Household uses

Someone e-mailed these to me years ago. I haven't tried many of them because I forgot I saved them in a folder on my computer. Hope some of them work for you! :)
1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish (I've also used hairspray)
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 - Jello!
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
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. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
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 and Saturday = Yellow. So if today was Thursday, you would
want 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

Tin Can Flower Vase

Here is a cute way to dress up a tin can.
All I did was use a foam paint brush and brush the can with Mod Podge glue. Then I took a piece of wrapping paper and wrapped it around the can. Let dry. Then paint over the paper with the glue again to seal it. Let dry and it's done!
You can also use scrapbooking paper or tissue paper.

New favorite snack

My new favorite snack is Yoplait Whips frozen!! If you haven't tried this yet hurry up and get to your local grocery store and get some. Put in the freezer for at least 4 hours or more and enjoy!!

Pine Cone Bird Feeders

The kids and I made pine cone bird feeders this evening. We have pine cones everywhere around where we live except in our yard because we have no trees in our yard! So we went to this small lake close to our house and gathered 2 Wal-Mart sacks full. Here's how we did it.
Smeared peanut butter around the bottom of the pine cone and then rolled into the bird seed. Wrapped a piece of yard around the top and hung on the front porch.
So we will see in the morning it the birds like it or not. :)
P.S we only made 2 just in case you were wondering if I had a bunch on pine cones hanging from my front porch. I will use the rest for decorations :)

Homemade Playdough

This is an all time favorite at our house. My kids love to help make this. And it's super easy to make:
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
2 teaspoons of cream of tartar
1 cup of water
2 Tablespoons of cooking oil or salad oil
food coloring
Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar together in a large sauce pan. Add the water, oil, and food coloring of you choice. Cook and stir over medium heat until the dough leaves the side of the pan. Roll out dough onto counter top and knead until smooth. This playdough will last for a month or longer if kept in an air tight container.

You can also try:
Adding an unsweetened fruit mix drink instead of the food coloring. It gives it a fruity scent.
If you want to make more than one color: Cook the playdough as directed but leave out the food coloring. Knead dough onto a counter top and make 4 balls (or more whatever you choose). Then add the food coloring of your choice to each ball. Store into 4 small air tight containers

First time blogger

So this is my first time blogging. I have decided to use a blog just for everyday things. (can't say I will post something everyday :) I thought I could use this as a good stress reliever as well as posting some of the everyday things that I do with my kiddo's, favorite craft projects, recipes, etc. Here goes nothing.....