Some really cool great tips. (I have tried some of these and some do work!

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1. Reheat Pizz a: Heat up leftover pizza in a
nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the
cooking channel and it really works.

2. Easy Deviled Eggs: Put
cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add
remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the
tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy
clean up.

4. Reheating refrigerated bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes,
or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of
water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat
faster.

5. Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants; work the
nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping
as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some
gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

6. Broken
Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you
can't see easily.

7. No More Mosquitoes: Place a dryer sheet in your
pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

8. Squirrel Away! To keep
squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The
cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.

9. Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heat register or under the
fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum.
It can be bent or
flattened to get in narrow openings.

10. Reducing Static Cling: Pin a
small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt
or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place
pin in seam of slacks and -- tada! -- Static is gone.

11. Measuring Cups: Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as
peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

12. Foggy
Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the
glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better
than a cloth!

13. Reopening envelope: If you seal an envelope and then
realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope
in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.

14.
Conditioner: Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot cheaper
than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to
use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your
hair...

15. Goodbye Fruit Flies: To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a
small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing
liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

16. Get Rid of Ants: Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants.
They eat it, take it "home," & can't digest it so it kills them. It may take
a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the
worry about pets or small children being harmed!

17. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave
them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

18. Store your opened chunks
of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

19. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.

20. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

21. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the
grease away from the meat while cooking.

22. To really make scrambled eggs
or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy
cream in and then; beat them up.

23. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if
you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a
stronger taste of garlic.

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ones, Sue! The safety pin for anti-static...... I'll have to try that.