THINGS TO KNOW. Fun stuff we use everyday!!!!! Enjoy :)

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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.

42. 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 and 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 ones 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.

 

[mistral]

Comments on some of these things!

1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair

Of course, rinse well or people will think you have been hitting your conditioner! . . .

3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes

Maybe I'll try this as I cannot stand the TASTE of Cool Whip--but it doesn't smell too bad!

4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair

I believe this is the same with any oil--smothers the lice and conditions the hair.

5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads if any

gotta try this, as those pore cleanser/blackhead removal strips are EXPENSIVE! Elmers HAS to be cheaper. . . .



7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water

I had gum surgery once and the dentist had me moisten a teabag and hold pack it in on the incision to help cut the bleeding. I think the tannin in the tea is the helper for both burn and bleed. . .

9. Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!

I could have tried this tip about a week ago as that is when I last burnt my toungue

10. Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too . . .

I personally think this is an urban legend, at least for the Arthritis.

11. Bee stings - meat tenderizer

Done it. Works. . .

15. Stinky feet - Jello!

But does it make your feet smell like rotten fruit? And is that better? smileys/wink.gif

16. Athletes feet - cornstarch

Not for me. I go a raging case of Athlete's foot at the local ladies spa and was using cornstarch to keep my tootsies dry, but, alas the Athlete's foot kept getting worse and worse despite the use an OTC anti-fungals. After my second use of the antifungals I used a food talcum powder that was medicated and bye-bye Athlete's foot. . .

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)

Hey, I have used citric acid from a brewery store and it cleans a toilet great! I think Kool-aid is much cheaper and prettier too. Maybe I'll try it.
. . .

25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!

An old timey rinse for your hair to keep it shiny is a couple tablespoons of vinegar in a quart or so of water--maybe vinegar restores that "acid mantle" in the skin/scalp?

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!

Betcha you could use the Kool-aid as a dye here too.

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!

This one is interesting. Seems that the stuff here is neutralizing the acid in the cheap newsprint. Good Idea. . . .



Thanks for the post; I love this stuff.

 

[tammyarcadia-ca]

I think I would rather suffer the sunburn than clean the bathtub for the rest

of my life after putting a whole jar of Lipton Tea in it!!! LOL!!!

 

[curious1]

Isn't toothpaste a mild abrasive that would scratch lenses? I don't get this one.

 

[joanietoo]

We use toothpaste to rub into our masks after buying a new one and also....

every now and then...it is a mild abrasive but so mild it actually polishes the glass a bit. (Not that one can really see this but it does seem to help lessen the fogging up of the mask when snorkeling.)

 

[curious1]

Thanks for clearing that up, I learn something new every day. If only I could just remember it all.