FYI: Vodka Info

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moyn

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Vodka info

1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The solvent dissolves the adhesive.

2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set five minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew.

3. To clean your eyeglasses, simply wipe the lenses with a soft, clean cloth dampened with vodka. The alcohol in the vodka cleans the glass and kills germs.

4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka and letting your safety razor blade soak in the alcohol after shaving. The vodka disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

5. Spray vodka on vomit stains , scrub with a brush, then blot dry.

6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face as an astringent to cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo. The alcohol cleanses the scalp, removes toxins from hair, and stimulates the growth of healthy hair.

8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

9. Pour one-half cup vodka and one-half cup water in a Ziploc freezer bag and freeze for a slushy, refreshable ice pack for aches, pain or black eyes.

10. Fill a clean, used mayonnaise jar with freshly packed lavender flowers, fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly and set in the sun for three days. Strain liquid through a coffee filter, then apply the tincture to aches and pains.

11. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth to rub vodka on your chest and back as a liniment.

12. To cure foot odor, wash your feet with vodka.

13. Vodka will disinfect and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

14. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy to remove the oil from your skin.

15. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth. Allow your gums to absorb some of the alcohol to numb the pain.

16. JUST DON'T DRINK THE STUFF, IT WILL KILL YOU ! ! . If you do not believe it, look at the very low Russian life expectancy.

 
I heard an article on the radio the other day about the wonders of vodka as a cleaning agent.

Smirnoff should take out new ads saying "Vodka, it's not only for drinking!"

 
and THIS is absolutely true...Vodka helped .......

one of our daughters did an Atlantic delivary from the Caribbean to the Med on a big yacht....on board were mostly Scandanavians and our daughter, 7 men and one woman (mega yachts are anywhere over 100 foot)....somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic the winds died and (as we often did when we as a family did crossings) everyone jumped over board to enjoy a DEEP-sea swim...a rope is towed behind the yacht...only on this occassion the entire crew jumped into a 'sea' of Portugese -man-of-war...a very horrid blue-bottle (like a jelly fish) with a dreadful sting...well, all the men crew made a bee-line for the yacht ladder and the last out of the water was our daughter who had stings over her entire body and in every unexposed area you could think of. She was carried to a cabin and laid out without a stitch of clothing (the stings are not easily seen with the naked eye and any pressure on the sting seems to push the sting in deeper)and the captain, besides himself with worry, did the only thing he could think of...everyday for a week this poor almost lifeless lass had VODKA poured over her about 6 times a day...(she also drank enough when she could stomach some nourishment, I believe)....being Scandanavian they carried little other drink on board other than Vodka....
Her heart was strong and she survived.
For quite a few years, after this incident, she had dreadful dark scarring marks that came out whenever she was in the sun (so we had proof of where these stings ran, in and out and round about, literally)...but now some 15 years later she has no marks or toooooo bad memories of that incident....she went on to become a mega-yacht captain herself (no mean feat in a man's world)and never leaves anywhere for a crossing without the appropriate medication for jellyfish stings...yes, and with a quite few bottles of Vodka!!!!!

 
Ouch, so sorry about your daughter. Joanie, I'd love to have you as a dinner companion...such great

stories you have to tell...and tips galore.

 
p.s. Just did some internet reading on Portuguese man of war stings. Your daughter was lucky to

survive such an ordeal.

 
Oh, my gosh...You prompted me to look up....

I know of these bluebottles from childhood in Africa. They get blown ashore and dry all puffed up and we would run about the beach popping them to a delightful sound. They must be pretty dry. We kept clear of wet ones and never swam if they were in the water.
I remember a couple stings through my childhood, not pleasant but they were little stings by comparison to this experience of my daughter's.
Now I read that alchol MAY cause this whole sting thing to worsen...but the VODKA seemed to work. I even think they cooled down the vodka first....
As I said, her heart was strong, thank goodness.

 
Joanie, your story gave me shudders!

Years ago I was floating near my cottage in water not too deep at Half Moon in Montego Bay and suddenly two young English boys came out screaming "It's enormous!! It's enormous!!" claiming it was a 'man-o-war!!

I didn't see the monster, but I couldn't get out of that water fast enough!

 
'dem tenacles is fa' rechin' mon...I haven't ever...

come across the bluebottle here in the Caribbean in the same way as in Africa...there they 'swarm' and come in, in their droves with the tide.
The thing is if you see the float-bubbles you know of impending trouble but as my daughter said, they only saw (well, she didn't) those bags as the yacht moved into them. What apparently got them was those long reaching tentacles that were stretching out ahead....and of course being young and impestous, I guess they all jumped in with a ..."last man in is a donkey"! or something of the sort.

I am almost tempted to carry a bottle of vodka where ever I go now, LOL! if nothing else I can always find some ice and OJ and drink it!

 
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