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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. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
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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, makes for an easy clean up.
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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.
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Reheating
Refrigerated Bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a
microwave along with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep
the food moist and help it reheat faster.
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Newspaper
Weeds Away: Start putting it around your plants, work the nutrients into your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the
plants overlapping as you go, cover with mulch and then forget about
weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic, they will not get through wet newspapers.
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Broken Glass
Clean up: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass
you can't see easily.
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No More Mosquitoes: Place a dryer sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the mosquitoes away.
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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.
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Flexible
Vacuum Nozzle: 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 into narrow openings.
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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.
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Measuring Cups clean up: 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.
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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!
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Reopening
Envelope: 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.
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Hair Conditioner: Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot 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. . .
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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!
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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 &
you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
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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, 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 catch fire & potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (& to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hot
soapy water & an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least
twice as long! How about that! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share!
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Note: I went to my dryer & tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water & a nylon brush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it the water ran right
thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about!