Handy Household Hints for the Modern Housewife

[dr_mabeuse]

Why do I find some of the above a bit worrying?

*L* I know! I worry about it too! Here I'm reading about how to remove candle wax from a table cloth by using paper towels and a hot iron and I can't be bothered to pick up my socks from the floor.

I'm what you call a theoretical housekeeper.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

*L* I know! I worry about it too! Here I'm reading about how to remove candle wax from a table cloth by using paper towels and a hot iron and I can't be bothered to pick up my socks from the floor.

I'm what you call a theoretical housekeeper.

---dr.M.

Ha ha! I can relate to that!

Any tips for removing blu-tac from the heel of a sock?

Lou

 

[minsue]

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My Mom is definitely no Delia...because I can't tell you how many times I heard this and ate a really salty dish. And it's also a bad idea to say, "Mom, are the mashed potatoes supposed to be crunchy?" It will only earn you another spoonful, an awful look and it's not until after supper that you learn that the lid fell off of the damn salt shaker as she was adding it and didn't have the decency to throw it out or start over.

Insanity.

~lucky

I never had crunchy mashed potatoes as a kid, but I was completely and utterly shocked the first time I saw someone make mashed potatoes from *gasp* potatoes! Ours were always from a box of some sort of potato powder.

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

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no sex from a box for me!

Is this your way of coming out?



Lou

 

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[SeaCat]

ROTFLMAO

Ask any doggie who has had to shine shoes or stand duty in the cold about Ladies Skins, (Old or new stockings.) and he can tell you 101 uses for them. Oh yeah, Vaseline, (Petroleum Jelly,) it not just for the bedroom any more. Oh one more, that old curse, piss in your boots? An old doggie will tell you it's heaven on issue footwear.

SeaCat

 

[McKenna]

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[lucky-E-leven]

I tried that candle wax trick. It doesn't work. Bogus advice.

Mack...what happened? I've gotten candle wax out of silk and carpet with this method. (Don't ask how it got there. )

~lucky

 

[McKenna]

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[lucky-E-leven]

Not sure, it just didn't work. Sure it got out about 80% of the wax, but I was still left with a big greasy stain. Oh well. The tablecloth got relegated to the picnic basket. Win-win situation.

Well that's good, at least. Never can have enough picnic blankets.

~lucky

 

[minsue]

How do you get candle wax out of a loose knit sweater? Anyone?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

How do you get candle wax out of a loose knit sweater? Anyone?

I actually used newspaper (w/o color print) on the carpet. It's painstaking, but if you get an iron and heat it up...run it over the newspaper that lies over the carpet, it melts the wax and is sucked up into the paper. Takes a lot of paper, but it works.

Silk was trickier and I needed paper towels for the bulk of it, but at the end used dry washcloths...turned inside out and right side out...again, very time consuming. Send it over, if you want. I'm a pro, by now.

~lucky

 

[minsue]

I actually used newspaper (w/o color print) on the carpet. It's painstaking, but if you get an iron and heat it up...run it over the newspaper that lies over the carpet, it melts the wax and is sucked up into the paper. Takes a lot of paper, but it works.

Silk was trickier and I needed paper towels for the bulk of it, but at the end used dry washcloths...turned inside out and right side out...again, very time consuming. Send it over, if you want. I'm a pro, by now.

~lucky

LOL That particular sweater is long gone by now. I was just asking for future reference. I'm not the most graceful person so it's likely to happen again & again.
Thanks!