Problem: Article: Gnats can often be a problem while you are inside. If they are in your house, make sure that you close all your doors and windows.  Seal any unnecessary openings. If necessary, use tape or chalk to close gaps under door frames or around window edges. You can use silicone caulk to seal cracks and crevices in baseboards, cupboards, sinks, electrical outlets and so on.  You may want to buy a caulking gun to make this process easier. Install screens on the outside of your windows, doors, and heating and cooling vents that are small enough that gnats can not get through. Charcoal fiberglass screens work best.   Remove anything around the exterior that may attract gnats. Stacked firewood, leaves, debris, garbage, and standing water can all attract gnats. Keep these at least 18 inches from the exterior of the house. Loose garden netting can be used to cover an outdoor dinner table or a camping tent. Or you can buy removable screens to cover porch or deck areas. use staples or splines to keep them in place. A good short-term solution is to keep air circulating in the area where you are. Fans will drive gnats away, and the airflow prevents them from landing on and biting you. This is a good short-term solution for either indoors or outdoors. A variety of common garden plants and flowers contain elements that are likely to repel gnats. These include geraniums, lemon thyme, lavender, and Mexican marigolds.  Geranium flowers contain citronella, which appears to strongly repel gnats and is a common ingredient in commercial repellents. Grow geraniums in hanging planters on your porch or patio to repel gnats.  Lemon thyme is a perennial herb with leaves that contain citronella. You can grow it in your garden in the sun. Lavender has a scent that is pleasant to humans but very unpleasant to gnats. You can grow in the ground or in a pot. Mexican marigolds have a musty smell the drives away gnats and other flying insects. Grow in your garden in full sunlight.
Summary: Seal off your house. Place nets over outdoor or exterior areas. Drive gnats away with fans. Grow plants that repel gnats.

Problem: Article: As mentioned in the introduction, there are plenty of alternate ways of getting somewhere. Think about whether it might be possible to walk, bike, or take a bus, train, cab, or rideshare. If none of these options are available to you, or they would require unreasonable hardship, then you might consider asking someone for a lift.  A good rule of thumb when asking someone a favor is to make sure that the benefit to you significantly outweighs the inconvenience it might cause the other person. While whether or not someone owns or has easy access to a car is the first thing you should consider when deciding to ask for a ride, don’t make assumptions about their availability or willingness. Even if they’ve given you a ride once, twice, or a hundred times before, don’t take it for granted that they’ll be able to help you every time you need to get somewhere. If you have a relationship with someone where you’re already in the practice of regularly doing favors for each other, such as those that are common between family members, romantic partners, or close friends, this is ideal. Otherwise, consider who might be least inconvenienced by your request.  If you need a ride home from work, consider asking the coworker that you know drives by your street every day, anyway. Or if you are going to dinner with a group of friends, maybe ask the friend that lives closest to you for a lift to the restaurant. Make sure you consider lifestyle factors, too. If you have a friend with two small children, or who’s been working a lot of overtime lately, they will likely need to be more conservative with their extra time and energy than your friend who teaches guitar lessons three afternoons a week and still lives with his parents. If your cousin wakes up early every morning for her job, you probably don’t want to ask her for a ride to the airport to catch your red eye flight. Or a friend who works as a bartender probably won’t be very excited about bringing you to pick up your car from the body shop at seven a.m. on a Saturday. It’s extremely important that you know the other person well enough to be sure you feel safe spending time alone with them. It’s never a good idea to get into a car with a near-stranger, or someone with whom you don’t feel comfortable.
Summary: Make sure you’ve first considered other options. Don’t assume that just because someone has a car, they can give you a ride. Decide whom you’ll ask.

Problem: Article: Buy a shower curtain at a dollar store that you can throw away after the holiday. Use red paint to make a few handprints on it. Let some of the paint drip down the curtain and make some other smudges.  It is probably best to do this outside on the grass or in the garage. You don’t want to smear the paint around too much or it will start to look like just a blob of red. Let the curtain dry completely before you hang it up in your shower. Hang it so the painted side is facing inward. Using some washable red paint, or lipstick, scrawl a warning across your mirror. Writing “you’re next” or “Red Rum” are classic horror phrases. You can splatter some other paint onto the mirror or makes streaks around the words. An added scare tactic that uses the mirror is to hang a creepy picture on the wall that faces the mirror. Position it in such a way that when people look in the mirror they can see the picture right behind them. You can throw a cheap rug down and make “bloody” footprints that lead out the door. If you don’t mind getting the floor messy, you can make footprints on the floor as well. Be sure that whatever you use to make the footprints is washable. Another option is to make handprints that look as if someone crawled away. You can smear some paint along with the handprints as if the person was dragging their body away.
Summary: Smear a cheap shower curtain with red paint. Make the mirror a warning. Turn the floor into an escape trail.

Problem: Article: If your doll gets dirty, do not put it in the bathtub. Instead, use baking soda. Use a damp washcloth and rub on the powder. Then use a dry towel to wipe it all off.[citation needed] Undress your doll. Take a baby wipe, and put some disinfecting hand sanitizer on it. Rub it in, then rub this wipe all over your doll until she is slightly wet all over. Let her dry (it should only take a few minutes) then dress her.
Summary:
Clean the doll. If the doll came from a thrift store and you want to disinfect her (you never know how much dirt and baby slobber could have gotten on her), try this trick.