Ok, doesn't have to be household, can be yard, garden, garage or whatever… I'll start.

If you have well water, you'll understand this! 

I keep a jug of water on the sink in case of power failure, and also for quickly filling the tea kettle etc.  After a day or two, even though I use it daily and re-fill so it doesn't 'sit' too long, but mineral deposits still build up.  Also, for glass vases and nice glassware etc.  Mineral deposits are so annoying!  Vinegar is good, but this is better IMO.

Use unsweetened Kool-Aid mixed up and let it sit over night or longer (no sugar).  It's already food safe, and if you have well water, you might have a septic tank, so you probably avoid harsh cleaners like I do.  (genaric or store brand works fine too, it's the citric acid in it that does the trick)

(sorry if this is already a topic, if it is, point me to it and I'll continue there!  )

I just found another one!

Stick-tights.  Those little triangular burr sorts of weed-seeds that stick to your clothes when doing yard work. 

I was washing a sweatshirt and pair of jeans that was loaded with them and didn't want them to get all over everything in the laundry.  I had a really cheap old paint roller so I dragged it over the clothing, (didn't roll it, dragged it!) all the stick-tights LEAPT over to the paint roller!  It seems that fuzzy roller is much more appealing to the stick-tights than a mear sweatshirt or jeans.

I thought Suzanne's idea for hanging her canning rings was great!  And I used it!!

I used this idea today to hang those bags full of plastic grocery bags and bags full of toilet paper/paper towel rolls that I'm saving for seed starting next winter.  Use the 1st bag full at the bottom and just keep adding the bags to the rope…….takes up much less space and used the wall space instead of a closet shelf (or a tote full that has found it's way into your craft room)!

Here's something for those who have chickens, or buy fresh eggs from a farm or friend… Have you all noticed how TERRIBLE very fresh eggs peel after being hard boiled?  They're just such a MESS!  Well, here's the secret to Perfectly Peelable Fresh EGGS!!!

Bring your water to a FULL boil FIRST!  (yeah, I know, that's not how your mama told you to do it!)

Lower your eggs into the water gently, either with a slotted spoon or in a strainer insert.

Let them return to a boil, lower the heat just a tad so they don't get banged around too much, but keep them boiling for 14 minutes. (yep, longer than my mama taught me too.)

Remove the eggs and plunge them into cold water right away.  Some people say -ice- cold water, but I just use cold tap water… you may have to see what works for you.

Peel those eggs and enjoy how pretty they look!

This one is part 'hint' and part question. 

I save the wax paper bags from boxed cerial to use to store bakery in.  You know, muffins, rolls, quick bread loafs, really bakery of any kind that fits… it's something my mother always did, so I do it too.  It keeps em fresh and keeps the texture better than zip locks or plastic containers etc. plus, we might as well recycle them at least once!  I roll the bag and then seal with one of those little alligator clips.

Here's the question part though, how do you all store larger things, like loaves of Grandmother Bread?  I never bake less than two loaves and I think the outer texture suffers from being sealed in plastic… I've been wrapping in a clean dish towel and storing in a plastic shopping type bag, but I'm not thrilled with that so I'm wondering what you all do!

  Well… I don't actually have any one that needs moving or hiding just now, but I'll keep it in mind!

re: bread storage

I normally bake 2 also.  The one I'm using gets stored in my cake plate/server……and the other goes in the freezer.  Unless we're having company, then it just gets covered with a dishtowel, because for sure 1 will be eaten straight away!

Have had a similar experience in trying to determine for sure one way or another.  I do know that sometimes I can smell the aroma of something like a pesticide in a cereal bag, but that is probably because I am overly sensitive to such things.  It may only be a remnant of the processing of the plastic.  Or not.

To be on the safe side (for me and my allergies anyway), I remove cereal from the bags as quickly as possible and use plastic (known to be untreated!) cereal keepers instead for storage.

Originally, the preservatives were to slow the oils in grains in the cereals in becoming rancid.

Oh.  Well, that was because it was easier to do without affecting the taste or being quite as meticulaous about the amount used.  In later years, it also didn't have to be claimed as an ingredient, because it wasn't.

Am trying to remember when it was that they were doing this for sure.  Used to have some friends in the industry who have since retired.  May ask the fellow from whom I now buy grain.  He might know.