How To Get Rid Of Bad Smells On Your Hands

When cutting onions or cleaning fish, our hands can take on the odor and it is difficult to get rid of. No amount of hand soap can remove the smell. It will be worse if you are expecting guests in your home. Imagine having to shake their hands with your smelly ones. Here are some simple techniques that you can use to help you overcome the odor on your hands.

Stainless Steel Items

Gathering from the people with kitchen wisdom, I have discovered that stainless steel utensils have a way in removing smells and odors caused by garlic, onions or even fish. When you wash your hands, just rub them on a stainless steel object while water runs over your hands. 

In some countries, shops carry stainless steel soaps. The so-called 'soap' is just a chunk of stainless steel that shaped like a bar of soap. A stainless steel butter knife or spoon is just as effective. I don't know why stainless steel can remove the smell. Maybe some of the readers with scientific ideas can write and inform me. It may have to do with some chemical reactions so much so that the molecules in the stainless steel reacts with the smell. 

Ground Coffee Beans

Some perfume stores provide ground coffee beans to remove the scents from the hands of the customers, after they have tested the perfume samples. Keep some ground coffee beans in the chiller. You can use them whenever you need to remove some serious odors. Rub your hands with the ground coffee beans and then rinse with soap and water.

Lemons and Limes

After you have squeezed the lemon or lime and use the juice for cooking or drinking, you can still use the skins. There is enough juice left in the skins to make an effective odor remover.  Use the skin to rub over your hands and rinse off. The smell of garlic, onion or fish will be gone.

Salt

A tablespoon of table salt can work wonder on your smelly hand. Put a little water or dish washing fluid and work the table salt into a paste. Then use the paste to rub in between your fingers and other parts of the hands. The salt will not only take away the smell but also exfoliate your skins and making your skin softer.

Baking Powder

Put two tablespoons of baking powder into a glass of water and stir. Soak your smelly hands, one by one, for half-a-minute. This simple approach should remove garlic, onion or fish odors.

Tomato Juice

In some countries, people use tomato juice to remove stench caused by skunks. When you do not have other odor-removing items, you may want to try tomato juice.

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Lessons of a Househusband

By Rholan Wong

Daily life had pulled an unexpected turn at the Wong household. Like an increasing number of men, I found myself, unexpectedly, without a job. Well, that’s not exactly right. Actually, while my wife, Debbie, spent her days as a social worker, I suddenly had two jobs: part-time freelance writer and full-time househusband for Derek, our 4-year-old son.

Let’s just cut to the chase: This stay-at-home fathering business is difficult stuff! Whenever Debbie or other women used to mention how hard it is to be a housewife, I would always nod my head in sympathy and mouth politically correct statements. But what I really was thinking was, Aw, c’mon. You should have a real job like mine, with unreasonable deadlines, repetitive tasks and tyrannical bosses. What I didn't know was:

1. It’s the toughest job you’ll ever have. Now I know that no deadline is as inflexible as a child’s cry for breakfast, lunch or dinner; that the cooking—to say nothing of cleaning and washing—must be done over and over and over; and that a child can be the most demanding tyrant of all.

I never realized how much work it takes to keep a house running. The first few weeks at home, I was amazed that shopping, cooking and cleaning up for three meals could take the whole day. However, the household chores have been the easy part. The heavier burden—by far—has been entertaining, educating and disciplining my son.

Part of that burden is that I can never let my attention wane. I always have to keep up with a boy who has unlocked the mystery of perpetual motion. At any given moment he may be about to eat a spider or throw a book through a window.

Even harder is the emotional toll. I incessantly feel that I’m not doing enough for Derek. Yes, I may be giving him the right things to eat, but am I giving him the educational stimulation he needs? Is he watching too much TV? Am I giving him enough opportunities to play outside? Are his playtimes fostering an active imagination and developing his motor skills? Am I giving him enough time with other kids so that he’s learning social skills? Will those friends be a good or bad influence?

And much more crucial than always looking out for Derek is having to look at myself. I am to examine everything I do around him, because he is also studying me and will surely mirror my slightest misbehavior. For instance, I was a TV sports addict until I heard Derek say he couldn’t talk to me because he would miss one of his cartoons.

Dealing with all these physical and emotional burdens takes a lot of time, which brings me to my next lesson:

2. “Quality Time” is a myth. If I want a relationship with Derek, I have to put in the hours. If I don’t, I miss out on my son’s life. One example: While I was still at my old job, I came home late on Friday night after a week with especially long hours.

