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Household Tips

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Table of Contents

5 Tips For About The House

5 Tips On Children

5 Tips On Doing It Yourself (DIY)

5 Tips For Polishing

5 More Top Tips For About The House

5 Tips On Cleaning Kitchen Implements

5 Tips For Cleaning Delicate Objects

5 Tips On Doing The Laundry

A Ceramic Tile Counter Top In The Kitchen

5 Tips On Sewing

A Video Game Room Of Your Own

Are Kitchen Renovation Books Worth The Money

A Short Home Fire Safety Checklist

5 Tips On Flowers In The House

Air Conditioning Filters

5 Top Drinking Tips

5 Tips for Effective Home Organisation

5 Tips for Budget-Friendly Home Decor

5 Tips on Pet-Friendly Living Spaces

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Household Tips

The pro tips that save you time and money!

by

Owen Jones

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Megan Publishing Services

https://meganthemisconception.com

Copyright Owen Jones 2024 ©

Welcome to Household Tips - the pro tips that save you time and money!, your essential guide to cultivating a home that embodies functionality, comfort, and style. In this comprehensive manual, we delve into a myriad of topics, offering practical advice and ingenious solutions for every corner of your living space. Whether you’re seeking ways to streamline organisation, create child-friendly environments, or infuse your home with budget-friendly decor, this guide is your go-to resource. Each chapter unfolds a wealth of insights, from DIY projects to efficient cleaning hacks, providing a holistic approach to enhancing your living experience. “Household Tips” is more than a manual; it’s a companion on your journey to transform your house into a haven tailored to your lifestyle with more than seventy tips!

Get ready to unlock the secrets that turn mundane tasks into joyful rituals, making every aspect of home management a rewarding and fulfilling endeavour. Let the pages of “Household Tips” be your gateway to a home that not only meets your practical needs but also reflects the unique character of those who dwell within its walls.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.

The information in this ebook on various aspects of dealing with your home and household tasks is organised into 19 chapters of about 500-600 words each.

I hope that it will interest those who like to safe time on their household tasks or who would like to use some traditional means of taking care of it.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

You may also split the book up and resell the articles. In fact, the only right that you do not have is to resell or give away the book as it was delivered to you.

If you have any feedback, please leave it with the company you bought this book from.

Thanks again for purchasing this ebook,

Regards,

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

1. 5 Tips for About the House

2. 5 Tips on Children

3. 5 Tips on DIY

4. 5 Tips for Polishing

5. 5 More Tips for About the House

6. 5 Tips on Cleaning Kitchen Implements

7. 5 Tips for Cleaning Delicate Objects

8. 5 Tips on Doing the Laundry

9. A Ceramic Tile Counter Top in the Kitchen

10. 5 Tips on Sewing

11. A Video Game Environment of Your Own

12. Are Kitchen Renovation Books Worth The Money

13. A Short Home Fire Safety Checklist

14. 5 Tips on Flowers in the House

15. Air Conditioning Filters

16. 5 Top Drinking Tips

17. 5 Tips for Effective Home Organisation

18. 5 Tips for Budget-Friendly Home Decor

19. 5 Tips on Pet-Friendly Living Spaces

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5 Tips For About The House

This article is about household items, moving things and moving house. In short the sorts of things that everyone has to do frequently in their adult lives.

Moving House: moving house is such a busy and exciting time. It is also a very stressful time, third only to the death of a loved one and divorce, so the experts say. This is a very nice tip because not only does it help you to help your fellow man for next to nothing but it reduces your own potential problems too.

When you move out, leave behind a list of all the building contractors you have used, what they did for you and the expiry dates of any guarantees still outstanding. Leave also a list of reliable tradesmen such as milkman, taxis, decorators, window-cleaners. Ask the previous occupiers of your future house for a similar list too.

Leave The Lightest Till Last: when you are moving house, it is best to get someone in to do it for you. However, if you have to do it for yourself, always shift the heaviest stuff first. The wardrobes, the tables, the bed etc. Not only will you get more in the van that way, but you will also know that your job will become easier as you become progressively more and more tired.

