Now Here’s a Tip – January 16, 2024

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Here’s a fun afternoon of play just waiting to happen: Check with your local grocery store or big box store to see if it has uncrushed cardboard boxes. Get several to create a cardboard city in your living room or child’s bedroom. They can be decorated to look like anything, or cut, trimmed and taped into most any shape. Kids even like to stock them with pillows and blankets for a cozy sleepover. When you’re done, break them down and recycle until the next adventure. – J.J. in Florida
Sources who know say that if you drop a marble (clean glass) in your tea kettle, it will prevent it from scaling.
Like to use paper towels to dry your clean hands? Set them aside to dry, then you can use them for cleaning with glass cleaner or other solutions.
Use a shower curtain cut or folded in half under baby’s highchair to make cleaning up the floor easier.
Air-popped popcorn is better for you and healthier. If you have an air popper, you’ll also have a jar of popcorn kernels. Keep them in the refrigerator or even the freezer. You can use them straight from the fridge, and the bonus is that you’ll have less unpopped kernels and bigger, fluffier popcorn. – E.M. in Wisconsin
Stuck at school with a sticky zipper? Just rub it with a pencil lead and zip back and forth a few times. It totally works. – W.K., a middle-school student, in Georgia