Helpful Hints

**luvdietcoke** · 10-11-2007, 10:41 PM

Budweiser beer conditions the hair

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.

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

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

Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!

Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too.

Bee stings - meat tenderizer

Chigger bite - Preparation H

Paper cut -- crazy glue or chap stick.

Sore nipples - (Nursing Mothers) chap stick or a wet Lipton tea bag

Stinky feet - Jell-O!!

Athlete feet - cornstarch

Fungus on toenails or fingernails vapor rub

Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes.Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle.

Kool Aid also can be used as a dye in paint

Kool aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint

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

Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray

Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands!

Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls

When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch

Heavy dandruff -- pour on the vinegar!

Body paint - 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!

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 years!

To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with colgate toothpaste

Stay-Free Maxi Pads- clean window, floors, just stick to the palm of your hands.

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.

To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.

Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with peanut butter!

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.

Crayon on the wall -- colgate toothpaste and brush it!

Dirty grout - Listerine

Stains on clothes - Colgate

Grass stains - Karo Syrup!

Grease Stains-Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight.

Sweat Stains - Efferdent, or vinegar

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

Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax-sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.

To Keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little clorox, or 2 bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water!

**druidessemily** · 10-11-2007, 11:34 PM

Wow, thanks for all of the tips! I am curious about the jell-o for stinky feet... do you stick your feet in while it's still hot, or after it has cooled and become solid?

**latierra84** · 10-11-2007, 11:46 PM

ive got to try the wax one! GREAT list!

**Jaded** · 10-12-2007, 10:15 PM

I just can't see the maxi pad in the hat. If your hat blew off, that would be so embarrassing!

**Rebookie** · 10-17-2007, 11:56 AM

I use a product called "Lysol Wipes". I figured out that the wipes do a really good job of getting the scunge off my walls! I have a 5yo AND a husband (double whammy). They work awesome on my eggshell colored walls. The wipes aren't exactly frugal but I use them.

**M55FF** · 02-25-2008, 08:21 AM

I like the tips !

pam for fingernail polish ? wow...
I didn't know that.

I'm still in awe of this paste wax I bought at Lowes for 5 dollars... it seems to work on anything ( metal, leather, vynil, plastic... and I'm wondering if it will work as a cuticle cream too?
lol