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Home Hints/How Do I...? - thebroadroom.net: May 2005
Disclaimer: these hints and tips are either the result of personal experience, or have been culled from various sources.
TheBroadroom.Net reminds you to use your own judgment and caution in applying any of this advice.
Cheap Toaster Theory #2
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
at 6:22 PM (Pacific)
The cheap toaster theory proposes that cheap toasters are superior to expensive ones--the way cheap vegetable peelers are better than their spendier counterparts.
I had a few fancy toasters blow out on me, hence the hypothesis.
So far it's holding out. My $10 toaster is still toasting. The toast still goes down and pops up.
I'll update this again next year.Labels: toaster
 
Keeping your whites white
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
at 9:47 AM (Pacific)
Yep--Oxi Clean.
I finally got this on Raphaelle's rec... It does work.
It's expensive though, so I don't see the point of "using it in every wash" (this is what the label says). I prefer the idea of using it specifically to bleach whites.
I put a scoop in with a white load and the whites came out, not pristine white, but certainly much whiter and brighter than before. Plus you don't get the downside of liquid bleach (which destroys your clothes and leaves white spots on subsequent color loads).
Breville Cafe Roma review
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:37 AM (Pacific)
You do NOT want to buy this machine, especially if you make more than one cup of espresso in the morning.
It looks great...but it is...temperamental. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the water comes out; sometimes not. We ended up returning it...and I am the kind of person who always tries to make machines work.
When it does work...it makes a beautiful cup of coffee, I'll give it that. But you can't count on it to always work, particularly if you want to make more than one cup of espresso.
It's possible you'll seldom see its evil side if you make only one cup in the morning...still...I can't recommend it.
Extend the wear of your shower curtain
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:30 AM (Pacific)
Instead of using a single, printed plastic shower curtain, we are trying out a two-curtain model.
You get a plain, clear plastic shower curtain (I got mine at Target). You put both the printed curtain and the plain one on the same set of rings, with the clear one inside.
The idea is that you can wear out the clear curtain and replace it, without the heartache of replacing the (funky) printed curtain.
Another tip on not having to do laundry as often
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, May 19, 2005
at 7:49 PM (Pacific)
:) Here you not only buy lots of underwear...you buy half of it white, half of it colored.
That way, you need only do a white or a colored load, in order to have clean underwear.
Trader Joe's Lavender Dryer Bags
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 7:41 PM (Pacific)
I rather like these, although they're next to useless. You pay something like $3.50...I forget, it's roughly that...for 4 bags of dried lavender. Each bag is supposed to last 5 to 10 dryer cycles.
Now, these bags do nothing along the dryer-sheet lines. They don't soften clothes or remove lint or what have you.
On the package it claims that lavender is a natural moth repellent. I'm sure that it is, but I put one lavender bag with my (moth magnet) wool sweaters and it really didn't help. i.e. I saw a moth on the sweaters.
All of that said, these bags are nice. They smell good. They infuse your clothes with a delicate scent of lavender. I've been tossing them back into the dryer load after load...so the claim of the bags lasting up to 10 cycles is valid.
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