Welcome to the
AWCA Household Tips Page
This page is intended to provide helpful information on various topics of interest to our community residents.
These could include gardening tips, workshop information, car maintenance hints, health tips, child safety suggestions, and cooking tips, just to name a few.
If anyone would like to share some tips that they have found helpful, please send an email to the . Your neighbours would love to hear from you.
Please note that the hints found on this page have been provided by our residents,
and have not necessarily been tested by the AWCA.
Therefore we cannot guarantee that they will work as claimed.
General Tips
To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with potatoes.
To prevent egg shells from cracking when boiling, add a pinch of salt to the water.
After painting, place an open bowl of vinegar in the room to help speed up the removal of the fumes of paint.
After turning off your automatic drip coffee maker, open the lid where you put the water in to let any excess moisture evaporate. This will reduce mold build up in the reservoir.
Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.
Tips to keep "paper" in your home and office to a minimum
(Provided by: Anne Gideon, Professional Organizer, Just Get Organized)
open your mail over the recycle bin
attend to paper once, instead of shuffling it from pile to pile....File it OR Act on it Or Recycle it
magazines & newspapers....rip out articles you want to read and recipes you want to use then recycle the rest
only clip coupons if you plan to use them
have a file system that works for you and weed out unwanted and outdated paper yearly
This page was last updated on Jan 04, 2007
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