Yesterday I flipped through an old book - "Little Home Tricks" and came across a lot of useful and practical advice. I read and understood that some are still relevant.
Read it, and I am sure that many of them will be useful in our daily life. Personally, I found a lot of useful things for myself.
Little tricks and useful tips:
- To remove stains from the polished surface of furniture, there is no universal tool. Therefore, it is important to know that dirty stains can be removed with clean gasoline, and in order for shine to return, it is necessary to wipe this place with a cloth dampened with a mixture of meth and turpentine (in equal quantities). Ink stains can be washed off with a warm beer, wiping the area with wax and polishing it with a soft woolen cloth.
- Ink stains on the floor can be removed with a solution of citric acid.
- To clean the contaminated "bottom" of the electric iron, wipe it with vinegar or powder to clean the dishes, and remove the starch with a cotton swab with salt.
- In order not to fog up the windows in the car, they must be wiped with a moist salt wrapped in a piece of gauze or a wide bandage.
- To the screw easily entered the wooden surface, you need to lubricate it with soap or some fat.
- To the board in which you need to drive a nail, do not crack, the tip of the nail should be slightly blunt.
- To remove the tight glass stopper from the bottle, apply a few drops of vegetable oil on it, and heat the neck of the bottle on fire or wrap it with a cloth moistened with boiling water.
- Ironing men's shirts - it's not an easy task, requiring special skills. After moistening the shirt well, iron first the backrest and then the sleeves, in front and the collar; And the collar should be ironed from the corners to the middle, first from the wrong side, and then from the front side.
- It often happens that there are shiny places in the trousers and sleeves of clothing. This problem can be easily eliminated if ironed through gauze, after moistening it in a solution of water and vinegar (one tablespoon of water should be added a tablespoon of vinegar).
- To the arrow on your pants stayed as long as possible, you should rub the cloth from the wrong side with dry soap right in the place of the fold. After that, you can safely iron the trousers in the usual way.
- If you broke a glass or other glass object, put it on the place where the small pieces of glass fell, a piece of soap and lightly tap - to the soap, the smallest fragments will stick.
And here are some small house tricks:
Small house tricks
♦ If you keep the soap in a dry place, it will give you 2 times more foam when soaped and the duration of its use increases threefold.
♦ The razor blade remains sharp for a long time if it is immersed in boiling water for a few seconds before use.
♦ Moving heavy furniture is much easier, if you put pieces of felt under the legs.
♦ Windowglasses acquire a crystal shine if they are washed with water containing a little ammonia.
♦ Mirrors should be washed with cold water, adding linen blue or tea infusion - this gives them a pleasant shine.
♦ The spots from the flies on the mirrors can easily be removed with a cut bulb.
♦ Leather bindings of books in the home library can be refreshed by wiping them with a woolen cloth, whipped with whipped egg whites.
♦ If you want to give a pleasant scent washed with laundry, then it is necessary to shift it with blotting paper, sprinkled with scented water or cologne to your taste.
♦ Shine from dark woolen things can be removed with a cloth, preferably woolen, moistened with a solution of coffee with a small amount of ammonia.
♦ To an oilcloth, which you cover the table, is untrimmed, wipe it from time to time with a mixture of equal parts of vegetable oil and vinegar.
♦ Unpleasant when the shoes creak. To get rid of this, put a few drops of warm vegetable oil on the soles of shoes, rub it into the skin and soak the shoes for one night. Rules for the care of shoes read here.
♦ If the shoes color the stockings, you need to rub the lining with alcohol.
♦ To hardback the new shoes do not rub their heels, you need to rub the backs of the candle, apply a moist soap or lightly moisten it with alcohol.
♦ Brooches and pendants made of metal often leave dark spots on clothing. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to apply a colorless varnish on these items on the reverse side - and everything will be in order.