1. Having a copper-polish emergency? Look in the fridge: Ketchup eliminates tarnish from copper.
2. It’s really gross to find meal worms in your cereal bowl. Keep them out of the cupboard with a few sticks of wrapped spearmint gum on the shelf. They hate the smell.
3. To repel ants, find where they’re coming into the house and spray the area with a mixture of equal parts water and vinegar. They hate the smell and it’s non-toxic.
4. Besides being great on steak, Worcestershire sauce makes an excellent brass polish. It also repairs scratched wood.
5. If you’ve got a dirty toilet bowl and you’re all out of cleanser you, try Tang.
6. Emergency shaving cream substitutes: Whipped Cream (not Cool Whip) or peanut butter(not the chunky kind)
7. More Shaving Cream Substitutes for the people who don’t like to use food :) Conditioner - Use your hair conditioner to shave. It’s a lot cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your face/legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.
8. Broken Glass - Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken glass pieces of glass - The fibers catch ones you can’t see!
9. Reopening envelope - If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour. Voila! It unseals easily.
10. Over time, a thermos will absorb the stains and odors of whatever you put in it. To undo the damage, pour in a tablespoon of uncooked rice and a cup of warm water. Then shake it up and rinse it out.
Tips from Bathroomreader.com
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