General Hints
- To remove gum from garments, freeze the garment and then peel off the gum.
- To remove ball-point ink stains, rub the area with a cotton bud soaked in eau-de-cologne.
- To remove blood stains, wash the garment immediately in cold water, and then soak it in hydrogen peroxide solution.
- To remove oil stains, rub the area with a piece of lime dipped in salt, and then wash with soap.
- To prevent garments from discoloring, soak the garments for 10 minutes in salt water prior to washing. An alternative is to add a few drops of vinegar to the wash cycle.
- Soak dirty garments in plenty of water overnight, prior to washing them in machine. Water will remove most of the stains.
- Add a few drops of eau-de-cologne to the water in your steam iron to give clothes a fresh fragrance.
- To remove hot candle wax on carpet, lay a newspaper or brown paper bag on the wax and run a medium hot iron over the paper. It will absorb the wax from the carpet.
- Use bread or damp cotton wool to pick up the fragments of broken glass safely.
- To remove the smell of cigarette from lingering in the room, put half teaspoon of baking powder in the ashtray, or keep a cup of vinegar in the room to absorb the odour.
- Keep battries in the refrigerator for longer life, and put them in sun for a day to power boost their energy.
- To thread a needle easily, coat the thread with a little wax, or spray a bit of hair spray.
- To sharpen a machine needle, stitch through a piece of sandpaper.
- Brush your incence sticks with a wet hand before lighting them to ensure that they burn till the end.
- Polish eyeglasses with eau-de-cologne to make them shine.
- Before polishing shoes, apply a little bit of lemon juice to remove grease and grime.
- For a bright carpet, sprinkle a generous amount of cornstarch and wait for an hour before vaccuming.
- To dustproof television screen, wipe it with a fabric softner.
This will eliminate static cling, and dust will be repelled instead of adhering to the screen.
- Polish brass items with few drops of mustard oil to make them shine.
- Dull leather bags will get back its shine if rubbed with a slice of lemon.
- To keep woolens from getting wet in snow, spray them with Scotchguard.
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