Beauty

[151949]

When I was a teenager working in a bakery we always used string to cut cakes so we could sell a piece at a time. People would come in to get free coffee and buy a piece of cake or a danish or doughnut. We had special little bakery boxes to put them in. I think sometimes people bought things to get the little box.

[Gorgf]

I have used toothpaste to fill in nail holes before painting. The old white kind not gel.

[riley1]

Old makeup brushes are great for cleaning the underneath parts of my sewing machines - removes lint, thread fibers, etc.

[aggravated]

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@Shanus wrote:

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@aggravated wrote:

I used dental floss one Thansgiving to truss the turkey.

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@aggravated  Easier than kitchen cord or just out of it & used floss?

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@Shanus  I used to be in charge of Thanksgiving at my sisters house.  I had to buy her pans after a couple of years as we tired of loading serving dishes, serving spoons, pots and pans in the car every year, in addition to food items.  I wondered, since they had four children, how meals were prepared with only three pans total.  There was no kitchen cord there ever and had to come up with something!  Floss it was!

[TY]

I ended up using dental floss to open a keychain remote garage door opener back so I could replace the disc battery. The remote back would not slide off like it should have but the floss was able to pry it open enough so I could pry off the back.

[Shanus]

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@aggravated wrote:

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@Shanus wrote:

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@aggravated wrote:

I used dental floss one Thansgiving to truss the turkey.

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@aggravated  Easier than kitchen cord or just out of it & used floss?

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@Shanus  I used to be in charge of Thanksgiving at my sisters house.  I had to buy her pans after a couple of years as we tired of loading serving dishes, serving spoons, pots and pans in the car every year, in addition to food items.  I wondered, since they had four children, how meals were prepared with only three pans total.  There was no kitchen cord there ever and had to come up with something!  Floss it was!

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@aggravated  Lol. When dh & I recently visited dd, she was cooking spaghetti & sauce one night. Always the one to help, I looked in her pot/pan cabinet to get another pot to start the spaghetti while she finished her marinara sauce...nothing there. Her answer was she has 1 sauce pan since they’re only 2 people...how many do they need? Duh? At least 2? We waited until sauce was finished, poured in bowl, washed the pot, waited for water to boil to cook the spaghetti. Of course, by then the sauce had to reheat in microwave. Guess what her gift is in December? 😁

[qualitygal]

If you can't get twist jar lids open, take a large rubberband and double loop it around the lid, so you can grip it.  It'll turn.  If you have to, take the fat end of a knife and gently go around the lid by knocking on it, then twist it open.  

[qualitygal]

WD 40 shouldn't be listed under "beauty" but, it has a bunch of household help uses too.

[Shanus]

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@qualitygal wrote:

If you can't get twist jar lids open, take a large rubberband and double loop it around the lid, so you can grip it.  It'll turn.  If you have to, take the fat end of a knife and gently go around the lid by knocking on it, then twist it open.  

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@qualitygal  My flat rubber sink stopper works well, too. Darn jars!