Tips Worth Remembering
1) Keep toothbrush around the kitchen sink--you will find it useful in cleaning rotary beaters, grater, choppers and
similar kitchen utensils.
2) Instead of trying to iron rickrack on the right side of the garment,turn the article. The rickrack can be pressed
perfectly.
3) When your hands are badly stained from gardening, add a teaspoonof sugar to the soapy lather you wash them in.
4) Use paper cups as handy containers for your "drippings" in therefrigerator as they tale
5) Before emptying the bag of your vacuum cleaner, sprinkle water on the newspaper into which it is emptied, and
there willbe no scattering of dust.
6) To whiten laces, wash them in sour milk.
7) To remove burned-on starch from your iron, sprinkle salt on a
sheet of waxed paper and slide iron back and forth several
times. Then polish it with silver polish until roughness or
stain is removed.
8) Dip new broom in hot water before using. This will toughen
the bristles and make it last longer.
9) Try waxing your ashtrays. Ashes won't cling, odors won't linger and they can be wiped clean with a paper towel
or disposable tissue. This saves daily washing.
10) Plant a few sprigs of dill near your tomato plants to prevent
tomato worms on yout plants.
11) Marigolds will prevent rodents.
12) Spray garbage sacks with ammonia to prevent dogs from tearingthe bags before picked up.
13) You can clean darkened aluminum pans easily by boiling in them two teaspoons of cream of tartar mixed in a quart
of water. 10 minutes will do it.
14) Fresh lemon juice will take away onion scent from hands.
15) Wash old powder puffs in soapy water, rinse well and dry
thoroughly. Then use them for polishing silverware,
cooper and brass.
16) Soak colored cottons overnight in strong salt water, they will not fade
17) To dry drip-dry garments faster and with fewer wrinkles,
hang garment over the top of a dry cleaner's plastic bag.
18) If a cracked dish is boiled for 45 minutes in sweet milk, the crack will be so welded together that it will hardly be
visible, and will be so strong it will stand the same usages
as from before.
19) Rinse a pan in cold water before scalding milk to prevent
sticking.
20) Dip the spoon in hot water to measure shortening, butter, etc. the fat will slip out more easily.
21) A clean clothespin provided a cool handle to steady the
cake tine when removing a hot cake.

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