Another Old Fashioned Remedy – Using Beer, Cinnamon & Black Pepper!

Since I’ve been stuck in the home on my Coronavirus Blues vacation, I have a lot of time on my hands to rummage through things I have collected over the years.  Old tidbits of news, letters, notes, books and those oddities you just can’t let go of.

For example, I’ve found notes my mother have written to me on just about every subject under the sun even beer, cinnamon and black pepper. Yes, there are many uses for these three items. Let’s look at what you can do with beer first.

Did you know that beer us made up of ingredients that can enrich your garden soil? Yes, it is. Just mix a several tablespoons of beer into your garden soil, do this by mixing the beer into water that you pour onto your soil. This will give your plants a boost. Also adding beer to your compost starter has boosting benefits too, the yeast and sugar in beer adds beneficial bacteria to compose.

Do you have a problem with bees in your garden or yard?  You can create a bee trap by punching a series of small holes (big enough for a bee to get in about 3/8-inch-wide) in a lid of an old glass jar. The fill the glass jar with one half beer, screw on the top and place the jar in the yard where you’ve seen bees. The bees will be attracted to the beer, crawl into the hole and can’t get out.

Having a backyard party and want to eliminate bees? Just place a few open cans around the perimeter of your yard. And woola! Bees be gone!

Don’t you just love the smell of Cinnamon?  Bet you didn’t know your neighbors’ cat and dogs don’t. Yup!  Do you want to keep your neighbors’ cat or dog out of your yard?  Just sprinkle some cinnamon around the perimeter of your yard every week.

And if you love the great smell of Cinnamon, freshen up you home with Cinnamon, by putting Cinnamon sticks in your vacuum bag before vacuuming.

Black pepper also works to keep neighborhood dogs and cats out of your yard. And it works to keep away rabbits, squirrels and raccoons away.  So, if raccoons are bothering your garbage cans just sprinkle black pepper around your garbage cans to keep them out.

Black pepper also works to keep away ants.

There you have it. Old fashioned remedies for using beer, cinnamon, and black pepper.  I bet you’ll never look at these three items the same again.

 

 

Old Fashioned Remedies that still work today! Use Steam to Clear Sinus!

My mother used to have a ton of old-fashioned remedies. I remember many of them well to this day. She had remedies for acne, stomach cramps, even diarrhea.

One of her best ones was what to do, when you were suffering from seasonal hay fever, or a stuffy nose from a head cold.

My mother would boil a pot of water on the stove and then pour the hot water carefully into an extra-large bowl, placed safely on a table.  She would then drop in a few drops of eucalyptus oil, or pine oil or even tea tree oil into the bowl, placed on the table.  Next she would then use an extra-large dry towel, that she would then drape over the head of the congested person and have them lean their face over the bowl of water at least 12 inches away from it, being “very careful not to burn themselves on the hot bowl and have them breathe through their nose.

Not only was this technique great from relieving a stuffy nose or hay fever it was also a great way to get a facial. 

Yes, it would seem “Mother” was way ahead of her time and she did know a thing or two.  Whether you need to clear your sinuses or get a great facial this Mother knows best remedy is a must try.

 

 

Staying Fit/Exercising During Coronavirus Vacation!

vacation we’ve got time. So, let’s get started.

It has been proven that regular exercise can reduce health problems, even chronic pain, and stress.

First off, check with your doctor to make sure it is safe for you to start exercising. After that begin your exercise routine with clear, achievable goals. What are clear achievable goals?  Well if you have never exercise before, start with the basic.  Walking. Yes, walking is a exercise and it’s achievable.

Walking as exercise.

Start by walking around the block, down the street to a familiar place maybe your corner store, or some other safe place and back.

If you can’t walk outside or want to stay safe inside consider going to YouTube on your cell phone, table, or TV.  There are a number of 15-minute beginning walking videos out there on YouTube.

Here is a video on the benefits of walking that will explain to you what will happen once you start walking your body each day by five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and so on. You get my point. Check it out here.  https://youtu.be/A7vk13pOn4s

 

Now, a little about my personal walking experience. I started out over a year ago doing “Walk At Home by Leslie Sansone, on YouTube.” I started with her ten-minute walk. After three weeks I worked up to her twenty-minute walk and now I do her fast thirty-minute walk every other day and ride my stationary bike five miles the other days.

So, what am I saying? Walking is exercise and it’s doable. The benefits are worth trying it out. So, I’m saying if you have ten-minutes each day and you don’t want to leave the house, especially since Coronavirus, why not start with a Walk At Home by Leslie Sansone, on YouTube.  Here are a couple of her videos to try https://youtu.be/tVpUCkMLgms

https://youtu.be/TJLKgWsS7vw

Now, let’s get started getting healthy walking and getting us some Happy while we wait out our coronavirus vacation. 

