OT: Hints and things that you may not have known.

[cincyreds]

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Subject:Hints
Move over Martha Stewart!!!

*Budweiser beer 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
*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 ½ 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 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
*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.
*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 wrappers DO have different twist ties,
and even the one 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.

Have any of you actually tried any of these?

[Anrhydeddu]

That's actually really good and helpful, if they all work as advertised.

[TroyF]

The only thing I've ever tried out of those is:

*Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)

It worked very well, but it isn't surprising. Any bowler knows what "new skin" is. Same premis.

I can also tell you for a fact that hair spray (the cheaper the better, think Aqua Net) will remove ink from wood surfaces without damaging the wood.

TroyF

[Airhog]

you can use lighter fluid to attach a pair of rubber grips to your handlebars on your bike motorcycle, jetski, etc. They shouldnt get loose when you get them wet.

[thealmighty]

Peanut Butter is great for getting gum out of kids hair, too.

[tucker342]

some of those are pretty helpful...

[korme]

Originally posted by thealmighty
Peanut Butter is great for getting gum out of kids hair, too.

as are scissors!

[mckerney]

Did you know you can use old motor oil to fertilize your lawn?

[korme]

Originally posted by thealmighty
Peanut Butter is great for getting gum out of kids hair, too.

also-- what do you recommend for men/women's hair?

[Ksyrup]

*Grass stains - Karo Syrup

That's odd. Whenever the wife and I have, uh, had reason to end up on the grass together, I usually cause grass strains!