Helpful Hints

[cato2]

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 - brush it on your skin (be careful to avoid eyes and tender parts), allow the glue to dry, peel it off, and see the dead skin and blackheads come off, too.

Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea on it.

Sunburn - empty a large jar of dry Nestea instant iced tea powder into your bath water and soak in it.

Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste.

Burn your tongue? - Put sugar on it!

Arthritis? - WD-40 Spray and rub it in. Takes sting out of insect bites, 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!!

Athlete's feet - cornstarch.

Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks Vapor Rub.

Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes - Just put into the detergent section of your automatic dishwasher 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 coffee filter paper.

Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray.

Pam will also remove paint and grease from your hands! Keep a can in the garage for your hubby.

Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls.

When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with dry corn starch and watch them slide on.

Heavy dandruff -- pour on the vinegar!

Body paint - Use 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 1/2 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 regular table salt and watch the stain absorb into the salt.

To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain. The wax will absorb into the towel.

Remove labels off glassware etc. - rub with peanut butter, or with nail polish remover that contains acetone.

Baked on food -fill container with water, add 2 Efferdent tablets, and 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. Also will remove corrosion from batteries and will loosen rust-frozen pipe joints.

Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax - sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.

To keep FRESH-CUT FLOWERS fresh longer -- add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirins, 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?

Each day they use a different color twist-tie.

They are:
Monday - Blue
Tuesday - Green
Thursday - Red
Friday - White
Saturday - Yellow

So if today was Thursday, you would look for a red twist-tie not a white one, which is Friday's (almost a week old)!

The colors run alphabetically by color: blue--green--red--white and yellow. Monday through Saturday. Very easy to remember. Check the grocery store yourself, and you'll see that the bread wrappers DO have different-colored twist ties; and even the loaves with the plastic clips have different colors.

[se0sea]

interesting stuff.

[conlor]

Thanks, Cato. I'll have to print this and keep it handy.

[filthybeast]

Now this is a cool thread.

[TBLady]

Here's a few more....

To clean brass - Use very fine steel wool and tomato juice.

To clean marble - toothpaste and a soft tooth brush.

Ink spot on Silk - Put some hairspray on the spot.

To prevent snow build-up on snowshoes - Spray Pam on the metal crampons.

[Woodmonkey]

Love these things! Thanks, cato.

[La Loba]

Guaranteed for Bees to chase you -- PRICELESS!

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.

lololol


All kidding aside, I'm downloading this! Thanks cato2 for the helpful tips!