Iron it out , clothes swapping party (not what you think)
Hints From Heloise
By Heloise Friday, May 25, 2007; 12:00 AM
Ironing Out a Problem
Dear Readers: If a budding artist in your house has decided to try decorating your kitchen/office CHALKBOARD with a crayon, don't stress out! It can be fixed. Put a brown grocery bag over the crayon marks and carefully iron them with a warm iron, but don't get the iron too hot.
You can also try sprinkling baking soda on a damp sponge or cloth and scrubbing until the marks are gone. If a stain still remains, you can buy chalkboard paint to make the surface new again. Call a few paint stores to find one that carries it. And while you're in the kitchen, use baking soda to clean and deodorize a butcher block, microwave, sink drain, refrigerator and a zillion other things! I have all the recipes for these and many other cleaning hints using baking soda in my six-page Baking Soda Hints and Recipes pamphlet, which you can have by sending $4 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (58 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. In fact, you may never have to buy scouring powder again! Baking soda is nontoxic, nonabrasive on most hard surfaces (when dampened with water), and, best of all, it's safe and inexpensive.
P.S.: For easy use, transfer the baking soda to a clean, dry, plastic Parmesan bottle with a shaker top!
EASY WINDOW WASHING
Dear Heloise: I use my floor cleaner with disposable pads along with a bucket containing a light amount of ammonia mixed with water to clean the outside window surfaces. The long handle makes it easy to reach all the way to the top of the window. Then I rinse with the hose.
For inside windows, I use a light spritz of my homemade cleaner, and the wonderful flat surface of the floor pad makes the inside window cleaning almost no work at all. Of course, the disposable cloths are reused time after time. -- Jo Migliavacca, Houston
TRAVEL HINT
Dear Heloise: My luggage has never been lost. When I check in at the airline counter, the ticket agents always give me a thumbs-up! Why? On plain paper, I print the date, my name, the airport, departing flight, connection flight and destination city. I use clear packing tape and entirely cover the information paper. I also type up directions for my return trip and slip it inside my suitcase with a small roll of packing tape. It's been successful for many years! The hint about people tying a colored ribbon to luggage for easy recognition upon arrival is OK, but luggage could still get lost! -- Kim Forbes, Pony, Mont.
Here are two good hints from Bret in Kansas:
GIVING GIFTS
Have a gift box to wrap but no wrapping paper? You don't need it! Decorate the box with sequins, glitter, paints, markers, stickers, buttons, crayons, etc. No gift box? Recycle brown lunch bags in a similar way.
CLOTHING SWAP
Get rid of your unwanted clothes and never even leave your home! Call your friends and host a clothing-swapping party.
(c)2007 by King Features Syndicate Inc.
44By Heloise Friday, May 25, 2007; 12:00 AM
Ironing Out a Problem
Dear Readers: If a budding artist in your house has decided to try decorating your kitchen/office CHALKBOARD with a crayon, don't stress out! It can be fixed. Put a brown grocery bag over the crayon marks and carefully iron them with a warm iron, but don't get the iron too hot.
You can also try sprinkling baking soda on a damp sponge or cloth and scrubbing until the marks are gone. If a stain still remains, you can buy chalkboard paint to make the surface new again. Call a few paint stores to find one that carries it. And while you're in the kitchen, use baking soda to clean and deodorize a butcher block, microwave, sink drain, refrigerator and a zillion other things! I have all the recipes for these and many other cleaning hints using baking soda in my six-page Baking Soda Hints and Recipes pamphlet, which you can have by sending $4 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (58 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. In fact, you may never have to buy scouring powder again! Baking soda is nontoxic, nonabrasive on most hard surfaces (when dampened with water), and, best of all, it's safe and inexpensive.
P.S.: For easy use, transfer the baking soda to a clean, dry, plastic Parmesan bottle with a shaker top!
EASY WINDOW WASHING
Dear Heloise: I use my floor cleaner with disposable pads along with a bucket containing a light amount of ammonia mixed with water to clean the outside window surfaces. The long handle makes it easy to reach all the way to the top of the window. Then I rinse with the hose.
For inside windows, I use a light spritz of my homemade cleaner, and the wonderful flat surface of the floor pad makes the inside window cleaning almost no work at all. Of course, the disposable cloths are reused time after time. -- Jo Migliavacca, Houston
TRAVEL HINT
Dear Heloise: My luggage has never been lost. When I check in at the airline counter, the ticket agents always give me a thumbs-up! Why? On plain paper, I print the date, my name, the airport, departing flight, connection flight and destination city. I use clear packing tape and entirely cover the information paper. I also type up directions for my return trip and slip it inside my suitcase with a small roll of packing tape. It's been successful for many years! The hint about people tying a colored ribbon to luggage for easy recognition upon arrival is OK, but luggage could still get lost! -- Kim Forbes, Pony, Mont.
Here are two good hints from Bret in Kansas:
GIVING GIFTS
Have a gift box to wrap but no wrapping paper? You don't need it! Decorate the box with sequins, glitter, paints, markers, stickers, buttons, crayons, etc. No gift box? Recycle brown lunch bags in a similar way.
CLOTHING SWAP
Get rid of your unwanted clothes and never even leave your home! Call your friends and host a clothing-swapping party.
(c)2007 by King Features Syndicate Inc.
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