Tuesday Tip

Buy a paint scraper. One of those things you use to scrape the paint off glass without scratching it. They all seem to be yellow and have a plastic handle with a really sharp blade fitted to the base. Apart from cleaning off paint and varnish this little goodie cleans lots of stuff. Use it to clean the oven window when you get those pesky fat dots, labels off furniture - very carefully otherwise the wood comes off as well and really just about any seemingly un removeable (?) sticker or splash. DO NOT USE IT ON YOUR SELF CLEANING OVEN. But of course you'll use your common sense.