Any Household hints to share?

[Turtle Gal]

Daub and rub blood stains with Peroxide, takes them out.

Thanks for this tip! I tried it! My 15 yr old son got blood on a new Bob Marley T-shirt. And it Worked. Thanks again. Turtle gal

 

[justleesa]

Crazy glue: If you have ever been in the situation and have gotten crazy glue on your skin..like glueing your fingers together - don't tear them apart. Hot soapy water will do the trick.
Thought I would add a little story:

I was teaching a seminar at a glue factory and one of the glue guys was telling us about an incident. Seems a young child was allowed to craft with super glue. She was holding what she wanted to glue in one hand and the tube in the other - no hand availible to open the tube - so she tried pulling the cap off with her teeth and the glue squirted into her mouth and got on her vocal cords. The hospital called the glue factory asking if they knew a solution, other wise they wanted to cut the cords apart. Well they told them to let nature take care of it and after 4 hours the girl could talk again.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Coffee pots: That burned on stuff you find inside the pot on the bottom after leaving the pot sit on the hot plate all day comes off with crushed ice and salt. Put enough ice in the coffee pot to cover the bottom and pour a couple tablespoons of salt over the ice. Swirl the ice/salt mix around by shaking the coffee pot in a circle and the burned on coffee comes right off. Dump the ice/salt mix out once the pot is clean and rinse with cold water.

Crazy glue: Acetone nail polish remover dissolves it fairly quickly.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[rab]

Coffee stains (pots, mugs, etc.): Make a paste of baking soda and rub around/on the stain (usually just dumping a bit of baking soda in a rinsed, but not dried mug/pot is sufficient). It's amazing how much coffee coloring can be removed even after you think the mug/pot is "clean".

Several years ago I came across an article (magazine or newspaper I think, not book) that laid out around 10 "common" cleaners that were enough for almost anything: baking soda, borax, vegetable oil soap (e.g., Murphy's Oil Soap), vinegar, club soda, and some others. It basically shot down most recently "invented" special-purpose cleaners.

Here's a link to something similar regarding homemade cleaners.

-Rob

 

[kelpmermaid]

Pour table salt on the stain, the salt absorbs the wine, leave it to dry and vacuum it up .

Simple.

Re: red wine on the (almost white) carpet, I have tried club soda followed by rapid blotting of the wet area, and that works wonders, too. The advantage to salt is that it's always around...and it doesn't go flat. The offender must switch to white wine, though, or no refills.

 

[ScubaBaby]

Question - is it true that if you spill red wine on a carpet - that spilling white wine ontop with counteract the red wine stain & you end up with a clean carpet? (an alcoholic, pub smelling carpet but a clean one!)

 

[scbababe]

When peeling onions, light a candle. It really works!

 

[justleesa]

now that's one I gotta try...scented or a regular candle...or does it matter?

 

[scbababe]

now that's one I gotta try...scented or a regular candle...or does it matter?

It doesn't matter..."when slicing or chopping onions the heat from the candle flame burns off some the noxious fumes from the area, taking the sting out of a normally tearful task."

 

[SueMermaid]

When pealing onions light a candle. It really works!

How many onions can one candle peel?