Great tips that have nothing to do with the home office!

I generally despise email forwards but received one today that I strangely decided to open.  Turns out it contained some useful tips! Unfortunately, I can’t determine to whom I should give proper credit!

1. Reheat 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. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really
works.

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.

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 per serving.

4. Reheating refrigerated bread

To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated , place
them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will
keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

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 about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic
they will not get through wet newspapers.

6. Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you
can’t see easily.

7. No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

8. Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne
pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t
come near it.

9. 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.

10. Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a
clingy skirt 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.

11. Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring 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.

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 a
cloth!

13. 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

14. Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot cheaper than
shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way
to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it
in your hair…

15. 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!

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 it works & you don’t have the worry about pets
or small children being harmed!

17. 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 somethin g 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 this 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! How about that!?! Learn something
new every day! I certainly didn’t know dryer sheets would do that.