Nutritious Soft Drinks: Does your family drink too many soft drinks? A healthy substitute is to add a little club soda, ginger ale or lemon lime soft drink to your favorite juices.
Iron Maintenance: Does your iron pull and drag on fabric because of brown spots on the sole plate? Rub it with a mixture of heated vinegar and salt to remove the mineral deposits. The inside of the iron may need cleaning, too. Fill the water reservoir with white vinegar water and let the iron heat and steam for a few minutes. Pour out the vinegar water and rinse with clean water. Before using on clothes, steam iron on an old rag until the steam runs clear.
Handy Bags: Throw a couple plastic grocery bags into your car’s glove compartment. They will come in handy on outings to hold little treasures like wet bathing suits, fast-food trash, or anything you need to seal quickly and easily.
Perfect Flowers: Flowers from your garden don’t need to flop in a vase. A plastic scouring pad placed in the bottom of the vase makes a great floral “frog.” They fit into odd-shaped containers too.
If you ever get a sprain, headache, or other ailment that needs application of an ice pack, you can make your own easily and cheaply with simple water and rubbing alcohol.
Here’s how: Pour ¾ cup of water and ¼ cup rubbing alcohol into a zippered storage bag and close. Put the bag into another bag, seal, and freeze. Because the alcohol doesn’t freeze, you will end up with a nice, flexible, slushy ice pack. Be sure to label the contents clearly so that no one will try to use it for anything edible. Double or triple the recipe for larger packs.
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- Natalie Marsh, Rapid CityExperts say a strong vocabulary is a sign of higher intellect and advanced culture. Here’s this month’s word, so you can impress your friends and colleagues…
Moribund \mohr-eh-behnd\ (adj.)
Meaning: Inactive or becoming outmoded. Obsolete.
Example Sentence: Mr. Keebles refuses to part with his moribund IBM cardpunch machine and mainframe computer in his computer technology class at the high school.
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