21 Tips: Shortcuts Chore

The fact that school activities to an end, that does not mean the schedules or lists of things someone is doing too relaxed.

Here is a list of links clean task or tips that will help you, your home, tidy landscape and other daily tasks a little easier.

Some of them have been through the experience of juggling a family of four, each acquired with its own schedule.

More tips are provided by local professionals with years of experience.

(Maybe these tips to make things easy, the kids even offered on some tasks to take on. One can dream, can not he?)

Please share your own tips in the comments below.

CARE

Dina Keller, Office of Lancaster County Maid Brigade, 24 Orange St., Ephrata, and MaidBrigade.com offers these tips to make the most effective home:

• Stainless steel explosion with a few drops of water, cream of tartar and a sponge.

• Be sure to clean a systematic process. Start at the top level of your home and work your way into the lower floors. Write a clean room from left to right.

• Gel plush toys once a month to kill the mites. Place toys in a freezer bag and freeze for 24 hours. Press each toy before removing the bag, shake all mites, then pull toy. Take the bag.

LAWN CARE / LANDSCAPE

Chad Diller, Marketing Coordinator Tomlinson Bomberger Lawn and Tree Care, Landscape and Plant Protection, 3055 Yellow Goose Road, offers the following tips for outdoor tasks a little easier.

• Mow the lawn more frequently, every four or five days instead of once a week. "They are ready to leave a 3-inch blade of grass," he said.

• Plan around structures (barns, house, garage), making it easier to cut around trees and plants. Their beds landscape Create a "soft flash" mulch under trees and avoid small circles of mulch around the tree to reduce the need for manual lawn mower.

• If you have plants that are alone, consider to get rid of the grass and mulch between the two places. When mowing, cut the mulch. Do not bother bagging the clippings.

• mow conifers in. It is harmful in fact trees and can prevent rejuvenated. "Mulch a foot or two beyond where the evergreen ends," says Diller. (You need to change that, as the tree grows.)

• For shrubs: After the maintenance intervals, and you will be a less serious project. Prune new growth to three times per year. "It's going to be this great big job, and you'll be less of a pile of rubble," he said.

TRICKS IN THE KITCHEN

When planning a meal that requires browned ground beef, set up a bowl with aluminum foil before you start. Then when you have your completed sear the meat ready to be drained, fat can be poured directly onto the sheet. Once the fat hardens, you need to only lift the sheet and throw them away. You do not even have to clean the tank.

Using previously measured K-Cups in Keurig is very convenient, but if you feel like it, thus creating too much waste, for a reusable K-Cup you decide. However, the tip drip at the bottom is not allow to sit a cup on the counter while you fill it. Here's the trick: find a measuring cup medicines for colds and use it to hold the reusable K-cup coffee while filling.

21 Tips: Shortcuts housework

This advice comes from Pinterest, and makes the separation of eggs in a jiffy. Break an egg into a bowl. Then, with an empty water bottle, the opening of the bottle put over yellow. Simply press a little and suck in yellow water bottle. Show the yolks in a separate bowl for later use.

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Lynn Schmidt is co-editor of the fashion lifestyle. She can be reached at lschmidt@lnpnews.com or (717) 291-2995. You can also Lynn_justLynn @ or @ LancLifestyle on Twitter.

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