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CLEAN YOUR MATTRESS: pour about 1 cup of baking soda into a mason jar and drop in 4 drops of lavender essential oil. Put on lid and shake jar. Using a kitchen strainer sprinkle the baking soda mixture all over the mattress and let it sit for an hour or more. Thoroughly vacuum the mattress. Bye, bye dust mites and other nasty things. The baking soda helps draw up any moisture and deep dirtiness. It deodorizes and leaves the mattress smelling fresh and clean.
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17 Tips To Make Your Life Easier. seriously, read these...especially number 17 about the dryer...crazy!!
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How to fix a broken zipper in minutes. Where has this pin BEEN all my life?
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Sounds cool! Vinegar works as a wood stain when you add a metal object in the mix and let it sit in a glass container for a week. A handful of pennies will produce a beautiful pale Caribbean blue stain. A wad of steel wool will give you a rich reddish hue. A combination of tea and a metal object in vinegar will produce a black stain.
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The homemade "Oxiclean" is awesome!! another pinner said "I tried it on a 5 year old white baby onesie that was discolored around the neck and it worked just like or even faster than the real Oxiclean! I have a bright white onesie again!"
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Use buttons to keep pairs of earrings together for storage and travel.
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Add orange peels (or any citrus peel) to a quart of white vinegar in a closed container and let it set for two weeks. Combine citrus/vinegar solution half/half with water and use for cleaning. Works on floors, tile, fixtures, etc. Smells good and is tough on scum!
Peppermint oil as an insect repellent (I've heard this. I believe it works well for mosquitoes and gnats, but I wonder how it works on bees!)
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Face brightening toner! Reduces the size of pores, brightens face, reduces inflammation
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How To Clean That Greasy Stove Hood Filter | One Good Thing by Jillee
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use a dish glove to remove lint and pet hair
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Homemade Fabric Softener - has some good tips in the comments, too
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Line a small dish with aluminum foil, a hand full of baking soda, toss in your silver and top with boiling water. It instantly removes tarnish chemically free.
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Easy and Inexpensive DIY Recipes for 10 Common Cleaning Products
Remove a splinter with baking soda is best for tiny, invisible splinters. Using a baking soda paste it will cause the skin to swell and push the splinter out.
"How to get your dirty whites clean again... HOT HOT HOT water, 1 cap of laundry detergent, 1 cup powdered dish washer detergent, 1 cup bleach, 1/2 cup borax. You have to rewash it once to put softener in but it's the whitest you'll ever see your whites. If you omit the bleach it works great to get stains out of colors too" I'm a skeptic... With really hot water you might as well leave out the bleach, since anything over 78 "kills" it and renders it ineffective... But I may try it!
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Fuller lip effect...simple! (blog has TONS of great beauty tips!)
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Awesome website. Type in your starting destination and your ending destination, and it will find ALL SORTS of things for you to do, see, eat, play along the way.
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"Use baking soda and vinegar to fix funky towels. Over time, and with many washes, your bath towels will build up detergent and fabric softener residue, leaving them both unable to absorb as much water and smelling kinda funky when they do. Rather than give Target another lump sum, run them through the wash once with hot water and a cup of vinegar, then again with hot water and a half-cup of baking soda, as wikiHow suggests. That strips the residue from them, leaves them smelling fairly fresh...
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Another pinner says: Hot Vinegar and Dawn Soap! Seriously, I saw this on Pinterest and decided to try it on my white shower tile...WOW! 1 cup of HOT Vinegar (microwave 1-2 min) and 1 cup of blue DAWN liquid soap. Shake into bottle and creates a gel that is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
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wash towels in 1 Cup of vinegar on hot, then again with 1/2 cup of baking soda on hot. They will smell 10 times better...you don't realize how musty and gross they smell over time!
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Interesting. i winder ud this works for spiders. (probably not! LOL) --> 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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Easy & Inexpensive DIY Recipes for 10 Common Cleaning Products
How to paint furniture black to get that high-end "Pottery Barn-esque" look. These instructions are so good.
caring for a front loading washer (we don't have one, but I can see us getting one soon. This will be handy!)
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Professional house cleaners spill their 10 best-kept secrets to save time & effort. 1 tip: how to remove grease/dirt build up from kitchen cabinets. 1st heat slightly damp sponge/cloth in microwave for 20 - 30 sec. until it's hot. w/rubber gloves, spray cabinets w/ an all-purpose cleaner containing orange oil, then wipe off cleaner w/ hot sponge. Makes the kitchen look & smell wonderful too! (i always heard it was to heat up lemon juice with the water. No need for the extra cleanser.)
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Make your own cleaner - Orange peels, vinegar in a quart jar, let sit for 10 days or so...strain out the liquid and use as an all-purpose cleaner. Easy, cheap, natural, smells good! (Homestead Survival on Facebook)
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Good Plan, I always get distracted while I'm cleaning
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No helium needed to fill balloons for parties. Okay. Whaaaat? Site's down for me, but I'm saving this... Gotta check it out!
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Renee's Soirees It's not for floating like helium, right? Isn't it just to fill the balloon with air in a cool way? Not sure, haven't tried it. :)
Shelly Yep, the site came up for me, finally. Nope, the balloons just fill with CO2, and they don't float.
Over 40 mosquito bite relief tips. (the comments add even more!) it's been such a warm week, we've left the windows open, and of course, mosquitoes are attacking. I actually tried the deodorant one. It worked better than the cortisone I was using!
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Pinner says she put 1c each vinegar and dish soap in a bottle, shook it, sprayed all over shower. Let sit for 1 hour, and all the yuck wiped up with a soft sponge. A commenter on her pin said to add a little baking soda, and you have the best all-purpose cleaner ever: it'll even take satins and grease out of your laundry.
mosquito trap 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 2 cups cool water 1 tsp. active dry yeast --gonna need this out back this summer!
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Cleaning Blinds: mix equal parts vinegar and warm water in a bowl. Slip an old sock on your hand and wash away.
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Homemade Essential Oils ~ Step by step instructions for making homemade essential oils like Lavender, peppermint, lemon balm, marjoram
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