Thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water before preparing the drink. Make sure you have a clean pitcher or bottle ready. To make your own ORS solution, you’ll need:  table salt (such as Kosher salt, iodized salt or sea salt) clean water granulated or powdered sugar Add a half-teaspoon of table salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar into a clean container. You can use granulated or powdered sugar. If you don't have a teaspoon to measure, you can use a fistful scoop of sugar and a three-finger pinch of salt. But, this is not accurate and is not recommended. If you cannot measure out a liter, add about 4¼ cups of water (each cup is about 237 ml). Only use clean water. The water can be bottled water or recently boiled and cooled water. Be sure to only use water. Milk, soup, fruit juice or soft drinks cannot be used since they will make the ORS ineffective. Don't add any extra sugar. Use a spoon or whisk to mix the ORS powder into the water. After a minute or so of vigorous stirring, the solution should be completely dissolved. Now, it is ready to drink. ORS solution can be refrigerated for 24 hours. Do not store it any longer.
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One-sentence summary -- Wash your hands. Gather the ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients. Add one liter of clean drinking water. Stir well and drink.


Find a place in your house that you would like to use to create your secret room. You can use existing space and create a hidden entrance, or you can create a new room in unfinished space. Walk through your house and pick a place where you can install a new door or wall to create a secret space.  A large closet is a good option for a hidden room. Dividing a room in half with a new wall containing a hidden door can create a secret space. Wall off unfinished space to create a hidden hiding place behind the wall. The most important part of a secret room is the doorway. The entrance to your room should not look like a doorway, or people will know that there is a room beyond the door. Doors can be hidden in the woodwork or disguised as a piece of furniture. When building a secret room, the door will make or break your secret.  A bookshelf on a hinge and rollers can easily conceal an entryway. Wood paneling can mask doors although the edge of the door can sometimes give away its location. Stairs can be built with a hinge to raise up and reveal another set of stairs leading down to a hidden basement room. Before attempting to install a secret doorway, make a plan detailing how your finished door will look. When designing your doorway make sure you consider the hardware that will make the door functional.  Consider how to conceal the hinge of the door. A hinge door that opens into the secret space is easier to conceal than a hinge on a door that swings out. The latch must be secure to keep the door from opening accidentally. Decide how to open the secret door from the outside. A wire that extends from the latch on the inside to a disguised triggering mechanism outside the door can do the trick. Build a door frame using 2x4s Measure the height and width of the doorway and cut 2x4s with a circular saw to frame the outer edge of the doorway. Using a drill and a chisel, create a cutout in the wood to mount the hinges for your door. If using a bookshelf for a doorway, you will need to mount the hinges on the bookshelf as well. Install steel casters on the bottom of the bookshelf to allow it to roll across the floor as it opens.  Measure the depth of the bookshelf and align the front face of the bookshelf with the wall to allow it to blend in with the wall. Align the hinges carefully; measuring the doorway and the door multiple times will ensure that  your door will swing smoothly. A gate latch on the inside of the secret room is an easy way to conceal the latching mechanism from outside view. A wire can extend through the hidden door to a trigger on the outside of the door.  Mount the gate latch to the door frame with the locking pin attached to the door. Attach a wire to the latch and thread it through a hole drilled in the bookshelf or doorway. Connect the wire to a book or object that will trigger the latch when pulled. Glue a piece of wood inside a book jacket; connect the wire to the fake book using a screw. Place the book on the shelf to conceal the wire. when the book is pulled the door will open. To keep your bookshelf from standing out, add wood trim around the edges flush with the wall. The trim work will help conceal the edges around the shelf and prevent it from looking like an opening.
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One-sentence summary -- Choose a location for your secret room. Choose a method of concealing the doorway. Draw plans for your doorway. Install your hidden door. Create a latch to open and close the door. Add trim to the bookshelf to give it a built in look.


You can feed your Venus flytrap to give it the nutrients it needs, or you can add a very small amount of nutrient-rich fertilizer to your Venus fly trap’s soil, or mist them occasionally with a spray-on fertilizer. When Venus flytraps are outdoors, they catch insects, grasshoppers (and occasionally small animals like frogs) that provide nutrients that will make the plant healthier.  Keep in mind that the trap sometimes doesn’t seal unless the item it has caught is moving. This means that you should feed your fly trap live prey like flies and mealworms. A helpful tip when using live prey is to put the prey in the freezer for a few minutes so that it becomes very slow. You should only feed one or two of your plants traps at a time, and only when the plant is healthy and strong. If you do decide to feed your plant a dead insect, you should place the insect in the trap and then gently rub the trap every 20 or 30 minutes until the trap seals fully. Rubbing the trap makes it think that the thing it has caught is moving. This is not always necessary, however, as the plants also use chemical receptors to close with the presence of nutrients inside the trap. Do not feed your plant ‘exotic’ food like bits of hamburger or cake. This will more than likely kill the plant, particularly if you give your plant meat, as the plant will have a negative reaction to the fat. Fats and the decomposing meat will grow bacteria that could also harm your fly trap. Grooming your plant helps to keep your Venus fly trap healthy. Dead leaves can block the sun from young leaves that need the light to grow. Your plant’s leaves will turn brown as they die—these are the leaves you will want to get rid of. You can cut them away when they turn brown by using a small pair of scissors. Make sure you do not cut away any leaves that are still partly green--these leaves can still photosynthesize. As the leaves turn brown, they should begin to weaken and detach from the plant. Most of the time, you should be able to just pluck them off the plant. For the tougher ones, sewing scissors work well. You should also be aware that Venus fly trap leaves tend to die off in bunches. If you notice that you plant looks like it is too crowded in its pot, that it has divided into two (or more) plants, or that it dries out too quickly, it is time to re-pot your plant. Doing this is much the same as potting your plant in its original container. Make sure to use the right composition of soil (see Part One). Triggering your plants to close when there is nothing in their traps for them to ‘eat’ is an unnecessary waste of energy for your plant.  It takes two to three weeks for a plant's trap to reopen and again be ready to trap its potential food. While it is OK to gently rub the outside of the traps after you have fed it an insect, you should limit the amount you touch your plant. Never put anything inside their traps except for insects.
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Know that you don’t need to feed your plant insects. Groom your plant. Re-pot your plant. Try not to touch your plant's traps.