Jennifer Rizzo

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Life hack:Making your house smell like cookies

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Hi everyone!Can we talk cookies?
Did you know I was a Girl Scout? And not just a join Girls Scouts of the USA for one year and drop out, but I actually went all the way through Cadette level in 7th grade (until I discovered boys.). Somewhere in a box, I have sashes full of little round badges. I tried to find some pictures, in fact I made my mom dig through all of the albums at her house to see if she could find any, but we couldn’t find one. It was kind of a bummer. Two of my girls are also Girl Scouts now and it’s kind of fun to not only see them do similar things that I did, but how much things have progressed as well. For instance, there was no computer expert badge when I was growing up. I didn’t have computers until college. Funny, ha ha… I feel really old all of a sudden.
I am glad they are a part of Girl Scouts. I think it’s such a great way for them to learn to work together, get along with others and really broaden their horizons.

I think being a Girl Scout kind of gave me the head start to think outside of the box and be a little more resourceful in solving everyday problems in my life. I find I constantly like to try to come up with alternatives to regular problems, like house smells. I cannot stand it when I walk in my house and it smells gacky. Or, if I’ve cooked something and the cooking smell hangs around too long. And I don’t always like using those plug-ins with chemicals.

Here’s where I need an easy life hack!

How to make your house smell like cookies when you're not baking

One of my favorite life hacks is making my house smell like cookies when I am not really baking. It’s so easy too!

How to make your house smell like cookies

It’s so easy and non-toxic and most of the time I already have the ingredients I need on hand, so it’s free! I take 2 cups of really hot tap water,1-2 tsp of my favorite spice, and a tsp of vanilla, mix them together and add them to my mini-crock pot.

(If I need a quick odor cover over, I’ll put them in a pan on low on the stove, but I keep an eye on them so they don’t burn)

How to make your house smell yummy like cookies

Once it warms up, the smell of baking fills the kitchen. And I can enjoy the yummy smell of baking all day long.

For different scents, you can also add any of these to the 2 C. of water:

For a more snicker-doodle smell, use straight cinnamon or cake spice. Use cinnamon, ginger and cloves for a gingerbread cookie smell.

You can also do orange peel and vanilla.

Or for a cozy, homey scent, 2 TBSP of coffee grounds and 1 tsp vanilla.

Or for a Thin Mints® scent 2 TBSP Cocoa and 1 tsp mint extract

It’s amazing how your family will walk in and ask what you are baking. 🙂

Because who doesn’t love the smell of cookies?

With two Girl Scouts in the house, when cookie time rolls around, it kind of gets whipped up into a cookie frenzy.

Between selling to our neighbors and friends and standing at the booths outside of stores… I don’t know how the troop leaders do it! Those women are amazing.

I’ve always had 2 favorites. Thin Mints® and Tagalongs®. My husband loves Samoas®, and my girls actually like Samoas® and Trefoils®, so it means we normally end up buying about 15 boxes of cookies. (Luckily we have a deep freezer, so any leftover cookies can go in there for a rainy day, though most of the time there really aren’t any left. 🙂 Especially when the kids break into my stash. ).

Thin mint Girls scout cookie creamer by Coffee-Mate

With some Girl Scout Cookies®. 🙂

Thin mints Coffee-Mate Creamer

Were you a Girl Scout? Do you have a Girl Scout in your family? I think it’s a really great experience! And I love me some Girl Scout Cookies!

 

 

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Comments

  1. [email protected] says

    Hi Jen –
    Your post put a big smile on my face this morning. 🙂 I, too was a Girl Scout until the 7th grade. I have such fond memories of all the trips we went on and things we did and made. I still have all my sashes and badges somewhere in my attic.

    About a year ago I found the Junior handbook I had at a thrift store. I snatched it right up and have it proudly displayed in my office. Looking through it was a trip down memory lane. Being a Girl Scout with a great leader truly helped me become more creative and resourceful in everything I do.

    I will be trying the vanilla and pumpkin pie mixture on my stove come fall. XO

  6. steven weber says

    I was not a girl scout, nor where my sisters..

    life hack = put saran wrap on the end of bananas to keep from getting brown.

  7. Nicole says

    My ultimate favorite life hack is freezing wet sponges in Ziploc bags to use as ice packs in my kids school lunches.

  11. Susanne says

    I WAS A GIRL SCOUT ALSO AND RAN ACROSS MY SASH AND BADGES THE OTHER DAY. I WAS ALSO A GIRL SCOUT LEADER FOR MY DAUGHTER’S TROUP. I MISS BEING A GIRL SCOUT. I LOVE YOUR BLOG

    I LIKE TO MIX WATER AND RUBBING ALCOHOL AND FREEZE IN ZIPLOCK BAGS TO HAVE AS ICE PACKS WHEN NEEDED.

    THANK YOU FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!!

  12. Ellie W says

    I keep a box of latex gloves in my pantry. They are very reasonably priced for a large box. I grab a pair and wear them whenever I handle raw meat or other messy job.

  15. Cheryl W says

    A favorite life hack of mine is to rub a block of cheese with butter before putting in back in the fridge so it will stay fresh and not get those hard edges. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter.

  18. ginette4 says

    I love to do that also..I love to use fabric softener sheets as a filter in my heat vents..makes the house smell nice when the furnace kicks in and also acts like a filter to keep the lint out of the heating ducts

  20. Gina M says

    One of my favorite life hacks is to use toilet paper rolls to bundle electrical cords.

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  24. LAMusing says

    Two stain removal tricks for really hard to remove stains: Spilled red wine? Just pour white wine on the stain while wet. It disappears! Wood stain on your hands is almost impossible to remove. Turpentine, nail polish remover, lava soAP? none of them work. What does work? Remove the wood stain from your hands with cheese. Yep, seriously – rub a piece of cheese (I used cheddar) on you hands and that wood stain comes right off!

  35. Julie Wood says

    My life hack is to reuse rain water on my plants. I have buckets in certain spots and use the rain water to water plants. Saves on water!

  39. Kerry says

    Coconut oil is my favorite life hack right now. I have been using it for so many things! My favorite is just using it to grease my pans instead of using the fake stuff in the can!

  41. shelly peterson says

    I like to use dryer sheets in drawers and linen cupboards to keep things smelling fresh.
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