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Keeping Cake Fresh

A single slice of a crisp green apple resting on a plain white background.

Place a slice of apple under a cake dome to help keep the cake fresh.

Sweeping Up Stubborn Dirt

A yellow spray can and a blue broom rest on a polished hardwood floor.

To sweep up stubborn dirt, spray your broom’s bristles with furniture polish.

Timely Tomato Tip

For easy tomato peeling, place whole tomatoes in the freezer for a few hours. After they thaw, you can easily remove the skin.

Sticky Muffin Pan?

Silver metal muffin pan with six empty cups resting on a dark kitchen countertop.

Sticky muffin pan? Set it on a wet towel for 30 seconds, and the muffins will slide out!

Dry Skin

Dry Skin? Add some milk powder to your bathwater.

Unfreezing Locks

A silver padlock hangs on a weathered wooden barn door with a metal latch during winter.

Frozen locks? Squirt a little hand sanitizer on them. The isopropyl alcohol that kills germs also lowers the freezing point of water, and can melt the ice inside the lock within seconds.

Relieve pressure from a stuffy nose

Stuffy nose? Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth and press your fingers between your eyebrows to relieve pressure.

Easy Egg Clean Up

Break an egg? Pour salt all over it, wait ten minutes, then sweep up easily.

De-icing Sidewalks and Driveways

A green house with a white garage door and a driveway cleared of winter snow.

Beet juice makes an excellent non-toxic de-icer for driveways and sidewalks.

Prevent Ice Scraping

A gloved hand uses a black plastic ice scraper to clear frost from a car windshield.

Lay a tarp or drop cloth over your car’s windshield before a snowstorm and you won’t have to scrape.

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