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Beautiful Lanterns from PET Bottles
rajsiyer@gmail.com shared 43 days ago

Used plastic bottles are creatively reused & made into beautiful lanterns. These could be used for garden or party lighting/Diwali/christmas lighting after being suitably coloured.

One can come up with more intricate shapes. For coloured lanterns, pour about 20ml oil paint into the bottle BEFORE it is cut. Roll/turn the bottle so that the pai ... More

 

Beautiful Lanterns from PET Bottles
Removing lint from clothes
rajsiyer@gmail.com shared 69 days ago

Lint is a nuisance that becomes difficult to remove. It is particularly an embarrasment on dark coloured clothes, school uniforms and out better clothes!

 Sometimes, even with a brush the effort is tedious.

A better way.. Prepare some chapatti dough mixing a little wheat flour (Atta ka peeth) with water same as you ... More

 

Laptop battery backup
yahya_h shared 82 days ago

To extend the laptop battery backup, reduce the display brightness to the least extent possible, subject to visibility. This will extend the battery backup to a great extent.

 

Tip to clean your mixer
riddhi shared 116 days ago

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Tip to clean your mixer
Removing ants from honey
rajsiyer@gmail.com shared 166 days ago

Sometimes, we forget that we've a bottle of honey in the house and often when the bottle lies unused this way we find that ants have found their way to it. It is simple however to remove ALL the ants. Warm the honey and pour it bac throuhg a sieve.That is after cleaning the bottle.

This technique could be used just as well for cocoanut oil.More

 

Removing ants from honey