Handy Hints
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Handy Hints
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If you get the hiccups, Mike Jesseps takes a large mouthful of coca cola and gargles it. He says its an instant cure. |
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In your Kitchen
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Ron Smith says to put garlic cloves in the microwave for 15 seconds and the skins will come off more easily. |
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In your Kitchen
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To make extra crispy french fries, John Davis tosses them in flour before cooking. |
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In your Kitchen
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Mary Wright suggests to wrap celery in aluminimum foil in the fridge, it will keep much longer. |
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To remove bubble gum from hair try covering the gum with peanut butter then rinse it off. That hint came from David Milford. |
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Handy Hints
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Jenny Johnson says for an effective low cost eye cream use unscented castor oil around your eyes. |
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Around your home
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Helen Sergeant has a handy hint for the bath. Pour a cup of powdered milk into running bath water. The lactic acid in the mild removes dead skin and leaves your skin feeling nice and soft. |
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Handy Hints
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To stop someone coughing at night, put Vicks vapour rub on the soles of their feet and cover with socks. Jan Wright says the coughing will stop in about 5 minutes.She also said for ear ache use a hair dryer on warm setting and let it blow into your ear. |
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In your garden
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Joyce Holdsworth says to stop slugs eating Hostas, put saw dust around the base of the plant. |
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If you want to start an open fire quickly, use folded dry cabbage leaves as kindling. Thanks to Mrs. Widdowson for that hint. |
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Handy Hints
Every week several newspapers through out the Manawatu, Wanganui and Kapiti Coast feature our popular handy hints column. Most of these hints are sent to us from readers of the columns. The hints are collated on this page.
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Handy Hints