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Originally posted by bekkaboo:
Thanks, if my stain dealie doesn't work, I'll try that!

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1. Halloween:
Layers of white clothing,
Red wine.
Help?
(A cool wash in oxygen cleaner got most but not all of it out).

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Originally posted by Nessa:
VODKA- removes mold and mildew from the caulk in your shower and gets rid of residue on the bottom of flower vases

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OK, I just tried this in the shower and it TOTALLY works. I honestly did not think it would work that well, and so I found another tip that said to make a spray of 2 tsp. tea tree oil in 2 cups water. I did a little experiment with the tea tree stuff in one corner and the vodka in the other. The vodka was amazing. The mildew started dissolving almost immediately. OK, so I also poured the vodka on rather than spraying it.

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Originally posted by noraneither:
OK, I just tried this in the shower and it TOTALLY works. I honestly did not think it would work that well, and so I found another tip that said to make a spray of 2 tsp. tea tree oil in 2 cups water. I did a little experiment with the tea tree stuff in one corner and the vodka in the other. The vodka was amazing. The mildew started dissolving almost immediately. OK, so I also poured the vodka on rather than spraying it.

Now my tub is on the way to mildew-free and the whole bathroom smells like a martini.

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And when you're done you can sit in your clean tub and finish off the bottle.

---I usually have a certain sponge I use for the bathroom, and generally use paper towels for the cleaning of the outer area of the toilet, and if I wipe down the sink with a paper towel instead of a sponge, I get the outside of the toilet with it before I throw it away. Just so the toi's the last thing and I am not spreading that around.

If I want to soak my toilet brush in disinfectant, what can I soak it in that won't then become filthy itself?

------Keep a can/plastic tub that you'd normally throw away/recycle, rinse & use for this purpose. Then just use it for this purpose alone or get rid of it.

What do I do with the dirty mop when I've just cleaned the floor and sink? Etc.

------I'd rinse it out in the sink/tub THEN clean the sink or tub. Or perhaps there's a utility sink in your building you can use?

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Originally posted by noraneither:
I'm trying, inspired by some of the threads here, to freeze my leftovers more often. I live by myself and generally only want to eat something twice before I get sick of it, but I love making extra servings and having the frozen meals a few weeks later. I'm still trying to figure out the appropriate freezer containers, though.

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Z1pl0ck freezer bags are the best-and if you are really thrifty (like me) you can wash and reuse them. Once you have your food in there, you can get sort of a fake vaccuum seal by putting a drinking straw in, zipping it up everywhere except where the straw is, then sucking the air out through the straw and quickly removing it/sealing it.

Not as difficult to do as it is to write out the directions, but beware, if you are sealing a bunch of stuff like this all at once, lightheaded-ness could result!

edited to add--air coming in contact with your frozen food is what gives it freezer burn-so if you put say a leftover piece of lasagna in a small corningwear dish, then cover it, even with a tightfitting lid, most of the food is still in contact with air inside of the dish, so it dries out and gets freezer burn.

Lately i've noticed there's green stuff on the top of the railing. I'm assuming it's mould.

I was thinking about bleaching it, but today a friend told me that bleach is good short-term, but if you don't rinse it all of, in the long term it actually promotes mould growth.

Is this true? Is there something else people would recommend? And I'm assuming that I should then put some kind of rainproof sealer over my railing - does anyone know of anything good for that?

I'm not really excited about the thought of buying bleach, so any alternatives would be greatly appreciated...

If I'm going to freeze stuff in bags and it'll gel in the fridge, I usually cool it first before portioning into bags.

I stored some yellow chicken curry in a plastic container which then went yellow with the turmeric. Took someone's advice and told boy to put it outside in the sun. Miracle of miracle it faded completely.

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Originally posted by pollyhyper:
And when you're done you can sit in your clean tub and finish off the bottle.

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Ha, yes, I was so happy I seriously considered having a little martini party right there in the tub! Removesh mildew! Take a shot!

Oh, and I just looked it up and there is a Cornell Corningware Revere (I love Revereware!) outlet very close to here! I always think of clothes when I think of outlets, so that hadn't occured to me, but it's a GREAT idea, thank you!

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Originally posted by ralphyr:
I stored some yellow chicken curry in a plastic container which then went yellow with the turmeric. Took someone's advice and told boy to put it outside in the sun. Miracle of miracle it faded completely.

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Flee Flee little turmeric stain, Flee!

I have a silver charm bracelet that I left in my shower bag when I was on a plane. The lower pressure caused a bottle of nail polish to leak everywhere, and now all my intricate charms are covered (and I mean absolutely covered) in rock-solid globs of nail polish. I have tried soaking it for days in polish remover but it does nothing. Any magic tips, anyone?

edited to add that browsing through the thread has reminded me that WD40 will shift just about anything, so I will try that with my bracelet.

A (bald) friend of mine superglued christmas baubles to his head for a party last year, and couldn't get them off. Unfortunately I didn't speak to him until four days after the party. They were still stuck fast to his head, he'd had four days of ribbing from his colleagues (and guess what he does - trains seals at the zoo! perfect. I would kill myself laughing if I went to the show and all the seals were balancing balls on their head, and so was the trainer). He was skeptical but it worked. Probably not fantastic for your skin but then again neither is superglue. Though a mean bit of me regrets not seeing how long they would have stayed stuck on had I not intervened.

Oh, here's a tip: baking soda to clean all of the gunk in your coffee pot, just run it through where you put the water in, and it seems to lift every thing out(run it w/ plain water a few times after that). Voila!- good tasting coffee next time!