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                                        Household Survival Tips
   
   DID YOU KNOW?
   
   Banana Tips
   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 leavethem connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
   
   Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay freshmuch longer and not mold!
   
   Peppers
   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.
   
   Greaseless Ground Beef
   Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
   
   Super Tasting Scrambled Eggs
   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.
   
   Brownie Treat
   For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints indouble broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful "minty" frosting.
   
   Garlic Tip
   Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic andat the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
   
   Snickers Bar Desert
   Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simplychop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Placethem in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bakeat 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream.
   
   Reheating 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.
   
   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 upmixing 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 withyour mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get tofrost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugarand calories per serving.
   
   Reheating refrigerated bread
   To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, placethem in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture willkeep 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 withmulch and forget about w eeds. Weeds will get through some gardeningplastic 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 youcan'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 withcayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and thesquirrels 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.
   
   
   Measuring Cups
   Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hotwater. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add youringredient, 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 theglove 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 wayto 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 & 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, 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 t his 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!
   
   Note: I went to my dryer & tested my screen by running water on it. Thewater ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water inthe mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water & a nylon brush & Ihad it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it the water ran rightThru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all!
    

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