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    Default Handy Hints

    Pam cooking spray will dry fingernail polish.
    Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands!

    Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes.

    Mayonnaise will condition your hair; it will also kill lice.

    Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring.
    Heat Crisco in microwave, pour into empty film
    container and mix with the food coloring of your choice!


    Spike your hair with toothpaste
    (with Close-up tooth paste, it will also give it a tint).

    Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea.

    Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water.



    Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste.

    Heavy dandruff -- pour on the vinegar!

    Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry,
    peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads.

    Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea.



    Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water.

    Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste.

    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.

    Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's!
    Wipe off with coffee filter paper.



    Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!

    Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in,
    takes the itch out of insect stings, too.

    Athlete's feet - cornstarch.

    Bee stings - meat tenderizer.

    Chigger bite - Preparation H.



    Puffy eyes - Preparation H.

    Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick.
    Glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals lately.

    Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks Vaporub.

    Kool Aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent
    section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet.
    Kool-Aid also can be used as a dye in paint.
    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!



    Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray.

    Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls.

    When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle
    with corn starch and watch them slide on.

    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!

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    Thanks for the info Lee!

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