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TDJ-- Kool Cleaner, Sock Keepers & Panty Wipers, 02-26-08
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Feb 26, 2008 10:38 PST
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Kool Cleaner, Sock Keepers & Panty Wipers
I have used lemon Kool-Aid to clean my dishwasher and several years ago
used Tang. Must be the acid that cleans. Run you dishwasher through a
regular cycle with Kool-Aid added.
--submitted by Maurine Bowles
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Never lose socks or other small items in your washer or dryer again.
Buy the (about 6x8 inches) zippered mesh bags at the dollar store -
usually a package of three for a dollar. One pair of sox per bag gets
them clean and not lost!
--submitted by Barb from Texas
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If you store candles, the long tapers, from season to season (like red
ones for Christmas) use throw-away panty hose to polish the candles.
Candles get a kind of "dust" on them and the hose really polish and
clean them. Just rub with dry pantyhose!
--submitted by Harriet in GA
{{{ TODAY'S FEEDBACK }}}
RE: Plutonium Powered Plastic Packaging
Tim says: several folks wrote to say there were many options available
for tools designed to break through that frustrating super-dooper
plastic packaging stuff. I might point out that some packaging has a
particularly annoying "ridge" of plastic along the outside edge of the
packaging that some tools may not be equipped to handle.
Tim, a search showed dozens of these gizmos, priced from $6.95 all the
way up to $35,000! Here are a few (the $35k one was an industrial job)
http://www.pyranna.com
http://www.packageshark.com/?cid=259590
http://www.dynamic-living.com/openx-package-opener.htm
http://www.plasticsurgeonopener.com
--submitted by howard tuckey
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RE: using "netting" for dish cloths.
I usually get fabric netting at Wal-Mart. Sometimes Shopko or other
department stores will have a small sewing or craft section and you can
usually find it there. I've been using this as a dish "rag" for years.
It works similarly to the sort of tied together bath scrubbers that you
can buy. I like it better because I can rinse it out and lay it flat to
dry or lay it over the top of the top dishes in the dishwasher and feel
it gets pretty clean. And it's so cheap that after it gets grungy, I can
toss it without feeling like I've spent a lot of money. I will buy a
couple yards at a time, cut it to size, rubber band them together and
stick it in a drawer. One purchase will last me a year or two. Not
that often to have to visit a fabric store I suppose, but they are not a
shop I frequent often.
--submitted by Laurie
{{{ TODAY'S GRIPE(s) }}}
I've got a gripe and maybe it bugs other people too. My gripe is when
people fail to use their turn signals on their cars. Someone is in
front of you and doesn't signal a right hand turn, or a left hand turn
for that matter. You wonder why they are slowing down but they don't
give you a clue by using their signals. Or you'll see some guy driving
down the street that you want to turn on to and he has his signal on but
is oblivious to the fact that he used it two miles ago and it's still
blinking, giving me the false sense that he is going to turn at my
corner and I could possibly go. Well, I have learned to wait until that
person is actually turning before I take off.
Why can't good manners apply to the streets and highways just like they
do the dinner table?
--submitted by Judy in Utah
Tim says: these are the folks who apparently have their turn signal
switches glued directly to their steering wheel. The indicator lights
only fire after the turn is in progress...
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My GRIPE is the glaring headlights on the newer vehicles! Especially the
SUVs, MCs and PUs! Every time they come at you over a slight rise in the
pavement, they blind you! I had thought there was a law that your low
beams had to strike the pavement a certain distance in front of your
vehicle? What happened? Why are the manufacturers allowed to produce
these menaces?
--submitted by George Jensen
(from his island in the Pacific
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Bernie was very excited about his promotion to Vice President of the
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on end. Finally she couldn't take it any longer, and told him, "Listen,
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