Use Vinegar For Fruit Flies
This hint came at just the right time as we are inundated with those pesky devils.
Use Parasol in Summer
Being from the U.P. we seldom have use for this idea but this past Saturday at an outdoor wedding on a lake this would have been a wonderful idea.
Giardiniera Pasta Salad
Lots of us need more explicit measurements - even Rachael Ray says to use a handful, palm full, etc.
Pizza Cutter to Cut Spaghetti
Use pizza cutter to cut cake too. Our 25th wedding anniversary picture features the pizza cutter and the cake!
Shop Garage Sales For Summer Clothes
My grand daughter (5) and I spend our summer looking through garage sales. She and mummu know the value of buying a stuffed animal for a quarter!! and clothes that will be grown out of in a month at that age.
Order Water When Eating Out
Restaurants make their money on the beverages, thats for sure. Order water.
Use Same Water for Cooking Vegetables
Expedient PLUS keeping the nutrients for soup stock, etc. is the greatest.
Run Smaller Heater to Supplement Furnace
Not hearing the furnace blowing often seems like using electric heaters is a good idea BUT the electric bill is enormously impacted. We have a small wallboard heater in an outside porch only turned to 45 and our bill has gone up $20. Yooper
Prepare Food in Advance for Holiday Meals
And cook the turkey the day before and serve in a crockpot the next day. All our family volunteers to bring a dish to the host family and the host family provide the potatoes and turkey. Helen Rae-Amasa MI
Reuse Magnetic Schedules
My grand daughter (5) and I paste white paper unto top of magnet. She cuts out pictures from magazines and pastes them unto the whitei paper.
Use Two Dish Drainers for Handwashed Dishes
It is a well known fact drip drying dishes is health-wise.
Use Cereal Liner as Wax Paper
I use cereal liners when setting out Christmas wreath cookies as they are so sticky.
Cereal Bags to Store Ham
I use mine for covering in the microwave or any other use where wax paper is called for.
Eliminating Leftovers and Food Waste
The basic premise that roast beef leftovers is stew, etc., mind-set has not taken hold on some peoples minds. Theyll throw last nights roast beef in the garbage and buy stew meat. Amazing aint it?
Pack Messy Lunch Items In Plastic Bags
After many times of arriving at work with coffee or juice of some kind all over my important papers, this tip saved a lot of mess.
Opening Presents One At A Time
Our tradition is youngest to the oldest, one at a time. Lots of fun to find out some of the new additions to the family were older than their husbands and we still laugh at this after 40 years of marriage. Our 100 year old grandma had a hard time waiting her...
