Assorted Tips Part 3
| Miscellaneous When cutting hedges outside. Take an put down an old sheet to catch the clippings. Later drag it to the disposing area. You can clean your phone with alcohol. If you freeze your meat for about 20 – 25 minutes, you will be able slice really thin slices. The junk mail that we all hate. Take the envelopes apart. Now turn them inside out, and seal them with a glue stick. Now mail them back out. Cut the fronts off from X mas cards. Now use the backs for post cards. Smaller cards. Cut the fronts off, and use for name tags on gifts. Use pretty colored tissue paper to wrap gifts. Just attach a pretty ribbon. Now boys like their gifts wrapped up in the comics. Get them out of the Sunday paper. Kids sneakers wont stay tied. Then wet the laces first, then tie them. Kids basketball in the house. Roll up a pair of kids socks. Now put the waste paper can on the dresser. Toss away. Dust the inside of your shoes with baby powder. Keeps them dry, and comfortable. You can use a dampened bag as an emergency damping cloth for ironing. Shine bathroom fixtures with alcohol. Now lets save some time from scraping snow and ice ,off our car’s windshield when parked outside. I want you to place a ripped paper bag, beneath the wipers when you park the car. Then in the morning just peel it off. Those that crochet. Take bread wrappers and cut them into long strips. Now tie them together. Grease up a crochet hook really good, and crochet a round or oval rug. Put this outside the door. Spray it off as it gets dirty from feet being wiped off. String up pretty colored Xmas lights. Take 12 small juice bottles. With the lids. Now cut an x in the lids. Next take a small string of lights, and insert one down into each lid. Now string these up across a front porch, balcony etc. You can take a nice filled out branch and spray it white or silver. Now insert it into a pot of sand, or plaster paris. Something tall and secure it. Now hang ornaments or lights on this. Maybe for a sunporch, or a balcony with outdoor furniture. You decide. When traveling keep a stain stick in your purse. When ever you spill something you can treat it right away. When traveling put your shoes into an old pair of socks. Then if the bottoms are a little dirty, your clothes won’t be. You can place a rolled up mesh bag, in the bottom of a flower vase. It will help hold the flowers in place. Take a mesh bag to the beach to hold all the toys. When you leave dunk the whole bag to remove sand. So you can see your recipe card. when cooking. Invert a fork into a tall glass. Now stick the card between the tines in the fork. There nice clear instructions. Store small amounts of food in zip lock bags. Then you will have room for other things. Containers take up too much space. Freeze a cookie sheet of grapes. When frozen put in individual zip lock bags. Give to the children as snacks. You can take beach pails and fill with pretzels, chips, candy etc for a beach party. Then take little colored plastic glasses and fill with a drink. Insert a small umbrella. You can serve salads in ice cream cones for kids. If you slip a trash bag between the mattress and the box spring, you will find turning the mattress will be easier. You can cut slits for a head and arms into a plastic trash bag. Put it in your glove box in your car. There an emergency raincoat. You can hang a hammock up in the garage to hold all the kids toys. You can take all the clothes that are to small for you, and put them in a new trash can for your next garage sale. You can store all your clothes in a new trash can. You can take a board and put it across two trash cans for a party. Toss a nice piece of material, or tablecloth over the top. You can use cans of various heights for food. Just hide them under the cloth. You can take beach pails and fill with pretzels, chips, candy etc for a beach party. Then take little colored plastic glasses and fill with a drink. Insert a small umbrella. You can serve salads in ice cream cones for kids. If you slip a trash bag between the mattress and the box spring, you will find turning the mattress will be easier. You can cut slits for a head and arms into a plastic trash bag. Put it in your glove box in your car. There an emergency raincoat. You can hang a hammock up in the garage to hold all the kids toys. You can take all the clothes that are to small for you, and put them in a new trash can for your next garage sale. You can store all your clothes in a new trash can. You can take a board and put it across two trash cans for a party. Toss a nice piece of material, or tablecloth over the top. You can use cans of various heights for food. Just hide them under the cloth. You can take beach pails and fill with pretzels, chips, candy etc for a beach party. Then take little colored plastic glasses and fill with a drink. Insert a small umbrella. You can serve salads in ice cream cones for kids. If you slip a trash bag between the mattress and the box spring, you will find turning the mattress will be easier. You can cut slits for a head and arms into a plastic trash bag. Put it in your glove box in your car. There an emergency raincoat. You can hang a hammock up in the garage to hold all the kids toys. You can take all the clothes that are to small for you, and put them in a new trash can for your next garage sale. You can store all your clothes in a new trash can. You can take a board and put it across two trash cans for a party. Toss a nice piece of material, or tablecloth over the top. You can use cans of various heights for food. Just hide them under the cloth.
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