Top 53 Household Hints. » Download all tips in a PDF file! The PDF makes it easy for you to print out the tips. The file is small too (138 KB), so you can share it with your friends via email. You can also recommend this page to a friend (see link at the top of this page). Spray plastic food containers with non-stick cooking spray to prevent tomato based products like paste or sauce from staining. If your oven racks no longer slide in and out easily, rub the outer edge of the rack with petroleum jelly. To brighten copper pots that have become blackened over open flames, use a mixture of salt and lemon juice and then rinse with tepid water.
Turn the lid from a shoe box upside down and set your toaster in it to prevent crumbs from scattering over your kitchen counter. Top of page Link to us! Stain Removal Solutions. Tutorial: Reusable Swiffer Duster Cloths. Four Homemade Cleaners. This was easier than I thought it would be. One of Betsy’s goals for the year was to ditch some of our standard cleaners that we use around the house and make them! Honestly, I was a bit skeptical about this project mainly because I wasn’t sure that homemade cleaners would really get the job done. And my lovely wife is a bit of a neat freak so there’s no way she would use something that didn’t perform well. So a couple of weekends ago she went out and bought a few staple ingredients and some empty spray bottles and we spent a few minutes mixing up four different homemade cleaners that have since replaced 90% of the cleaners we use around the house. For the last few weeks we’ve been using them now and I’ve been so impressed by how well they are working, I thought I’d share them all with you in case any of you are interested in ditching the chemicals.
The Cost of Cleaning. Basic stuff. Really Clean Cleaning. The Basics. . - Homemade: How to Make 100′s of Everyday Products Mixing the Solutions. Guide to Common Home Laundering &Drycleaning Symbols. Kitchen Cleaning Help. Read these 21 Kitchen Cleaning Help Tips tips to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser.
Each tip is approved by our Editors and created by expert writers so great we call them Gurus. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Cooking tips and hundreds of other topics. Old Toothbrushes Come in Handy Save those old toothbrushes. When you go to clean the kitchen sink stopper, you can use your old toothbrush to get in all of the little holes. This makes cleaning the sink stopper much easier, not to mention that it does a much better job than your wash cloth. Microwave Cleanup Cooking tips: clean up time! Cleanup Greasy Dishes To cut grease and odor on dishes when doing kitchen cleaning, add a tablespoon of vinegar to your hot soapy water. Cleaning your oven Kitchen cleaning help: To remove grease from inside your oven when doing kitchen cleaning, put a small pan of ammonia in the oven in the evening, and then close the oven door. It happens. A Pantry Problem Solver. 50 Free Apron Patterns You Can Make. Home / Crafts / 50+ Free Apron Patterns You Can Make [Updated 2012] Here’s a treat for Tipnut readers, three free booklets packed full of apron patterns!
I’ve scanned, re-typed and organized over 50 vintage goodies from my personal collection and organized them into separate eBooks for you to download (they are in pdf format). Please Note: The files are quite large so they may take a few seconds to load. Before getting started, if you’re looking for current designs that I’ve collected from around the web, you’ll find them moved to this page.
That collection has also been updated with a bunch of new goodies and currently features over 40 lovely projects to choose from (and I’ll be adding more to it too so you may want to bookmark it). Ready to download your booklets? The first is over 30 pages and consists of half-aprons. The second is 27 pages and features full-aprons, there are some pretty nifty ideas in this bunch too!
I hope you enjoy these as much as I do!