A Question: Can Mint Oil be added to laundry, to make bed linens fresh-scented?
Yes, but I’d add it to the bottle of laundry detergent, or a few drops to the capful you’re about to pour into the laundry if you’re not up for that kind of commitment. Stir to mix it in evenly and then put it in your washer. Otherwise it probably won’t distribute evenly.
OR, if you’re a fan of scent, put a few drops on a damp washcloth and add it to your dryer load. The scent will be stronger that way.
You might if you’re Michael Weston.
But you should always pee after having sex to prevent UTI’s, so you’re robbing Peeter to pay Paul.
If you have a dishwasher, and also have hard water, pour in about a half cup of vinegar before every wash. Not immediately, but within a couple of washes, you will notice a HUGE difference - glasses come out sparkling and the dishwasher is quieter and everything runs smoothly.
No - you will not smell the vinegar.
Yes - i know that vinegar is the first that is taken out of the dishwasher - but this works!
We add a bit to every load (cheaper than that “jet dry” stuff) and our dishwasher cleans everything perfectly now!
BTW, you can also use a half cup of vinegar in your regular washing machine if you run out of laundry detergent and need to do a couple of loads of wash before you get to the store to buy more…also helps clean the washing machine.
I use a bit of vinegar in my High Efficiency clothes washer as a clothes softener - it’s working as well as anything I’ve bought (and I guess it’s helping keep my machine fresh, too).
On a related note, since I had heard from you folks that HE washers tend to get musty smelling, I’ve left the door open and the spot for the soap open after using it since we bought it three years ago, and it smells as fresh as the day we bought it. That trick’s been very useful for me. 
Gel hand sanitizer works quite well at de-icing a car door lock.
Put some (>60% alcohol) on your key, insert the key, count to 10 as you wiggle the key to ‘dispense’ the gel.
I found that out on a whim. I had been doing some DIY roof repair and had roofing tar on my hands. It is petroleum based and very difficult to remove (after all, it’s designed to stay where it’s put!). I had used mineral oil in the past with good results, but didn’t have any on hand (a pun!) on that particular day. I was about to resign myself to a long, fruitless bout with hand cleaner when I spotted the bottle of baby oil. Baby oil, mineral oil - I figured it was worth a shot. I was quite surprised when it took the roofing tar off easily, and left my hands smelling baby fresh to boot!
Of course, now I wonder about using that stuff on actual babies…
Bwaahhahaa. Thanks! I needed that!
Remember this sequence:
1, 1.25, 1.6, 2, 2.5, 3.2, 4, 5, 6.4, 8.
This should be easy if you notice the first series of every third number is 1, 2, 4, 8 and the second series is 1.25, 2.5, 5 and the third series (starting at the end and wrapping back around) is 8, 16, 32, 64 (if we cheat on the decimal point).
Now, if you want the common (base 10) log of a number, divide it by ten again and again until it is in the range between 1 and 10, and the number of times you had to do that is the part of your log before the decimal point. For example if your number is 365, you have to divide it by ten twice, so your log starts with 2.
Now check where your divided number fits into this sequence. For example, I wound up with 3.65, and that is about halfway between the 3.2 and the 4. Consider the 1 as the starting point at 0, and the 1.25 is worth 0.1, the 1.6 is worth 0.2, and so forth, so my 3.65 is worth about 0.55.
So, log10(365) must be about 2.55. Now I check it with a calculator, and find it’s 2.5623. That’s not bad, for calculating a log in your head. If you need ln (that is, natural log), just multiply this result by 2.3.
Ooooh - that reminds me. I too have a spaghetti container - but it’s hard to tell how much spaghetti I’m getting out to cook since the container holds 3+ pounds.
So I was trying to use my food scale to weigh it and it was rolling all over the place.
Finally it occurred to me: a drinking glass. Put it on the scale. Zero out the scale. Add spaghetti to the glass until I’ve got the desired portion. :smack:
No (we do it too) - but I like the bread-tie thing, that gets rid of the problem of the tape end being wasted.
Thank you for this. I was blissfully unaware that shampoo could spoil. A couple weeks ago, I poured out the last bit of a large bottle of shampoo. It was incredibly thin and had a horrid chemical smell. I really had no clue what had happened.
All I could think while watching that video was, “Gee, what could possibly go wrong?”
What the hell would someone named “Napier” know about logs?
Cindy Who?
I posted this in the previous thread but I’m posting it again since it’s useful for everyone here:
A lot of people complain about getting USB plug direction wrong. The USB plug actually isn’t symmetric. One side has holes, and the holes on the other side are blocked. If you remember which direction your ports accept (usually the holes are the “front” so they’re up or towards you, except for Dell desktops), you’ll always get it in on the first try.
Better hope not.
I’m too lazy to read all of the posts but one of my favorite tricks is microwaving oranges/limes/lemons for 20 seconds if you want to extract juice.
You will easily get 2x more juice than if you squeezed it at room temp.
If you’re going to crumble bread croutons for a salad, place them in a plastic baggy first, then crumble them. No mess!
And crumble soup crackers while they’re still inside their wrapper.