Handy Hints for Wednesday ~ 3
To keep a guest bed smelling fresh lay some tumble dryer sheets between mattress and duvet. It works well in rolled stored bedding or sleeping bags, or clothes packed away at the end of a season e.g. jumpers.
Used coffee grains should be added to the compost or spread on areas of the garden where you are troubled with snails or slugs. Starbucks coffee houses have a bin with the old used coffee grains for their customers to take (bring a plastic food box with a secure lid so they don’t drip on clothing or in your car) it is usually beside the milk/sugar/napkin bench.
When cooking in a Microwave oven raise the dish on an upturned glass plate or ramekin dish, it helps the food to cook better.
To remove the smell of onion or garlic from your hands after chopping the vegetables- wash your hands with soap and rub your fingers and palms on the sides of a stainless steel sink, don’t forget the sides of your fingers. It REALLY works! Thanks Deborah.
OK Guys! You are all excited with the idea of a date with the woman of your dreams… Disaster; you cut yourself shaving and get blood on the new shirt!
To remove blood from a shirt, break off a very, very long piece of white sewing cotton and chew it like gum, until it is a soft mass – 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the saliva soaked thread from your mouth and use it to rub gently on the blood it will vanish. NB you need matching saliva to the blood, so my saliva will not work on your blood.
I managed to prick my finger at least five times while making Elly’s wedding outfit and got blood on the bodice. The old thread trick worked every time!
Thriftcriminal said,
November 26, 2008 at 8:37 am
Helpful hints indeed! Must try the garlic one, though sometimes I like the smell of garlic on my hands, god knows why.
Baino said,
November 26, 2008 at 8:52 am
Right, here’s a challenge. How do I remove smudged paint from black slate floors! DrummerBoy has done a great job of the ceiling and he’s not quite as messy as me but . . I have some spot cleaning to do. Thanks for the garlic tip, the boy is an addict! Thrifty . . you’re weird!
Nick said,
November 26, 2008 at 9:06 am
Oops, I read that as “To keep a guest smelling fresh….” Now maybe you have some extra tips on that subject?
Yes, I noticed a while back that saliva’s very effective on blood.
We’ve never had a tumble dryer - too greedy on energy.
steph said,
November 26, 2008 at 9:30 am
I’m gutted, Grannymar
No handy tips for a woman meeting the Toyboy of her dreams?
Grannymar said,
November 26, 2008 at 10:49 am
@Thrifty – Fresh garlic is fine, but not nice after a few hours on your hands. A delicate caress loses its magic if the hand stinks of garlic
@Baino – A drop of petrol on a soft cloth. Jack used that method all the time. He had a can in the garage for his Suffolk Punch cylinder mower.
@Nick – I should have said when the guest bed was not in use! I do not have, or ever had a tumble dryer, yet I keep a box of those sheets in the cupboard.
@Steph – Tips about Toyboys are top secret.
kenju said,
November 26, 2008 at 7:20 pm
WOW. I never knew that about thread and blood! That’s great.
Grannymar said,
November 26, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Judy,
It is the saliva that does the trick, the thread is the tool.
Magpie11 said,
November 26, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Spit on it! That was the tip I had for blood!
A Suffolk Punch… the man knew what e was doing! Respect! they’r great horses as well!
Steph…..I’ll let you into a secret..the old rules still apply!
Please excuse but I had to share this…and it applies to women too
To all men, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.
wisewebwoman said,
November 27, 2008 at 3:20 am
I compost my coffee grains, GM, and there are a lot!
Handy tip for the blood, I never knew that, can hardly wait to try but I’m not opening a vein anytime soon!!
XO
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Grannymar said,
November 27, 2008 at 10:18 am
@Magpie - Mammy had many uses for pps - proper pure spit - the one I hated was when she spat on her fingers and used it to tame the wispy bit of my hair back from in front of my ears!
We are never to old to fall in love.
WWW - remember the tip and try not to use it!