By Bobbi Burger Brunoehler of BobbisBargains.
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I love finding new uses for items I already have in my house because I hate wasting money something I didn’t have to buy. Here are some unusual uses for tea bags, lemons, your dishwasher, Epsom salts, and dental floss. Plus, check out my unusual uses for vinegar, tin foil and Vicks vapo rub.
Tea Bags
- Put a used tea bag at the bottom of a pot that you are using for a new plant to feed it and plug the hole
- Put tea bags into a tub of warm water; let it cool; soak to relieve sunburn pain
- Place a wet tea bag on a bug bite to relieve itching
- Scatter used tea leaves around your rose bushes to fertilize
By Bobbi Burger Brunoehler of BobbisBargains.
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I love my Pyrex dishware and my casserole dishes almost every day. However, the one thing that I don’t like about glass dishware is the baked-on brown stuff that I can’t seem to get off. No matter how much I wash my casserole dishes, they always look dirty. I’ve used SOS pads, but they rusted all over my sink. I don’t want to buy new dishes.
Then I read an article that said a balled up piece of aluminum foil and a bit of dish soap would remove stains from glassware. I didn’t believe it. So, I grabbed a bit of stray aluminum foil, loosely balled it up, spritzed a bit of dish soap and water on it, and began to scrub. Oh my goodness! The impossible-to-remove gunk came right off! My dishes look like new!
So what else is aluminum foil good for? Here are five ways that I personally use aluminum foil:
