Household Hacks to Try

• Acne ~ dab on honey and cover overnight w/bandaid
• BBQ Grill ~ baking soda and water makes a great scrub
• Blood Stains ~ Soak the stain in coke until dissolved, then wash before coke dries
• Candles ~ Freeze them 1st to make them last longer
• Can opener ~ Clean and lube gears by running wax paper thru
• CD/DVD repair ~ buff out scratches with toothpaste or banana peel, then wash clean with water
• Cut Flowers ~ a few drops of bleach = longer life span Works
• Dandruff ~ apple juice or vinegar rinse
• Fleas ~ add a little vinegar to their water bowl; use dish soap for flea shampoo (WORKS)
• Flowers ~ vinegar helps them grow
• Glass Scratches ~ toothpaste to buff
• Headache ~ 2 glasses of water
• Shaving Nicks ~ stop the bleeding with a dab of chapstick
• Shiny Pet Coats ~ add a bit of olive oil to their water bowl
• Weeds ~ Vinegar kills weeds

Other Uses for Toothpaste

1. Clean your sneakers with this and an old toothbrush.
2. Fill nail holes.
3. Polish jewelry (not pearls.)
4. Lightly use to buff out scratches on watches, phone screens, cds, dvds.
5. Take the itch out of insect bites.
6. Dry up acne.
7. Stain remover (Do not use whitening paste on colored clothes.)
8. Clean food smells like onions from your hands.
9. Stains in cups or glasses
10. Dirty car headlights
11. Remove marks from walls and floors.
12. Get rid of bad smells from baby bottles.
13. Clean grout
14. Remove scratches on leather
15. Buff chrome faucets & steel sinks
16. Clean ivory
17. Treat a burn
18. Clean glass shower doors
19. Polish silver
20. Clean Your Iron
21. Exfoliate your face
22. Dry Out Poison Ivy
23. Remove Skunk Smell
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Organizational Projects

• Put all owner manuals, receipts and warrenties into 2" binder.
• Work on a school memory book. who, what, when, where, why, how.
• Recipe Binder ideas (could possibly do this for #2 also?
• Org Junkie's 52 wks of organizing links
• Organize our home videos
• print and laminate kids chore charts
• replace cloth on hope chest and DR chairs
• verses to memorize book on index cards in mini-binder
• Organize iTunes; clean and reload ipods
• organize digital photos 
• (DRAFT) Make a 5x7 special days binder for bday, anniversary, date of death (victor), deceased bdays, with monthly dividers and a pocket on back of divider to put previously bought cards for events. 
• a crate for a file drawer
• (DRAFT) Deep freeze organization
• make decorated clipboards

Spring Cleaning Challenge

 

Ok, I love a good reading challenge, but a cleaning challenge? Hmmm sounds like too much pressure, so I'd bow out. But it just so happens that this challenge is going on at the same time that I have been motivated to clean. So I'm semi-joining it. I'm going to read the posts & I'll post here what/how I'm doing. But I won't pressure myself to do everything as they are. I'm not really worried about winning prizes anyway, my prize will be a cleaner, healthier home and exercise too.

 

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Productivity

Feeling crappy today, no drive, coughing, headache. Still plugging along


9 am-2 pm

• breakfast ~ cereal


• got burger out to thaw


• showered, but back in jammies


• read 2 magazines while watching news


• checked the laundry & brought a basket up to fold


• listened to Job 17-42


• cleaned email & G reader


• looked for breakfast recipe for SS


• checked kids' grades online


• caught up on facebook


• folded 1 basket of clothes & brought another up to be folded

2 pm

• got both kids from school


• got & dealt w/mail


• took trash out & brought cans back


• fed dogs


• read 15 pages in a book

Productivity

• made waffle for breakfast
• started dinner in crock
• taught bible study from 9-12
• coordinated group ticket info for SS class for upcoming Christian concert
• ordered prescription refill for son w/dr office
• dealt w/mail
• balance checkbook
• cleaned email
• cleaned 67 items out of G-reader
• caught up on fb
• put tax info in big envelope for accountant
• listened to Job 1 - 16
• got son from school
• had snack
• studied Schnucks ad & made list
• drank 4 glasses of water before 4 pm
• researched items on childtherapytoys.com

I'm signing off now at 4:20. Planning on eating, going to watch daughter cheer for b-ball, then relax afterwards.

Productivity

It would appear I am having motivation issues lately. I'd like nothing more than to lay in bed & watch tv or sleep lately. So I thought I'd keep a list of things done daily so I can see that I am accomplishing things.

• Balanced checkbook


• Paid bills


• Cleaned out expired coupons


• Cleaned out expired receipts for returns & organized warrenties


• Emptied email


• Checked status of Staples rebate (on the way finally!)


• Shredded old receipts


• Started Autism resource guide database on my computer


• Cleaned some stuff off my dresser


• Searched for a decent movie for family movie night (grief!)


• Cleaned out G-reader


• Printed, clipped, & filed more coupons


• Printer Maintanance


• Facebook catch up


• Listened to/read Genesis 6 - 11


• 1 load of wash completed


• Got son from school


• Dealt w/the mail


• Exchanged emails w/son's school counselor


• Remembered my medicine


• Washed, dried, & replaced hubby's blanket & pillowcases (2nd load)


• 2.5 hr autism research