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"Thanks to Bev's recipe for cleaning my clothes washer I thought maybe someone would also enjoy a shiny clean dish washer!"

Ingredients: bleach, vinegar...

"This is a very cheap way to make wipes to use around your home. Great for the pocketbook!"

Ingredients: paper towels, bath soap...

"Play clay that's smooth, silky and feels really good in your hands! Easy to work with. Dries hard overnight to a pearly porcelain like finish that has a soft shimmer! Great for making gifts! Roll out and use cookie cutters (use a straw to poke a hole in the top) to make Christmas ornaments!"

Ingredients: cornstarch, food coloring...

"This cleaner is great. I use it for everything. Laundry (1/2 cup per load) Dishes (a squirt in the sink) Dishwashers (in the prewash only)Bathroom. It is a combination of many recipies for laundry soap I have discovered on the web, but it will clean everything! One batch will last a long time and will cost way less than $1.

I just discovered..."

Ingredients: borax, washing soda, soap bars...

"I got this recipe from FamilyFun magazine and have used it on numerous craft products. The texture is so smooth, totally non-toxic, and not sticky like other papier mache recipes."

Ingredients: newspaper, sugar, water...

"I found this recipe on a website called squiglysplayhouse.com while I was trying to help my kids with a school project. We were trying to create a medieval church. It is a simple recipe that takes very little time and costs a lot less to make than buying modelling clay."

Ingredients: table salt, vegetable oil...

"Save slivers of soap to use in this easy liquid soap recipe."

Ingredients: bath soap, boiling water...

"This is a wonderful way to remove stains from the kettle. A good trick I learnt from the Asian Age newspaper."

Ingredients: water, white vinegar...

"Embarrassingly easy.You can use fresh mint by all means,I prefer to use dried because I think the tea comes out stronger.
Not just for upset stomachs,this is a really refreshing tea with a spicy-fresh flavor that I like to drink anytime it's cold outside.
This is another good tea for when you have a cold;and of course it's good for..."

Ingredients: fresh ginger, fresh mint leaves...

"We have a fireplace with glass doors. "How beautiful!" we thought when we bought the place. It didn't take long to figure out it was a curse rather than a blessing. They fog over with only one fire and within a week can be black and opaque. We tried many different techniques and even resorted to scraping it with a razor blade at times...."

Ingredients: wood ash, cleaner, water...

"We probably all did a version of this when we were younger - heated up old crayons to make new (the same way many of our mothers saved up the bits of old soap to make new!). All you need for this 'recipe' is all your old bits of crayon, a baking tray & a selection of small metal cookie cutters. I like the petit four / 1" size in particular...."

Ingredients: cookie cutters, wax crayons...

"This is one of my most "precious" recipes that I am so proud to be sharing with my friends on Zaar and the rest of the world. This recipe was born on the 23rd of February at close to midnight(isn't that somethin'!). It just happened that my kitchen was sparkling clean, but I had several of these horrible grease marks all over my cooking..."

Ingredients: borax, rubbing alcohol...

"I've been using this for years on my fruit trees, and it hasn't failed me in this deer-infested area of Western Pennsylvania. As an added bonus, the garlic helps repel insect pests."

Ingredients: soap bars, water...

"Easy, inexpensive and effective!"

Ingredients: ice cubes, sea salt, water...