Nude Food - How Rude!

Take one Milk Carton, a craft knife and a velcro dot . . . 5 minutes later you have a food carrier to stop your precious grapes getting squished.

Fleas, Expensive Treatment and Spinosad

UPDATE: The natural way wasn't successful for us so I now buy Comfortis online via www.vetproductsdirect.com.auand give her a tablet every few months. works great. Doggy took some time to adjust but skin rash is now cleared up.

My neighbour borrowed my old, overweight and arthritic dog to deal to his rat problem. You should see her go, 5 rats in 2 days. Unfortunately she also brought back some backpackers from his unkempt and overgrown garden. So the vet sold me one tablet of Comfortis 18kg for $23 and said the fleas will drop off within 1/2 hour. Active ingredient is spinosad, which is a naturally occurring bacteria. They sure did hop off. On to me and the rest of the house. EEEK.

The next morning and the scratching is worse than before. Am going to wash her bedding in hot water and tea\ tree and leave it in the sun for the day to kill eggs and larvae. My house is now a lavender house after spraying every surface with a weak soluton. My poor dog is allergic to the flea bites so am spraying her with lavender too and using paw paw cream to ease her troubles.

Additional Info: Look up Spinosad  in Wikipedia and the blog NATURAL WAYS TO GET RID OF FLEAS.  This is a light infestation, for more serious ones of if the natural way doesn't work work with your vet and pest terminator before it gets out of control.

Life Hacks by Green Cleaning

Some everyday problems can be solved with forehead slapping ease. All it takes is an identified need, the ingenuity of a child, re-purposed items and a few simple tools. My dad is a fantastic problem solver and a re-user of objects. With a family of 10 to shelter, feed and support, he and my mum always had big ideas and limited resources.

My baby daughter was having a hard time breathing, we spent some time in her little tent with eucalyptus steaming in a bucket of boiling water. That helped a bit. Having looked at $35 asthma inhaler (puffer) spacers in the chemist, it struck me that they were the same shape as a water bottle. I McGuiver'd hubby's inhaler to a 600ml water bottle (with the bottom cut off) with some duct tape and held it in front of her face, it helped big time.

After a bit of a google investigation, I found some other references that people have been making home-made spacers since puffers were invented. Various objects such as toilet paper tubes, and card board boxes have been applied as spacers. 

The pinterest board; Life Hacks by Green Cleaning is a tribute to my parents life lessons of thinking outside the box. Some of these new applications for old things might get you out of a jam someday, as they did me.

Great minds think alike:

Homemade Asthma Nebulizer: A New Use for Recycled Water Bottles - Rod Moser, PA, PhD

(NOTE: Don't diagnose via Dr. Google and never give prescription medicine to anyone without first checking with a doctor or health hotline.)

Welcome new likers from Narangba Mums. For me, cleaning is about killing virus and bacteria cells as well as spores and creating a hostile environment for their colonisation. If you click on the 'Notes' you'll see the main cleaning recipes and ideas. There is not much to it.  I love Shannon Lush and hate the marketing messages given out by the big companies (even the green products) that you housewives who care douse their houses, kids and pets in chemicals so that they'll be a blue white and germless.

If you have any specific situations you need help with please post.