Tip of the Week: Old socks.

"What? Old socks?" you might think. Well, so did I when my mother-in-law told me to keep all my old socks.
This was this summer when I was sorting through all my old clothes to give away or throw out. But here is what she told me I could do with them.

Shining shoes:
This is a tip my husband knew about too. Apparantly they used it in the military to shine their army boots.
If you keep a few socks with your shoe shining stuff, you will always have a polishing cloth ready. Ofcourse, try to choose the fine woven cotton ones for this purpose.

Polishing bronze, silver etc.
This I actually had heard before. Keep some old, clean socks with the bronze or silver (or whatever) polish. Then when you need to polish your silver, you can use a sock to apply the polish, and you can use it to get that perfect shine. And when you are done you can just throw the sock away. No need to have dirty rags around that you need to boil or wash again and again.

Cleaning rags:
My mother-in-law insisted that socks make exelent cleaning rags... I trust her on that. Never tried it myself. But here too you have the advantage that you can just throw the sock in the garbage as soon as your done.'

Getting rid of bad odour in shoes:
put some litterbox sand in an old sock and put it in your shoe. Will get that smell out reall quick.

If you have any other ideas, please contribute ^^

Holidays are over!

It has been a long and busy holiday for me this year. After the finals were over I went south to my birthplace and stayed at my parents's. I was going to use the first week to clean out our old house and put it up for sale, but it took me the whole 4 weeks I had down there to clean it out!

After longing to get back up here for a couple of weeks I packed the car, convinced my friend Steven to drive with me and take a weeks holiday here, started driving to pick him up ... I got about 6 miles before my car broke down. Lucky for me, I was soon picked up by Steven in his car and we towed my wreck back to my dad's shop. After waiting 6 hours for a prognonsis the message was clear: the engine was bust! *sigh* Luckily Mom and Dad decided to lend me a car (since Steven  was driving with me, he could drive it back south too) and packed it to the brim and started driving again.

This time we got as far as 620 miles from home before something else happened. I had been getting gradually sicker the whole evening and night, and after  having to stop a few times so I could stretch and try to throw up, I started throwing up and passing out uncontrollable. Steven got me to the closest doctor and I was rushed to the closest hospital for an appendectomy.

That was 5 weeks ago, the last 4 weeks I have been a small place in the middle of nowhere on an excavation course.

So as you can see, it has beena  busy summer, but now I am back and fit for fight, and with lots of new tips and posts to post. So I hope you will enjoy them, and welcome back to a new school term.

Lots of love.
Anibah