Archive Category: 'Household Tips'

• Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet: How To: Quite the clever gardening tip here folks! Today’s feature includes tips from three different sources for growing potatoes vertically (in layers) instead of spread out in rows across your garden. If you have limited garden space or want to try some nifty gardening magic, this could be a great option for you. irst, there’s this article [...]
• Lou Manfredini’s Top Ten Energy Saving Tips: Today’s post is quite a treat! Here are some first-rate suggestions by Lou Manfredini, Ace Hardware’s Helpful Hardware Man. He’s put together a list of energy saving tips for Tipnut readers to help us cut back on energy usage and save some cash in the process. i everyone, this is Lou Manfredini, Ace’s “Helpful Hardware Man”. [...]
• Go Go Gadgets: 30 Handy Kitchen Gadget Tips: Use an egg slicer to make uniform slices of more than just hard boiled eggs: You can slice fresh mushrooms, soft fruits (such as strawberries, kiwis, bananas), olives, soft deli cheeses and more. Very handy tool for garnishes! Use a pizza cutter to quickly slice everything from pizzas, fudge, pancakes, french toast, chicken strips and more. [...]
• Budget DIY Trellis & Garden Space Tip: Today’s feature is from Diggin Food with this idea for an Inexpensive DIY Vegetable Trellis: blockquote>My kitchen garden is small—just under 200 square feet—but I managed to cram a ton of vegetables into it by growing summer and winter squash, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, and peas up trellises. Growing these crops up instead of out frees up [...]
• Getting Ready for Hummingbirds: Get ready, the hummingbirds are on their way! Why are hummingbirds popular? There’s something so charming about washing your dishes at the kitchen sink or sitting at a table and looking out the window to see a hummingbird a few inches away from you, hovering and feeding from a hanging flower basket or hummingbird feeder. [...]
• Tipnut’s Guide To Spring Cleaning: Here’s a peek at this year’s battle plan for the big Spring Clean in my home, I’ve also included references to homemade cleaner recipes, tips for specific cleaning jobs and assorted fix-it projects that will help make this year’s job a big success. Spring Cleaning Tips Mission: Clean – Declutter – Organize Every surface is cleaned, everything [...]
• Tipnut’s Guide To Lucky Bamboo: How would you like a nice green plant thriving in that dim & colorless office of yours or how about adding a touch of modern to your home decor? Here’s a popular indoor plant that even the most beginner of green thumbs can make flourish, and it’s believed to bring good luck too! while ago I [...]
• Cool Kitchen Hack: Crush Garlic With A Rock: Here’s a kitchen tip sent in by Janet that is totally new to me and I think it’s fantastic: blockquote>Tipnut here’s a tip for crushing garlic that once you try it, you’ll never go back to the method you are now using (I guarantee it). It was taught to me by my mother who was from [...]
• How To Make Homemade Stick Deodorant: Today’s feature is from Little House In The Suburbs with this how-to for Homemade Stick Deodorant: blockquote>But aluminum crammed in your pores cannot be good for you, and it seems in recent years that store-bought deodorant is becoming less and less effective anyway. This deodorant uses a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and [...]
• 25 Vintage Household Tips: Timeless Wisdom: hese household tips are a collection I’ve gathered from a variety of vintage books and magazines from the 1940’s and 1950’s. The Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut and I like to include tips that are still useful to know (for today’s home) but I also like to include some that give a [...]
• Meat Budget Stretcher Tip: Stuff It!: I was preparing last week’s vintage cooking tips when I came across this and had an aha! moment: blockquote>Cut pockets in your meat and put money in your own. Filling good meat with stuffing is one of the most attractive, delicious (and simple) ways to do a bit of stretching. Chops, breast, shoulder–almost any cut can be [...]
• How To Build A Herb Spiral: A herb spiral is a clever garden trick to grow lots of varieties of herbs, each with different environmental needs (full sun, moist, dry, shade, etc.), in a minimal amount of space. It’s also a clever way to conserve water since each watering flows from the top of the spiral down to the herbs at [...]
• House Cleaning Kit – Tips & Ideas: One of the secrets to efficient house cleaning is to cart around your own customized cleaning kit from room to room, this saves you time since you have everything you need at hand. As common sense as it sounds, this isn’t something that occurred to me until FlyLady caught my attention a few years ago, she [...]