Made To Measure: when you want to go shopping for furniture, first make a sketch of the rooms you are buying for and mark in the dimensions. Then take a tape measure with you. If you have any unusual colours in that room, try to take a swatch of it with you, or a photo or the colour on paper.

Things always look different in a large store than in your smaller house. They say never to buy a bed when you are tired either as any bed will seem comfortable then.

Turning The Tables: some times you need an extra dining table. For example when you give a children’s birthday party. Card tables or square garden tables can double up for this purpose. Cover them with an almost floor-length table cloth and no one will ever know. This is so a handy tip for a newly-wed couple or people living in a small apartment, in fact anywhere where space is limited.

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: a mirror can make a tremendous difference to a room. A bad or cheap one can spoil it even, but really good mirrors are extremely expensive. A good alternative is to make your own or rather, have your own assembled.

Scour the junk shops and flea markets for an antique picture frame, discard the picture or hang elsewhere. Then take the frame to a glaziers and get him to cut a piece of mirrored glass to fit. The result is a great-looking mirror in a beautiful frame for a quarter of the cost and a free picture for the spare bedroom, top of the stairs or bathroom to boot.

5 Tips On Children

Ah, children! What a delight, eh? Well, your own are. To you anyway. Children are a joy, if they are brought up correctly, otherwise they can be like a neighbour’s dog that keeps barking all night. If you’re not in the mood, they are annoying. But then, it is always easier to see the faults in other people’s children than those in your own.

Seriously though, most kids are great and I often think that it’s a real shame what a bad press they all get, because of the few rotten apples. When we were children, we were delighted to hear adults telling us that we were going through more pressure than they had to when they were children.

It sounded like adults were being sympathetic with our problems with daily life. However, now that we are the adults, we don’t seem to be giving modern kids the same leeway that we were given.

I have put together a list of five favourite tips for dealing with children humanely, but first a quotation:

Children are a great comfort in your old age

– and they help you reach it faster too!

LIONEL M. KAUFMAN

Burping Baby: most parents burp their baby by putting it over their shoulder and tapping it on the back. That is the traditional method and equally traditionally, the baby is them promptly sick all down your back. Another way of doing it though, is to sit the baby down, on a sofa, a cushion or your lap, and pump his arm gently up and down. Just like an old-fashioned stirrup pump. The wind will come out and it won’t be followed by milky sick. And if it is, at least it won’t be all over you.

Lost Mittens: is your child always losing a mitten? Or both of them? The easy way to prevent this ever happening again, is to take a piece of clothing-style elastic three times the length of your child’s arm. Sew one end securely to each mitten and then thread the mittens into your child’ coat’s sleeves with the mittens hanging out the cuffs. Now, your child cannot lose a mitten even if he takes them off.

Bath-Time Treat: if you have toddlers, you will probably have toddlers staying over every now and again. Now your children are well-behaved, I’m sure, but the guests might not be and anyway kids wind each other up into new heights of excitement. At teatime / supper time, put them in the bath empty of water.

Facing each other with the soap rack between them. You can arrange their favourite foods on there and even give them the messiest of treats. When they have finished, you can hose them down … I mean wash them ready for bed. It will save you having to clear up the kitchen / living room at the end of a long day.

Talcum Powder: when sand sticks to wet kids at the beach and you try to towel it off, tears often ensue. The perfect solution is to apply talcum powder to the affected areas liberally. The talc will absorb the moisture, the sand will fall off and baby will smell lovely.

Labelling: if your child goes on a day trip with the school, church or club, he might want to take a favourite toy with him. It is always high drama if it gets lost. You can prevent this by labelling it with your child’s name. Make doubly sure by putting a name tag on your child too.

5 Tips On Doing It Yourself (DIY)

In another life, I was a director of a building company that turned over more than $1.5 million a year and it was a long time ago too, and we were creating that turnover for 10 years. I don’t say this to seem impressive, it is just that I want you to know what the building industry thinks of DIY’ers. The building industry loves DIY’ers.

