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5 Peculiar Uses for Pepper. 10 Extraordinary Uses for Sugar. Cleaning Techniques That Save/Time/ Money And A Miracle Odor Destroyer! Clever Uses stories - Lifehacker. Don't Throw Away Your Coffee Grounds!: 5 Reuses for Coffee Grounds - Planet Green. A lot of people already know coffee grounds are great for enriching soil with nitrogen, but if your gardens just can't keep up with your coffee habit there are a ton of other great ways to put those grounds to use.

Don't Throw Away Your Coffee Grounds!: 5 Reuses for Coffee Grounds - Planet Green

Kitty Be Gone Keep the neighborhood felines out of your garden by sprinkling a mixture of coffee grounds and orange peels around the edges of plant beds. It's not only beneficial for you and your garden—there are lots of plants that are harmful to cats. Ant Control It's that time of year: Ant season. Sow Seeds If you want to grow lots of carrots or radishes, you can make your seeds go further by adding in coffee grounds. Get Shiny Hair Coffee grounds can add shine to your hair and condition it naturally. Eliminate Odors Coffee absorbs scents from its environment, which makes it a fantastic natural deodorizer.

DIY Toilet Paper Tube Organizer Is Ugly, but It's a Helluva Cable Organizer - Lifehacker. Fix Scratches in Wood. Free Printable Cleaning Check List. Frequently Asked Questions - Household Products Database. Get Rid of Household Odors with Vanilla Extract. Good. Home Design, Decorating and Remodeling Ideas and Inspiration, Kitchen and Bathroom Design. How to Clean Every Room in Your Home with Items You Already Have. Images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/2009Q3/ms_checklist_sixthings. Polish Your Shoes with a Banana. Printable Cleaning Checklists To Put In Your Household Notebook. Below is a list of printable cleaning checklists that you can use around your home.

Printable Cleaning Checklists To Put In Your Household Notebook

Ideally, you would tweak these printable checklists to suit your own individual and family needs and desires, but I understand that is not how it works sometimes in the real world. Therefore, you can also just print them out and place them directly into your household notebook. I would suggest placing the printed out page in a sheet protector within your home management binder, and using a dry-erase marker on the protector sheet to make your check marks. This allows you to reuse the house cleaning lists over and over, without having to reprint. So, here are the printable house cleaning lists I have created so far: I hope these printable checklists are of use to you! Related Links At Household Management 101. Seven Surprising Uses for Baking Soda - Health. The simple way of polishing boots.

Tuesday Tip: Strange Uses for Butter. From removing glue to coating pills, there are many unusual uses for butter.

Tuesday Tip: Strange Uses for Butter

As part of my regular Tuesday Tip series, I found the following alternative uses for butter in two sources: Woman's World and Reader's Digest: *Glue Removal: To take glue from your hands, rub them with butter before washing them down with soap and water. * Gum from hair: Apply softened butter to the locks. Bubble gum will glide off without a tug-of-war. *Easy Swallow: Cover pills with butter to help the medicine go down. *The Cutting Edge: Coat a knife with butter before slicing through sticky items such as dried fruit of a gooey pies. *Tree Sap Removal: Shaded Parking disaster? --Source: Woman's World What about a butter-based dry hair treatment, an anti-mold cheese recipe, emergency shaving cream, or fishy smell removal? My Favorite Tip: Soothe aching feetTo soothe tired feet, massage them with butter, wrap in a damp, hot towel, and sit for 10 minutes. Use Clear Nail Polish to Keep Metal Cans from Rusting. Use Duct Tape to Remove a Stuck Light Bulb Without Breaking It.

Use Mayonnaise to Fix Cracks in Wood Furniture. As someone who has had to move frequently over the last several years (job related), cracked furniture in my household is more often often the result of movers not giving a crap about your furniture.

Use Mayonnaise to Fix Cracks in Wood Furniture

However, I have always tended to repair such cracks with some wood putty and sandpaper. A little more time-consuming, sure, but a lot less prone to massive bacterial growth. And also more likely to restore structural integrity (at least partially). Not really true of wood. The crack pictured is what is referred to in carpentry as "checking," a natural process of stress relief within the wood's structure, usually due to uneven drying. Still, I can't imagine that mayo is really what you'd want for this. Vinegar Tips - Cooking with Vinegar. Enjoying a salad with a tangy vinaigrette dressing is one of the most popular ways to use vinegar in the kitchen.

Vinegar Tips - Cooking with Vinegar

But that’s just the beginning! Regular and flavored vinegars are versatile recipe ingredients that add flavor and distinction, and can also contribute to good health! To make basic vinaigrette salad dressing use 1 part white distilled vinegar to 4 parts oil. Make creamy vinaigrette by adding some plain or whipped cream to a mixture of 1 part white distilled vinegar to 3 parts oil.

Tenderize meat with white distilled vinegar. Wrap a Drill Bit in Copper Wire or Tape to Prevent Over-Drilling.