Archive Category: 'Household Tips'

• Summer Floral Bath Splash: Recipe: Ingredients: ider Vinegar Distilled Water Fresh flowers, herbs, aromatic leaves (pesticide free) Directions: Fill a sterilized mason jar with assorted fresh flowers and leaves, filling jar at least half full. Pour cider vinegar over all, filling the jar to the top. Cover with lid, seal and shake well. Place jar in sunny location. Shake or swirl contents daily. After 10 days, strain the [...]
• Homemade Mosquito Repellent: Recipe: Today’s feature is from Mother Earth News with Natural Mosquito Repellent: blockquote>Since the 1999 appearance of mosquito-borne West Nile virus in North America, it’s more important than ever to keep these pests at bay. You can outsmart mosquitoes with this homemade, Earth-friendly solution. The recipe couldn’t be easier to make, ingredients needed are any combination of these [...]
• Simple Recycling Center: DIY Project: Today’s feature is from Sunset with this Simple DIY Recycling Center: blockquote>It’s easy to close the back door and pretend that the jumble of recycling bins and garbage cans outside doesn’t exist ― but that only works when you’re in the house. Building a short lean-to just big enough to hold everything solves the problem. This is a [...]
• Garage Sale Tips For Success – How To Guide: I’ve managed several garage sales (or yard sales) over the past 10 to 15 years, both for our own household goods as well as for family and friends. I love operating them, but they are a lot of work and if you don’t play your cards right–they can be a complete waste of time. Here is [...]
• Ten Helpful Beauty Hints: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips come from “The Housewife’s Year Book Of Health And Homemaking” published in 1937 by Kellogg’s (which explains tip #10). Although many of these tips are basic common-sense, they’re a nice reminder that the little things we do can not only encourage a healthy body, but also enhance how we look and feel about [...]
• 15 Bee Sting Home Remedies & Tips: Getting stung by a bee is no fun and the pain can last for a few hours, here are a bunch of home remedies for pain relief as well as some interesting tips and bits of info. Bee Sting Relief Remedies & Treatments First make sure the stinger is removed (look for a black spot in the [...]
• Gardener’s Hands 101: Protection & Cleaning Tips: If you enjoy gardening and puttering around in the yard, you know how quickly dirt seems to accumulate under the fingernails and in every crack and crevice in the skin. Wearing gloves when gardening does help but dirt still seems to find its way in. ometimes all it takes is an easy washup to get rid [...]
• Money Saver: Beat The High Cost Of Coffee Shops: If you’re spending more money than you care to admit at the local coffee shop, you’re going to appreciate these tips from a former barista who spills the beans about reducing the cost of fine coffees. oday’s feature is from The Dollar Stretcher with Beat the High Cost of Coffee Shops: I’m sure some of you out [...]
• Mosaic Garden Art: How To: Today’s feature is from Fine Gardening with this extensive how-to: Making Mosaic Garden Art: blockquote>Sturdy, well-built objects made of metal, wood, terra-cotta, or concrete work well as base objects for a mosaic. The decorative mosaic pieces will adhere to just about any surface except items made from flimsy plastics that bend and bow. Garage and estate sales, [...]
• 23 Home Remedies From The Spice Rack: Allspice: Relieves muscle aches and pains. First grind Allspice into a powder then add water to make a paste. Spread on a strip of clean muslin and apply to sore area. Anise: Helps congestion from allergies, colds or flu, and settle upset stomach with gas. Make a tea by steeping 1 teaspoon of anise seeds in [...]
• DIY Decorative Garden Towers Project: Move over pink flamingos! Today’s feature is from Do It Yourself Ideas with Quick Project: Garden Towers: blockquote>Garden Towers Punctuate your garden with towers made from ceramic and glass vases, cruets, saucers, and teapots. The idea is to take various china and ceramic items and attach them to the bottom of vases with all-weather contact adhesive. Once the [...]
• Hanging Laundry To Dry Outdoors: Clothesline Tip Sheet: Hanging, done hit or miss, can be the most exhausting part of the wash-day procedure. Here are a few rules to follow which will make less stooping and straining: Don’t have the line so high that each piece calls for stretching. Before wheeling clothes out, put them in the basket in the order in which it is [...]
