50 Brilliant Home Hacks Using Free Vintage Tricks!

I remember being told a lot of these but have forgotten them over the years. Thanks for bringing them back.

Turn the jar upside down, then with the heel of your hand strike the bottom of the jar. This helps break the seal. A pair of of rubber gloves with ridges to turn the lid helps a lot too.

My husband said poison oak or ivy! You have to wash all the clothes/towels etc, the oils spread to anyone who touches! Hope you can both feel better soon!

Thank you so much for your videos, Cas! I'm a nurse practitioner and see patients with poison ivy/oak/sumac rash/dermatitis often, especially in the summer. The description sounds like it. The treatment is usually high dose oral steroid taper over at least 2 weeks, ideally 3 weeks, and a high-potency topical steroid. Oral steroid use of less than 2 weeks can lead to a rebound. And like someone has mentioned above, the oil of those plants can spread to objects and stay on for awhile, you still can get rash even if you haven't gone back outside or touched the plants again. Glad that you're seeing a healthcare provider again, though, since recurrence should be assessed to avoid misdiagnosis. Hope it'll resolve soon!

Also, for wrapping meat for freezing - I suggest plastic wrap then aluminum then plastic again. Aluminum can be absorbed by the meat, you don’t want that touching it. Aluminum affects memory retention and increases chances dementia/Alzheimer’s

The oil on poison ivy can stay on fabrics and various surfaces for years! If you were both in the garden, it’s very possible the oil spread to tools, gloves, clothes, aprons, door knobs, etc that you were using/touching that day. Until all the oil is gone, you can keep getting new rashes when you come into contact. It can also take a day or two between the contact with oil and the rash to appear, making it harder to figure out what still has the oil on it. This is happening to me currently, and has been for a few weeks. Clean EVERYTHING like you’re wiping up olive oil because it is an oil, and therefore harder to clean up than other things. Ive been googling and saw someone invented a spray that will make the oil flow under black light, but it’s not available yet 😩 good luck!

I would suggest checking for bedbugs. Not everyone reacts to the bits, but when you do, it's a bad itch, like a mosquito bite.

Good God's glorious morning Cass! 🙋🏽‍♀️ For the egg shells in the garden, you'll just want to grind them into much smaller pieces. When they're large, they take forever to break down for fertilizer, but if you powderize them, they will work much more quickly and efficiently. It also helps keep snails and slugs out of the garden. 😉 Blessings and greetings from Chicagoland. 🙋🏽‍♀️

Hi Call. I buy coffee filters at the dollar store and use them to cover smaller items that I put in my microwave. They are in a drawer next to the microwave.

Use the knife under the lid, to instantly break the vacuum seal

All great tried & true 'Hacks'. Regarding the longevity of fresh cut flowers, strip the leaves so they are not below the water line. They will rot and soil the water. Thanks again for all this amazing information.

I knew about half of them. Another suggestion for lids that won't come off, is wrap a rubber band around the lid. We use that trick a lot!

Olive oil! Not that much! 😂😂😂 I love your channel. I listen to you while I work - your voice is very soothing and you have such awesome tips and advice.❤❤❤

Love your videos! But salted water does not boil faster. In fact it makes it take longer to boil due to the fact that salt water has a higher boiling point. Salted water can help cook pasta faster, however, because salt water can get hotter. Adding a small amount of salt, like teaspoon really makes no difference either way, it will be the same as no salt.

You've had a lot of flooding in your yard, so you could have mold spores on plants, grass, and flowers. You may need some meds to kill mold fungus.

Instead of the bread, I use a lint roller to pick up tiny broken glass pieces or hair. After I cut my family's hair, if indoors, even after sweeping and vacuuming it, I always go back with a lint roller several times. You'd be surprised how much hair is still left behind. Plus a quick lint roller of the face, neck, back to get the itchy hairs off before showering. I always use lint rollers also for taking all the dust off lampshades and fabric headboards, curtains, among a million other things.

I had the same thing last year from Oct 1- December 17. Nothing worked, itchy spots would pop up randomly throughout a day, I wouldn’t eat anything different and it would happen, I wouldn’t go outside and they would pop up, I would go outside and they wouldn’t pop up. There just wasn’t anything consistent so finally mid December I bought Allegra hives medicine. I took it twice and I haven’t had the problem again. Still no answers but at least it’s gone! It’s worth a try!!

I would be careful with tossing eggshells in your garden. They take forever to break down amd can invite critters. You can compost them or pulverize them in a blender and then mix in to the soil when planting to help them break down faster.

Hi Cass. Use a spoon to pop the seal on jars. Just place between one of the crimps on the lid and the glass rib it screws onto. Bend down/twist at the spoon handle and the seal will be broken and it will turn with ease. (I’ve broken jars using the tapping technique).

Started after a garden episode and randomly pop up, maybe chiggers. I had chiggers once from gardening. What I did was paint clear fingernail polish on spots. It will suffocate the chigger.