The reason why this is so is that many DIY’ers take too long over the job, or give up too soon. I worked in the office of that firm and I really couldn’t guess how many women rang up and said something like: “My husband started renovating our hallway last year, but he now finds that he doesn’t have time to finish it off. Can you send someone round to give us a quote, please?”.

We got one or two a week and usually, when we inspected the job in order to give a quote, it was obvious why the wife had phoned and the husband wasn’t there. And it had nothing to do with the reason we were given. Usually, the job was a botch or had lain unfinished for months or more. I once went to a house where a wife had lost her patience after 17 years of promises!

I am not telling you this to put you off. Far from it. I want you to realise your capabilities and do what you can yourself – I am in a different career now too. This is good advice:

If all else fails, read the instructions.

Getting Hammered: have you hit your thumb with a hammer while holding a small nail? I think that everyone has, even professionals, but a DIY’er can avoid the problem by either putting the nail in a hairgrip or first pushing it through a piece of card(board).

Rewiring: when rewiring a plug, everyone knows that green is the earth, but what about the other two? Well, bLue goes to the left and bRown goes to the right. I know that you will never forget that again. I didn’t when I was told it.

Clearing A Shower Head: shower heads will clog. It is in their nature. When the calcium build-up gets too much for you, put the shower head in a small plastic bag and fill the bag with vinegar. Tie it off and leave it for a few hours or over night. The acidic vinegar will dissolve the calcium.

Getting Even: if you have a wobbly table or chair it is very annoying. Or at least it is to most people, who are not Zen Buddhists! Most people put a beer mat, paper or even a book under the offending leg. However, the best way to sort it out permanently is to put some plastic wood on a piece of silver foil and attach it to the short leg. When it has set, you can peel the foil off or cut it to size.

Blocked Up: if you have a blocked drain, you know that you can put soda down there, but if it is really bad, pour boiling water on top to really fire it up. Keep a wet handkerchief over your nose though, because the fumes are dangerous.

5 Tips For Polishing

All households have things that they have to or at least should polish. Sometimes, we inherit something from our grandparents or even something from our great-grandparents through our own parents. We all cherish these family heirlooms. But, do you know how to take care of them?

Then there are other, more mundane items like glass windows and mirrors. All in all, polishing and cleaning takes a lot of time, as we all know, which is why we get window cleaners and domestic help, if we are busy and can afford it. However, if the time comes when you have to do it yourself, how do you go about it?

I have put together five tips below to get you started, after all, when you know how the pros do it (and usually have done it for hundreds of years), then you don’t have to waste time struggling.

Clear View: windows get very dirty, very quickly these days with all the traffic. There are hundreds of spray cleaners to pick from, aren’t there? And they all work, but the best method is to use a page of newspaper, dipped in warm water, to which some vinegar has been added. There is no need to rinse or polish, but the glass does come up a treat, if you dry it off with dry newspaper too.

Cleaning Decanters: if you don’t clean a used, empty decanter, before it dries out, cleaning it the next day can be a real pain. However, the trick to cleaning it easily, is to put two Steradent (denture cleaning) tablets into the decanter and then fill it up with water. It’ll be sparkling, by the next day.

If the decanter is especially dirty, put some small ball bearings in it too and shake it about. Another option is to put diced raw potatoes in the decanter full of cold water. You can shake it up too, if you have to.

Sauce for the Brass: if you have forgotten your brass front door knocker for quite a while, do not despair. Paint it with brown sauce and leave it for fifteen minutes or a little longer. Hose it off. Dry it too and then polish as normal. When you are done, spray it with hair lacquer to preserve the shine a few weeks longer.

Silver: cleaning silver is a doddle, if you know how. The easiest way is to line a plastic washing up bowl with silver (aluminium) foil. Add to that a tablespoon of Calgon (a water softener) and fill with water. Put your silverware in the water in contact with the foil. If the object is large, you will have to rotate it a few times. Your silver will be clean after a few minutes. Dry with an old towel, as old as you can get.

Egg Stains: in a similar vein, if your egg spoons are looking a bit jaded, fill