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SilentHunterKellen

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS YOU CAN PRINT OUT AND USE
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>* Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.
>
>* Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 min.
>
>* Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair.
>
>* Elmer's Glue - brush it on your skin (be careful to avoid eyes and tender
>parts), allow the glue to dry, peel it off, and see the dead skin and
>blackheads come off, too.
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>* Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea on it.
>
>* Sunburn - empty a large jar of dry Nestea instant iced tea powder into
>your bath water and soak in it.
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>* Burn your tongue? - Put sugar on it!
>
>* Arthritis? - WD-40 Spray and rub it in. Takes sting out of insect bites,
>too.
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>* Bee stings - meat tenderizer
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>* Chigger bite - Preparation H
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>* Puffy eyes - Preparation H
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>* Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at
>most hospitals).
>
>* Stinky feet - Jell-O!!
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>* Athlete's feet - cornstarch.
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>* Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub.
>
>* Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes - Just put into the detergent section
>of your automatic dishwasher and run a cycle. It will also clean a toilet..
>
>* 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!
>
>* Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee
>filter paper.
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>* Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray.
>
>* Pam will also remove paint and grease from your hands! Keep a can in the
>garage for your hubby.
>
>* Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls.
>
>* When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with dry corn starch
>and watch them slide on.
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>* Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
>
> * Body paint - Use 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! ).
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>* 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.
>
>* Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup
>of
>milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min. and let dry. Will last for many years!
>
>* A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
>
>* To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste.
>
>* Wine stains - pour on regular table salt and watch the stain absorb into
>the salt.
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>* To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain. The
>wax
>will absorb into the towel.
>
>* Remove labels off glassware etc. - rub with peanut butter, or with nail
>polish remover that contains acetate.
>
>* Baked on food -fill container with water, add 2 Efferdent tablets, and
>soak overnight!
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>* Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
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>* Dirty grout - Listerine
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>* Stains on clothes - Colgate
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>* Grass stains - Karo Syrup
>
>* Grease Stains- Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the
>driveway overnight. Also will remove corrosion from batteries and will
>loosen rust-frozen pipe joints.
>
>* Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24
>hours.
>
>* To keep FRESH-CUT FLOWERS fresh longer, add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer
>aspirins, or just use 7-up instead of water.
>
>* 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 they use a different color
>twist-tie.
>They are:
>Monday - Blue
>Tuesday - Green
>Thursday - Red
>Friday - White
>Saturday - Yellow
>So if today was Thursday, you would look for a red twist-tie - not a white,
>which is Friday's (almost a week old)! The colors run alphabetically by
>color blue - green - red - white and yellow - Monday through Saturday. Very
>easy to remember. Check the grocery store yourself, and you'll see that the
>bread wrappers DO have different-colored twist ties; and even the loaves
>with the plastic clips have different colors.
>
>You learn something new everyday!!!
>Pass this on to friends. They'll appreciate the information, also.
 
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