Using Hedge Apples for Pests?
I have successfully placed hedge apples (also known as Osage oranges) around the house without drawing ants or gnats and have left them til they dried up or almost rotted. Its best to place them on a saucer or in a re-used plastic container and not directly...
Ideas to Brighten a Home With Dark Slate Flooring?
If the in-floor heating allows, could you put down area, or throw, rugs in the brightest, most cheerful solids or prints that appeal to you? Why not try big pillow-y cushions on the couch or huge floor pillows in bright, cheerful spring green, sunny yellow...
Using the Oven to Remove Sap from Pine Cones?
Maybe it was a dry year and the pine cones didnt have much sap to start with - were they very sticky when you picked them up? Maybe there werent any/many bugs on/in them to start with - did you see any when you picked them up? If the cones were completely dried...
Doo Doo Drop Diapers
Cute idea for a baby shower, but can I get past the name to the sweet treat? ha When I discovered that cocoa blends better with milk if mixed with sugar first, I dont have cocoa lumps in the mixture. Sometimes a batch of this candy spreads more, so I will try...
Use Bandannas Instead of Washcloths
Sometimes one half just never knows how the other half lives - a fact Im discovering more and more as time goes on. I keep a spray bottle of white vinegar in the bathroom, so I can spritz a washcloth, rinse in hot water, and hang to dry for re-use. Blessings...
Swimming Noodle For Padding Bed Rails
Beautiful idea! May God bless you both with strength and comfort and joy.
Free Crochet Pattern for Lady's Cardigan?
Cettina, my answer may not suit if you really want a cardigan style, but crocheted shrugs are warm and snuggle-y. Crochet a rectangle, approx. 60 x 36, depending on how long you want the sleeves to be. Shorten the 60 length for shorter sleeves. This next step...
Free Crochet Pattern for Lady's Cardigan?
Cettina, try the Lion Brand Yarns website for crocheted shrugs. I tried answering with specific instructions earlier, but my session timed out, so it may not show up. Blessings!
Dry Skin Treatment for Hands?
Ken, I empathize and sympathize. A couple years ago I picked up a tube of Chap-Stick - for lips - Moisturizer formula (in the KY Wildcat blue tube!) lying on the nightstand and decided to rub it on my fingertips, thinking, oh, well, why not? They had so painfully...
17th Birthday Ideas?
Debbora, maybe you could check with a local shelter or childrens home or with Big Brothers/Sisters to see if a child shares your birth date, or close to. (You might choose someone from the fire or police dept., EMS, or armed services or missionary/family to...
Christmas Card Quotes
Thoughtful and inspiring to recipient - and to any reader along the way. One slight correction, though. The quote Ah, Dearest Jesus, Holy Child.... is the beginning of a hymn by Martin Luther, 1535. I have a huge book of quotations (3 1/2 thick) I picked up...
Grandchildren Ungrateful for Gifts?
Maybe theres a time frame for you all to host an open house for family members, serving only cookies and hot cider/coffee, where they could drop in during a 2-4 hour span, or whatever suits you and your husband. Those who have been previously receiving and...
Aspirin for Bee Stings
Good idea. The only precaution would be to NOT rub on the tongue - and maybe the skin, as well - of children or teenagers who exhibit chicken pox or flu-like symptoms (note the Reyes syndrome and other warnings noted on aspirin bottles), without first checking...
Backing on Drapes Stuck Together in the Dryer?
This might be worth a try. Put the drapery panels back in the dryer just long enough on just hot enough setting to re-heat. If more than one panel is in the dryer, stop the dryer long enough to take one panel out and see if the stuck-together parts will separate...
Braid Winter Scarves
Okay; lets see if I got it: Drape one scarf around neck with 2 ends hanging down; fold the 2nd scarf in half, at just below neckline (leave enough room to slip off over head when finished); slip each end of first scarf through fold of 2nd in opposite directions...
Samsung TV Stopped Working?
Check with your satellite provider. Quite possibly there are buttons to push on the remote or re-entry of info. from the satellite which may have been interrupted during the weather event. Blessings.
Graduation Gift Ideas?
A gift certificate to a favourite store - music, books, tools, etc. along with a fantastic card, adding in your own words how proud you are! Maybe, a journal for him to record his beginning years in his career, with 1st grade and graduation pictures posted...
