Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Great Tip Tuesday!

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 - 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 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 toothpaste
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.
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
Saturday = Yellow.
So if today was Thursday, you would want a 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.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

I didnt know that about bread!! that is crazy!!

Where do you find all these tips??

Aunt Julie said...

Great tips, but I have a question: If Listerine is good for cleaning grout, I wonder what it does to our tonsils when we gargle? Hey, your recipes are posted over at my place today, and I gave your cookbook a plug, too. Thanks!

Cheryl said...

Great tips!

I got your message about me falling behind on blogging, but I don't have it in me to be an everyday blogger. I don't even know if my blogging really IS blogging most of the time, because I mainly write about things I'm remembering or thinking about, and only rarely, the day-to-day (like my discovery of the book, "And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of our Vinyl," which actually came out of a post of a particular memory.

Unknown said...

Who knew? Well need to keep this handy

Intense Guy said...

Okay if I got this straight, I spray my arthritic, althete footy toes with WD-40 (#10) which will kill the insects too - saving me from needing to spread on Preparation H (#12). But then since WD-40 smells, I stick my toes in Jell-O! (#15) to cure the newly stinky feet and dump cornstarch (#16) on the whole mess for the athlete foot thingy.

When I'm done doing that, I will want to go out dancing so I will want to clean my hair, so, first Budwieser (#1), then Cool Whip (#3), followed by some Mayonnaise (#4), Lipton Tea (iced or hot?)(#6), and topped off with Vinegar (#26).

Gosh, you think this is going to impress my date? :)

Mary said...

very inventive!

The Wife O Riley said...

Excellent Tips!! We used the mayonaise one for lice a couple of years ago and it totally worked. But it was quite funny to see us all on the couch with mayo heads wrapped on saran wrap. Even Vivi who was a year old at the time.

Nina said...

That it interesting what we can do with Kool-aid. Makes me wonder if I should be letting me kids drink that stuff.

I had no idea on the bread. I will be looking next time I am in the store. Thanks!

LadyStyx said...

*gigglez n snortlez @ iggy's response*

Marmie's correct, you aint right in the head my friend!

Some of these were neat. I'd like to see the Mythbusters test some of these out....

Vickie said...

Wow, interesting about the bread. Going to pay attention next time I am in the store. I am going to try the coke and the Karo syrup, I have both in my house.

Anonymous said...

Fab tips - thanks for that (especially the one about lice!

Tam said...

Great tips!!!

Anonymous said...

I'll have to try that sugar one bc I'm always burning my tongue! I have no patience!!

I've tried the sprite for the plant and it didn't work :(

Good tips!

ChicagoLady said...

Mythbusters actually did an episode on Coke. I believe they found it failed almost all the myths, except one, but now I can't remember which one, lol.

Regarding the goggles, if you don't have toothpaste handy, you can just use spit. It works just as well, and it's free!

Briya said...

I think I will print out these tips...you've got a lot of good ones. Some I knew, and some I didn't.