Miracle Uses For Household Products - Part 4

These appeared in our local paper and I thought that I would share them with my readers. As you know there are avid followers of vinegar and duct tape. Well, here are some other items and things you can do with them. I'll cover more of them in later blogs. By the way, I have not tested these, so test them yourselves, no guarantees.

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Grocery Bags

Five uses

1. Preserve paint brushes. To keep brushes and rollers from drying out, place them in bags and tie them or wrap them with rubber bands to keep air out. The tools will stay moist and protected for a day or so.

2. Bulk up curtain valances by stuffing them in the valances for a resilient pouf. Can also be used to stuff crafts or pillows.

3. Treat chapped hands by rubbing with a thick layer of petroleum jelly and placing them in a plastic bag for 15 minutes to half an hour.

4. Keep one or two stashed in your car to use as a trash bag.

5. If you are picking berries (blue berries, blackberries, etc), slip a hand through each loop and simply pick and drop right into the bag without having to hold a container.

Honey

Three uses

1. Soak in a milk and honey bath. Add about 1/3 cup of honey to 2 1/4 cups of milk. Mix thoroughly. You can even add a few drops of essential oil to give your honey milk bath additional scent.

2. Treat minor skin abrasions and wounds with honey’s antibacterial and antifungal properties. Apply a small amount twice daily to a wound or burn to speed up the healing process.

3. Help a hangover by spooning a few tablespoons of honey on toast for breakfast. The fructose speeds up the metabolism of alcohol.

Ice cube trays

Organize jewelry, small nuts and bolts and buttons in easy-to-stack trays.

Ketchup

1. Get rid of chlorine green hair with a ketchup shampoo. Massage ketchup generously into your hair and leave it for 15 minutes, then wash it out, using baby shampoo. Wonder if you would then be red headed, LOL!

2. Clean the bottoms of copper pans by spreading ketchup over the copper portion. Let sit for about 15 to 20 minutes, wipe off and rinse.

Lemon

Five uses

1. Relieve a sore throat. Cut a lemon in half. Skewer one half over a medium flame on a gas stove or an electric burner set on high and roast until the peel turns golden brown. Let cool slightly, then mix the juice with 1 teaspoon of honey.

2. Whiten fingernails. Rub a wedge on the surface of your nails.

3. Remove soft cheese or other sticky foods from a grater. Rub both sides of the grater with the pulp side of a cut lemon.

4. Create blond highlights by adding 1/4 cup lemon juice to 3/4 cup water and rinse your hair with the mixture. Then sit in the sun until your hair dries. Lemon juice is natural bleach.

5. Giving your pets a lemon rinse after their bath to keep fleas and ticks away. Fleas and ticks don’t like citrus. Squeeze 6 lemons into a gallon of water, heat on the stove to a boil. Set aside to cool to room temperature. Use as a final rinse (don’t rinse out the lemon).