Archive for: March 2008

Bananas are nutrious, delicious and great for polishing leather shoes! Use the inside of the banana peel to polish your leather. When you’re finished, you can throw the peel into your compost bin. Don’t you just love bananas?

Add a teaspoon of baking soda the next time you shampoo your hair. It will deep clean your hair and leave it soft and manageable.

Reuse the tins for these curiously strong mints for storage and organizing your office supplies! To decorate, simply cover lids with contact paper and viola! Curiously cute storage!

Learn how to recycle paper and reuse your junk mail to create festive star decorations! Link to pattern <a href=”http://thisrecycledlife.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/patternforstarsv31.pdf” target=_blank>here</a>.

Remove perspiration stains from your white cotton t-shirts by crushing and dissolving to aspirin in a quarter cup of warm water. Apply mixture to stains and soak for a couple of hours before a normal washing.

Uses paper towels to remove candle wax from fabrics. All you will need is a warm iron and two paper towel sheets. Simply sandwich the fabric between the paper towels and gently
press with iron.

Don’t toss that dryer sheet. Reuse dryer sheets to combat flyaway hair or remove static cling from your pantyhose.

Use WD-40 to remove scuff marks from your kitchen ceramic tile floor.