Derek greeted me at the front door with a detailed account of what he and his mom had done that day. As he told me about the four different places they had gone to and what they had seen, I realized that I did not know my son had developed the sophisticated abilities to remember and relate personal experiences.

More time has given me not just a chance to catch up on the facts of Derek’s growth, but it’s also given me a deeper, richer relationship with my son. 

Derek intentionally misbehaved at a church picnic, and I punished him. In the past, such discipline meant I got at least a few hours—and possibly a half-day—of the cold-shoulder treatment. This time, after about five minutes, he walked up to me, plopped down on my lap and freely laid his head back on my chest.

I wondered what had opened Derek’s heart to me. I hadn’t been giving him more presents, as our reduced income eliminated most trips to the toy store. Truth is, I had changed my behavior in only one way: more time with him at home.

Looking back now, I realize I bought into the notion that the quality of my time with Derek could make up for the quantity. However, I made no such assumption in other areas of my life. When I went out to dinner with Debbie, I made sure we could linger at the restaurant as long as we wanted. When I wanted to become a better jazz pianist, I practiced more. And I never told my boss that I would leave work early because the morning had given me enough “quality time.”

Of course, spending more time with Derek leaves less time for other parts of my life, but I don’t mind it at all because:

3. Being a househusband is worth it. One of the most demanding jobs in the world is also one of the most rewarding. I’ve always loved my son, but he has thrown me hopelessly, uncontrollably, head-over-heels in love with him.

Unfortunately, my time at home ended. My family needed the extra money and security that a steady job provides, and I genuinely enjoyed my career. 

But for as long as my period of unemployment lasted, I was thankful to God for turning the heart of this father toward his son and giving me more time to play catch with my boy, push him on the swing, read to him, take him to the doctor when he’s sick, and pray with him during the day.

Yes, it is hard for a man to be a stay-at-home parent, especially in a society where it goes against the grain. But I wouldn’t have traded this experience for anything.

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Source of article: http://newmanmag.com/e-magazine/091009/story2.php

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Plan Your Major Cleaning Day

You have to clean and I have to clean. Instead of working ourselves to death, we can clean by bite sizes. Most new homemakers find cleaning the whole house very intimidating. The truth of the matter is that you should have no fear. When you draw up a timetable, suddenly all the chores become manageable.

The key is to allocate one or two tasks a day. Not three or four because that will give you 'work-phobia'. Instead of loving your home, you will start to become afraid of it. A home becomes the source of nasty cleaning experiences.

Here are some of the daily cleaning jobs

1. Toilets and bathrooms- clean the toilet bowls and wipe the bathroom sinks

2. Keep the kitchen clean by wiping the surfaces. Do not leave dirty dishes in the sink overnight. That will be a sure way to attract unwelcome pests such as cockroaches and mice.

3. Sweep non-carpeted areas and keep them free of dust and trash.

Here are some of the weekly cleaning jobs

1. Vacuuming and  dusting are to be done once a week. 

2. You do not need to do all these in one day but spread them out to different days. You may clean the bedrooms on a weekday and the larger living room and dining room on the weekend.

Step-by-Step

1. Solicit the help of your family members

2. Schedule the cleaning time - specify a duration so that the people who are helping you can plan their day too

3. Make a timetable or work schedule

4. Create job assignments if you have more than one family member to help you

5. Handle one or two projects a day

6. Be sure to prepare all cleaning tools and agents beforehand

7. Check whether the vacuum cleaner is emptied of the previous load of rubbish

Before you go to work in the morning, you can get a few simple cleaning chores done. Then you return home in the evening, you will have a clean home waiting for you. Kool eh?

Ten-Minute Cleaning

Most of us are busy people. Whether we have full-time jobs outside or are home-makers, there is always a shortage of time. 

Take a few minutes to tidy up the rooms. Take a used plastic grocery bag and collect all the stray items so that you can later put them in their proper places. 

Empty the wastepaper baskets and trash bins by putting all the contents in another used plastic bag. Avoid using brand-new trash bag if you have used plastic bags to use.


Gather cups and mugs to the kitchen and be sure to wipe the stains off the table. You may place the cups and mugs in the sink to be washed later. 

The house will immediately look tidy, nice and clean.