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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / April 2007

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Smokie Darling (Annie) - 06 Apr 2007 20:18 GMT
I heard the Bed Sheet idea a couple of years ago and it's wonderful.
Linen closet is much neater.

Bed Sheets
After drying my sheets, put both sheets and one pillowcase in the
other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square. Next time you change
sheets, you just take the one pillow case and all the sheets and
pillow case are inside. No need to look for matches.

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick 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.

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.

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/
calories per serving.

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.

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.

Broken Glass
Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken pieces of glass - the
fibers catch ones you can't see!

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

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.

Easier thank you's
When you throw a bridal/baby shower, buy a pack of thank you cards
for
the guest of honor. During the party, pass out the envelopes and have
everyone put their address on one. When the bride/new mother sends
the
thank you's, they're all addressed!

After Purchasing New Bike
If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their picture inside
the handle bar before placing the grips on. If the bike is stolen and
later recovered, remove the grip and there is your proof who owns the
bike.

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.

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 -- voila --
static
is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with
hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry the cup. Next, add
your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes
right out.

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!

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...

Good-bye 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 dishwashing liquid, mix well. You
will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it
"home," and can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or
so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry
about pets or small children being harmed!

Take baby powder to the beach
Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag. When you're
ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids with the powder
and the sand will slide right off your skin.
Ann - 06 Apr 2007 21:15 GMT
Good hints, Annie.  I do put the sheets into one of the pillow cases,
but they are never exactly flat.  I can't seem to learn how to fold a
fitted sheet so I just kind of mess with it a bit and then just get
frustrated and shove it in the pillow case.

Ann
Smokie Darling (Annie) - 06 Apr 2007 22:27 GMT
> Good hints, Annie.  I do put the sheets into one of the pillow cases,
> but they are never exactly flat.  I can't seem to learn how to fold a
> fitted sheet so I just kind of mess with it a bit and then just get
> frustrated and shove it in the pillow case.
>
> Ann

Actually, there's a trick to that, but it requires having a folding
table.

Lie the fitted sheet on the table, make certain that all the corners
are "correct" (all right side in our out, depending on how you fold).
Grabbing the stitched 'corners', fold in half, one way (longwise),
then fold in half the other way.  Then keep folding in half til it's
the size you want.

I can't do that, cause I don't have a folding table, but I use the
same general principle while standing up (with help of the DH of
course).  Not a perfectly flat sheet, but it's good enough.

SD (Annie)
Ann - 07 Apr 2007 00:15 GMT
It sounds easy when you write it all out, but watch me mess it up.  I'm
going to try your method because it's much better than mine. Thank you.

Ann
Smokie Darling (Annie) - 07 Apr 2007 00:32 GMT
> It sounds easy when you write it all out, but watch me mess it up.  I'm
> going to try your method because it's much better than mine. Thank you.
>
> Ann

Hey, I *know* how to do it, and I mess it up at least once per week
(lol).

SD (Annie)

Prolly the only time I ever 'listened' to Martha Stewart, since I got
tired of 'rolling' the stupid sheet into a big ole ball (lol)
jofirey - 07 Apr 2007 02:01 GMT
>> Good hints, Annie.  I do put the sheets into one of the pillow cases,
>> but they are never exactly flat.  I can't seem to learn how to fold a
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>
> SD (Annie)

One of the things that is still my job around here is folding towels and
sheets and matching socks.

Believe it or not I can do a halfway decent job of folding a fitted king
size sheet while lying flat on my back.  Just work my way around the edge
till I find a corner.  Turn that inside out over my hand.  Then work around
the edge till I come to a next corner.  That one goes right side out.  Keep
going along the edge the third corner goes inside out over the first two.
And then the last corner right side out over the other three.  Keep one hand
inside the four corners and start smoothing the edges,  At this point the
sheet is pretty much folded in quarters.  Keep folding from there till its a
size you want.

Jo
Smokie Darling (Annie) - 07 Apr 2007 04:16 GMT
> >> Good hints, Annie.  I do put the sheets into one of the pillow cases,
> >> but they are never exactly flat.  I can't seem to learn how to fold a
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Hey, that sounds easier than my way (well, Martha Stewart's way).
Gonna have to try that!  Thanks!
BettyB - 07 Apr 2007 06:32 GMT
>Believe it or not I can do a halfway decent job of folding a fitted king
>size sheet while lying flat on my back.  Just work my way around the edge
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>
>Jo

That's the way I have been doing it for years. I can't remember who
taught me but it really works, even standing up. I taught my DH and he
does it every week (as he does all the laundry, lucky me).
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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is
predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it,
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Nann Bell - 07 Apr 2007 15:05 GMT
> Believe it or not I can do a halfway decent job of folding a fitted king
> size sheet while lying flat on my back.  Just work my way around the edge
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>
> Jo

my method is similar, modified from my mom's method of folding the bottom
sheet with a partner.  insert the two corner of each end inside one another,  
then insert the corners from one end inside those from the other end.  let
the elasticized part fold down over the flat part of the sheet.  (the bottom
sheet we have that is elasticized all around often gets laid down on the
floor or the bed at this point to get it flatter)  Then you keep folding it
to the size you want.  Our bed is only a queen, but I can fold fitted sheets
by myself this way.  Of course, I leave them until my hands can handle
folding!

Don't do the pillow case thing - I just stack a full set together on the
shelf and pull down sheets and pillow cases all together.  I think I'd have
more trouble trying to get the stuff in the pillow case as my hands are
usually aching by then!

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sweetpickleNO@SPAMknology.net - 07 Apr 2007 20:28 GMT
Jo, thzt's the way I do it too.  I just didn't know how to explain it!

>>> Good hints, Annie.  I do put the sheets into one of the pillow cases,
>>> but they are never exactly flat.  I can't seem to learn how to fold a
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>
> Jo
Nann Bell - 07 Apr 2007 15:05 GMT
> 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.

I've read this one in gardening books, but we have such wind in our yard that
we'd have to use mega-mulch to keep the paper from blowing away!  So much
mulch in fact, that it pretty much prevents the weeds on its own, so I just
skip to the mulch stage.

BTW, please don't use cypress mulch!  The old growth cypress trees in the
southeastern US have been largely decimated and the cypress industry is now
going after younger trees.  The younger trees have not yet developed the
insect resistance that originally made cypress mulch desireable.  Meanwhile,
coastal and riverine cypress forests are disappearing rapidly along with the
protective wetlands they provide.  

Pine mulch on the other hand is a by-product of the turpentine and paper
industries and comes from planted pine forests, so it far less destructive to
the environment overall.  Or you can use a mulch made from one of the
invasive species of trees.

> 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.

anyone know if this would work with rabbits also?  They kept nibbling my
asters last year so they never really got growing.  The fox urine prodects
for keeping rabbits away are a bit on the costly side, cayenne pepper would
be much more affordable, if it'd work!
> Measuring Cups
> Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with
> hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry the cup. Next, add
> your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes
> right out.

If you have to measure oil for the same recipe, do that first, then use the
same cup for the sticky substance - it'll slide right out. I do that all the
time with recipes that use molasses.

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Gloria - 08 Apr 2007 04:10 GMT
Thanks! I really needed the one about the pesky fruit flies. I have only
one, but it has been driving me batty. Can't wait to try that one out!

Gloria

>I heard the Bed Sheet idea a couple of years ago and it's wonderful.
> Linen closet is much neater.
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> ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids with the powder
> and the sand will slide right off your skin.
 
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