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Sat 14 Feb, 2004 07:41 pm
I do not know if these tips have been shared, but if you are like me, it pays to be REMINDED.
THINGS TO KNOW
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
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 if any
6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
8. 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 - Jello!
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 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!
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 with corn 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, pour 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 salt and 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 2 Efferdent 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, or 2 Bayer
aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.
Another one
Mosquito bite-Tooth Paste
Phoenix,
I think it would be prepared jello-
But doesn't seem to need to be 'coldjelled'-
does it? Would feel better HOT, to me, but probably would not Go as far.
The lice and the mayo kind of turned my stomach...
Margo, when it dries (like a wax that you buff) wipe it off with a soft cloth.
colorbook:
the thought of lice kinda turns my stomach --
But mayonnaise is good on hair. Probably all that oil and Lemon juice...
But DO remember to rinse well.
(thank you all for reading and responding)
Rescue workers carry around a case of coca cola because it cleans blood off of cement...UGH!
theollady wrote:
Margo, when it dries (like a wax that you buff) wipe it off with a soft cloth.
Oh! I suppose that WOULD improve things!
Child of the Light wrote:Another one
Mosquito bite-Tooth Paste
Is that so? I'll try it. The nasty little devils are all over the place at the moment. (Summer here in OZ) .... They LOVE my blood!
Olga - perhaps you can get a combined sun-block and toothpaste insect repellant.
Such a good look!
I've heard pepper on a cut that won't stop bleeding works well..great tips
dròm_et_rêve wrote:Fantastic tips tol !
I always use carbonated water and orange cordial to quickly relieve a bad throat.
If you have to get sick, but can't, (or want someone else to vomit,) try drinking/having them drink a glass of Baileys Irish Cream with Lime juice!
Or have them picture lice and mayo together. *LOL*
For a sore throat, try a cup of hot water with ginger and a teaspoon of honey. It's yucky but it worked great for me a couple of times. Other times it didn't work so well. But it's worth a try!
Ooh dear-- or envision eating a bowl of earthworms and have them mutliplying in your stomach...
I have used the ginger and honey remedy: it often works... when it doesn't, I often have to revert to salted water *groans.*
- So they're not fogged - but how do you see?
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