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Alternative uses for aftershave?
coffeehound
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Having gone through ‘a phase’ some years back I have about eight part-used bottles of fairly cheap aftershave to dispose of. Any suggestions for alternative uses please?
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Put some on material and place in draws / wardrobes. Unless it absolutely honks!
Leave the lid off and keep it in the bathroom, or use as a bathroom spray if it has a spray head.Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.0 -
Sticky stuff / label glue remover.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0
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Cleaning keyboards and greasy marks from phones, mirrors etc.0
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Donate to a local homeless charity.Decluttering, 20 mins / day Jan 2024 2/20
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Chuck it down the loo before you hit the nest0
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Give it to someone you really hate.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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Thanks for the suggestions. I wonder if shelters would accept unsealed toiletries but will pursue that one first0
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Don't know if this still works, but it used to make a good antimister on car windows.
Try first on a small side window patch - clean window then polish with a bit of aftershave and if it does the job then it still works.0 -
You take me back. A friend at college used to use "Amarige" to clean her acetates before re-using them (1992, pre-PowerPointDon't know if this still works, but it used to make a good antimister on car windows.
Try first on a small side window patch - clean window then polish with a bit of aftershave and if it does the job then it still works.). Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
It depends. We've got some hygiene poverty collection points but they stipulate must be unused/unopened. We also have somewhere run by a rector and she says the people she passess items on to are desperate and it doesn't matter if it's part used.coffeehound wrote: »Thanks for the suggestions. I wonder if shelters would accept unsealed toiletries but will pursue that one first0
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