(Need to know if you are out bush or in the Country)
Bites and Stings;
Bee stings-Scrape and remove the sac and sting with a sharp knife.
Apply old fashioned Blue Bag (which I salvages from mum's laundry since I'm allergic) or Baking Soda.
Wasp bites- apply Vinegar.
White Tail Spider- apply Jonola/Bleach. (It's the vermin it carries thats the problem) When I got bitten I applied everything going plus ant-hystermines (sp). It seemed to work.
Cuts- if you need to hold the mending until you get to the Doctor, apply the inner white skin under the shell of a boiled egg or a cobweb. Mum applied pepper to mine. It work but stung like hell and by the time I got to the doctor it had set like concrete.
Kitchen use
Baking Soda for cleaning anything. If you have a burnt saucepan pour in a little water and a teaspoon of baking soda and bring to the boil. The black should lift without scrubbing or ruin the pot.
Run out of Dish washing liquid. Use Sunlight Soap in a soap shaker or in a small bowl under the running water or for laundry grate the soap.
Wiping benches use diluted Detol or Vinegar which is a disinfectant.
Also Vinegar and newspaper with water for cleaning glass windows.
For cleaning silver- place a sheet of tin foil and a tsp salt in boiling hot water in a basin. Place your silver inside and walk away. Come back later and they should wipe shiny and clean.
Bathrooms- Never use a hard abrasive of any make on you bath or hand basin. Wipe after a bath with ends of soap in the plastic netting they sell Kiwi Fruit in. Once a month wipe with kerosene it helps to restore the protective layer.
Toilets- clean with Baking soda or a recommended bio-gradable . In town Jonola or bleach.
Dusting- dust with a paint brush it gets into the cracks. Then wipe with a damp cloth.
never ever shake a mat it backs the backing of the rug.
Garden Hints.- Snails hate salt and coffee grinds, also stale beer left in a can or tin will catch them.
Salt- will kill weeds in the path and is much more friendlier to animals. (hedgehogs may need lots of water afterNever found out.)
Always put snail bait in jars or tins so animals and birds can't get at it.
Place old wire netting on the garden before planting , this stops the cats and chooks from scratching up your plants.
(I will do more research and come back to this project. But these are the things that have been handed down to me.
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