Category: Household Tips

• Household Tips: Iron & Folding Bed Sheets

  10.28.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Iron & Folding Bed Sheets

  Ironing is another challenge to me. Often I cannot get it right and do a good job on it. However I am still discovering new ways of doing so.

  Some handy tips on ironing

  – Iron in a position where you are comfortable, the ironing board height must be right for your position so that you do not get backache.

  – Iron in a cooling room, as the heat from the iron can make you all sweaty and uncomfortable. You can use some soothing music to lighten up the mood.

  – Place a aluminum sheet below your iron board cover. It can reflect heat so that it automatically iron both side of your garment.

  – You can use quick spray starch to ease your ironing. Just add 1 tablespoon of cornstarch to 2 cups of water, stir it and pour it into a sprayer. Spray it on to the garment when ironing.

  Here is a video that show you how to iron and fold your bed sheets.

• Household Tips: Coffee & Tea Stains

  10.10.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Coffee & Tea Stains

  I am a tea drinker, not so much with coffee. However I found that most of my mugs have tea stain. It is very hard to wash it off. I found a video that teaches me how to get rid of it easily with natural stuff.

  All you need is soda bicarbonate (baking soda) and vinegar. Just watch the video.

  
  
  

• Household Tips: Peeling Garlic In Less Than 10 Seconds

  10.03.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Peeling Garlic In Less Than 10 Seconds

  Someone shared this video with me in Facebook. I have not tried it yet but I will. Pretty cool if it works.

  How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.

• Household Tips: Folding Shirts

  10.02.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Folding Shirts

  Folding shirts is not a very tough job except for lazy people. However folding a huge pile of shirts with speed is a challenge. I have found 2 videos that can help us speed things up. It will give you back some free time too.

• Household Tips: Smelly Shoes

  09.24.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Smelly Shoes

  You know what is the natural way of getting rid of smelly shoes stink? It is very simple. All you have to do is to take some newspaper and crush it, make it into a ball. Stuff it into your shoes. Put it there over night. Next morning the bad odor will be gone.

  Newspaper has carbon and carbon is the best thing to absorb bad odor. You can do the same for your fridge.

  Just put a few piece charcoal wrap in cheese cloth or any cloth with holes. The cloth is to prevent the charcoal from dirtying your fridge. I bet the smell will be all absorb by the charcoal. It is natural and definitely safe!

• Household Tips: Lemon & Microwave

  09.15.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Lemon & Microwave

  It is the most natural way to clean your microwave. It is really simple. All you need is a microwave container, I use one of my pyrex bowl. Fill half with water. Cut 1 lemon into 2 pieces and throw it in.

  Set it on high for 25-30 minutes. After that, keep it close for 1 minute for the lemon water vapor to fill up the inside. Take a cloth and start to wipe off the dirt inside. The stain will come off easy. It is amazing.

  You don’t need any strong chemical to remove stain. Some chemical can leave residue inside your microwave which may end up in your food.

  At the end of it, it gives a nice lemon smell too!

  
  
  

• Household Tips: Folding Bed Sheets

  09.13.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Folding Bed Sheets

  I always dragged folding bed sheets because no matter how I fold it, it is messy. It is mainly due to the elastic part of the bed sheet. Do you have the same challenge?

  One day, someone show me this video and it makes my folding so much easier. I master it in no time and now my cupboard is so neat with this fold. Try it…

  Guess what, now I am addicted to folding bed sheets….

• Household Tips: Removing Gum From Hair

  09.07.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Removing Gum From Hair

  Recently I read on my FB that a boy had gum on his hair and the mother’s maid cut off the portion of the hair leaving an empty patch. This is a common problem, somehow the gum likes to get into children’s hair. I remembered when I was young, I had the same experience. I suspect that my brother put it there.

  Actually I read somewhere that you can remove the gum without chopping the hair. You can use ice to harden the gum and apply some virgin oil on to the hair with gum. The gum will somehow slip out of the hair. Others recommend peanut butter but I think that is way too messy.

  Here is a video of how a mum remove gum from her child’s hair using olive oil.

• Household Tips: Folding Underpants

  09.06.11 |Household Tips| Permalink | Comments Off on Household Tips: Folding Underpants

  I have discovered some method of folding underpants and would like to share with you. Actually the first method, I learn from my part time maid. It is very neatly done and you will not mess up your other underpants when you try to choose from the lot. It is like folding your socks. It does save a lot of space when you pack your underpants in your luggage too.

  
  
  

  Here are the videos that were made by others on the fold. Enjoy and hope you have a more organized cupboard.

  Look out for the next tip on this blog.