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Needful Stuff
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! After a couple of disturbing phone calls - disturbing to me
anyway - I thought I'd just take a break from it all and give you
readers something useful and fun, too. Enjoy!!
10 Brilliant Uses For Beer
1) Restore volume to limp hair. Mix 3 T of beer with a 1/2 cup of
water. Rinse out the shampoo, apply the beer mixture and wait 5
minutes. Rinse.
2) Quick clean and season cast iron. Pour fresh beer in a still warm
pan to cover the bottom. Let sit for 5 minutes. The carbonation is
supposed to keep food from sticking.
3) Attract butterflies to your garden by mixing a small amount of stale
beer with one over-ripe banana into a paste. Spread the paste on tree
trunks and rocks.
4) To restore shine to gold jewelry use light or medium beer - no dark
ales. Pour on a soft cloth, rub into the gold and buff to a shine.
5) To green up your lawn pour enough beer to wet the ground on the
brown spots in your lawn.
6) To rid the skunk smell from your pet, apply one or two cans of beer
to the dog's coat and rinse. Bathe with dog shampoo.
7) To spruce up wood furniture wipe it with a cloth saturated with
beer. Buff it dry with a soft cloth.
8) To keep wasps away from your outdoor activities fill a jar halfway
with beer. On the inside of the rim and neck apply a coat of Vaseline.
Drill a finger-sized hole in the lid. Replace the lid on the jar. Set
the jar anywhere you like.
9) To remove rust marks on your patio furniture apply a beer soaked
cloth to the rust for an hour. Then wipe dry.
10) To tenderize meat put a can of beer in a zip lock baggie. Add the
meat. Let the meat soak for at least an hour.
Things You Must Give Up To Be Happy
1) Bad spending habits: Credit cards, impulse buying, buying when you
are bored or blue.
2) Waiting for the perfect moment: for anything - new shoes, telling
someone you like/love them, etc.
3) Social media obsession: who got a new car, a 10k divorce, etc. "What
I could do with that" makes our lives seem dull/worthless by comparison.
4) Living in the past: "If only I would have" or "I was happier then"
are comparisons and our "memory" tends to forget the bad stuff when we
look backward and see the happy, carefree stuff - usually of youth.
5) Yearning to fit in: If the problem is money or morals - if you do
not make the necessary changes to "fit in" - it is beyond your control
and not worth the yearn. Be careful where you want to "fit in and with
whom."
6) Disorganized lifestyle: If you do not know what you have now or do
not know where you are going or want to go - you just go in circles.
You buy, find you had it already, regret buying it, and go through it
all anew.
7) Overanalyzing situations: This drains you of your mental/physical
energy. There will always be a "I should have/ could have" said or done
something better.
8) Need to have the best: This works if you have only one of the
"best." Fashions always change in the hopes that you will buy more and
more.
9) Toxic relationships: If one is always giving and the other is always
taking - the one being taken will either leave while he/she is still
healthy or stay until he/she is ill - mentally or physically.
10) Hesitation to indulge: "I could have been/done if I would have only
bought/said this or that." This leads to regret and always looking for
the same opportunity.
11) Comparing yourself to others: We always see our own flaws. Somehow
we never see the other person's flaws. When we compare we usually seem
to fall short and they look "perfect."
12) Packed schedule: There are so many good things to do and be a part
of that it is hard to know when to say "no." This stems from how we see
ourselves. Somehow the less activity we produce - the more "lazy" we
seem.
13) Relying on someone to make you happy or fulfill you: The problem
here is no one can really make you truly happy. If that were true - we
would not need to be around the people who "make us happy' more than
once.
Remember the kiddies and our service people. Take good care of the
furry and feathered ones out there. Be safe and healthy. See ya next
time. Ever Toodles!! MONA
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