Hint-Chopping Onions

For those that don't have HELOISE in your newspaper I wanted to share a hint that was posted today. This poster to HELOISE uses a food processor to chop five or six cooking onions in one session. Then she places them in 1/2 cup increments in plastic sandwich bags, places the bags in a heavy plastic freezer bag and freezes them. Then the onions are measured and ready to pull out as needed for the dishes she is making. I thought this was a neat idea and wanted to pass it on to you.

Helpful Hint-Storage Ideas

I am sure that if you have HELOISE in your paper you saw this hint. It is a suggestion for all those owner's manuals we receive when we purchase new products. The hint was to punch them with a three-hole punch and keep the manual in a three ring binder. It also suggested writing the model number and serial number on the inside cover and attach the sales receipt. Then recording problems, dates and solutions could be written down inside the manuals too. It would also be a good place to store warranty information. I am thinking that if the manual is too small maybe get a zip lock storage baggy and punch the holes and put the manual inside to save. The baggy would fit in the binder too.
Another hint in HELOISE that I thought was helpful was to make a digital photo of our shoes and place the photo on the outside of the shoe box so that we could see quickly which shoes we are looking for.

Helpful Hint- Remove Candle Wax From Carpet

I came across this hint from HELOISE and thought I would pass it on since candles are burned often during Christmas. HELOISE shared that this is from the Carpet and Rug Institute and this is now a new and improved method for removing candle wax from carpets. This is what we need to do- Put ice in a metal pan, put the pan on the candle wax and leave it there until the wax is frozen. Remove the pan and hit the candle wax with a blunt object, and the surface wax will shatter. Then vacuum it up. To remove the wax that has gotten down into the fibers, put rubbing alcohol on a white cloth and blot and press until the remaining wax is gone.