Household Hints - Outdoor Living
Aluminum Lawn Furniture
Coat the aluminum with automotive paste wax at
the beginning of each season. The aluminum will not pit or scar, and it will look
new longer.
Ants
To prevent ants from coming up onto a picnic table, fill tin cans
with water and set the legs of the table in them, or spray insect repellant on old
strips of cloth and wrap around the table legs.
Mix orange peels and water in a blender. Plop this pur e in the midst of the ant activity. Ants cannot handle the smell of citric acid.
Camping Equipment
Submitted by Ron Henslee, Missouri ~
To keep metal
zippers from leaking and a great lube. Just rub them with tallow (wax).
Coffee Pots
Submitted by Ron Henslee, Missouri
Rub the outside with
soap before placing on the fire. When done, just rinse it off.
Mosquito Repellent
Submitted by Barb in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Put
some water in a white dinner plate and add just a couple of drops of Lemon Fresh
Joy dishwashing soap. Set the dish on a porch or patio. No sure what attracts them,
the lemon smell, the white color, or what, but mosquitoes flock to it, and drop
dead, or fall into the water, or on the floor within about 10 feet. Works just super!
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