Sneezing Squirrels: How to Keep Squirrels Out of Your Plants

Hachooo! It's the old Cayenne Pepper trick. Lindy Lou received an anonymous tip about squirrel repellent. A kind and thoughtful way to keep squirrels away that won't hurt the furry little rodents, won't hurt your furry little pets, won't hurt your plants, and doesn't require huge payments to pest-ridder-people. Not toxic, and kind of fun. Fun? Why yes, what could be more fun than watching a squirrel sneeze? Train a camera on the sucker. Because let's face it, if you can get a video of squirrels sneezing, it will go viral on YouTube in seconds. So Pepper up! .

Lindy Lou would never suggest anything that would poison or trap these adorable creatures who like to get up in your attic and have generation after generation of babies who then have generation after generation of babies, who make scritch-scritch-scritch sounds in your walls while you're trying to sleep--- but couldn't we just annoy them? Annoy the brazen little darlings who also like to make chitter-chitter noises just outside the reach of your dog so that he will bark maniacally all day?

Actually, they won't stick around to be annoyed, they will just flee, according to the pepper experts.

Free bonus handy homemaker tip: No Nuke Pizza

Don't you just hate leftover pizza with soggy crust and gluey cheese? No? Well, then skip to the next tip. But if yes, just put the pizza in a non stick skillet on medium setting and heat till it warms. The crust will stay crisp. Of course, you could also do it in the oven, but that takes longer, and besides you're probably using your oven for storage. That's what we do in Tinyville, and once while preheating the oven for actual food preparation, a stored plastic bag of marshmallows became a glutenous frisby-like mass. And you don't want to know what it does to pork rinds.

Free bonus handy homemaker tip#2: End static cling.

Just pin a safety pin to the seam of your slip to end static cling.

You probably don't want your clothes outlining every cranny and bulge on your body, and making that horrid crackling sound when you try to yank it free. Same thing works when you wear slacks over pantyhose or long socks.(Does anybody do that?) Just place the pin in the seam of the pants - on the inside please. And voila your crannies and bulges are your little secret. Maybe not so little.

Handy Homemaker Offer: Your Name in Print.

To see your name in print send your own Handy Homemaker Tip to Lindy Lou on her AC profile page and I will try to use it in a future article. We are just flinging Handy Homemaker tips around here like crazy, and we're bound to drop some. Or run out.