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Tips Submitted from Akron, OH

What are your tricks and solutions for managing your busy household? The SCOTT® Common Sense Community allows you to share your sensible solutions and get tips from other members just like you that will help you manage your life a little more efficiently. Now that makes sense!

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Healthy Hints - Eating Healthy

5.00 / 1 votes

Healthy, Fun, Kids' Snacks

Here's a quick lunch or snack idea that kids will love: Cut the top off an apple and core the middle of the apple. Fill the core with healthy things, such as raisins, peanuts, applesauce, pudding, yogurt, cereal, carrot sticks or anything healthy that will fit. Put the top back onto the apple and wrap the apple with colorful cellophane. You can even tie it with a colorful string or ribbon and add a loving note or fun joke. It is economical, healthy, and your child won't forget it. I call it "Our Secret Snack Pack."

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Easy Organizing - Storage Ideas

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Storing Christmas Lights

Trying to put Christmas lights away so they won't break is so hard. Then, unpacking them for the next year is just as difficult. Try this: Save your SCOTT® Towel tubes and wrap your light strands around them. Just tuck the ends of the light strands in the ends of the tubes. It keeps them safe from breaking and you can use them longer. Plus, they won't be tangled up for the next year.

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Everyday Sense - Simple Fixes

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Taking Scuffs off Leather Shoes

Put some rubbing alcohol on a soft cloth and rub the scuff away. This will remove salt stains on shoes and boots without ruining them. It also works on sneakers with dark scuff marks.

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Neat & Clean - Laundry

4.50 / 2 votes

To Save on Ironing

When taking your clothes out of the washer, fold the clothes before putting them into the dryer. Place the clothes folded, into the dryer and dry as directed by the clothing instructions. Your clothes will come out of the dryer with creases and without wrinkles.

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Healthy Hints - Home Remedies

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Preventing Salt Burns on Dogs

Before your dog goes outside in winter weather, smear petroleum jelly on his foot pads and in between the pads. It will safeguard your dog's feet from being burned by rock salt and ice developing on the hair between his pads.

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Neat & Clean - Air Fresheners

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Sanitizing Carpets

To freshen up my carpets, I sprinkle baking soda onto them, wait 10 minutes, then vacuum. I also use baby powder from time to time, for a fresher scent.

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Everyday Sense - Simple Fixes

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Removing Broken Light Bulbs

Here's how to remove the metal part of a broken light bulb, lodged in the socket without cutting yourself: Shut off the light switch, cut a potato in half and put the potato up against the socket. Ttwist the metal part of the light bulb out by turning the potato counter-clockwise. It works great!

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Pat
Akron, OH
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Healthy Hints - Family Health

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Sanitizing Sponges

Make your kitchen sponges last longer by sanitizing them from time to time. I take the sponges, wet them with water and put dish soap on them, then I put them into my microwave for 4 minutes. Let them cool before touching them. Then, the germs are gone, and I can reuse them.

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Akron, OH
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