Good Household Tips

THINGS TO KNOW..some good ideas (some just silly!)

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.
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, kills 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 - Jell-O!
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 into 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! (who wants to try that one?)
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.

WOW....What great Ideas....

Think i will print that out and hang on refrigerator

Thanks,
Char

Just wanted to add one: Wipe car wax on your black or dark kitchen sink, keeps it from spottting.

...or on a black kitchen stove. My husband "waxed" our gas stove top recently (with Turtle Wax) and it cleans so much easier.

lemon juice will get orange rust stains out of your clothes. I have rust stains in my toilet already (only a couple of months old). I noticed that my ceramic top stove's cleaner smelled like lemon juice so i read the label and it is indeed citric acid. So I am going to turn off the water to the toilet, flush it and let it dry and then apply this stuff and see if it works. I will let you know.

Oh, and here I just gave away my Slinky!

I needed to get some of the tarnish (not all, I like patina) off a brass candle lantern; but my old brass cleaner seemed to have lost its strength. So I sprinkled salt on half a lemon and rubbed it with that; it worked.

bivbiv,

I saw a PBS telethone with a man, last name, Haley and he's written books with cleaning secrets called Haley's Hints. I couldn't find it at a local SMALL bookstore but one of his techniques is cleaning silver with NO SCRUBBING! He used a foil lined bowl (creates a reaction), some salt, some HOT water and I think 1 other household thing. It was SO neat to watch!

I've always used the noxious stuff that says to wear gloves, causes cancer in lab animals. NOT good! Plus you still have to scrub!

Tir, I think the other ingredient for cleaning silver with foil is baking soda.

Or baking powder? Phooey, now I don't recall. Who out there can add the missing ingredient?

I believe it is baking soda. I do not remember using salt, just the foil with hot water and baking soda. Works too.