Alternative Uses for Common Household Items

1. cup of tea = microwave cleaner
Heat one cup of tea in microwave until it boils over the top of the cup. This situation (obviously) creates so much moisture that whatever crud is stuck in the microwave loosens up, and can be simply wiped off with a paper towel. Ask me. I know.

2. knitting needle = whatever scratcher
I know that we all know about this one. I just wanted to add a warning. BE CAREFUL when sticking knitting needles in your ear. Really. Your ear drum will not thank you for what you inflict upon yourself when you get too vigorous in the old ear canal.

3. Lint = fire starter
Recycling lovers skip this one! If you use a burning barrel to dispose of old papers, boxes, small pieces of furniture, a mouse trap with dead mouse still attached, etc... Put trash in barrel. Take carefully treasured strips of lint accumulated from the dryer after this week's wash, and put in strategic places on and around said trash. Light the lint. It ignites wonderfully. This is my sure-fire method (pun intended) of getting the trash burned, even when it's sprinkling out.

4. Plastic grocery bags = trash can liners
?fiber? to knit or crochet (I've done it!)
emergency overnight bag
packing material for posting boxes
Rain bonnet...DON'T insert head in bag, just hold bag over top of head!

5. Dishwasher = washing machine
In a pinch, when you don't have time or money to go to the laundry, just throw those under-gotchers or pantyhose on the top rack of the dishwasher. Run the hottest cycle possible. When the dishwasher is done, take garments out. Wring out in sink. Hang up to dry. Tell yourself, "My clothes are clean. My clothes ARE clean. My clothes are CLEAN!"

ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE:

Keys DO NOT = play toy

Please people, NEVER let your kids play with keys. Years ago, our family lost a little one because he was playing with keys, and stuck them in an electrical outlet.

Thank you

Scared silly

Not really scared, silly. Scared silly. I went to sign into Blogger, and it said my user name and password did not match. What???!!! How could they possibly not match? Just to prove to you that they DO MATCH, I am just going to go and type the same thing. See if I'm right. Well, I must be, because here I am. What did I tell you? Scary, or what?

I've not been here in a couple of weeks because my hands have really been in a tizzy. My doctor, kind man that he is, told me I needed to get another job. Thank you, my good man. Might you have another for me? One that lets me be home every weekend. Lets me take time off whenever my daughter gets hit by a car and needs to go to the doctor every three weeks. One that PAYS ME whenever I need time off to go to the doctor for my own selfish needs. A job that while annoying at times, is perfectly stable in this uncertain world. What? You do? Thank-you-very-much, I always wondered what utopia looked like!!!!! Open the door and let me in! Wahoooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Do you remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjj1mLa_38

You have to go watch and listen! I love this song. Such beautiful simplicity!

I wish my daughter could learn to sing strong when I harmonize with her so we could sing together. She manages to get a line or two out, and then when she realizes that I'm harmonizing, she falters. I guess she should have had three sisters to practice with like I did. I simply cannot sing her soprano, never could. NEVER. I wish!!! I am not sure what it is that I sing, but it sounds decent when you mix it in with someone else.

Ask me about singing in the car some time!

Judith had a contest, and I was one of the lucky winners! Wahoo! I love winning!!!! :-) What did I win you ask? I have for my ever-present, stash-building fetish two balls of kitchen cotton in green stripes, AND a booklet of knit stitches, with easy projects. Wahooooo!!!!!!

All I had to do was send the queen of links a link or hundred for slippers. How easy is that?!?! I have to admit that a couple of the links were a little, ummm, unorthodox, shall we say? Whatever I did, it worked! Lucky me. Thank you, my own Marmee, for the fun! Fibernatics rocks!

If any of you LOVE to knit and crochet, check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linkslinkslinks/. You can get a link for just about ANY project you're interested in. I have also seen a beading project or two there. Any handcraft, really. Just a large concentration of knit and crochet. CHECK IT OUT!!!

Dial in................

your eye is not a pleasant experience. Believe me, you don't want to do it.