Teaching A Child How To Drive
Wonderful advice; I hope theyll heed and remember. Adding to No. 3, especially when passing and pulling back in front of a tractor-trailer, I wait til I see the entire cab in my r-v mirror, all the way to the top of the rig. It takes them much longer time and...
Sealing a Hole in a Soft Plastic Container?
It might work to use a just-spent match with enough heat left to touch to the plastic surrounding the hole, melting the plastic enough to seal the hole. Id place the plastic with hole area over a non-flammable surface to hold it flat and steady. It might take...
Using Newspaper Against House Foundation as Weed Barrier?
Thanks for everyones responses. In the past, we used fabric barrier covered with rocks on a sloping bank flower bed, but the results were not the best. Maybe using both cloth and newspaper with rocks might work! The sloping grade reminder is appreciated, too...
Color Advice for Decorating Around a Black Leather Couch?
How exciting to be in your first real place. I think your black furniture could work in combination with whatever colour/s and style you choose, whether thats modern, contemporary, classic. Maybe a throw/afghan with some black in the pattern; a rug with some...
Hickory Springs Sofa Bed Does Not Close Properly?
Maybe if you try sliding the mattress a wee bit away from the sliding-in area toward what would be the foot of the bed, just to get the mechanism started, the mattress would start going in then. Worth a try? I hope it works. Blessings.
Organizing Checkbook Register
I really like the idea of posting transactions by group. I can see where that would make year-end record gathering much easier. I must give it a try. TNX and Blessings.
Removing Rust from an Old Metal Kitchen Table?
I remember from some source years ago to try a crumpled ball of aluminum foil to clean off the rust on a car bumper or bicycle fender. It just might work on your metal table. Blessings.
Organizing Checkbook Register
Good idea! Ill start preparing now for new and improved 2013 checkbook registers. TNX and Blessings
Organizing Checkbook Register
Ha! It was a good idea a year ago, too! Life intervened and I obviously didnt try it out. Well see for 13, but it would still be a better way for me to track finances even a year from now. TNX again and Blessings, too.
Making Mailboxes for Residents' Rooms in Nursing Home?
Several years ago, I decorated small baskets and hung them on the wall at my parents home to separate their mail when it was brought in from the mailbox. Flat-backed baskets work even better. Each basket could have small decorative touches added to personalize...
Uses for Clothing Rags?
As has already been suggested, old clothes/rags can be used for craft items. I was thinking specifically of cutting them in strips (all one material type) and knotting or sewing together to make long strips for crocheting - rugs, bags, baskets... I, too, am...
Urine Smell in My Bathroom?
My sister just moved into a brand new house and had the same problem; she was cleaning the commode and around the commode all the time. The odour seemed to be coming from the plastic the commode seat/lid unit was made of. After a few months, the smell has now...
Relieving Tension Headaches?
I sympathize, I know stress! Try sitting in a quiet place for a few minutes and massaging the webbed area triangle of muscle between the thumb and hand with the thumb and forefinger of the other hand (thumb on top, finger on bottom). If its sore, with firm...
Take Store Cleaning Wipe to Sanitize Car
Ah! So, that might explain why the container of wipes is often empty! I think maybe they are there for wiping down the carts only. Grabbing another one on the way out might seem like taking advantage of the stores good will in providing them in the first place...
Baby Won't Drink Formula?
Kelley, you might try goats milk, but do check with your or babys doctor first. Blessings on you all!
Print On The Back Side Of Paper
Excellent idea, one which I used for years at our business. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell if it was for re-cycle, or which side was the new side info. So, I started to ink a big X on the no-longer-needed side before re-use. That proved too time-consuming...
Reviews of Temperpedic Mattresses?
Im the lone voice of dissent - my husband and I purchased a Tempurpedic mattress in the late 1990s. We both began experiencing night sweats and found the mattress was encased in plastic, which we removed; that helped somewhat with that problem. But because...
4 Year Old Won't Behave?
I have heard Dr. Kevin Lehman on Dr. James Dobsons radio program Focus on the Family. Dr. Lehman has written a book Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Childs Attitude, Behavior, and Character in FIVE DAYS! It offers good advice, common sense approach...
Turn A Photo Into A Window Outside
What a wonderful window on a world that used to be, and what precious memories it must evoke of those gone on. Blessings.
