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Handy Around the House Tips

To sharpen scissors, fold a piece of aluminum foil three times,
then cut through it several times with your scissors


A piece of chalk or charcoal in your toolbox will
attract moisture and keep from rusting.


To allow sliding windows or drawers to move easier,
use a bar of soap to grease tracks or runners.

Small holes in window screens can be repaired by
dabbing the hole with successive layers of clear nail polish


( borrowed from ff thanks to turtleangel )

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http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums...ead.php?t=9404

[pwetypweas]

White Vinegar and Water: Mix 3 pts water to 1 pt vinegar to make a great *urine* remover - I use this on my cat box and have used it on upholstry when one of the cats got mad... on the upholstry just make sure to test it on a non visible part to make sure the fabric is color-tight :)

Brown Vinegar - apply directly to a sunburn to turn into a tan (and you get to smell like a salad!

Vinegar and Baking soda - mix into a paste and apply to a bug sting (bee, wasp, ant) to take the sting out and extract any poisions

[YouPdWhat]

Shoe Polish


Cold Pressed Nut Oil, Olive Oil, Walnut Oil, or Beeswax: Apply oil to leather product and buff with a chamois loth to a shine.

Lemon Juice: Lemon juice is good polish for black or tan leather shoes. Follow by buffing with a soft cloth.

Vinegar: Remove water stains on leather by rubbing with a cloth dipped in a vinegar and water solution.

Petroleum Jelly: A dab of petroleum jelly rubbed into patent leather gives a glistening shine and prevents cracking in the winter.

Vinegar: To shine patent leather, moisten a soft cloth with white vinegar and wipe clean all patent leather articles. The color of the leather may be slightly
changed.

Art-Gum Eraser and Sandpaper or Emery Board: Dirt marks on suede can be rubbed out with an art-gum eraser. Then buff lightly with sandpaper or an emery board.

[pennywatcher]

Did you know that you can build custom maps with Google maps? Here's an example of one I built for places to donate unused goods in Georgia. You can make them public or keep them private.

I built one for the CVS stores near me, one for Walgreens, etc. I can overlay whichever ones I want. It helps when I'm doing an unusual errands run. Say I have to go to Target, Walgreens, the bank, and the Post Office. I can overlay those four maps and choose stores and plan a route. ("Oh, yeah, I forgot there was a bank over there.")

Here's how you can create a Walgreens map, for example...

1. Go to Google Maps
2. Sign in to your Google account (link on upper right)
3. Click the "My Maps" tab
4. Click "Create a new map"
5. Enter a title and a description for the map.
6. Click "Unlisted" to hide your map from the rest of the world. You can still send a link to other people if you want.
7. Click "Save" to save your map.
8. In the search box, type "Walgreens near xxx" where "xxx" is your address. You could also enter a specific address instead of "Y near xxx" if you wanted to add, say, your friends' houses to the map.
9. You should now see a bunch of markers showing the nearby Walgreens stores
10. Click on a marker.
11. Select "Save to My Maps".
12. Select your map from the dropdown box and click "Save".
13. Change the title, the description, the marker type, etc. for the store and click "OK".
14. Repeat from #10. Click the "Save" button on the left once in awhile to save your work as you go along.

Lather, rinse, repeat to build other maps. You'll end up with a list of maps on the "My Maps" tab. The checkbox next to each map displays/hides the map.

You can do all the cool stuff with your own map that you can do with a regular Google generated map.

[GMACLAUS]

Thank you! I did it and I loved it! I would never have thought about doing this without your post and your directions made it very easy. Again Thanks!

[Jskell911]

My DH figured a way to refill the Wisp w/o buying any of the refills they sell in stores.

When we ran out of the oil in the refill, he replaced it with an essential oil we already had on hand. Just the small bottle of oil that I use to make bath salts. You can pick these up at WM or any craft store.

Talk about cheap! LOL

Now he's all excited with himself and holding up the Wisp and giggling to himself, like he just won the lottery or figured out the cure for cancer! Men!

Thought I'd share this because I know so many have bought these with the $4 off and B1G1 coups that have been out recently!

[love2cook]

Great! Well, tell your DH thanks from all of us!! Let him boast for a while it will make him feel better.

Anyway, thanks for sharing!

[arselia ben]

Thanks for the tip because I was wondering what to do when one was finished would I have to buy a refill. I was able to purchase about 20 of them and I just didn't want to open a new one everytime it ran out.