*My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting
>>board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food
>>poisoning.
>>
>>My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw
>>sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown
>>paper bag not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e coli?
>>
>>Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of
>>a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
>>
>>The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a
>>pager was the school PA system.
>>
>>We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of
>>high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training
>>athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I
>>can't recall any injuries but they must have happened be cause they tell
>>us how much safer we are now.
>>
>>Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must
>>be much harder than gym.
>>
>>Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson [and provided comic
>>relief] by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and
>>hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only
>>knew we could have sued the school system.
>>
>>Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and
>>staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative
>>attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.
>>
>>I can't understand it. Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or
>>condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did
>>give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting
>>the sniffles.
>>
>>What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours
>>wore a hat and everything.
>>
>>I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
>>allowed to be proud of myself.
>>
>>I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
>>Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
>>
>>I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the
>>denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day
>>about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out of
>>branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to
>>be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us
>>play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a
>>fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an
>>infrared
>>intruder alarm.
>>
>>Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got
>>that bee sting? I could have been killed!
>>
>>We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant
>>construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent
>>bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting
>>like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to
>>the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of
>>antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for
>>leaving a horribly
>>vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
>>
>>We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we
>>got our butt spanked (physical abuse) here too and then we got butt
>>spanked again when we got home.
>>
>>Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked
>>down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks
>>(Remember why Tonka trucks were made tough . it wasn't so that they
>>could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car
>>with leaded gas.
>>
>>Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure
>>that I nearly exhausted m y imagination a couple of times when we went
>>on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the
>>danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent
>>
>>Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even know that
>>mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without an automatic
>>blade-stop or an auto-drive. How sick were my parents? Of course my
>>parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door
>>coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell
>>off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
>>Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was
>>a neighborhood run amuck.
>>
>>To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they
>>were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known
>>that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?
>>
>>W e were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't
>>even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we
>>ever survive?

How many of these did you know about?
A sealed envelope - Put in the freezer for a few hours, then slide a knife under the flap. The envelope can then be resealed. (hmmmmmm...)
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Use Empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords. It keeps them neat and you can write on the roll what appliance it belongs to.
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For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: get warm water and put Dawn dishwashing liquid in it. Pour it all over the steps. They won't refreeze. (wish I had known this for the last 40 years!)
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To remove old wax from a glass candle holder, put it in the freezer for a few hours.
Then take the candle holder out and turn it upside down. The wax will fall out.
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Crayon marks on walls? This worked wonderfully! A damp rag, dipped in baking soda. Comes off with little effort (elbow grease that is!).
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Permanent marker on appliances/counter tops (like store receipt BLUE!) rubbing alcohol on paper towel.
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Whenever I purchase a box of S..O.S Pads, I immediately take a pair of scissors and cut each pad into halves. After years of having to throw away rusted and unused and smelly pads, I finally decided that this would be much more economical. And now a box of S.O.S pads last me indefinitely! In fact, I have noticed that the scissors get sharpened this way!
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Blood stains on clothes? Not to worry! Just pour a little hydrogen peroxide on a cloth and proceed to wipe off every drop of blood. Works every time! Now, where to put the body? LOL
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Use vertical strokes when washing windows outside and horizontal for inside windows. This way you can tell which side has the streaks.. Straight vinegar will get outside windows really clean. Don't wash windows on a sunny day.
They will dry too quickly and will probably streak.
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Spray a bit of perfume on the light bulb in any room to create a lovely light scent in each room when the light is turned on.
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Place fabric softener sheets in dresser drawers and your clothes will Smell freshly washed for weeks to come. You can also do this with towels and linen.
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Candles will last a lot longer if placed in the freezer for at least 3 hours prior to burning.
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To clean artificial flowers, pour some salt into a paper bag and add the flowers. Shake vigorously as the salt will absorb all the dust and dirt and leave your artificial flowers looking like new! Works like a charm!
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To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stovetop.
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Spray your TUPPERWARE with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato based sauces and there won't be any stains.
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Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.
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When boiling corn on the cob, add a pinch of sugar to help bring out the corn's natural sweetness.
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Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.
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Don't throw out all that leftover wine: Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.
Left over wine? What's that?!
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To get rid of itch from mosquito bites, try applying soap on the area and you will experience instant relief.
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Ants, ants, ants everywhere ... Well, they are said to never cross a chalk line. So get your chalk out and draw a line on the floor or wherever ants tend to march. See for yourself.
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Use air-freshener to clean mirrors. It does a good job and better still, leaves a lovely smell to the shine.
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When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle. Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, then pull it off. Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily.
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Now look what you can do with Alka Seltzer.
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Clean a toilet.
Drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action clean vitreous China.
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Clean a vase.
To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets.
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Polish jewelry.
Drop two Alka Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes.
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Clean a thermos bottle.
Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary).
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Unclog a drain.
Clear the sink drain by dropping three Alka Seltzer tablets down the drain followed by a cup of Heinz White Vinegar. Wait a few minutes, then run the hot water.
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Do your friends a favor. Pass this timely (and some not-so-timely) information on to a friend! I just did.
Makes you wonder about ingesting Alka Seltzer, doesn't it?

It's not chalk it's borax with a bay leaf to kill roaches

Those last two posts are great Ann. I'm going to print out the last one to use here.

An additional thing on the first one. Remember the Jungle Gym? Mine was in cement with dirt below, if I had known that I could have owned the school I would have fallen and sued.

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