Household Tips

Household hints & tricks!

1. You can cut dry SOS pads in half with scissors and make them go twice as far.

2. Newspaper works best at snaring those invisible stinky molecules that float around your refrigerator. Just take a section of newspaper and put in your freezer section. Change it once a week and your refrigerator will be fresh as new. If you need to store something especially smelly like fish just put some newspaper on top of that container for extra odor absorption.

3. Put about a cup of ice in your disposal and place an upside down plate over the opening to prevent a piece of ice from flying out. Turn it on and the ice will scrub the inside of the disposal. No the ice will not "dull" the blades. There are no blades in a disposal just blunt slingers.

4. Liquid detergents makers often use clay as a filler and to hold the detergents in suspension. This clay-like substance causes a build up inside the washer’s plumbing and behind the spin basket. Like a dirt magnet the gooey buildup collects soil from your clothes and that creates the odor. The solution is to switch to a granular / powder detergent. The granules will slowly scrub the inside of your washer as it washed your clothes. If you want to accelerate the “smell-be-gone" process dump in a container of the breakfast drink Tang.

5. The ideal refrigerator fresh food section temperature is 38 degrees Fahrenheit. The ideal freezer frozen food section or free standing freezer temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Generally to accomplish this all you need to do is set your controls to the center position. On most refrigerators there is only one cooling section and that is in the freezer.  Therefore most freezer controls simply allow more or less air to pass through the fresh food section. Usually a thermostat or thermistor in the refrigerator's fresh food section controls the amount of time the refrigerator operates.

6. Since the normal freezer temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit there is...