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Leather purse:

Is your leather purse dirty? Apply a little olive oil and leave it on for 30 minutes. Then rub with a clean cotton cloth, the dirt will disappear.

If insects are a constant trouble for your indoor plants, soak neem leaves in hot water and leave it over night. In the morning, sprinkle some on the plants. Insects will keep distance.

Mix a handful of salt with washing powder and scrub vessels with this mixture. They will get clean and shiny.

Do food odours remain in your microwave oven or loosen the hardened food particles from the sides? Place one cup of diluted lemon juice in a glass plate. Set on High. Keep the oven on for 10 minutes or until the lemon juice comes to a boil. The steam loosens the food particles and the lemon removes the food smell.

If your vessels smell of fish or onions, wash them with water added with vinegar.

To get the needle to penetrate rough materials easily, rub the point of the needle on the fine side of an emery board.

To remove weeds that grow in between the cracks of your sidewalk or driveway: Pour boiling water from your tea kettle directly on the weeds. They`ll wither and die in a matter of day or two.

Place a tennis ball between your back and a smooth wall. Move your BODY up and down and from side to side so the ball rolls between your shoulder blades.

• To preserve green chillies, pluck its stem before storing in a refrigerator.

• To preserve bitter gourd and ridge gourd, wash, slice and smear evenly with salt. Put in a stainless steel container and refrigerate. This way, it remains fresh for more than a week.

• Use a cloth napkin to wrap ladies finger before storing in the refrigerator.

• To prevent cooking oil from going rancid, add five or six dried chillies.

• Smearing oil over chappathi or puri dough can keep it fresh for hours.

• Covering dough with a damp cotton cloth prevents it from becoming dry.

• Potato preparations can be preserved overnight by just cutting the potatoes into thick roundels and then frying and seasoning them liberally.

• To preserve atta, maida and rice, mix them well with salt.

• To prevent over-ripe tomatoes from getting spoiled, leave them in salted ice water.

• Immerse greens, with the roots intact, in cold water and store them in the refrigerator.

• Adding a little salt and then sauteing with oil, you can reuse overnight leftovers of some varieties of chutney.

• Placing charcoal cubes in your refrigerator eliminates the risk of food emanating bad odour.

• Place a little tamarind in your salt container. It absorbs moisture.

• To store pickles, use a wide-mouthed stone, ceramic or mud jar.

• If you want to preserve vegetables, immerse them in a large quantity of heavily salted, boiling water and then freeze them.If last night`s milk appears to be curdling when boiled, immediately add a little baking soda.

• Always store food containing egg in the refrigerator.

• Storing tomatoes in the deep freeze keeps them fresh for months.

• Put your bread loaves in a paper bag together with a few slices of potato. It prevents the bread from going stale for a few days.

• You can preserve green chillies for about a month by refrigerating them in a thick paper bag with a small hole punched in it.

• Add a couple of cloves to your dry fruits container. The fruits remain fresh and taste the same even after many days.

• Do you want to preserve your chilli powder? Place a piece of asafoetida in the container.