[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Some helpful ideas!

Mon Sep 5 18:54:51 UTC 2022

Thanks for this, Mary!
I have trouble with bug bights and sure did not know that about the drier!
Terry P.

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Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Some helpful ideas!

Friends,

I was going through an old recipes folder and came across the attached
document, which has many helpful suggestions.

I intend to wash and brush my lint filter, as I have problems with moisture
buildup behind the filter.  Yes, I use fabric softeners.  It doesn't matter
that I just use the Downey beads.  These also, tend to leave a film.

I hope you find some helpful ideas that are useful to you.

I sometimes find it difficult to open an attachment.  So, I have copied the
document below my signature.

Mary K.

DID YOU KNOW? 

 Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to 

pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it. 

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

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. 

It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

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.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. 

It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

  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. 

 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. 

  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.

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! 

  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. 

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. 

  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.

 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.

  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 for-get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic
they will not get through wet newspapers. 

Broken Glass  

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

  No More Mosquitoes 

Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. 

It will keep the mosquitoes away. 

 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. 

  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. 

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.

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. 

 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!

  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. 

 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. 

  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! 

 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! 

  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 long  time (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) 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! 

Note: I went to my dryer and 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 and a nylon brush and 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!

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. 

NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE 

SOMEONE'S LIFE

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