What can onions do for you?

For trouble with sleeping a raw onion eaten before retiring has been found to have beneficial properties.
This belief goes back several centuries.

Onion syrup is supposed to be the best treatment for severe colds. Peel and slice an onion, sift sugar over it and let it stand in a warm place until the sugar draws the juice out. Take a teaspoon as needed.

Bathe burns in onion juice. The juice is suppose to take away the heat of scalding with water or oil.

Keeping mint handy and mints healing properties

To keep young leaves on spearmint all summer long cut down some advanced stalks every month.
New shoots will spring forth.

It's has been long held that mint was an herb that was useful for all disorders of the stomach from
loss of appetite, and pain, to vomiting.

Use for Hyssop

Hyssop has long been noted for its healing of fresh wounds or cuts by having it's leaves bruised and applied
to th wound. A little sugar maybe added to this poultice. I've never tried this but it sounds very interesting.

Eliminate Crayon marks

To remove crayon marks simply put toothpaste (not gel) on a sponge and rub it over the marks.
It removes the marks without having to buy a more expensive eraser type product.

Vinegar for odor and mildew control

To remove airborne odors soak a kitchen rag in vinegar and wave it around the house.
Vinegar actually absorbs the odor, not just covering it up.

To remove mildew especially the king tat forms around the refrigerator door rub the
suspected mildew with vinegar.

Lemon the natural cleaner

To clean you kitchen sinks and countertops:
Cut a lemon in half and use the open face as you scrub pad. You can even use salt, borax, or baking soda
as an abrasive for hard to remove spots. (Don't use this on stone surfaces as the acid can damage the stone.)

To make your garbage disposal smell cleaner run the disposal with lemon peels in it.

Household odor remover

To get rid of cooked fish odor simply do the following:
Boil 3 tablespoons of white vinegar in 1 cup of water while
your cooking the fish or any item with a strong odor. You can
also put out a couple of bowls of vinegar with about a 1/2 in
each.