Welcome to fall (as of yesterday)! Now that the weather is starting to cool down and temps are only in the mid 70’s (yes, this is California), it doesn’t seem so strange that Costco already has Christmas decorations on display. LOL 🙂
I wasn’t sure what to blog about today, but then I remembered there are a few nifty little tips I discovered recently that I’d love to share with you. So without further delay, here are today’s mentionables:
1. Nifty Little Tips. The web is full of tips on how to make your life a little easier. For example, you can google “household tips pinterest” and find info on how to use toothpaste to fix scratched DVD’s or to clean car headlights (the latter of which I’ve tried with success, but it requires a bit of elbow grease). Here are a couple of other tips I found…
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| Add a clip to hold your kitchen towel together to keep it from falling off the oven handle. |
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| Then pull the front side of the towel down to hide the clip, which is now behind the towel. |
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| Add a keychain ring to the zipper on a pair of pants to keep your fly closed. Just pull the ring up, loop it around the button and button it as usual. It works great and saves you from any embarrassing moments! |
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| Tea treat oil has antibacterial properties and is a great zit zapper! Just dab it on with a Q-tip (you may want to dilute it with water) a few times a day and watch the pimple shrink and dry up. It may take a couple of days to fully disappear, so be patient. |
2. Face Mapping. Speaking of pimples, the Chinese word for zits is loosely translated as “youthful spots”. Whoever made this up obviously didn’t realize people past their teens are still prone to break outs (yes, I speak from experience). 😉 I was happy to find this post on Lindsay’s (of Delighted Momma’s) blog about face mapping. Lindsay is an esthetician and recommends using this chart, which is based on traditional Chinese medicine, to figure out what your skin is trying to tell you. Take a look – you just might find out the causes of those dark circles under your eyes or pimples on your jaw.
3. Family Rules. Just wanted to share this neat wall hanging I picked up at Walmart for $11! Since I’m a recovering perfectionist, I don’t particularly like the idea of rules, but I do love the ones listed here:
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| Yes, I wish that alarm box wasn’t on the wall, but things can’t always be perfect. 😉 |
And on that note, may we all have a happy, thankful, compassionate and funny Monday!