Tips & Tricks 310805

Expecting Overnight Guests?

• Place these items in the guest room to make their stay nicer: a working clock, set to the correct time; a flashlight with batteries; a carafe of water with glasses; a set of towels and a small bouquet of flowers or a plant.

Clean a vase.

• To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets.

Now look what you can do with Alka Seltzer.

• Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action clean vitreous China.

Splinter

• When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle. Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, then pull it off. Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily.
  
  

Mirrors

• Use air-freshener to clean mirrors. It does a good job and better still, leaves a lovely smell to the shine.