1. If you can not sleep because a cricket has come to call? Here is a sure cure. Put a wet washcloth in your kitchen or bathroom sink at night, and you will find you noisy "neighbor" hiding in the morning.
2. Have fleas invaded your house? If you're afraid of using harsh chemicals/toxins to rid your house of pesky fleas, try this remedy: fill a shallow cookie sheet with 2/3 of rubbing alcohol, and place the cookie sheet onto the floor of your infested room after all the little ones have gone to bed. Then take a small lit votive candle in a glass holder and place it in the middle of the cookie sheet. During the night the fleas will hop toward the candle's light, and land in the alcohol mixture. The rubbing alcohol will trap and kill them by morning.
3. Patent leather handbags or shoes can be quickly brightened with a polish of milk. Appy with a soft cloth and rub into a shiny new-like finish.
4. Place some nonslip strips, normally used in bathtubs, in painted porch steps to give your family and visitors nonslip safety in wet weather.
5. Prepare your snow shovel for winter with a coat of floor wax. the wax helps prevent the scoop from rusting and also makes the snow slide off without sticking.
6. This cleanup trick works while you sleep! Lay a barbecue grill rack on the lawn overnight -- the dew will combine with the enzymes in the grass to loosen any burned-on grease! Try it with messy oven racks, too.
7. Next time a plastic bread wrapper melts onto the toaster or the coffeepot, try this. Rub some petroleum jelly on the spot. Reheat the appliance and use a paper towel to rub off the plastic and the printing.
8. Newspaper repels moths, which is quite helpful when storing woolen rugs.
9. If you're stung by a bee, apply a slice of onion to the spot and hold it there for a minute or two. If you are outside, or traveling, you can also make a poltice out of fresh dirt and saliva mixed together to make some mud. Place the mud on the sting, and let it dry. Both these remedies will do the trick!
10. To make your own cleaning solution for windows that is easy and less expensive than commercial solutions, add 1/2 cup of rubbing alcohol to 1 quart of water. Either use it in a pail or pour it into an empty spray bottle.
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