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Around The House Secrets
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fridge access vs. craft access
I love crafting and eating but the only thing that is super easy to get to is my fridge. I am going to make my crafting stuff as easy to get to as the food in my fridge. If it was realistic I would store the crafting stuff in there instead of the food.
Getting rid of ants with Bounce
Bounce Fabric Sheets have a smell that repels ants. I always keep a packet in in my suitcase for vacations and lay it in cupboards, and drawers in any kitchen vacation time share unit that we stay in. They run away from it!
I have my moderately heavy weights under the coffee table in the TV room so to feel less guilty about wasting time watching TV, I work my upper body while sitting on the couch. If I have more energy, I stand up and do shoulders or squats - all the while not missing a beat on my favorite show!
Around this time we get ants galore, I have no idea where they come from... This is a proof method and in a few days it will work 1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons mules Borax
3 cups warm water
Mix the sugar and Boric Acic well in a mason jar. Store in jar.
Add the warm water slowly, mi...
Killing 2 birds with one stone!
Combining house work and yard work with exercise can put a better light on exercising an being activity.
Help I dried laundry with a tube of blistex
It has melted and ran all over my clothes!
Cleaning hairbrushes, combs, flip flops and baseball caps
I put hairbrushes, flip flops and baseball caps in the dishwasher...run the cycle....and VOILA'....CLEAN! While I do something else. (NOT while I run dishes!)
On days I can't fit a "workout" in, I use my daily chores around the house as my exercise, such as extra trips up and down the stairs putting things away, squats when folding clothes, you get the picture. Instead of trying to be efficient, and carrying multiple items to put away, make a separate tr...
Ways to move extra while spring cleaning...
I've started my spring cleaning today. So I decided, to get in a little extra movement on top of cleaning my butt off, instead of letting the trash bags and recycling pile up and take one big trip to the dumpster, every time, I fill up a bag, I take it down right then. And I live on the second floor...
Clean less inefficiently and move more.
When straightening up the house, work on one room at a time and put each item that belongs in that room In its rightful place. As you find things that don't belong in that room, put them together in one spot. Then when you have finished straightening that room, empty your pile of items that belong...