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Miss-spent_2

Always save wet hand wipes from air line meal packs. Brilliant for cleaning paint work/coasters/anything around the house

starlite_2

thanks for the butter tip..we always have proper butter..but i end up hacking off a big chunk,then putting the half melted excess in the bin..

myrnahaz

My MIL gave me a really naff cheese set, comprising a cheese board with a magnet that holds four cheese chopper things. I'm not a gadget person, so I wasn't too impressed until i realised that the knife things were excellent little scrapers - really sharp and easier to handle than a man-sized scraper. To date I've used it for scraping the ice from the fridge, scraping dried cat food from the floor around the cat's bowl before washing the floor, scraping burned food off the ceramic hob and meat tins and scraping dried on drips off the worksurfaces, scraping paint splashes from the window etc etc. They're really good. I don't know how I'd cope without them. I'm sure MIL wouldn't be too impressed if I told her what I used them for.

Pink.

Hi myrnahaz,

We have a long thread on this topic so I have merged your thread into it as it makes it easier for readers to find all the ideas in one place. The posts are listed in date order so you'll have to read from the beginning to see them all.

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myrnahaz

thriftmonster wrote:

Toothpaste makes an excellent zit cream especially overnight

Take care with this if you have sensitive skin. I told my DIL to try toothpaste when she developed a zit last summer - she did as i suggested but then had the most horrendous reation to it - I felt so bad. It always works ok for me, but maybe I have skin like a rhino.

Calephetos

moggins wrote:

I use eggboxes to grow seeds in, but I think everybody does this?

I don't, as I'm a pot gardener, and thus they'd not degrade fast enough, but I do use those plastic vegetable punnets from supermarkets as seedling trays. We get so many of them when we buy mushrooms or anything reduced (we never *normally* buy anything but mushrooms pre-wrapped, please note!) and it's horrific to think of just landfilling them.

Some are clear, and make great propagator lids for your 'new' seed trays.



Also, live yoghurt is good for yeast infections because it contains 'friendly bacteria' that help balance things out in delicate places. Eating it isn't the usual treatment method, I have to break it to you...

Gents look away now...

Popping some up there, OTOH, *is* a reliable delivery of treatment. There's supposed to be some fiddly method involving a tampon applicator of yoghurt, but I must confess that when I tried it, all I got was a soggy bit of cardboard and yoghurt over everything in the bathroom :rotfl: I gave up and bought some Cannesten...

And once you've exhausted the yoghurt supply, the pots can be used to plant seedlings - when ready to plant out, cut the bottom off and plant directly into the soil or growbag - the roots will grow out and down, and slugs can't get over the edge of the pot as easily and nibble at your precious baby squash/marrows/etc.

Calephetos

Bother - double post. The forum seems to be lagging badly on my side of things :S

Christmasshopper

I use limescale remover to clean brass and toothpaste to clean silver. They both work brilliantly well.

123xyz

Old shoeboxes of various sizes, ie ladies', mens', children's make great underwear drawer dividers. Put knickers in one, bras in another, one for tights, one for socks ... etc.

When you have squeezed a lemon, put it in the microwave for a few seconds and then just wpie round. Gets the grease off and smells nice too.

Washing tablet bags can be used to put a bar of soap in, and then use instead of more expensive shower gel.

OH's old white towelling socks are used as glass cleaning cloths; leave less smears than plain cotton fabric.

flowerofscotland

Hairspray is a great stain remover for ball point pen and hair colourant - spray it on the stain and then wash normally. My hairdresser told me about this when some hair colourant splashed onto the cuff of a white blouse. I was very sceptical but it works.