Household Hints
Apr. 2nd, 2015 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hHere are a few suggestions to help around the home.
The "handrail" of an oven is a handy place to hang dish towels. Among other benefits is that if the oven is used, the warmth helps the towels to dry. Among the downsides is that the towels tend to slip off... especially if the oven is used and its door is opened and closed.
A few bits of stick-on hook-type Velcroid attached to the back of that "handrail" add enough traction that the towels stay in place.
A number of products are liquid solutions using volatile solvents. These include glue, nail polish and other paints, and liquid wart remover. Often, they dry out in the container — the solvent evaporates through the small gap between the cap/lid and the container — quickly enough that a large part of the product ends up being unusable and wasted.
After you've closed the container after using the product, tip it upside down so the product fills the joint between the container and its cap/lid. A tiny bit of the product will stick there and seal the opening when it dries through that gap. I used to have to buy several bottles of wart remover just to get through one wart — the solvent includes diethyl ether and evaporates extremely quickly. Now I've had bottles last for years.
Crap. I know there was something else I meant to write about. Zombie Kara: "Braaiins... braaiins... what are braaiiinnns?"
The "handrail" of an oven is a handy place to hang dish towels. Among other benefits is that if the oven is used, the warmth helps the towels to dry. Among the downsides is that the towels tend to slip off... especially if the oven is used and its door is opened and closed.
A few bits of stick-on hook-type Velcroid attached to the back of that "handrail" add enough traction that the towels stay in place.
A number of products are liquid solutions using volatile solvents. These include glue, nail polish and other paints, and liquid wart remover. Often, they dry out in the container — the solvent evaporates through the small gap between the cap/lid and the container — quickly enough that a large part of the product ends up being unusable and wasted.
After you've closed the container after using the product, tip it upside down so the product fills the joint between the container and its cap/lid. A tiny bit of the product will stick there and seal the opening when it dries through that gap. I used to have to buy several bottles of wart remover just to get through one wart — the solvent includes diethyl ether and evaporates extremely quickly. Now I've had bottles last for years.
Crap. I know there was something else I meant to write about. Zombie Kara: "Braaiins... braaiins... what are braaiiinnns?"
