Conkers - any other uses?

Anastacia

springtide wrote:

Apparently if you put one in each corner of a room it keeps the spiders away! I have heard people swear by this, but I don't really mind spiders so I havent tried it!

My BIL told me this, they have little dishes of them about the house, looks quite nice & autumal too!

Fishcake_Random

Hello fellow OSer's

It's nearly that time of year again when conkers are about in their thousands. Every year I vow to find a use for them and every year I don't but this year I think I may have cracked it.
I know people have experimented with using them to make a washing liquid for their machines with varied results (bleaching effect on colors) in their machines, but has anyone tried hand washing with them? perhaps as a stain remover or a bleach? My main idea is that the conker liquid could be diluted according to the need.
Would this work do you think? It would save a packet on washing powders etc.

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Butterfly_Brain

I am going to try to make a cream for my varicose veins courtesy of James Wong Grow Your Own Drugs

Primrose

I think you'll have to track down Ray Mears of the Great Survival reputation and pick his brains. He seems to have brilliant ideas for just about everything in the natural world.

zippychick

See if there are any helpful suggestions in this thread, and i will merge this later
thanks
Zip

Seakay

Some ideas in this previous thread for using conkers instead of soap nuts
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/650737

morganlefay

I am planning to use them this year for first time to discourage GIANT spiders from living in the house - I am told it works really well......tho that's not a terribly useful thing to do with them for most 'normal' non-arachnophobes.

zippychick

Seakay wrote: »

Some ideas in this previous thread for using conkers instead of soap nuts
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/650737

Ill add that one to the memory bank :jthanks!

bramble1

Is there any uses for conkers? We have loads out side and if there is a use for them, i'd like to go a gather them up! but not really sure what to do with them?

flowertotmum

Hi bramble...we have tons of conkers too:D..i personally gather them and put them in baskets with pine cones..also i have started to spray paint some gold and silver for christmas decorations...we have them all over the house in window sills coz apparently if you do that then spiders won't enter your house:eek:...old myth but i really can't stand spiders so i'll try anything..
take care