Home Remedies...

While reading this article in the Readers Digest for February 2006 I found this article about stuff around your house rather interesting....

If you are in a pinch to remove makeup you can use a "dab" of shortening and that supposedly will "do the trick"... What about "clogging" the pours??? YUCK!!!

For those of you who chew gum and ""accidentally"" get it stuck in your hair... If you are an adult, shame on you!! For children this could be a good idea.... Take peanut butter, don't know if you should use creamy, chunky or extra chunky for this one... Use your judgment and rub the gum with it until it comes out... Fair enough...

Let's say you are having a bad day at work and absolutely need a facial... Instead of using this product while grilling out your favourite hot dog, use it on your face!! MUSTARD used as a facial??? Um... this is what this article says.... Use a mild yellow brand to soothe and stimulate your skin. Disclaimer, but be sure to keep away from your eyes and test on a small area first to make sure it doesn't irritate your skin. Now you sound like a piece of fabric for testing!!

You got smelly armpits??? Well... "Splash" some vinegar under your arms to reduce your natural body odor and replace it with the awful stench of vinegar!!!!! Thankfully this gets rid of your deodorant stains on your blouse or shirt. Whew!

A cure-all for shaving cream... Take the butter from your toast and slather onto your wet skin for a baby smooth shave...

Man before the end of this post I am going to smell like a barnyard animal!


This one sounds usable... In the event you have one of those awful adult acne breakouts and can't muster it up to buy Oxy from your local drug store crush an aspirin and add a bit of water, make it into a paste wait a few minutes and wash off. It will reduce the redness and relieve the sting. I have heard a girlie hint that toothpaste works too... But have never been able to do that one either. The aspirin one sounds like it would work...

To soften your scaly elbows knees, ankles, etc.. You can treat them with a lemon juice/baking soda paste... Hmmm... I wonder about this one! While working around the house or yard and you get a splinter and the sterilized needle doesn't work then cover the wound with tape. After 3 days (of having Scotch tape on your finger --yeah right), pull of the tape and the splinter may, yes I said may come with it. What a leap of faith there!

To remove the smell from your hands while cooking or doing whatever take a few coffee beans, rub them together and they will absorb the smell. This should hold true as coffee beans are used in the fragrance departments in your higher end department stores to clear out your nasal passages while shopping for new perfumes.

If you have really smelly feet and your family passes out when you remove your shoes at the end of the day... Take Fluffy's kitty litter and put it in two old socks, tie them off and put them in your smelly shoes over night. Now you will have non-smelly shoes and before you know it your cat will be shitting in your shoes!! I'd prefer the smelly feet hands down!!

These other remedies were briefly mentioned...

Conditioner?? Move over Nexxus here comes Miracle Whip! Yes mayonnaise as your conditioner!! EW! I am dry heaving as we speak!

Have you broke a glass?? Take a piece of bread to pick up the shards... Ingenious!

This one is a classic! In the event you are too effing lazy to get your ass to the home improvement store you can use Vodka, dish soap, and water as a weed killer. The vodka doesn't kill the weeds, just drys it up... Then you can drink the remainder of the active ingredient... Watch out for your neighbors drunk off their asses...

Before you throw out your banana peels, be sure to polish your shoes with the yellow part of the peel. Oh, and just in case you have extra mis-matched socks laying around... put kidney beans in them tie them off for heating pads. This may be better than the rice ones... It's worth trying out. My biggest dilemma is whether to use red or navy beans!


So with all of these new remedies...

Which ones are you going to try???