Uses for Ordinary Things to Save Money and Time Part Two

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 10 Petrolatum Jelly. Create emergency make up,* remove lipsticks stains,* Shine patent leather shoes,* Prevents hair dye runs,* Keep a bottle lid from sticking.

11 Plastic Bags. Line a cracked flower vase,* Treat chapped hands,* Keep pures in shape,* Spin dry Salad greens,* Make a skipping rope,* Rip pend Fruits.

12 Salt. Give brooms a stonger life,* Make your own brass and copper polish, * Stop oven spills hardening, * Revive overcooked Coffee, * Condition your skin.

13 Sandwich and Freezer Bags. Soften hard marshmallows, * Make a bath pillow,* Use as a portable water dish,* Make instants dessert treats.

14 Tape. Make Fly paper,* Prevent jewellery tangles, * Deter cats from scratching furniture, * Make sewing easier, * Mend a broken plant stem.

15 Tea. Tan your skin,* Stop foot odours, * Drain a boil ,* Feed ferns,* Tenderise tough meats.

16 Vinegar. Unclogs drains,* Clean and deodoriser just about anything, * Unset old stains, *Prevent bruises,* Repel insects,* Speed up seed germination’s.

17 WD-40. Relieve arthritis symptoms,* Remove chewing gum from hair, *Protects a bird feeder,*Kill Thistles and asthma weed, * Remove Barnacles on Boats.

18 Plastic Bottles. Make a foot warmer,* Save water when flushing the Toilet, * Create a drip irrigator for plants, * Keep an esky cold,* Space seeds in the garden.

Tip Repair your leaky garden hose with a toothpick.

Address Labels. Tag your bags address labels arent only for sticking on envelopes they can be an effective inexpensive way of making sure your lost items stand a chance of finding their way home.

Adhesive plaster. Remove a splinter is a splinter too tiny or too deep to remove with tweezers? Avoid the agony of digging it out with a needle instead cover the splinter with elastic adhesive plaster after about three days pull the plaster off slowly and the splinter should come out with it.

You can reduce your hat size if you have a hat thats a bit too big for your head wrap adhesive plaster around the sweatband it might take two or three layers depending on the size. As a bonus the adhesive plaster will absorb brow sweat on hot days.

Alka-Seltzer. Clean your coffee maker full your percolator or water chamber  of your drip coffee maker with water and drop in four alka-seltzer tablets when the tablets have dissolved put coffee maker through a brew cycle . To clean the tubes rinse the chamber out two or three times then run a brew cycle with plain water.

Clean a Vase . That stuck on residue at the bottom of narrownecked vases may seem impossible to scrub out but you can easily bubble it away fill the vase half way up with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablet wait until the fizzing stop then rinse the vase clean. It works the same with cleaning glass thermoses.

George Thomas Saviel

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