Basic home organization
Dear Readers:
A disorganized house can make life stressful. Take these basic steps to make your home more organized and easier to navigate on a daily basis. Designate specific places for most things in your house, such as kitchen utensils in the same drawers, children’s homework in a basket by the door, bikes in the garage, holiday decorations in labeled boxes in the attic, coats in the front-hall closet, etc. This is what I call the right stuff in the right place. Show family members exactly where to put their things.
— Heloise
to match guests with the pictures and seat them accordingly. It will be an amusing icebreaker and will stimulate memoryfilled dinner conversations.
— Heloise Dear Readers:
Here are some surprising ideas for using corn oil outside of the kitchen. Rub corn oil into your dry hair. Wrap with a towel and leave on for about half an hour. Shampoo and rinse. Your hair will be conditioned. Pour corn oil over decals or price tags that you want to remove. Allow the oil to saturate them, and they’ll come off easily. Put a teaspoon of corn oil into your dog’s food. It will give your pooch’s coat a nice shine.
— Heloise Dear Readers:
Does your family love bacon, but you hate to cook it because of the splattering? Yes, it does splatter more today because much commercially sold bacon is cured in liquid brine (wet cured). Years ago, most bacon was cured with dry salt (dry cured).
Use these hints to prevent that sticky grease from popping out of the frying pan and onto your stove. First, dip the bacon in flour. Cook the bacon in a cold skillet. Keep the heat on medium. Pour off the fat as the bacon cooks. If you do this, you’ll have less mess and crisper bacon.
— Heloise Dear Readers:
With daily use, your children’s backpacks can get dirty fast. To prevent this, as soon as your kids get home every day, ask them to shake out all the food crumbs and remove dirty tissues or candy wrappers from the bags. On the weekend, they should empty everything out of their backpacks.
Here’s how to give the packs a thorough cleaning: Turn the backpack upside down and wipe out the dirt and debris. Scrub the outside with a dry brush. Then wipe the entire pack with a sponge that has been dampened with water and mild dish detergent. Don’t soak the backpack in water because it could hurt the protective surface coating.
— Heloise