Archive Category: 'Popular Tips'

• 25 Helpful Items To Remove Sticky Adhesive Goo: Things like price stickers and labels, different types of tape (packing, masking, scotch tape) can leave behind a sticky gooey residue that’s a tricky mess to remove. Here’s a list of items that can help make the cleanup job a lot easier. Careful: Please test in an unnoticeable area first to make sure there will [...]
• Tipnut’s A Year Old Plus October’s Popular Tips Roundup: You know you’re getting old when time just whips past you and you have no idea where it went. Last month was the one year mark for Tipnut and I can’t believe that I didn’t realize it until this week! I had my eye on the date earlier in the summer, then gone. There’s no big [...]
• 43 Cake Baking Tips & Tricks: Here is a large assortment of tips I’ve accumulated over the years. Different recipes will provide different results, but overall I’ve found the tips do noticeably improve most cake recipes or make baking cakes and working with them easier. Some recipes success depend on a specific ingredient or action. If one of these tips contradicts your recipe, [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – September 2007 – Popular Tips: If you’re new to Tipnut or just in case you missed them, here are the hot tips from September’s posts (based on page views and not in any particular order): Interested in making a household notebook to keep organized? Here ya go: Make A Household Organizer Notebook – Buncha Links If you’re wondering how to make gift [...]
• Homemade Gift Baskets – The Ultimate How To Guide: Have you always wanted to learn how to make beautiful homemade gift baskets or have a large running list of basket themes and gift ideas at your disposal? Then this is the ultimate How To guide for you! Today’s tip is jam packed with videos for how to make gift baskets as well as lovely homemade [...]
• Sunburn Relief Home Remedies – Over 50 Soothing Treatments: This is a large collection of home remedies and treatments I’ve compiled to help with sunburn relief, there are over 50 soothing treatments to review. At the bottom of this post you’ll find some information about signs to watch for when determining if medical attention is needed as well as blister care and signs of infection. Melanoma [...]
• Over 40 Mosquito Bite Itch Relief Tips: It’s mosquito season and I have buffalo sized ones zipping around the backyard as I type this. Thanks to their first feast on my ankles tonight and an earlier comment from Kim, I was inspired to dig through every tip I had regarding mosquito bites and relief from the itching. Scritch Scratch. I haven’t tried most [...]
• Scrap Happy – More Than 50 Fabric Scraps & Remnant Ideas Plus Free Patterns: A Needle Case, or a case for Knitting Needles, or one for Crochet Hooks and what about a Kimono-Style Case Diaper Case Pin Cushions. Fabric Coasters and another Mouse Mat Covers An iPod Cozy Microwaveable Rice Heating Bags and Tootsie Warmers Oven Mitts and Hotpads Book Covers, or this Journal Cover, and there’s an idea for a moleskin too Pencil Roll & Art [...]
• 4 Homemade Febreeze Recipes: Basically the ingredients to make homemade Febreeze are a mix of water and fabric softener. Directions: Unless otherwise noted, place ingredients in a spray bottle and shake well to mix. Test a small unnoticeable area first before using to make sure no discoloration or damage occurs. Use as needed, shaking well each time before use. Homemade Febreeze Recipes Recipe [...]
• Homemade Sugar Scrub Recipes: Recipe #1 – Brown Sugar Scrub 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1/4 cup of almond oil 1/4 cup of liquid Ivory hand soap 1/4 tsp of vanilla Recipe #2 – Lemon Sugar Scrub 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup olive oil 1 TBS lemon zest (grated) Recipe #3 – Lavender & Rosewood Scrub 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup almond oil 1/2 tsp vitamin [...]
• DIY – How To Remove White Heat Stains On Wood Table: We have an old wood table that has been used and abused for years. I brought it out over the holidays for card playing and commented how badly marked and stained it was–while quickly covering with a tablecloth. A relative gave me a tip: for the white scorch marks, just take an iron and apply [...]
• 10 Homemade Laundry Soap Detergent Recipes: Here is a nice stack of different homemade laundry detergent recipes I’ve collected over the years. Do they work? Yes, I’ve had good luck with them. At the time I was using homemade detergent, we had a relative who was in trade school living with us. Every day he was mechanic grease from head to toe–the [...]
• How To Make A Microwave Heating Bag: Instead of using electric heat pads & blankets or hot water bottles for your aches and pains, these microwaveable bags are just the ticket! They’re known by a few different terms such as: bed buddies, stress busters, magic bags, corn cozies, rice bags–but they’re basically all the same thing. These bags serve a dual purpose as [...]
• Homemade Dishwasher Detergent Recipes: *Update: There are several comments from readers reporting both success and problems (namely that the homemade detergents below cause issues including a cloudy residue left on dishes). I don’t know why there’s a discrepancy, but it may have something to do with water temperature (not hot enough) or water quality (too hard, etc.). My dishwasher [...]