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On-Air » Kathy Keene » Household Hints
LAUNDRY CLEANING TIPS
The biggest laundry challenge is deciding which products to buy. Ads tell us how well this one cleans, how good that one smells, which one contains bleach, that one contains brighteners and this one contains every cleaning agent known to man!
Here's what you need:
1. Fels-Naptha Bar Soap
A great spotter for numerous spots and stains. Wet the bar and rub the stain, working it in well. Let it sit a few minutes. Great for ring-around-the-collar and perspiration stains. Works on mud and grass stains too.
2. Ink Away
Made by the makers of Goo Gone, really proves itself. Follow package directions and be sure to read the list of things not to use it on before you start.
3. Spot Shot Instant Carpet Stain Remover
It's a great laundry prewash spotter, safe for all colorfast washables and works in all wash temperatures.
Spray the stained area thoroughly, saturating the stain. Allow Spot Shot to sit at least 60 seconds, then llaunder as usual. Do not allow it to dry on the fabric, and do not use it on silks, fabircs labeled "dry clean only" or noncolorfast fabrics.
This product works on oily stains, ink, pet stains, cola, shoe polish, lipstick, blood and others. It's a must-have in the laundry room.
4. Wine Away Red Wine Stain Remover
It works great on Kool-Aid, grape juice, red soda, cranberry juice, orange soda, coffee and tea as well as red wine.
Wine Away is made from fruit and vegetable extracts and is totally nontoxic.
5. Zout Stain Remover
Works great on ink, blood, grease, fruit jice, grass and hundreds of toehr stains. A little goes a long way with this. Simply saturate the stain, work it in, wait 5 to 10 minutes and then launder as usual.
6. Cream of Tartar
Mix with lemon juice and you have a wonderful bleach for white clothes with food or other stains. Works on rust too.
7. Glycerin
You can remove tar, tree sap, juice stians, mustard, ketchup and barbecue sauce with glycerin.
8. Hydrogen Peroxide (3%)
Super for removing blood stains.
9. WD-40
Removes grease and oil stains on clothes. Salad dressings, crayon, lipstick, Chap Stick. Spray some on, wait 10 minutes, then work in undiluted liquid dishwashing soap and launder as usual.
10. Shampoo
Any brand will do. I save the small bottles from hotels and keep them in the laundry room. Great for ring-around-the-collar, mud and cosmetic stains.
MOSQUITOES
Here's an article I read about mosquito sprays............
Mosquito Spray...Worth a try
I was at a deck party awhile back, and the bugs were having a ball biting everyone. A man at the party sprayed the lawn and deck floor with Listerine, and the little demons disappeared. The next year I filled a 4-ounce spray bottle and used it around my seat whenever I saw mosquitoes. And voila! That worked as well. It worked at a picnic where we sprayed the area around the food table, the children's swing area, and the standing water nearby. During the summer, I don't leave home without it.....Pass it on
OUR FRIEND'S COMMENTS: I tried this on my deck and around all of my doors. It works - in fact, it killed them instantly. I bought my bottle from Target and it cost me $1.89. It really doesn't take much, and it is a big bottle, too; so it is not as expensive to use as the can of Bug-spray you buy that doesn't last 30 minutes. So, try this, please. It will last a couple of days. Don't spray directly on a wood door (like your front door), but spray around the frame. Spray around the window frames, and even inside the dog house.
NO MORE SPIDERS
3/4 cup warm water
20-30 drops real lemon oil from a Health Food Store
2-3 drops Dawn dishwashing liquid
Put in spray bottle and shake well. Spray around foundations, around doors, etc. to keep spiders away.
This is a natural product - is not harmful to kids or pets.
4 EARWIG SOLUTIONS
1. 6 T. minced garlic
2 tsp. mineral oil
1-1/2 tsp. insecticidal soap
Mix 1 to 2 T. of mixture with 1 pint water. Put around plants or where ever earwigs are found.
2. Ortho Home Defense with pyrethium in works for earwigs.
3. Mix 40% Avon skin-so-soft with 60% water. Spray where earwigs are found.
4. Wet newspaper, roll it up and put it in your garden. The earwigs will crawl into the paper and you can dispose of them
by putting the newspaper in a plastic bag and throw in the trash.
SILK TIE DYED EASTER EGGS
Raw eggs
Silk neckties
All-purpose thread
Scissors
1. Check the tie label to make sure it's silk. Remove the lining, cut it into strips and set aside.
2. Cut a piece of colored silk tie fabric large enough to fit around the entire egg. A tie usually yields enough fabric to dye four or five eggs.
3. Wet the silk with cold water and wrap tightly around the egg, with the right side of the fabric facing the egg. Twist the ends tightly so the fabric is touching the entire surface of the egg. Wrap thread around each end and knot to hold the fabric in place.
4. Wrap the lining strips around the entire egg. Hold them in place by wrapping and tying thread around the egg.
5. After wrapping several eggs, place them in a single layer in a large saucepan. Add enough water to cover by 1 inch. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 15 minutes. Place in ice water until completely cooled.
6. Remove lining and silk fabric. Do not reuse the silk fabric.
7. Apply a thin coat of vegetable oil to make eggs shine.
8. Store in refrigerator until ready to eat.
WEED KILLER SOLUTION
1 gallon white vinegar
1 pound table salt
1 T. Dawn dishwashing liquid
Mix all together and put in spray bottle. Spray on the weeds between the cracks in the sidewalk and driveway. Will kill anything you spray it on.
WINDOW WASHING SOLUTION
1 gallon warm water
1 pint rubbing alcohol
1/2 cup ammonia
1 tsp. Dawn
Mix and put in spray bottle. I use Bounty paper towels to dry the windows.
RABBIT REPELLANT
3 eggs - scramble them up a bit and let stand for a few days in open container in the garage or someplace out of the weather. When the eggs smell to high heaven, add 1 quart warm water to the eggs. Put in sprayer and spray plants. Works on woodchucks and deer too.
APPLE TREE MAGGOT SOLUTION
1 quart warm water
1 cup vinegar
1 cup sugar
Combine all and put in gallon plastic jug. Cut top off and hang in apple trees.
Depending on the size of your trees, you may have to hang several in the trees.
Change when the jug is half full of maggots.
NO MORE SPIDERS
3/4 cup warm water
20-30 drops real lemon oil from a Health Food Store
2-3 drops Dawn dishwashing liquid
Put in spray bottle and shake well. Spray around foundations, around doors, etc. to keep spiders away.
This is a natural product - is not harmful to kids or pets. |
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