1. Try a cup of baking soda in a cup of warm
water. Relax for ten minutes or until
refreshed.
2. One tablespoon of baby oil in very warm bath
water for smooth skin. Watch the
wrinkles go.
3. Try a warm bath with feet propped up high for a
relaxing twenty minutes.
4. Mix dry oatmeal and water into a paste and
spread on face. Lie down and let it
dry. Wash off with warm water. Excellent facial.
5. Cold Cream on eyelashes and brows keeps soap
out of eyes while shampooing.
6. For that Bright Eyed look, place cucumber
slices on eyelids while relaxing in a hot bath for ten minutes.
7. Remove gum from hair with nail polish remover,
then shampoo.
8. Cornbread mix spread on face, let dry and wash
off with warm water and see how clean your skin looks.
9. Another refresher... squeeze cotton pads out of
ice water, place on eyelids and lie down, elevate feet.
10. To prevent hair pins from falling out, bend
one prong in a "V" about halfway up and insert in hair. It will stay.
11. Clean your rings with toothpaste and old
brush.
12. Artgum eraser will clean bone colored shoes.
13. To keep Cold Cream from spoiling and maintain
its freshness, keep it in the refrigerator... and it's so cool.
14. Prevent wrinkled scarves. Roll and place in toilet tissue cones.
15. Old lipstick tubes, thoroughly cleaned, are
great for purse-sized pill boxes or for pins etc.
16. White shoe polish will keep a cast clean on
broken bones.
17. Clip on earrings can be used for cuff links or
scatter pins.
18. Cuticle remover will clear hands of nicotine
stains.
19. Ice water and soap to remove ring from swollen
finger.
20. Cut legs off old card table, to about ten
inches high. This will make a good table
for sick or bed-ridden folks.
21. Boil pine splinters and sip tea to stop
hiccups of long duration.
22. Use a lazy susan at bedside to enable sick to
reach more items.
23. Old socks worn over shoes on ice helps to
prevent falls.
24. Tape on shoes helps prevent falls on highly
waxed floors.
25. Emergency Sinus Relief - swab white vinegar
high up in the nostrils.
26. Recycle Your Own Paper - Use backs of unwanted
advertising mail for scratch paper pads.
Roll your newspapers into a tight roll until they are log size, tie with
a wire and burn in the fireplace. It
will burn like a log, but even longer.
Shred all of your newspapers and junk mail and save in a large bag for
use in packing materials and for making paper mache items by adding flour and
water.
27. Save cans to freeze leftovers in.
28. Save plastic bags from bread for freezer use.
29. Save plastic milk containers, fill with water
and freeze. Use in camper iceboxes or
coolers. Also these can be used to
freeze colored water or juices in for later use in a punch bowl.
30. Clean vinyl with liquid window cleaner.
31. Avoid tears when peeling onions, slice first,
then slip the bands of skin off.
32. Use an egg slicer to slice apples or
mushrooms.
33. Leftover pancake batter makes good fried onion
rings. Separate and let soak in batter
for fifteen minutes. Fry in hot oil.
34. Loose door knob? Put a drop of shellac in the screw hole, then
tighten. It works.
35. To grow thyme - thyme will grow anywhere, but
it prefers a dry, poor soil. If the
ground is rich, the plant will become too luxuriant and lose its aromatic
qualities.
36. A very strengthening drink - beat the yolk of
a fresh egg with a little sugar, add a very little brandy, beat the white to a
strong froth, stir it into the yolk, fill up the tumbler with fresh milk and
grate in a little nutmeg.
37. How to preserve flowers and fruit - Fruit and
flowers may be preserved from decay and fading by immersing them in a solution
of gum arabic and water two or three times, waiting a sufficient time between
each immersion to allow the gum to dry.
This process covers the surface of the fruit with a thin coat of gum,
which is entirely impervious to the air, thus preventing the decay of the fruit
or flower. Roses thus preserved have all
the beauty of freshly picked ones, though they have been separated from the
parent stock many months.
38. Household cleaner formula: Soap powder - 2 oz.; soda ash - 3 oz.; tri-sodium
phosphate - 40 oz.; finely ground silica - 55 oz. Mix well and put up in
containers. Most of the above items can
be purchased from drug store or hardware and paint stores.
39. Household window cleaner formula: Castile soap - 2 oz.; water -5 oz.; chalk - 4
oz.; french-chalk - 3 oz.; Tripoli
40. Fire Kindler Formula: Rosin or pitch - 10 oz.; sawdust - 10 or more
oz. Melt, mix and cast in forms.
