| RE: Buying Friend a Moving Away Gift |
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All suggestions were good ones. When I had to move a long way (1500 miles) to a new state I was gifted with things I could place in my collection which was teddy bears. If your friends have a collection of some sort that you can add to then do that with a way to mark it with your name and date to prompt their memory of who it was from years from now. There isn't a day that I don't pass by them (I got two) and think of them. The welcome card is also a great idea because I got one and it was such a joy. Googling to see if their favorite restaurant is near their new home and then giving them a gift card for it is a nice thought. I think a gift card to a favorite store is nice to in order to replace items not practical to move like perishable foods. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Craft Uses For Juice Pouches |
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Here is a link to (if I remember right) 30 patterns using foil juice packs like Capri Sun, but there is a price. With PayPal you can get them right away. I will keep searching and if I find just a pencil pouch I will get back with for that. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Home Remedies for Psoriasis |
After your shower or bath when skin is still wet rub areas with towel, then "finger" rub areas to remove the scales. If you shower at night then put full strength apple cider vinegar on your skin using a cosmetic pad and leave on overnight. The vinegar smell will fade away after a bit. And it helps control the itching.
If you shower in the morning still do the vinegar at night. In the morning use any good moisturized lotion on the areas. If there is scale buildup I use one of those pads you buy to clean flat top glass stove tops and gently rub the areas removing the scales because anything you use hinges on it being able to get to the skin. It took a few months, but I find that the area becomes clear, no scales and redness is diminished.
Vinegar is not a harmful drug so is safer to use. It may sting or burn a bit at times if you had to be aggressive with the scales, but that goes away fast. When I can I get some sun naturally by taking a walk without sunscreen to tan my arms and backs of hands especially and it helps mask the redness too. Psoriasis is a immune disorder and you never really can rid yourself of it unless you take prescription drugs off and on that have way too many side effects.
I have had it since I was 14 years old and it got much worse when I found I had diabetes and low thyroid. It was heartbreaking to find that now it was here with me all year long and not just in the winter months in spots. If tend to get lazy doing this and after a long while the scales begin to return so I scold myself and get back to it. You can use olive oil or peanut oil to help soften scales so they remove easier like putting it on before shower or bath, descaling, then taking your shower or bath.
There is also one prescription cream Fluocinanide 0.05% that I use off and on for around eyes and on cheeks because you don't want to use vinegar near your eyes. Since it is a drug I don't like using it on a large area on continual basis. Good luck and don't be afraid to read and try things that might help. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Getting Rid of Used Cooking Oil |
Putting oil and grease down your drain will not only cause problems in your own pipes, but will for the sewers as well. This isn't a great "green" solution, but we take four plastic grocery bags and put them inside each other to make it not only stronger, but in case there is pinhole in one it will keep oil in bag as the next one will catch it. I usually have a few paper towels laying around (from cutting bread, making sandwiches, etc) and lay those in the bottom of the bag. My husband pours the oil in while I hold the bag open.
If you don't have anyone to do that for you then set the bags down in a big pan with tops of bags over the edge of it. We do this with our deep fryer oil since we don't fry a lot with excess oil that can't be scraped out with a spatula into the trash can. We then tie the top tightly and take it straight out to the trash can so no chance of it leaking out into the indoor trash bag making a mess in the house. We reuse our coffee cans (they are plastic) for other things like storage for other kitchen items, organizing in tool shed, taking something to a friend, etc so we don't use them to put old oil/grease in them. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Finding a Good Anti Virus Software |
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I don't know if this one is available, but it comes free from my internet provider. It is CA Security Center. I catches everything, has adware/spyware wtih it. I was on Microsoft official site doing downloads and installations of priority updates and it caught three viruses trying to invade my PC. Never thougth of a virus appearing at their own site. It gives me even more confidence in it. I have had it almost three years now and recommend if your provider has a free security service use it for they want to protect your system and theirs. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Keeping a Clothes Line from Sagging |
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When I used a clothes line I always had to have a clothes prop to keep the line up once wet clothes went on it. It can be made of aluminum, wood or plastic as long as it has a big notch for the line to fit in and just lift it up so it is still slanted for if straight up and down it is not stable. We used to have a wood one made from a dried long limb with notch on one end and that made it no cost to us. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Removing Sticker Residue |
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When I get a picture fram with a price sticker on the glass I use plain old cooking oil on paper towel and rub the area of sticky residue. Then when it is off I wash it with soap and water and dry to see if it is all gone for sure. Works on anything that is not going to be marred with oil stain. I have used it on some wood frames that had sticker on the back, lawn furniture, cookware, dinnerware, flatwear also. Not recommended for clothing or anything fabric. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Free Printable Labels |
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Try avery.com. They have a lot of free printable things. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Cleaning Shower Curtain Liner |
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Not much to add to the other tips, but I opted for a more expensive and thicker liner because I knew it was easy to clean in the washer. Between washings off and on give the liner a spray on the inside (tub side) with a disenfectant spray like Lysol or diluted bleach in a spray bottle to help keep down mold/mildew on the bottom of the liner. Let it sit for a while before rinsing off with shower if you use diluted bleach. Doing this has kept our liner in use for over two years now. If only it was that easy to keep the kitchen sink clean! ... View related article. |
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| RE: Getting Rid of Odor in Bathroom |
Once you found the source of the smell (I agree with one tip that you need to find the source of the smell first) use a can of Lysol spray preferably the original scent and not a flowery one. I could only find the spring waterfall scent, but it worked. It controlled a bad odor in the garbage bag until I had time to take the garbage out - spoiled can of dog food left out - and had forgotten about it because the odor was gone.
For some reason during a week or so between laundry day some kitchen towels and dishcloths kept under the kitchen sink got a musty smell to them. I sprayed the lot with Lysol including the container they were in and the house smelled fresh even before I collected them to put in washer. So when we finished all the fancy and more expensive and/or flowery odors we put a can of Lysol in the bathroom. We have a very small house and any odor is soon all over the house and this is the only spray that worked.
With the very hot temps we've had lately and we have the dog in the house in late afternoon and evenings spraying the bathroom after using the toilet each time is a good way to rid the bathroom of any smells and keeping him from being lured there to "potty". As soon as we spray he is not interested in the bathroom anymore, but is at first lured there with the smell or ammonia or other smell and my husband said we had to keep him from thinking it was ok to go in the house. Amazing for we never house trained him, yet he only drinks water and "potties" outside.
If you have a pet this would help there too. Our house had been empty for over two years and wish I had known this when we first bought it and saved a lot of money on sprays and things that didn't work. Good luck on finding the source of your smell. ... View related article. |
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