Your household tips read out on radio

Tie a cairn terrier to a long pole and push it up the chimney. While the scrabbling shifts the soot, the barking will chase away roosting pigeons.

A dual purpose tip.

If you use a scrim type of sponge cloth to do the washing up, cut it in half before you use it. It will be a better size for washing cups and you will still have the other half fresh and clean in the cupboard for when the first one has got slightly manky.

Don't even look at lilies!

DO NOT buy or accept lilies!

I normally do Elegran but there is the odd time when I am not the perfect housewife and accidents happen

Do NOT BUY ANYTHING that needs ironing/ drycleaning!

And to stop the pollen getting on anything to start with, snip off the stamens as soon as the lilies begin to open.

Pollen on fabric from lillies should not be wiped or brushed, instead apply a strip of Sellotape and strip off until clear of pollen.

Hire a cleaner.

Do not allow any members of your family to buy you knick-knacks that need dusting

Hide any of your OH's shirts unless they are non-iron (I really do) and only put the others in his wardrobe once a year until you can safely phase them out

Grow a large variety of herbs. Buy large variety of ready meals. Sprinkle copiously with fresh herbs and claim them as your own.

I think I could pretty much write a book actually, I used to be very into self-sufficiency and I make my own washing liquid and other such worthy things, even so I am all favour of saving myself from anything too tiring as I have dodgy hips and knees. Because I find bending forwards a problem, as in using a mop, to keep the kitchen floor clean between proper washes I tie a couple of damp rags to my feet and skate around the kitchen floor each evening, much to my GCs amusement. I'll get them doing it for me when they are a little bigger.

I am also a believer in natural weather, not necessarily sunlight to remove stains such as curry and tomato.

Re applying toothpaste to taps- does the toothpaste have to be white? I am using a deep blue toothpaste at present- free when I visited the surgery last and this Scot does not look a gift horse in the mouth.

I haven't clicked on the link, and now don't think I will!

Although I did get to the shouting point a few weeks back about some bloody woman on Feedback for Radio 4 saying that she thought there should be a special station/programme for the over 60's! I believe I did post about it (maybe even attempted a thread?)

Do save all the foil milk bottle tops, press them over a lemon squeezer and put a thread through the top and you have decorations for your Christmas tree.

Exactly!

My dad used to clean his teeth with soot or salt !

Ana

Dip chewed end of twig in soot if you want them to be really gleaming...!

Neliemoser my mother used to do the latter when I was a child, much to my shame. The horse always appeared to be very obliging outide our house so my mother did not have to walk far.

A hazel twig can be chewed at the end and then used to clean your teeth!

Galen
It's on just after Dick Barton!

Does anyone know how best to clean the rubber rollers on your mangle?

If you want to stop the toilet in your outside loo from freezing hang a little paraffin lamp under the valve on the overhead cistern.

To save money on toilet paper have torn up squares of newspaper on a nail inside the toilet door.

Cover your stone hot water bottles in a knitted cover so you don't bang your ankle on them in bed.

To grow good roses in your allotment, when the milkman and coalman come around follow them with your shovel and bucket to collect any of their horses droppings.
How wise we all are.

Galen

Where on my wireless do I find this wonderful programme? Is it before or after the light programme?

Sunlight also works on curry stains. That's if we ever get any that is , not curry stains.
Do you think GNHQ should substitute a rain emoticon for the sunshine one!?
Steers dent or similar removes tannin stains from mugs, teapots etc.

Well Lara if that's the case, I may as well c & p my "Sluts Charter" and "How to make it look as if you are cleaning" from the other thread!