• How To Make A Mustard Plaster: For centuries mustard plasters were the tried and true home remedy for the flu, coughs, colds, pneumonia and many other ailments. It was used regularly up until the not too distant past since this poultice was thought to sweat out all the “ills” the body held. s more pleasant cures and remedies came on the market, [...]
• General Household Hints: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips come from an old booklet published sometime in the 1930’s and provide general advice and tips for running the home. he Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look back at the methods used and advice given to tackle regular household tasks. Many are still useful for today’s [...]
• Homemade Hair Styling Cream: Recipe: Today’s feature is from Sweet Sassafras with this recipe for Homemade Hair Cream: blockquote>This is my homemade DIY hair cream. I labeled it pomade, but I think it’s more of a cream/shine product than a sticky pomade. Obviously I didn’t spend a lot of time on making it look fancy, since it’s labeled with masking tape [...]
• Rosemary Herbal Hand Scrub: Recipe: Herbal Exfoliating Hand Scrub teaspoons chopped rosemary 1/8 cup olive oil 4 teaspoons almond oil 1 teaspoon lemon oil raw sugar* Directions: Mix chopped rosemary with the oils; add sugar to make a paste. Apply scrub to skin and gently rub, using the sugar to slough dry skin while allowing the oils to nourish and moisturize. Rinse off scrub and pat dry. Good [...]
• How To Pot A Plant: Gardening Tips: Start with clean, scrubbed pots–preferably sterilized–for better success with your plants. Coarse steel wool or metal scouring pads clean pots in a jiffy. strong>Pot Cleaning Tips: Most harmful organisms can be killed by placing a stack of pots on a cloth under the hot-water faucet and running hot water slowly into the top pot for five minutes. Another [...]
• Old-Time Stain Removal Tips: Timeless Wisdom: These tips were collected from vintage booklets dating from the 1930’s and 1940’s. The Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look back at the methods used and advice given to tackle regular household tasks. These were the days when fancy gadgets and cleaning powders weren’t yet invented so [...]
• Diggin It: No Dig Gardening: Today’s feature is from Tree Hugger with Try No Dig Gardening For Your Backyard Vegetables: blockquote>No-Dig Gardening is such a brilliant form of home-based agriculture I was convinced the TreeHugger archives would be rich with its merits. Was very surprised when I only found one mention, in a post chronicling Leonora’s permaculture adventures in New Zealand. So [...]
• Salt Packed Citrus Shells: DIY Air Freshener: Here’s a neat tip sent in by Paulina for one of the most natural and easiest to make air fresheners I’ve come across yet… blockquote>I picked this tip up from a local newspaper some years ago and I’ve been using it ever since, I just love the smell of oranges: Cut an orange in half and remove [...]
• Freshen Your Home With Eucalyptus: Recipes: Eucalyptus is one of mother nature’s most powerful disinfectants, what better option to clean with! ere are a few different homemade cleaners I have on file that incorporate Eucalyptus oil and can be used to freshen and clean your home, just in time for Spring Cleaning. Floor Cleaner Add 1 tablespoon of liquid castile soap to 1 gallon [...]
• 25 Vintage Kitchen Tips: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips are from a vintage booklet published in the 1930’s. The Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look back at the shortcuts and advice shared from decades ago. strong>25 Vintage Kitchen Tips Fat can be removed from hot soup by straining broth through a cloth wrung from cold water. [...]
• How To Make Compost Tea: We’re learning more every day how healthy tea is for us, but did you know plants love their own cuppa too? ompost tea may not be made from tea leaves, but it is very rich in nutrients that plants thrive on and removes the need for commercial fertilizers. It can also be considered a method of [...]
• Homemade Kitchen Hand Scrub: Recipe: Today’s feature is from goodLife {eats} with this recipe for an All-Natural Moisturizing Kitchen Hand Scrub: blockquote>Olive oil moisturizes, lemon freshens and is especially good for removing onion and garlic odors from the skin, the sugar/salt combo exfoliates dry skin and renews the appearance of your hands. Salt can be drying, so you wouldn’t want to make [...]
• 10 Ways Herbs Can Freshen Your Home: Spring cleaning is in full swing this time of year, here are ten ways you can use herbs around the house to perk things up… strong>10 Ways Herbs Can Freshen Up Your Home Homemade Herbal Carpet Freshener Recipe: I like to use dried lavender, but I included other herbal mixes to try as well. This makes a [...]