28 & 29 February 2018 - Your End of Month Potpourri

February Potpourri for Homemakers

As usual the end of the month marks a mix of things for us Homemakers to pay attention too.

This post will also incorporate an extra day incase of a Leap Year!

Here are your Homemaking Tips:

1. Put a Paper Towel Under the Milk in the Fridge

This helps catch drips so you don't have to wash the fridge so often.

(wash fridge, is that a phrase you can use in a sentence?)

2. Clean Pictures and Mirrors

Both of these can be cleaned using a regular glass cleaner

3. Use Paper Towels for Fatty Foods

I'm sensing a theme.

After cooking bacon or sausage, place on a paper towel after cooking to absorb the excess fat drippings. But be sure to save that bacon goodness for you know bird feeders!

4. Blot up Liquids with Paper Towels form Your Carpets and Rugs

Absorb by dabbing the liquid from the carpet and then clean using the appropriate surface cleaner.

5. Use pieces of wax paper to spread fat when greasing a dish or mold

AH! They broke the theme on this one!

Paper towels will just absorb greasy oily things that you don't want absorbed but to spread in a cake pan or casserole dish to keep baked good from sticking.

Lemon Meringue Pie: Leap Year Overture

"Today comes only once every four years. We call it Leap Year Day. It's the traditional time for gals to take the initiative and make overtures to guys."

It became tradition that on Leap Year Day, a woman was allowed to propose marriage to a man. I really don't know how this started but here we are.

Our Homemaker Heroine is nabbing her man with a Lemon Meringue Pie.

This girl knows this is the adequate way of getting your man. They way to a man's heart is through his stomach after all!

Click HERE for a link to Grandma's Lemon Meringue Pie!

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