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Get Your Toilet Bowl Clean With This Kids’ Favorite
What flavor kool-aid should I put in the toilet this week? What? You don’t put kool-aid in your toilet? You should. Why? Well, for one thing, it’s non-toxic. It cleans the bowl because it has citric acid in it. If your dog drinks out of the toilet bowl… Well, you get the picture. I put it in after the kids have gone to bed, swish with the brush to mix it into the water, then brush again in the morning and flush. We’ve found that lemon works best for removing stains.

Soften Your Clothes With This Shiny Wrap
Whether you call it aluminum foil, tinfoil or just foil, it’s a great way to soften your clothes and prevent static cling. Just tear off two squares, about six inches by six inches. Place them on top of the wet clothes in your dryer and dry as usual. They crumple themselves into little balls that last through two or three dryer loads. When they start to shred, throw them away and replace them with new foil.

Make Your Dishes Gleam With This Non-Toxic Alternative to Rinse Additives
White vinegar rinses detergent off glasses and dishes and really makes them shine. Then it rinses off completely, itself. Just pour it into the dispenser in your dishwasher instead of your usual rinse aid. It’s cheaper, non-toxic and works as well or better. It also cleans your dishwasher, unlike the commercial rinse aids.

Keep Food Fresh Without Spending a Fortune on Chip Clips
Just use wooden or plastic clothespins. They come in pretty colors and different sizes and are much cheaper than chip clips.

Better and Cheaper and Your Dog Will Love It
Does your dog look a little round lately? We have a Black Lab who is always begging for food, but she puts on weight if we give her any more than her two servings of dry dog food daily. We felt really bad for her, because we had to stop giving her the “dog cookies” she loved. Then our vet suggested that we give her raw carrots instead. She loves them! They’re crunchy, so they clean her teeth and take a while to chew. She holds them in her paws and chews on them as if they were a bone.

Steal These From Your Teenager and Clean Your Keyboard
Does your teenager use those pads for acne or oily skin? If so, grab one and wipe your keyboard keys with it. The textured pad is saturated with a solution that removes skin oil and the oily film that forms on the keys. Just make sure that your computer is off and don’t squeeze the pad so hard that it drips into the space between the keys.

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