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    DID YOU KNOW?
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    >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.
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    >Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store If you
    >leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
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    >Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay
    >fresh much longer and not mold!
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    >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.
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    >Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help
    >pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
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    >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.
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    >For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andesmints in
    >double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful mintyfrosting.
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    >Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and atthe
    >end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
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    >Leftover snickers bars from Halloweenmake a delicious dessert. Simply chop them
    >up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in abaking
    >dish and sprinkle the chopped candybars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!!
    >Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yum
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    >1. Reheat Pizza
    >Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat tomed-low
    >and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I sawthis on
    >the cooking channel and it really works
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    >2. 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.
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    >3. 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 perserving.
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    >4. Reheating refrigerated bread
    >To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in amicrowave
    >with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and helpit reheat faster.
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    >5. 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 forget aboutweeds.
    >Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wetnewspapers.
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    >6. Broken Glass
    >Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can'tsee easily.
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    >7. No More Mosquitoes
    >Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
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    >8. Squirrel Away!
    >To keep squirrels from eating your plants sp rinkle your plants with cayennepepper.
    >The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
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    >9. Flexible vacuum
    >To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper
    >towel roll or empty gift wraproll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get
    >in narrow openings.
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    >10. Reducing Static Cling
    >Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingyskirt
    >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.
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    >11. Measuring Cups
    >Before you pour sticky substances into a measu ring 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.
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    >12. 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 acloth!
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    >13. Reopening envelope
    >If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include somethinginside,
    >just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! Itunseals easily.
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    >14. 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 youbought but
    >didn't like when you tried it in your hair...
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    >15. Goodbye Fruit Flies
    >To get rid of pesky fr uit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2' with AppleCider Vinegar and 2 drops
    >of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cupand gone forever!
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    >16. 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 itworks & you don't have
    >the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
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    >17. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
    >The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things aroundthe house for us
    >told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer andpulled out the lint
    >filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every loadclothes.) He told us that
    >he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over to the sink, ran hotwater over it. The lint
    >filter is made of a mesh material - I'm sure you know what your dryer's lintfilter looks like.
    >Well,.the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it atall! He told us that dryer
    >sheets cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating unit. Youcan't SEE the
    >film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothessoft and static free -- that
    >nice fragrance too, you know how they can feel waxy when you take them out ofthe box, well this
    >stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also whatcauses dryer u nits to catch
    >fire & potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way tokeep your dryer working
    >for a very long time (& to keep your electric bill lower) is to take thatfilter 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! How about that!?! Learn something neweveryday!
    >I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share!
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    >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 in the mesh screen. I washed itwith warm soapy
    >water & a nylon brush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsedit -- the water ran
    >right thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all!
    >That repairman knew what he was talking about!
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    >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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