CLEVER IDEAS WORTH KNOWING!!

CLEVER IDEAS WORTH KNOWING
Take your bananas apart when you get home  from the store. 
If you leave them  connected at the stem, they ripen faster..
I didn't  know that!

Store your opened  chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay  fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on  the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are  firmer and better for cooking.

To really make scrambled  eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
Spoonfuls of  sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them  up.
Add garlic immediately  to a recipe if you want a light taste
Of garlic  and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of  garlic.  
Reheat  Pizza Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet  on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat  till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy No soggy micro  pizza. I saw this on  the cooking channel and it  really works.

Expanding  Frosting
When you buy a container of cake  frosting from the store, whip it with your  mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size.  You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same  amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per  serving.
Reheating refrigerated bread To warm biscuits,  pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them  in
A microwave with a cup of water. The  increased moisture will keep the food
Moist and  help it reheat faster. 

Newspaper  weeds away Start putting in your plants, work  the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
Put  layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with  mulch and for-
Get about weeds. Weeds will get  through some gardening plastic they will not
Get  through wet newspapers. 

Broken  Glass Use a wet cotton  ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't  see easily.
                          
No More  Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your  pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes  away.
Squirrel  Away! 
To keep squirrels from eating your  plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne  pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant  and the squirrels won't come near it. (Wonder if this works  with rabbits?  Sure gonna give it a try)

Flexible  vacuum To get something out of a heat  register or under the fridge add an empty paper  towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your  vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow  openings. 

Measuring  Cups
Before you pour sticky substances  into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup.  Next, add your ingredient, such
As peanut butter, and  watch how easily it comes right out.

Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy  windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove  box of your car When the windows fog, rub with  the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Reopening  envelopes 
If you seal an  envelope and then realize you forgot to include something  inside, just place your sealed envelope in the  freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily. 

Conditioner Use your hair  conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving  cream and  leaves your legs really  smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner  you bought but didn't like when you tried it  in your hair. 

Goodbye Fruit  Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take  a small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider  Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix  well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of  cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,'  can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a  week or so, especially if it rains, but it  works and you don't have the worry about pets  or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES  DRYERS  (I do this all the time)
The heating unit went out on my  dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around  the house for us told us that he wanted to  show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was  clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every  load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something;  he took the filter over to the sink and ran  hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material  .. I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like.  Well .....  the hot water just sat  on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it at all! He told  us that dryer sheets cause a film over that  mesh that's what burns out the heating unit.You can't  SEE the  film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to  make your  clothes soft and static  free ... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can  feel waxy when you take them out of the box  ..... well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what  causes dryer units to potentially burn your house down with it!




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