Let’s “Self” Pamper Ourselves During Our Coronavirus Vacation!

Let’s “Self” Pamper Ourselves During Our Coronavirus Vacation!

Remember my earlier article about having a lot of time on our hands during our Coronavirus Blues vacation? Well, I had a thought… Wait for it!  Here it comes.

Why not do some self-pampering, since we cannot go to the nail salon, why not pamper our hands and nails at home?

Our hands are in and out of water constantly with our need to now wash our hands after just about everything we do. As we are all coming to learn hand sanitizers have a lot of alcohol and can make hands dry and chapped.   Even if you buy the hand sanitizer with moisturizer, your hands may still become dry and chapped.

Leading doctors say if you have really dry hands you should wear gloves when doing dishes or cleaning.

Let’s suppose we’ve done all of that what next?

Well, my grandmother and mother would say I should put Vaseline on my hands, and cover them with gloves, when I go to bed or have some free time in the day. And guess what their remedy works.

In her autobiography “Doris Day: Her Own Story,” Doris Day said that once a month she would cover her body with Vaseline before she went to bed to soften her skin. She would wear gloves, sock and pajamas that would make sure the Vaseline stayed on her skin and didn't get all over her bed.

So what’s my self-pampering tip for hands (and feet for those of us who need it.) is to put some Vaseline on your hands, giving extra care and attention to your cuticles and then cover your hands with gloves.  Before you know it

Your hands will be back to being soft.

https://medium.com/@jerreecejackson/lets-self-pamper-ourselves-during-our-coronavirus-vacation-cf5689df0ce3

How to Stay Optimistic During Coronavirus Blues!

Have you ever heard staying optimistic can improve your health? Well studies show that it can. Don’t believe me? Just “Google” it. With that said the good news is that studies have proven that when you stay optimistic you can make your immune system stronger, thus decreasing your chance at getting a disease and you can even improve your health and help yourself live longer.

So, how do you become optimistic? Well, just like most things, like learning to play a piano, or playing cards, or playing chess, just like you can learn anyone of those things to do, you can learn, to be optimistic.

How do you do this? Well, of course, you can take the self-help #Free approached and google technics on how to become optimistic, online, or you can read a book. One book that comes to mind is "Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life" by Dr. Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist.

But if you are still straddling the fence with the self-help thing, just visit one of the many sites out there on the world wide web, with articles on the subject of how to become optimistic, one that I like can be found at this link. https://www.positivityblog.com/how-to-stay-positive/

And finally, most importantly always find the optimistic viewpoint in every negative situation., this will always be your first step on learning how to stay optimistic in any situation.

Now that you know, start today on staying optimistic during the Coronavirus Blues. We can and will make it through this.

Stress Management Tips For The Coronavirus Blues!

During our Coronavirus Vacation we must modify our behavior to make it easier to get through the Coronavirus Blues. Here are a few tips to help you do so.

1. When the Coronavirus Blues hit you, you need to do some positive talk, to yourself. What is positive talk? Well it’s when you say something “positive” to yourself to make yourself feel better.

Positive self-talk has been defined as when you make yourself feel good about yourself and the things that are going on in your life. It's like having an optimistic voice in your head that always looks on the bright side.

2. Visualize your positive results. When something happens that you don’t want to happen instead of holding on to it, stop and take 60 seconds to visualize what you do want and focus on that positive thought.

3. Take Time out. When bad thoughts appear take time out to make yourself feel important. Feel like you matter. This will aid in helping you change the outlook or outcome of something negative.

4. Exercise. Doing this takes your mind off the bad thought and it relieves tension. Exercising can also release endorphins that can help your well-being.

5. Don’t dwell in the past. Let go of past hurts that are holding you back from living in the moment and staying positive.

Some examples of positive self-talk: Saying things to yourself like “There’s nothing I can’t do, nothing I can have, nothing I can’t be! I am far more than I think I am. I am divinely connected with the infinite power of the universe. I can do it. I’m good enough just as I am. If I want to, I can, it’s okay if I make a mistake. It doesn’t matter if I make a mistake. Etc. Etc.

Benefits of positive self-talk one, is that it can give y ou a more optimistic outlook on life and two, it has other health benefits, including increased vitality. greater life satisfaction. improved immune function. Try some of these tips the next time the Coronavirus Blues slips up beside you and try and make your day. hour, or minute a bad one. Only you can banish the Coronavirus Blues and get happy!

Come on let’s all get happy!

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