41. Paint Brush Cleaner - ammonia (household
ammonia will do).
42. Sun Burn Lotion - Peanut oil (buy at grocery
store).
43. Radiator Cleaner - Tri-sodium phosphate (buy
at paint store).
44. Tree Wound Dressing - Lanolin (buy at drug
store).
45. Frosted Window Paint - super saturated solution
of Epsom salts.
46. Mosquito Repellant - Oil of Pennyroyal, rub on
skin (buy at drug store).
47. Furniture polish and cleaner - Vinegar.
48. Tile Cleaner - Deodorized kerosene (buy at an
oil company).
49. Windshield Anti-fog - Glycerin (buy at drug store).
50. Label Cement - Egg white is an excellent label
cement.
51. Cockroach Exterminator - Borax (buy at the
grocery store).
52. Ground Mole Control Powder - Black pepper
placed liberally in their runs.
53. Battery
Anti-corrode - Vaseline.
54. Fire Extinguisher - Plain baking soda.
55. Nail Bleach - Hydrogen peroxide (buy at the
drug store).
56. Type Cleaner - rubbing alcohol (buy at the
drug store).
57. Wonder Car Product - Removes tar, paint, wax
gum, etc. Benzol.
58. Cures Cigarette Habit - Take before breakfast
1/2 teaspoon each of Rochelle Salts and Cream of Tartar, also chew Ginseng root
and swallow the juice.
59. For Great Beauty - drink a teaspoon of
Figwort. This will banish every blemish
from your skin as it cleanses the blood. Chamomile teas will give one a
complexion to be proud of.
If you have a nervous habit you'd like to break,
don't pull your hair out. You can put an
end to fingernail-biting or hair-twisting in a matter of several days - and you
can do it on your own.
The following 4-step plan will help you put an end
to your nervous habit for once and for all.
Recognize your bad habit. Increase your awareness of it by acting it
out in front of a mirror. Try to keep
track of how many times during the day you fall into your habit.
Devise a replacement action. If you're a hair-puller, start carrying a
brush and brush your hair each time you get the pulling or twisting urge. A nail-biter should learn to substitute
filing his or her nails rather than biting.
Bring your habit out of the closet. Advise your work cohorts and family that you
are attempting to break your nervous habit. Ask them to remind you when they
catch you falling into your habit.
Learn to take it easy. Relaxation will help you put an end to a
nervous habit. When you are too keyed
up, your nervous habit takes over, so learn to do some deep breathing when you
begin to feel uptight about something.
Your biggest hurdle in overcoming your nervous habit is in
recognizing it. Once you do this and
really decide you want to break it, you have done the hardest part.
SEWING HINTS
Emergency ripped hem repair - use double faced
sticky tape between hem and dress.
Bobbins, thread, and other sewing notions can be
hung on a bulletin board with straight pins near your machine.
Cut buttons, zippers, snaps, hooks, and eyes from
all old clothes and place near your sewing machine. Pin all the buttons that are alike together
with a large safety pin. Saves a lot!
Cut the cost of making a round tablecloth by using
the fringe from an old bedspread.
To cover unremovable spots on children's clothes,
iron transfers of animals, etc. over spots or paint with textile paints. Looks new!
To reline a jacket or coat, use the old lining for
the pattern. Spray heavily with starch and press. Pin to the new material for a perfect
pattern.
For a matched set of spread and drapes, buy two
bedspreads and make a set of drapes from one.
For an attractive eyeglass case, fold a pot-holder
and sew up one side and the end.
Worn out tops of little girls slips? Cut off at the waist and insert elastic for
half-slip. Also good if she has grown
too tall for it.
Use iron-on rug binding on men's trousers to
prevent "waist-band curing" of trouser tops. Great for the heavy-set men.
Footlets twisted twice in arch of foot prevents
slipping off.
Use two rubber bands and three safety pins on
sliding bra straps. Pin to each strap
and in a "V" to center bra.
Use hair spray to stop runs in hose.
Clear nail polish will stop runs in hose and also
makes good glue.
Use nylon net to brush lint off dark clothing.
Fold several pieces of tissue, pin through dress
with tissues on back to prevent heavy broach from sagging.
Felt markers are good to cover shoe scuffs.
Grease spots which have set, in washable fabrics,
can often be removed by rubbing fresh grease on spot and washing immediately.
Good luck.
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