Household Helps to Save Cash

[Merika]

Household Hints

These would be good to print and keep inside a cabinet door for future reference...(After reading all the uses for "Kool-Aid", I'm not so sure it's safe for kids to "drink".)

1) Budweiser beer rinse conditions the hair.
2) Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.
3) Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 min.
4) Mayonnaise will kill Lice, it will also condition your hair.
5) Spike your hair with Close-up toothpaste (it will also tint it). (FOR HALLOWEEN USE, ONLY!)
6) Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads. (Also works to remove splinters or cactus spines-just let dry on your skin.)
7) Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea.
8) Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water.
9) Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste.
10) Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
11) Arthritis? WD-40. Spray and rub in to skin to kill insect sting. spray on wasps nests -- paralyzes wasps!
12) Bee stings -- use meat tenderizer.
13) Chigger bite -- use Preparation H.
14) Puffy eyes -- use Preparation H
15) Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick. (Glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals lately.)
16) Sore nipples -- (Nursing Mothers) use chap stick or a wet Lipton tea bag.
17) Stinky feet -- use Jell-O!! (Put your feet in a pan of Jell-O!)
18) Athlete's feet -- use cornstarch.
19) Fungus on toenails or fingernails -- use Vapo-Rub.
20) Kool Aid or Tang to clean dishwasher pipes. (Put in like detergent and run a cycle, also cleans toilets.)
21) Kool Aid also can be used as a dye in paint.
22) 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.)
23) Peanut butter -- will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper.
24) Sticking bicycle chain -- use Pam no-stick cooking spray.
25) Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! (Keep a can in your garage for your hubby.)
26) Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls.
27) When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on.
28) Heavy dandruff -- pour on the vinegar!
29) Body paint-use Crisco mixed with food coloring. (Heat the Crisco in the microwave.
Mix in a container with the food color of your choice!)
30) Tie Dye T-shirt: Mix solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie rubber bands around the T-shirt and soak.
31) Stress buster - preferably for a work group - take a roll of scotch tape and a packet of straws and build a tower without talking to each other! Popping Bubble Wrap is a great stress reliever!

32) To Preserve newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min and let dry, will last for years!
33) A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
34) To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste.
35) Stay-Free Maxi Pads-clean window, floors, just stick to the palm of your hands and work! Can also be used as a knee pad.& a pamper to absorb carpet stains.
36) Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
37) To remove wax-Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
38) Remove labels off glassware etc. - rub with peanut butter! Or any kind of cooking oil.
39) Baked on food: fill container with water, add a Bounce softener sheet and the static from the Bounce will cause the baked on food to adhere to it.
40) Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
41) Dirty grout - use Listerine.
42) Stains on clothes - use Colgate toothpaste.
43) Grass stains - use Karo Syrup!
44) Grease Stains- use Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from batteries! (And we drink this?)
45) Sweat Stains - use Efferdent, or vinegar.
46) Use a Maxi-Pad in your cap as a sweat band!
47) Fleas in your carpet? Use 20 Mule Team Borax-sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.
48) To Keep FRESH FLOWERS longer, add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirins, or just use 7-up instead of water.

Caution: If you use #46, please do not remove your hat. This gives "hat hair" a whole new concept!

I can see it now... Here's the scenario: I'm cleaning house in the summer.

I have beer in my hair (#1) and I have coated my face with Elmer's glue, which is drying (#6). I have WD 40 sprayed on my joints (#11), and Preparation H under my eyes (#14). I have green Kool Aid soaking in the
toilet (#20). My glasses are coated with toothpaste (#34)... I have Pampers upside down several places on the carpet (#36)... and two pans soaking and fizzing in the kitchen sink (#39). Since it's summer in Alabama , it's HOT, so I have a Maxi-Pad for a sweat band under my hat (#46). In addition, I have a Maxi-Pad on each palm (#35) as I wash the windows and floors, with Maxi-Pads for knee cushions.

There's a knock on the door.... It's probably Martha Stewart.

[Duke]

rolf, good find!

[Merika]

46) Use a Maxi-Pad in your cap as a sweat band!

[Duke]

It'll certainly be the first time I go to the store to buy them for me to use :umya:

[Merika]

33) A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!

Well...if you get tooo embarassed....buy a SLINKY!

[RandomSkater]

toothpaste also works great for acne, far better than any "real" acne treatment i've tried and alot cheaper too.

[Duke]

Not too mention you can scrape it off your face then put it on toast and you have a snack packed full of extra goodies.

I can lend you a little toe jam to make it more interesting ;-)

[Merika]

Originally Posted by RandomSkater

toothpaste also works great for acne, far better than any "real" acne treatment i've tried and alot cheaper too.

Crest toothepaste. It will dry up a zit overnight. Best stuff on the market for sure. I used it all the way thru high school and never had any problems.

I recycled this post for Freaky Friday since it had some fun, as well as good, information on it.

[Duke]

Ya sure you have nice skin but are missing most of your teeth bessy.

[Stone]

OK I have alot of crayon marks on my walls. I'll try tomarrow and hold you to it

[Duke]

If you just buy them paper they'll stop coloring the walls. Either that or their trying to tell you something but you're not getting the hint.

[Merika]

Originally Posted by Duke

Ya sure you have nice skin but are missing most of your teeth bessy.

Gums can be nice.

[Luba]

Great find and great and hilarious responses!