Handy Hints, I found somewhere
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lesliepearPam 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.
*Elmer's Glue. Paint it on your face, allow to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads it removed.
*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, kills insect stings too.
*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).
*Stinky feet - Jello!!
*Athletes feet - cornstarch.
*Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vaporub.
*Kool Aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the
detergent section and run a cycle; it will also clean
a toilet.
*Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint 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!
*Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe
off with a paper
coffee filter.
*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
the doll 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.
*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!
*A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
*To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with
Colgate toothpaste.
*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, get a
Bounce paper fabric softener and the static from the Bounce towel will
cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. (Also; you can
use 2 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! (And we DRINK this stuff????)
*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.
*To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or
just use 7-up instead of water.
*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. 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 easy to
remember. I thought this was interesting. I looked in the grocery store and
the bread DOES have different twist ties, and even the ones with the
plastic clips have different colors. You learn something new everyday!!
*Cool Whip will condition your hair in 15 min.
*Mayonnaise will KILL LICE; it will also condition your hair.
*Elmer's Glue. Paint it on your face, allow to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads it removed.
*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, kills insect stings too.
*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).
*Stinky feet - Jello!!
*Athletes feet - cornstarch.
*Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vaporub.
*Kool Aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the
detergent section and run a cycle; it will also clean
a toilet.
*Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint 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!
*Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe
off with a paper
coffee filter.
*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
the doll 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.
*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!
*A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
*To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with
Colgate toothpaste.
*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, get a
Bounce paper fabric softener and the static from the Bounce towel will
cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. (Also; you can
use 2 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! (And we DRINK this stuff????)
*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.
*To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or
just use 7-up instead of water.
*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. 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 easy to
remember. I thought this was interesting. I looked in the grocery store and
the bread DOES have different twist ties, and even the ones with the
plastic clips have different colors. You learn something new everyday!!
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Date: 2003-09-06 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-06 09:36 pm (UTC)Also...
*A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!"
Now, I can (sort of) understanding maybe using a Slinky to hold CDs, but toast?!? Why would one need one's toast held, anyway? Much less with a slinky? That's just wacky.
I'm going to try some of these, though. (And some I already know work!)
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Date: 2003-09-07 05:57 am (UTC)*saves to memories*