a basic shape, and simple sewing. (I did use fleece scraps for the facing.) Minky for about $2.50 a yard is cheap.
#17
On a standard sheet of paper I wrote out a list of all the grocery items that we buy. The list has several columns on it and it is in the order the items are found in the store. Using our printer, I print the list on both sides of the paper, (it is good for 2 shopping trips).
Everyone in the family uses a highlighter to highlight the items that I need to buy. Before my weekly shopping trip I review the list and highlight what we need. At the end of the list is an "Other" spot for those items that are not on the list, (furnace filters, prescriptions, and other seldom bought items).
My list saves a lot of time in the store and items are not forgotten.
Elise
Everyone in the family uses a highlighter to highlight the items that I need to buy. Before my weekly shopping trip I review the list and highlight what we need. At the end of the list is an "Other" spot for those items that are not on the list, (furnace filters, prescriptions, and other seldom bought items).
My list saves a lot of time in the store and items are not forgotten.
Elise
#18
I recently made Chicken Marsala. The chicken had to be pounded flat between wax paper. I had started saving the waxed bags inside my cereal box to use to wrap things up. I used the wax bag to pound the chicken flat. I only needed the one bag as it is more heavy duty then wax paper. It worked great and the chicken marsala was excellent.
#19
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 405
I have sooo many life tricks and hacks! what a great thread.
Add to hamberger chopped/ground raw potato and your choice of herbs or spices
Weed killer: 1/2 gal Apple Cider Vinegar 1/4 cup salt and 1/2 t. liquid dish detergent. Spray weeds
Spray for mattresses Vodka (you can google 'Uses for Vodka" lots of info there
Help in sprouting seeds 1 oz 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to one pint water let seeds soak overnight
mosquito bites use inside of banana peel
Leather use WD40
retore wood coconut oil
Pest prevention -- 1/3 cup soda, 1/3 cup suigar fill caps of milk jugs put under sink
For grease ants put out whole closes
For mice they do not like the smell of peppermint. one farmer bought peppermint tea bags and put in his machinery
just discovered for snakes - put down the sticky stuff used for mice. works!
I make lefse - I weigh amount of dough, set a timer as I roll and bake alone, and if you want completely round, before
baking use a cover of something, cut around it and then bake.
to deter flies from entering your house, punch 2 holes above the zip closurer of a zip lock bag, fill about 1/2 full of water
then use succhen things to hang on your glass window of your door. flies do not want to pass through . they will
come in on you tho.
I could go on but this is enough
Add to hamberger chopped/ground raw potato and your choice of herbs or spices
Weed killer: 1/2 gal Apple Cider Vinegar 1/4 cup salt and 1/2 t. liquid dish detergent. Spray weeds
Spray for mattresses Vodka (you can google 'Uses for Vodka" lots of info there
Help in sprouting seeds 1 oz 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to one pint water let seeds soak overnight
mosquito bites use inside of banana peel
Leather use WD40
retore wood coconut oil
Pest prevention -- 1/3 cup soda, 1/3 cup suigar fill caps of milk jugs put under sink
For grease ants put out whole closes
For mice they do not like the smell of peppermint. one farmer bought peppermint tea bags and put in his machinery
just discovered for snakes - put down the sticky stuff used for mice. works!
I make lefse - I weigh amount of dough, set a timer as I roll and bake alone, and if you want completely round, before
baking use a cover of something, cut around it and then bake.
to deter flies from entering your house, punch 2 holes above the zip closurer of a zip lock bag, fill about 1/2 full of water
then use succhen things to hang on your glass window of your door. flies do not want to pass through . they will
come in on you tho.
I could go on but this is enough
#20
I have two clothes hampers, one white, one blue. As we dirty clothes, we put them in the appropriate hamper (whites in the white hamper, colors in the blue). When it's time to do laundry, it's a breeze as it's already sorted.
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