Archive Category: 'Household Tips'

• Kitchen Tip: Safe Cutting Board: Today’s feature is a quick video showing how to keep your cutting board in place so it won’t move around while chopping food: Summary: Chef Pam takes a large sheet of paper towel, lays it on top of the cutting board and pours a bit of water on it. Pat the wet towel on the cutting board [...]
• 10 Easy Organizing Tricks For The Kitchen: Use plastic bins or tubs to hold all pouches of dry soup mixes, seasonings, etc. Keeps them neatly contained in one place, store in the pantry or cupboard. Insert kitchen reference charts and favorite recipes in clear plastic sleeves then hang on the inside of kitchen cupboard doors for easy access. They can easily be wiped [...]
• Bubbling Urn Water Feature: Backyard Project Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Gardeners’ World with How To Make A Bubbling Urn Water Feature … this is easier to make than you might think: The gentle babble of flowing water from this urn water feature helps to create a calm and soothing mood in the garden. A water feature like this is really simple to assemble [...]
• DIY Eye Makeup Remover Recipes: Here are a few recipes I’ve collected as well as a list of various household items that can be used for removing eye makeup. Eye Makeup Remover Recipes Recipe #1 1 cup Water 1 1/2 TBS Baby Shampoo (the tearless kind) 1/8 tsp Baby Oil (mineral oil) Recipe #2 1 TBS Olive Oil (Extra Virgin) 1 TBS Castor Oil 2 tsp Canola Oil Another recipe [...]
• Do It Yourself Closet Organization: Today’s feature is a video packed with tips for closet organization: Tips From The Video: Lose the assortment of cheap hangers: Invest in good hangers, all uniform in size plus slack hangers, suit hangers. Purge closet: Donate & get rid of what you don’t need. Toss shoes! Clear storage boxes: Use clear plastic containers to contain off season items, [...]
• 10 Secrets To Rewarding Homemaking: Know: You are a Home Manager, not a slave, martyr or responder to chaos. Each day is a fresh start with new things to accomplish and feel pride for. Realize: Actively managing your home is one way to nurture your family and their environment. There will be positive reflections: a more harmonious household, a little more [...]
• Homemade Deodorant: Instructions & Recipe: Today’s feature is from Angry Chicken with a really nice recipe for Homemade Deodorant (yup.): … I love making body products and get so sick of reading ingredients and worrying about all that. I also wanted to make my own because I thrive on the Stick-It-To-The-Man feeling I get when I don’t have to buy basic [...]
• Herbal Foot Spray Recipe: Freshen up your tootsies with this homemade foot spray, you can also spray this on the inside soles of your sandals or shoes to remove odors (test an area first for discoloration): Materials Needed: Mason Jar Small handful of fresh mint leaves (about 1/4 cup) 1 cup Distilled Water 1 cup Vodka 1/2 tsp. Tea Tree Oil Directions: Gently rinse the mint leaves [...]
• How To Organize A Junk Drawer: Today’s feature is a video showing how to effectively organize a junk drawer (and keep it organized!): Tips: Notice the large drawer size, a small drawer gets jam-packed too easily and makes it harder to keep things neat. Once you start packing things on top of each other, trouble starts brewing. Use small containers & bags to keep [...]
• Quick Tips For Organizing: Organize Pot Lids Neatly: Lids for pots and pans are tricky things to try and keep neatly organized. It never fails that the lid you’re needing is buried way in the back, hiding underneath a pan or two. A kitchen hack you can try is using a plain old dish rack. Just place the rack [...]
• 25 Tips For Plants & Flowers – Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips were collected from a variety of books and magazines from the 1940s and 1950s. There are a couple treatments suggested that raised my eyebrows (lol), but I included them in the list because they do reflect well the time these were written. Women tried finding uses for everything they had at their disposal. Enjoy! 25 Tips [...]
• How To Make Wool Dryer Balls: Never buy fabric softener again with today’s feature from Good Mama: Make Your Own Wool Dryer Balls, how cool are these! The balls will cut your drying time yet leave clothes soft, fluffy and static free without the use of chemicals or dryer sheets. Based on the old “tennis ball in the dryer” trick, but [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Does Gelatin or Jello Really Strengthen Nails?: Kate sent this in wondering if it was true, it’s an old clipping she found in her aunt’s recipe binder: Just pick your favorite drink and stir in Knox Gelatine Brittle fingernails? Correct them the one way published medical research proved effective . . . Drink one envelope of Knox Gelatine each day in fruit or vegetable juice, [...]
