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~ HELPFUL HINTS~
1 - Budweiser beer 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 tooth paste, it will also give it a tint
6 - Elmers Glue-paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads.
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, kill insect stings too. It was demonstrated, guess its no
worse than some of the chemcials we are exposed to.
12 - Bee stings -meat tenderizer (I think that one is well known -
13 - Chigger bite - Preparation H
14 - Puffy eyes -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 - chap stick or a wet lipton tea bag
17 - Stinky feet - a zinc tablet every other day.
18 - Athelete feet - cornstarch. Clorox will cure it if put on straight, but hurts like hell for a minute.
19 - Fungus on toenails or fingernails vapor rub
20 - Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet.
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 - 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 - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour into a empty film
container and mix with the food color of your choice!
30 - 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
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!
32 - Preserving a newspaper clipping -large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20
minuites 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 knee pad.
36 - Pampers as an absorbent! Remove stains from the carpet with club soda, and a pamper to absorb.
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!
39 - Baked on food -fill container with water, get a bounce from the laundry room and the static from the bounce
towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use two Efferdent tablets, soak overnight!
40 - Crayon on the wall -colgate toothpaste and brush it!
41 - Dirty grout - Listerine
42 - Stains on clothes - Colgate
43 - Grass stains - Karo Syrup!
44 - Grease Stains - Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight.
We know it will take corrosion from batteries!
45 - Sweat Stains - Efferdent, or vinegar
46 - Use a Maxi-Pad in your cap as a sweat band!
47 - Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax-sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.
48 - Last but not the least, it is my favorite one! To Keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little clorox, or 2
bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead
1 - Budweiser beer 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 tooth paste, it will also give it a tint
6 - Elmers Glue-paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads.
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, kill insect stings too. It was demonstrated, guess its no
worse than some of the chemcials we are exposed to.
12 - Bee stings -meat tenderizer (I think that one is well known -
13 - Chigger bite - Preparation H
14 - Puffy eyes -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 - chap stick or a wet lipton tea bag
17 - Stinky feet - a zinc tablet every other day.
18 - Athelete feet - cornstarch. Clorox will cure it if put on straight, but hurts like hell for a minute.
19 - Fungus on toenails or fingernails vapor rub
20 - Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet.
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 - 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 - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour into a empty film
container and mix with the food color of your choice!
30 - 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
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!
32 - Preserving a newspaper clipping -large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20
minuites 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 knee pad.
36 - Pampers as an absorbent! Remove stains from the carpet with club soda, and a pamper to absorb.
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!
39 - Baked on food -fill container with water, get a bounce from the laundry room and the static from the bounce
towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use two Efferdent tablets, soak overnight!
40 - Crayon on the wall -colgate toothpaste and brush it!
41 - Dirty grout - Listerine
42 - Stains on clothes - Colgate
43 - Grass stains - Karo Syrup!
44 - Grease Stains - Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight.
We know it will take corrosion from batteries!
45 - Sweat Stains - Efferdent, or vinegar
46 - Use a Maxi-Pad in your cap as a sweat band!
47 - Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax-sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.
48 - Last but not the least, it is my favorite one! To Keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little clorox, or 2
bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead