Useful Tips
I don't know why you'd want to use some of these...
- Budweiser beer rinse conditions the hair.
- Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.
- Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 min.
- Mayonnaise will kill Lice , it will also condition your hair.
- Spike your hair with Close-up toothpaste (it will also tint it).
- Elmer's Glue-paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads. Also works to remove splinters or cactus spines - just let dry on your skin.
- Shiny Hair-use brewed Lipton Tea.
- Sunburn -empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water.
- Minor burn- Colgate or Crest toothpaste.
- Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
- Arthritis? WD-40. Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too. Also spray it on wasps nests - they'll be unable to move.
- Bee stings - meat tenderizer.
- Chigger bite - Preparation H.
- Puffy eyes - Preparation H.
- Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick. Glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals lately.
- Sore nipples - (Nursing Mothers) chap stick or a wet Lipton tea bag.
- Stinky feet - Jell-O!! A woman who volunteered, said she actually had stinky feet, her feet were put in a pan of jello!
- Athlete's feet - cornstarch.
- Fungus on toenails or fingernails Vapo-Rub.
- Koolaid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet.
- Koolaid also can be used as a dye in paint.
- Koolaid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, "Your kids will love it and it won't hurt them if they eat it!"
- Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper.
- Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray.
- Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage for your hubby.
- Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls.
- When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on.
- Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
- Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour into an empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
- 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.
- Stress buster - preferably for a work group - take a roll of scotch tape and a packet of straws and build a tower without talking to each other!
- Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min and let dry, will last for years!
- A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
- To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste.
- Stay-Free Maxi Pads- clean window, floors, just stick to the palm of your hands and work! Can also be used as a knee pad.
- Pampers as an absorbent! Remove stains from the carpet with club soda & a pamper to absorb. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
- To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
- Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with peanut butter!
- Baked on food: fill container with water, add a Bounce softener sheet and the static from the Bounce will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use two Efferdent tablets, soak overnight!
- Crayon on the wall - colgate toothpaste and brush it!
- Dirty grout - Listerine
- Stains on clothes - Colgate toothpaste
- Grass stains - Karo Syrup!
- Grease Stains- Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from batteries!
- Sweat Stains - Efferdent, or vinegar.
- Use a Maxi Pad in your cap as a sweat band!
- Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.
- Last but not the least, it is my favorite one! To Keep FRESH FLOWERS longer add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.
**Caution: If you use #46, please do not remove your hat. This makes "hat hair" a whole new concept! |