• Creative Tip Of The Day: Idea Rolodex: Today’s feature is from Carrie B of the Blah Blah Blog with her creation of the Idea Rolodex: Where to you store your great ideas? Do you tear out magazine articles and store them in a big binder? Do you jot down book recommendations and restaurants to try on Post-Its? Or do you [...]
• Poison Ivy Home Remedy For Itch Relief: Old Saying To Identify Poison Ivy: Leaves of three, let it be; berries white, danger in sight. From Wikipedia: The leaves are ternate with three almond-shaped leaflets. The berries (actually drupes) are a grayish-white color and are a favorite winter food of some birds. Poison Ivy Remedies For Relief: Baking soda bath (use lots of baking soda, hot water) To help [...]
• Smart Tip: Use Cupcake Liners As Popsicle Drip Catchers: Today’s feature is a smart tip from Parent Hacks with Cupcake Baking Cups As Popsicle Drip-Catcher: What works for us? A cupcake paper liner! Just cut a small hole in the bottom of the paper and insert the Popsicle stick. Viola! I wonder if it’s just the kiddos that need this when they’re eating popsicles, some adults [...]
• Organizing Tip Of The Day: Stylish Jewelry Storage: Today’s feature tip is from Martha Stewart with ideas for Stylish Jewelry Storage: Jewelry boxes can be handy, but they can also turn your prettiest baubles into unsightly nests of knots. Here are four display-worthy organizing ideas we’re sure you’ll take a shine to. There are a few suggestions for organizing and displaying jewelry, but my favorite [...]
• 17 Household Quick Tips: Freshen Up Wicker Baskets: Have a bunch of wicker baskets that are old and tired looking? Lightly wash them then dry thoroughly. Once dried, give them a fresh new look with a coat or two of spray paint. Perfect use for that little bit of paint left in a can. You can also clip off [...]
• Hanging Pocket Tool Holder: Vintage Sewing Tutorial: Make A Tool Holder For The Kitchen It’s handy to put mother’s name on a few of the more ordinary type shop tools and keep them in the kitchen. Then, when she needs a screw driver, hammer, or a pair of pliers, she knows they are in a convenient place. Also, if the tool is nearby, [...]
• Stop Bleeding With Ground Black Pepper: Here’s a neat tip I found in my notes (loose tip page from an old community cookbook): When accidentally cutting your finger or your hand, cover with a generous amount of black pepper. Contrary to ones thinking this will not burn, instead the pepper stops the bleeding, is most healing, takes out the soreness also forms [...]
• 75 Tips to Survive a Down Economy: Today’s feature is from Frugal Dad with 75 Tips to Survive a Down Economy: I originally titled this post, “75 Tips to Survive a Recession,” but since there is still some dispute from economists on whether or not we are actually in recession, I just stuck with the phrase, “down economy.” Regardless of how economists refer [...]
• Homemade Herbal Conditioning Hair Rinse: Recipe Ingredients: Apple Cider Vinegar Fresh Herbs: lavender, rosemary, basil, sage Citrus Peels: lemon peel, orange peel Directions: Take a sterile jar of any size and fill half way with your favorite assorted herbs and citrus peels, make sure they are pesticide free. Next fill the jar to the top with apple cider vinegar. Seal, store in a cool, dark place and [...]
• How to Fold Anything: Today’s feature is from RealSimple with How to Fold Anything, you’ll find information on how to fold all sorts of clothing & household items. I’ve also included a neat video at the bottom explaining how to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds. Here’s a list of what’s available from RealSimple (found via Unclutterer.com): How to Fold [...]
• Homemade Swiffer Cloth Patterns: A bunch of new patterns for reusable swiffer cloths added! Who doesn’t hate paying money for swiffer cloths that you just end up throwing out? Here are a few ideas for making reusable ones from cloth plus a bunch of knit, crochet & sewing patterns to make your own: Use old flannel diapers, jogging fleece, flannel [...]
• 35 Ways To Watch Television Without Cable Or Satellite: Today’s feature is from My Two Dollars with 35 Ways To Watch Television Without Cable Or Satellite: At my house, basic digital cable TV cost over $69 per month (plus taxes) and we watch maybe 10 of the 150 channels that they provide to us, meaning that we pay for many channels that we have no [...]