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Saturday, September 8, 2001
Outside the box
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN NASAL SPRAY
Create a natural nasal spray by mixing 1 tsp. sea salt, 1 tsp. baking soda and 6 oz. water. Apply with a dropper. For easy breathing throughout the night, combine 5 drops peppermint oil, 5 drops pine oil and 1 oz. water and place in a spray bottle. Spray your pillowcase before going to bed.
MAKE YOURSELF A STRIPPER CONTAINER
If your warm-weather chores include paint stripping, here are a few tips that will help you get done quickly. When stripping paint, whether from small parts or much larger surfaces (like window sashes, shutters and doors), it's often easier and faster to bring the painted parts to the stripper rather than the stripper to the painted parts. Just make a 2x4 frame large enough to surround your work and line it with heavy plastic. Pour in the stripper and put items in face down. Cover any exposed surfaces with plastic wrap to slow evaporation and speed the chemical process.
JUNK CDS CAN HELP SAVE PLANTS, TREES
Getting lots of CDs for online service in the mail? Been tossing them out in the garbage pail? Not so fast. Here's how CDs can save plants and trees. Drill a hole in the edge of each disk and thread thin wire, twine or dental floss through the hole. Hang them on your fruit trees. The silvery, flashy surface will scare birds away. You can protect low-lying fruit plants and vegetable gardens too by hanging these digital scarecrows on coat hangers (bent into hooks) and sticking them in the ground.
LEMON JUICE WILL GET RUST STAINS OFF CONCRETE
You're sitting around relaxing on your patio and just as you're about to squeeze a lemon into your cool drink, notice rust stains on the concrete caused by your aging metal outdoor furniture. What should you do? Set down your drink and go in search of cleaning solutions and a wire brush? No need for that. The answer literally is in hand - the lemon you are holding. Finish squeezing it into your drink, then reach down and rub what's left on the rust stains. Wipe with a soft towel or cloth, and the stains will disappear before your ice cubes melt.
- Caller-Times wire services
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