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Any household tips or money/time/effort saving ideas welcome.

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Use plastic pegs to seal bread,tea cakes,frozen food etc.
Flat coke very good for fetching a sparkle to your Loo and sink.
Got a spot then in an emergency dab on a spot of toothpaste and let it dry. Works a treat.

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Salt on spilt red wine brings the mark out of any carpet.

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Also salt poured on to slugs kills the little buggers.

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ground coffee & garlic keeps the slugs away, to.....they won't cross the line.

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Hope it's used coffee grains tealeaf,otherwise what a waste of good coffee.

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Use cheap lemonade in a vase instead of water flowers last longer.
Warm water with sugar works well but remember to cut the stems a little each day and top up.

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Use plastic flowers - they last longer still

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Plastic floweres not quite the same some how but your not wrong. lol

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:o  Believe it or not, babywipes are excellent for cleaning patent leather shoes and handbags. Discovered this by accident. They are terrible for cleaning babies bottoms.

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Baby wipes have many uses Lettie. Brilliant for cleaning trainers.
Good for cleaning paint work. Infact they have a multitude of uses round the home.
Wipeing the phone etc.

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to remove greast marks from clothes,place a brown paper bag over mark,and iron,the paper picks up the grease,leaving the item spotless

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any good tips on cleaning windows,,coz no matter what i try(and thats almost everything) they still look streaky!! :(

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Have you tried a solution of warm water and vinigar applied with scrunched up newspaper or a soft cloth and then dry with newspaper.
Leaves them smear free in theory at least. I to am useless at cleaning windows.

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Old vynle records make brilliant plant pot holders.
80s records seem to melt better. lol
They make unusual potholders and keep your window sill clean.