Archive Category: 'Household Tips'

• Lavender Vinegar Recipes: Lavender is a wonderfully fragrant herb that can be used in cooking. When combined with vinegar, it can also be used for cleaning. Looks pretty and smells nice! See tips below for preparation and uses of lavender vinegar. Lavender Vinegar Recipe Handful of Lavender flowers 1 Pint White Vinegar Combine lavender and vinegar, seal and let sit for 6 weeks [...]
• Gift Giving: How To Stay One Step Ahead: Always scrambling at the last minute picking up cards or gifts? Here’s an easy system to implement for yourself so you’re always ahead of the game: Keep a Rubbermaid tub for gifts. Keep your eyes open year round for special deals and buys, and pick up items that you know will make a great gift for [...]
• Get Organized: Easy Tip To Store Bedding: This is such a simple little tip that you’ll wonder why you never thought of it before. Keeps your bedding sets organized together as well as saves space in your linen closet! Tip: Fold sheet, matching top sheet and 1 pillow case as you normally do. Then slide each into the 2nd pillow case to store. Stack [...]
• Organizing Store Membership & Reward Cards: More and more stores are coming out with their own membership and rewards cards, how to store them all so that you have quick and easy access to them? Here are a few tips: Pick up a zippered pouch to hold all the cards and carry it in your purse or store in your vehicle console. [...]
• Makeup Brush Maintenance Tips: Every month you should wash your brushes thoroughly. Don’t use the same brush for both light and dark shades–use one brush for each. Helps avoid dark streaks when applying light highlight shades. Try using your daily skin cleanser when cleaning brushes. This helps avoid allergic reactions as the professional brush cleansers can be harsh. After you wash the [...]
• Homemade Deodorant Recipes: Ingredients: 1 part baking soda 1 part cornstarch tea tree oil Directions: Combine ingredients and mix well. Put powder pixture into a shake box or a container with a powder puff. Use daily or as needed. Updated notes: to give you an idea of tea tree oil/ratio, it’s about 10 drops per 1 cup of total powder mix. Adjust to your preference, [...]
• Chapped Lips Tips: Winter’s coming and that means: chapped lips! Here are a few different tips to try: Dab Vaseline on your lips, take an old toothbrush and rub the vaseline gently over your lips. Doesn’t hurt . Rub the gel from a cracked open vitamin E gel capsule on your lips. Try rubbing sesame oil or olive oil on [...]
• DIY Lice Remover Without Harsh Chemicals: Materials Needed: Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil Shower Cap Instructions: Completely coat the hair from root to tip with the oil. Be very generous with the oil. Put on shower cap. Leave on for at least 12 hours. Comb the hair with a fine toothed nit or flea comb. Comb again and again and again. You must remove every single egg. The oil [...]
• Sorting & Organizing Laundry Tip: This simple trick was life changing in our household! Materials Needed: 1 Laundry Basket for each member in your family 1 Laundry Basket for towels & misc. Directions: As you fold your clean and finished laundry, sort each item into the assigned basket for each family member. Each person is responsible for picking up their basket and putting away their clothing [...]
• Growing Lavender: Tips: Lavender is a flowering herb that gives and gives and gives. You can use it in crafts, cooking and for medicinal purposes. If you have a garden, this is one plant I’d be making space for! Growing Lavender: Tips If given a choice, lavenders prefer ground planting rather than in a pot. However most types of lavender [...]
• Flower Preservative Recipes & Instructions: Interested in preserving flowers from your garden? Here are two different recipes & methods you can try. How To Preserve Flowers Materials Needed Fresh Flowers Floral Wire Airtight Container Plastic Bag Borax Soft Brush Flower suggestions: daisies, mums, pansies, roses, sweet peas Instructions: Remove the stems from the flowers with wire by running it through the throat of the flower and twisting it. Take the plastic bag [...]
• Bandana Doggy Deodorizer: How To: Materials: 1/2 cup baking soda 2 cups water 1 bandana sized to fit dog Directions: Fill a largish bowl with two cups of water, then stir in baking soda until dissolved. Place bandana in the water and thoroughly soak. Dry the bandana in the sun (pull it out to its full square shape). Try doing a few at once to save yourself some [...]
• Multipurpose Herb Vinegar: Recipe: Materials Needed: 1 cup finely chopped mixed fresh herbs (try basil, chives, mint, parsely) 2 cups white wine vinegar Heat resistant jar with lid Spray bottle Directions: Place chopped herbs in jar. Heat the vinegar in a glass pot (or non-reactive pot) and then pour over the herbs. Seal jar with lid and steep for three weeks. While steeping, shake the jar every other [...]
• Ashtray Odor Diffusers: Materials: White Sand Baking Soda Essential Oils Decorative Bowls or Deep Ashtrays Directions: Mix equal parts white sand and baking soda. Pour sand mixture into ashtrays or bowls. Pour a few drops of essential oil into sand mix. Blend well. This helps diffuse the odor from cigar and cigarette butts, also helps mask the smoke in the air. Quick Tip: Vehicle Ashtray Deodorizer Fill your vehicle’s ashtray [...]
• Propagation & Stem Cuttings: How To: While division is a simple way to create one, two, or three new plants, cuttings allow the propagator to make an infinite number. Gather together a sharp knife, moist paper towels, a cutting surface, a propagation sweatbox (either a miniature greenhouse or a homespun version — a small pot placed inside a plastic, zippered storage [...]
• Daylilies, Iris & Peonies: How To Divide & Transplant: Daylilies How Often Should Daylilies Be Divided? The old fashion orange flowering varieties are very vigorous and should be divided every couple of years to prevent over crowding. The newer varieties are not as vigorous and can be left for a longer period of time. Best Time To Divide Daylilies Division is best done in the spring and early [...]