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Baking Soda |
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Metal Bracket |
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Brown Paper Bag |
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Firewood |
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| As it gets colder, a cozy fire makes for a relaxing evening. Well, I have some tips to prepare your fireplace. |
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Fireplace doors a little grungy and soot stained? Dip a damp cloth in your fireplace ashes and scrub the inside of the doors with a circular motion. It'll polish away the soot! When you can see them coming clean, wipe the doors with a damp cloth! |
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Keep a box of baking soda near the fireplace. It serves two functions: you can use it to smother out of control flames or settle hot coals, and you can absorb excess odors between fires by setting a metal bracket filled with a little baking soda on the grate. |
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If you hate the trail of bark and dirt that your firewood leaves on your floors and clothes when you transport it, try this: Build your "fire" in a brown paper bag, put some crumpled paper in the bottom, follow that up with some kindling, some more paper and then a few logs; then curl up the top to seal the bag. As you carry your ready-made fire inside you won't leave any mess on your way and you can simply set the bag on the fire grate and light the bag!
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