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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.

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Especially those colourful picture discs.

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Oh, yes.  ;D ;D ;D

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I think music man will be having bad dreams tonight, if he can unwind that is. lol

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For nice clean windows, I've heard that a drop of cider vinegar in the water does the trick - never tried it, but many people have told me in works.  :)

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Ordinary vinegar will do.  I've used it for years on the inside of my car windscreen - gets tobaccco stains off a treat
 :)

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[quote author=lettie link=board=hta;num=1066470073;start=0#9 date=11/01/03 at 17:14:08] :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.[/quote]

But don't use them on real leather cos it takes off the protective layer of the leather taking the colour as well !!

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Always remember with anything being tried for the first time to test on  a place thats not noticable.

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Please help.
lasst week my cat got very ill, and on the emergency trip to the vets the little fella peed in the car, not his fault but i cant get rid of the smell its not nice.

Any ideas?

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had a look but my stain book only says .... sponge with warm water then use a carpet shampoo then when dry sponge with ammonia solution (1.5ml ammonia to 500ml cold water)
Don't know if it works  :-/

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If your cat or dog has been sick on your carpet, a quick squirt from a soda syphon will help get rid of the smell, once you have cleaned it up. dont know if it works on urine though.

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Had a neighbouring tom cat that used to sometimes sneak into my kitchen when the back door was open and he would sometimes leave a little scent on my floor. I used to cut an onion in half and rub it over the carpet/lino. It would reduce the smell a bit and didn't smell particularly oniony. (used to sprinkle salt on the carpet first, leave for a few minutes, sponge off with warm water then rub with raw onion)

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Do your bit for the enviroment by recycling your christmas cards birthday cards etc.
Turn them into gift tags. It saves a fortune they are personal and unusual.

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try this page, might be as simple as using baking soda
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/00/000124b.cfm

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tried vinegar and the newspaper for me windows a few times,but no luck,,think i have tried every brand of window cleaner for sale.
think i have solved my problem,i was washing down in lounge,the woodwork window sills ect with a warm water solution of sugar soap,and splashed some on the window,i wiped it off,it came up a treat so did the full window and its smear free,at last,but the sun hasnt shined on it yet ,,its a step closer tho  ;D

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Karen,i used to work at a place making leather suits,if ur suite is drying up,,cracking ect you need to get something called Hide Food,its a cream to feed it with(so to speak)can get from anywhere that sells anything leather..i have a leather suite bought in 1991 ,and have done mine 3 times,the suite is still like new :)

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Sorry but anybody tried dettol spray, rub it in and just as it is beginning to dry vacuum it out.

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ONLY EAT 1 WEEK IN 2 THAT WAY YOU CAN SAVE AT LEAST £50 A MONTH.

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Has anyone got any tips on how to remove permanant marker from kitchen floor tiles or painted walls or microwaves? I have a very talented 3 year old boy who gets creative in all the wrong ways!! and dont say keep the pen away from him it was well away only thing is hes very good at hide and seek.

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Methylated Spirit.

White Spirit(Turps)

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give the old man some Viagra, with a nice stiff arm, place a hoover on the end of hit with all the backward a forward movement, you'll get a nice vacummed carpet!!!!!!!!

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thats rude!!!!!!!!!!:p

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I also have the same problem or did and i used vinegar on the stuff.Brought it off but the cat was always licking the place where i did it

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When cleaning windows clean the inside with vertical strokes and the outside with horizontal strokes..... that way you will know whether the streaky bit is on the inside or the outside......and I use methylated spirits

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Of you've got a particularly greasy window (kids hands are good at this) it may take a couple of goes before you get it clean properly. Grease streaks, even if you think you've got it all off. I hate cleaning mirrors and windows.

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Went to Asda The young lady stacking the shelves said they didn't sell kids hands so have not been able to try your tip Willow.

Would it work just as well with a kitten & some windowlene? (I did try a fully grown cat once but found it too large to get right into the corners).
:rofl38:

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What do you think the tail is for? ;)

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Sorry mine was a Manx cat!
:p

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It's got 4 feet though - use them instead!

As its a Manx, they should be nice and furry!

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Have you ever heard the horrible noise when a cats claw slides down glass? It's like chalk on a blackboard terrible!

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Turn the paws upside down then!

For the tiny bits in the far corners, use their ears!

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You're missing the point totally - if using a cat you must get the cat's co-operation.

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Starve it for a few days if it refuses to cooperate ;)

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You are missing the point completely Willow, Oh, how cruel of you to consider using a LIVE cat, just think of the extra work involved in cleaning those streaks off the glass made by it still breathing!
:cool:

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But if you use a dead one you've got to spend time keeping the fur in a decent condition.

Keep it alive and it does it itself!

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In this throw away society, use it once then just dispose of it, over your neighbours wall is a good place, many a good conversation I've had about the decline of mankind when we can treat cats like that, (I suspect they use pigeons for the same job thats what I find on my side of the wall).
:p

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Dead cats start to smell after a while though...

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But think of all the flies your spider could enjoy!

All this talk of dead cats is upsetting my Fougère!

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From the looks of things, Spike is dreaming of flies...!

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All this talk of dead cats is making me feel quite poorly.......I am a friend to cats.....I have 3 all rescued.......even though I know you are all only joking....you are.....aren't you????????

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Well, Margaret, that's for us to know and you to find out!!! ;)

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try neutragena (sp) shampoo

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If neutragena shampoo can get permenant marker out then i wouldnt put it anywhere near my head!

Thanks but i no longer have the tiles or the microwave all marker traces are now gone as i posted this in 2004!

But thank you for the tip anyway so i will know for when my now 4 month old becomes a 4 year old. x :)

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i was told by the vets when my cat kept marking in my bathroom to use a fairly weak solution of water and biological washing liquid. seemed to work on my carpet. :D