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#1 Postby bfez1 » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:03 pm

THINGS TO KNOW............

1. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish

2. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes

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

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

5. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea

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

7.Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste

8.Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!

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

10. Bee stings - meat tenderizer

11. Chigger bite - Preparation H

12. Puffy eyes - Preparation H

13. Paper cut - crazy glue or Chap Stick (glue is used instead of
sutures at
most hospitals)

14.Stinky feet - Jell-O!

15. Athletes feet - cornstarch

16.Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub

17. 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)

18. 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!

19. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a
coffee
filter paper

20. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray

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

22. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls

23. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with cornstarch
and
watch them slide on

24. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!

25. 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!

26. 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

27. 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!

28. A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!

29.To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate
toothpaste

30.Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the
salt.

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

32. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!

33. 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!

34. Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!

35.Dirty grout - Listerine

36. Stains on clothes - Colgate

37. Grass stains - Karo Syrup

38. Grease Stains - Coca-Cola, it will also remove grease stains from
the
driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from car batteries!

39. 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.

40. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer
aspirin, or
just use 7-up instead of water.

41. 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. (A P.S. on this one - I believe they are putting
expiration dates on the tags now.)
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Re: Things to know

#2 Postby GalvestonDuck » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:12 pm

bfez1 wrote: 5. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea


Also, soaking feet in brewed tea can keep them from perspiring because of some sort of acid in the tea.
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#3 Postby southerngale » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:38 pm

28. A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!

LOL! I can see it on the dining room table now.


Very interesting Bonnie. Now if I could just remember them all.
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#4 Postby JCT777 » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:08 pm

That was an awful lot of experimenting done by various people to come up with the items on that list! Very interesting.
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#5 Postby george_r_1961 » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:05 pm

Baking soda works well on smelly feet and shoes. My shoes were lethal weapons until i discovered Arm&Hammer :D
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