I read about this nifty trick in Cooking with Kids for Dummiesand have been using it for years. I use an egg slicer to slice up not only eggs but also pitted olives and mushrooms for our salads and strawberries for shortcake.  It is so easy I can even let my boys do it without having to worry they will cut themselves.

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I have been looking forward to Backwards Day. I have two questions:

1. How do you get sap (or maybe it is melted marshmallow) out of clothing. With my boys being active tree climbers I figure I am going to have this problem again. I pretreated it with regular stain stick and washed it and it is still there. I don't think the wash touched it at all. I obviously need to pretreat it with something else but I have no idea what will break it up.

2.I would love to hear how you organize your books. I don't like my current system ( non-fiction by broad subject and fiction all lumped together however) and want to do something different. We have so few bookcases that only about a third of my books are on shelves, the rest sit in boxes. But mostly it is how they are sorted I don't like, not necessarily how they are stored.

Look forward to all your great ideas.

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I am obsessive about washing clothes at the proper temperature. I used to wash everything in cold but then I had boys and it seems that when you have real actual dirt on the clothes it comes out better in a warm water wash. So if it is theirs and it can be washed in warm it gets washed in warm. In our bathrooms we do not have room for  multiple hampers so everything just goes in one and them I have to sort everything later.

 Instead of having to read each tab, figure out the international clothing symbols or figure out where they hid the English directions amongst 42 languages,  I have marked each tab with a "W" or a "C" for warm or cold. I use a black sharpie on most things- it is the most reliable. When I have to I use the silver but have not decided how long lasting they are yet. For jeans I also mark on the pockets. This has reduced the time it takes me to sort the clothes.

What would really work for me now is if I taught my kids how to do the laundry!!

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