Why bother? Just wrap the sandpaper around a block of wood. You know… a sanding block.
I use white vinegar and baking soda to clean my toilet. Quarter cup of baking soda, cup of white vinegar, let it sit for five minutes and brush.
You can also use white vinegar to remove hard water deposits from your shower head. Fill a plastic bag full enough to cover the shower head and hold it in place with a rubber band. Let soak for an hour or two.
Rubbed me the wrong way as well.
One you do, it no longer seems interested in conforming to a non-planar surface.
Cartons of copy paper have that plastic band around them.
To remove:
- Turn box over
- Find the tab below the heat seal. The bottom end is longer than the top.
- Turn strap so that you can grasp the bottom tab with thumb and forefinger
- Pull straight out or slightly backwards
The strap will pop off.
I have seen boxes with their covers mutilated because people making 6 figures couldn’t figure out how to open the box.
This was probably already known by most people here, but since a friend expressed amazement at being unaware of it…
If you mouse-click somewhere in a text-entry box, the cursor appears there. Duh. But if you double-click, it highlights the word. Sort of duh. But if you triple click (which usually has to be fairly rapid), depending on the application, it will either highlight the whole line, whole paragraph, or whole page.
For example, with FireFox’s URL box, one click places your cursor, two clicks highlights a word between punctuation, and three quick clicks highlights the whole URL.
ETA: And it’s not only text-entry boxes, you can practice the triple-click on this very post you’re reading, and you should see that it highlights whole paragraphs.
Did you know that if you Shift-Cursor, you can expand or contract the highlight one character at a time. But if you Ctrl-Shift-Cursor* you expand and contract one word at a time?
*Option-Shift-Cursor for Macs
Pull box cutter from back pocket, thumb blade open, slice band off, allow blade to retract, return knife, dispose of band. Takes 2 seconds and much less lifting.
Where I work, everyone has a knife on their person.
-DF
I count this way all the time; ever since I saw it on Johnny Carson! :eek:
Or like I have in my house is a nightlight that is motion sensitive. It barely gives off enough light to see; so it does not sear your eyeballs with blinding light.
My tip is when you have to open a box or a package of lawn bags that have that plastic band wrapped around them that is impossible to break with your hands. Find where the strap is glued onto itself, and flip it to reveal the underside. There is always a tab of unglued strap that you can pull on and undo the plastic band.
Or to quote from ehow.com: “Remove stiff plastic bands that typically bind cardboard containers by hand. Twist the band where it overlaps to expose the back side of the poly strapping. Pull the loose end of the strap away from the bind to separate the overlapped ends. The poly strapping will snap and fall off the box as you pull it apart.”
Crap!
Was that the show when the young girl (I believe) was able to calculate big multiplications on just her fingers?
Me too! 
Then wrap it around a firm sponge.
I think so. I’ve never learned how to multiply/divide with Chisanbop, though. I really need to, I suck at basic math.
If you ever get a rental car or a borrow a car and can’t find the gas cover release, put a key in the crease and pry open the cover gently.
Blue shop towels are great screen cleaners. They also are great dusters. Blue shop towels are like duct tape in terms of versatility.
For cleaning baked-on burnt food from cookware, oven cleaner does a great job. Alternatively you can dissolve some lye crystals (i.e. drain cleaner such as Drano) in a bit of water and let the burnt-on food soak in that.
After soaking, rinse with LOTS of fresh water. The burnt-on food should now peel off easily.
those are hazardous chemicals. dangerous to skin, other body parts. very dangerous to eyes.
To clean dirty beeswax from the frames that hold the foundation and comb on the inside of beehives, tear the comb and foundation from the frames, then boil the frames in lye water in a 55 gallon barrel over a fire. (Wire the frames together before you put them in so you can get them out easily.) Then hose the frames off when you take them out and let them dry for a few days.
If you’re running a MinGW msys shell on Windows, you can type “cmd” in the prompt and since cmd.exe is in your path, it will give you a Windows command prompt. But not just that, this command prompt still has the environment variables retained from the msys session. So if you’re doing development with MinGW gcc, and need to run a batch file (for Windows configuration of a library release or something), you can preserve the necessary variables of your dev environment, or just avoid opening a new window by navigating to the directory and typing “cmd”!
Well… I certainly found it really useful recently, and I’d wager most of you didn’t know about it.