Household tips from my friend Carole.
1.
Budweiser beer
conditions the hair
2.
Pam cooking spray
will dry finger nail polish
3.
Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
And more things mothers and others might enjoy knowing...
4.
Mayonnaise
will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
5.
Elmer's Glue -
paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and
blackheads
6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton
Tea
7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea
into your bath water
8. &nbs p; Minor burn -
Colgate
or Crest
toothpaste
9. Burn your tongue?
Put
sugar On
it!
10. Arthritis?
WD-40 Spray
and rub in, kill insect stings too
11. Bee stings -
meat
tenderizer
12. Chigger bite -
Preparation
H
13. Puffy eyes -
Preparation H
14. Paper cut -
crazy
glue
or chap
stick
(glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)
15. Stinky feet
- Jell-O!
16. Athletes feet -
cornstarch
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails -
Vicks
vapor rub
18. Kool
aid
To clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it
will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this stuff)
19.
Kool
Aid
can be used as a dye in pain t also Kool
Aid
in Dannon
Plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won't hurt them if
they eat it!
20. Peanut
butter - will get
scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee
filter paper
21. Sticking bicycle chain -
Pam
no-stick cooking spray
22. Pam Will
also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage
for your hubby
23. Peanut
butter
will remove ink from the face of dolls
24. When the doll clothes
are hard to put on, sprinkle withcorn
starch and watch
them slide on
25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the
vinegar !
26.
Body paint - Crisco
Mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, p our in to an
empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
27.
Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool
Aid in
a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and
soak
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of
club
soda
and cup of milk
of magnesia
, Soak for 20 min. And let dry, will last for many years!
29. A
Slinky
Will hold toast and CD's!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from
fogging, coat with Colgate
toothpaste
31. Wine stains, pour on the
Morton
saltAnd
watch it absorb into the salt.
32. To remove wax - Take a paper
towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
33.
Remove labels off glassware etc. Rub with Peanut
butter !
34
. Baked on food - fill container with water, get a
Bounce
paper
softener and
the static from the Bounce
Towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight.
Also; you can use 2Efferdent
tablets,
Soak overnight!
35. Crayon on the wall -
Colgate
Toothpaste and brush it!
36. Dirty grout -
Listerine
37. Stains on clothes -
Colgate
38. Grass stains
-
Karo Syrup
39. Grease Stains -
Coca
Cola
, It will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know
it will take corrosion from car batteries!
40. Fleas in your
carpet? 20
Mule Team Borax
- Sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get
them back again.
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little
Clorox<
B>,
or 2 Bayer
aspirin
, Or just use 7-up instead of water.
42. When you go to buy bread
in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest, so you
"squeeze" for freshness or softness? Did you know that bread is delivered
fresh to the stores five days a week? Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Each day has a different color twist tie. They are:
Monday = Blue,
Tuesday = Green,
Thursday
= Red
Friday
= White
Saturday = Yellow.
(I guess they don't bake bread on Wednesday). So if today was Thursday, you would want red twist tie; not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)! The colors go alphabetically by color Blue - Green - Red - White - Yellow , Monday through Saturday. Very e asy to remember. I thought this was interesting. I looked in the grocery store and the bread wrappers DO have different twist ties, and even the ones with the plastic clips have different colors. You learn something new everyday! Enjoy fresh bread when you buy bread with the right color on the day you are shopping.
I've heard of some of those. The BREAD one is especially helpful! And I'd never heard all the uses for peanut butter. We always used vinegar for sunburn. And the Kool Ade stuff is just scary!
Posted by: Janet | August 14, 2008 at 08:14 AM
I will have to remember some of those!!
Posted by: Casdok | August 14, 2008 at 08:27 AM
White toothpaste will also fill holes in walls. We used to do this in the dorms in college before we moved out. I'm a big fan of grabbing whatever is handy to make it work.
Posted by: allison | August 14, 2008 at 08:58 AM