Ideas Worth Knowing

Ideas Worth Knowing




1-- Take your bananas apart when you get
home from the store. If you leave them
connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

2--Store your opened chunks of cheese in
aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer
and not mold!

3--Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are
sweeter and better for eating.

Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are
firmer and better for cooking.

4--Add a teaspoon of water when
frying ground beef. It will help pull the
grease away from the meat while cooking..

5--To really make scrambled eggs or
omelets rich, add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese,
or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

6-- For a cool brownie treat, make brownies
as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler
and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a
wonderful minty frosting

7--Add garlic immediately to a recipe
if you want a light taste of garlic and at the
end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of
garlic.

8--Leftover snickers bars from Halloween
make a delicious dessert.
Simply chop them up with the food
chopper. Peel, core and slice a
few apples. Place them in a baking
dish and sprinkle the chopped
candy bars over the apples. Bake at
350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve
alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

9--Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick
skillet on top of the stove, set heat
to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza.

10--Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag.
Seal, mash till they are all broken up.
Add remainder of ingredients, reseal,
keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly,
cut the tip of the baggy squeeze
mixture into egg. Just throw bag away
when done easy clean up.

11--Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting
from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You
get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same
amount. You also eat less sugar and
calories per serving.

12--Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins
that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water.
The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

13-- Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the
nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping
as you go cover with mulch and forget about
weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening
plastic but they will not get through wet
newspapers.

14-- Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small
shards of glass you can't see easily.

15-- No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the
mosquitoes away.

16--Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your
plants, sprinkle your plants with
cayenne pepper.. The cayenne pepper
doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels
won't come near it.

17-- Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register
or under the fridge add an empty paper
towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your
vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow
openings.

18--Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your
slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or
dress. Same thing works with slacks that
cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin
in seam of slacks and ...ta da! .... static is gone.


19--Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a
measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don't dry
cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily
it comes right out.

20-- Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser
and keep it in the glove box of your car. When
the windows fog, rub with the eraser!
Works better than a cloth.

21-- Reopening envelopes
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot
to include something inside, just place your sealed
envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola!
It unseals easily.

22--Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs.
It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your
legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up
the conditioner you bought but didn't like when
you tried it in your hair.

23-- Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a
small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider
Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid;
mix well. You will find those flies drawn to
the cup and gone forever!

24-- Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants.
They eat it, take it 'home,' can't digest it so it
kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it
rains, but it works and you don't have the worry
about pets or small children being harmed!

25-- INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer!
The gentleman that fixes things
around the house for us told us that
he wanted to show us something
and he went over to the dryer and
pulled out the lint filter. It was
clean. (I always clean the lint
from the filter after every load
clothes.) He told us that he wanted
to show us something; he took
the filter over to the sink and ran
hot water over it. The lint
filter is made of a mesh material .. I'm
sure you know what your dryer's lint
filter looks like.. Well .... the hot water just
sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through
it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause
a film over that mesh that's what burns
out the heating unit.. You can't SEE the
film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer
sheets to make your clothes soft and static
free ... that nice fragrance too. You know
how they can feel waxy when you take
them out of the box .... well this stuff builds up
on your clothes and on your lint screen..
This is also what causes dryer units to
potentially burn your house down with it!
He said the best way to keep your dryer
working for a very longtime (and to keep your
electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and
wash it with hot soapy water and an old
toothbrush (or other brush every six months.
He said that makes the life of the dryer at least
twice as long!