• DIY: How To Make A Greenhouse From Old Windows: Today’s feature is from Instructables with this nifty project: Greenhouse From Old Windows: blockquote>This is a brief guide on how I took some old windows from houses they were tearing down in my neighborhood and turned them into a small greenhouse in my backyard. I collected the windows over the course of a year and a [...]
• ABC’s Of Decorating: Tip Sheet: The best way to begin home planning is to forget all the talk about changes in architecture, equipment, materials, and design. No matter what improvements come about in structure, design, or utility, a lounge chair will still be a lounge chair, and good chintz will remain a good chintz. he fundamental rules never change, they are [...]
• Home Remedies For Canker Sores: Canker sores are located inside the mouth around gums, inside of cheeks and lips and around the tongue area. It’s unknown what causes them exactly but it’s suspected that stress and diet can play a big factor. These aren’t contagious like cold sores, but they can be quite painful. Sores can last 2 to 3 [...]
• How To Make A Cloche For Seedlings: Today’s feature is another double hitter with two different projects & ideas for making cloches–those handy contraptions that protect seedlings from chilly & windy weather. he first project is from Gardener’s World with How To Make A Cloche For Seedlings: Make your own cloches to use as handy home-made devices to keep your seeds. Made using hanging [...]
• Floral Infused Olive Oil: Rich Beauty Aid: Did you know olive oil is a lovely (and natural) skin moisturizer? Here’s a way to make it more special…infuse it with flowers picked fresh from your garden! strong>Floral Infused Olive Oil Recipe Ingredients: Glass jar (pint) Flower petals (1 1/2 cups) Extra Virgin Olive Oil (1 3/4 cups) 6 Vitamin E Capsules (400 IU) Directions: Fill a clean jar with your choice [...]
• African Violets: Growing Info & Tips: The wide assortment of colors, flower forms, and foliage to be found in African violets has made them a popular houseplant to collect. Propagating them has become a fascinating and absorbing hobby that’s easy to manage. Today’s beautiful flowers must be seen to be appreciated. They are a far cry from the early ones with their [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Homemade Hairspray Recipe: Here’s a tip and recipe sent in by Mildred for making your own hairspray. This is phenomenal–it’s very frugal, organic and skips those harsh perfume & chemical clouds when spraying on. Here’s Mildred’s tip: I found this recipe in a library book awhile ago and thought I would try it. My hair is thick and this hair [...]
• Turn A Picture Frame Into A Remote Caddy: Today’s feature is from Lifehacker with Turn A Picture Frame Into A Remote Caddy: Reader Chris Bright had too many remotes from various A/V gadgets and no good place to store them. That lasted until he fashioned a picture frame and fabric into a DIY remote caddy… The end result is a polished looking caddy customized with [...]
• Beware Of Junk Bunkers: I know many of you are familiar with Don Aslett’s books about organizing, decluttering & cleaning–and I’m thrilled to be able to introduce his advice to Tipnut readers who have yet to discover his common sense (and often humorous) approach to taking back control of your living space. Here’s a special treat with an excerpt from [...]
• Homemade Granite & Marble Cleaner: Here’s a recipe for an earth-friendly “green” cleaner suitable for many household surfaces including granite and marble. Ingredients: 2 cups water 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar 1 tsp pure castile soap (peppermint, etc.) 3/4 cup hydrogen peroxide 20 drops tea tree oil 20 drops lavender or lemongrass essential oil. Directions: Mix all ingredients in a 32-ounce plastic spray bottle. Cleaner can be used to clean [...]
• 12 Simple Beauty Hacks From The Kitchen: Olive oil can be used to remove eye makeup (use cold pressed extra virgin olive). Also see DIY Eye Makeup Remover Recipes. Pour a bit of sesame oil on a cotton ball and wipe gently across eye lids to remove waterproof mascara. Bring shine to your hair with a bit of honey. Mix 1 tsp of honey [...]
• 26 Kitchen Tips: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These kitchen tips are a collection I’ve gathered from a variety of vintage books, cookbooks and magazines from the 1940’s and 1950’s. Many of them are from women who would send in their tips to share with each other, they were quite resourceful back in the day! To keep cheese from getting hard, cut off enough [...]