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How to easily dispose of drained grease

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Grease Monkey! Raise your hand if you're guilty of draining ground beef right down the sink drain. Shame on you! Just kidding, we've all done it.  My husband is a civil engineer but he does have a concentration in environmental engineering and he has spent a fair amount of time down in man holes for work. He said you would be so grossed out by what you see down there-- what people flush and rinse down drains. I don't even want to know. I do know this: there's a reason why your town/city instruct you not to pour grease down drain. It's bad for the environment and your home's drain. So after years of trial and error, I've found the best way (for me) to drain ground beef and dispose of it… and it doesn't involve me sliding on my flops and trekking out to the edge of the field in the middle of the dark night to pour it out either. Some suggest draining in aluminum foil bowls then letting it sit overnight to congeal. I used to do that bu...

How to catch (and kill) fruit flies

Fruit Flies Suck I cannot figure out why those tiny flying annoyances are still around in the middle of autumn but they are. I even quit buying bananas because I store mine on the counter and not in the fridge like some do. Those little flying bastards were everywhere… including on and around the baby's clean sippy cups, spoons, and pi-pis. Not cool. First I tried the banana peel in a bowl with plastic wrap covering the top, poked full of holes. That seemed to trap them but then when it came time to empty the bowl due to the rotting banana peel, I had no choice but to take it outside and "free" them.  More research led me to discover, YET AGAIN, the power of VINEGAR!! Here goes: - a plastic cup - dish detergent - vinegar (I had success with red wine and distilled) Squirt a small amount of dish soap into the cup, pour in about 1/4 cup of vinegar in the cup, then add in tap water quickly so it produces lots of bubbles. Sit the cup in a high-traffic ...