These are just a few of the quirky ideas that appear in Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things.
Author: Instructables.com
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781626362451
Category: House & Home
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Most people use nail polish remover to remove nail polish. They use coffee grounds to make coffee and hair dryers to dry their hair. The majority of people may also think that the use of eggs, lemons, mustard, butter, and mayonnaise should be restricted to making delicious food in the kitchen. The Instructables.com community would disagree with this logic—they have discovered hundreds of inventive and surprising ways to use these and other common household materials to improve day-to-day life. Did you know that tennis balls can protect your floors, fluff your laundry, and keep you from backing too far into (and thus destroying) your garage? How much do you know about aspirin? Sure, it may alleviate pain, but it can also be used to remove sweat stains, treat bug bites and stings, and prolong the life of your sputtering car battery. These are just a few of the quirky ideas that appear in Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things. Readers of Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things will learn how to: Remove odors from clothes using vodka Shine leather belts, wallets, purses, and jackets using butter Remove scuffs from sneakers using toothpaste Locate small objects once thought to be gone forever using pantyhose And much more!Presents cost-effective alternative uses for household objects, including vinegar as a cleaning agent, banana peels as fertilizer, and various household items as craft projects.
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ISBN: 1621454010
Category: Home economics
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Presents cost-effective alternative uses for household objects, including vinegar as a cleaning agent, banana peels as fertilizer, and various household items as craft projects.This book will open your eyes to more than 2,000 creative and helpful uses you can make of familiar household products, such as: • Aspirin can revive a dead car battery and a coating of petroleum jelly will keep the battery’s terminals ...
Author: Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher: Reader's Digest
ISBN: 1621454363
Category: House & Home
Page: 384
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An updated edition, now fully illustrated and in color, of the classic guide to using common household items to replace, restore, repair, or revive almost anything in your household—including yourself. When you have a household problem, don’t run to the store and waste good money, just open your pantry door—and EXTRAORDINARY USES FOR ORDINARY THINGS. You’ll be amazed at what you can do with baby oil, bleach, duct tape, tea, rubbing alcohol, and dozens of other handy items. This book will open your eyes to more than 2,000 creative and helpful uses you can make of familiar household products, such as: • Aspirin can revive a dead car battery and a coating of petroleum jelly will keep the battery’s terminals from corroding • A dab of shaving cream can keep your bathroom mirror from fogging and can remove juice stains on carpeting • Petroleum jelly makes a great lip balm, makeup remover, and moisturizer • A turkey baster is the perfect tool for watering Christmas trees and hard-to-reach plants • Beer can be combed through your hair as a setting lotion, used as lure to trap insects, and polish gold jewelry • Sandpaper can be used to sharpen needles and scissors, roughen slippery soles of new shoes, remove ink stains and scuff marks from suede, and remove stains on grout lines • Wax paper will prevent a cast-iron skillet from rusting, restore the nonstick surface on your iron, and use on the bottom of a microwave when cooking messy foods. If you hate to throw things away or if you delight in dreaming up new ways to use ordinary items, then you’ll love the ideas in this book. You’ll be amazed at the problems you can solve. It’s a book you’ll be sure to turn to again and again for helpful ideas, trustworthy advice, and entertaining reading.You'll be amazed at what you can do with baby oil, bleach, duct tape, tea, rubbing alcohol, and dozens of other handy items. This book will open your eyes to over 2,300 creative and helpful uses you can make of familiar household products.
Author: Reader's Digest Staff
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ISBN: 192174345X
Category: Household supplies
Page: 384
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Discover ingenious ways to use or reuse more than 250 common household items to replace, restore, repair, or revive almost anything in your household--including yourself. When you have a household problem, don't run to the store and waste good money, just open your pantry door--and EXTRAORDINARY USES FOR ORDINARY THINGS. You'll be amazed at what you can do with baby oil, bleach, duct tape, tea, rubbing alcohol, and dozens of other handy items. This book will open your eyes to over 2,300 creative and helpful uses you can make of familiar household products. You will discover how to save time and money with items in your pantry, medicine cabinet, wastebasket, and recycling bin that you can use to solve common household problems or to substitute for products that you would otherwise buy. The over 2,300 extraordinary uses includes: - Aspirin can revive a dead car battery and a coating of petroleum jelly will keep the battery's terminals from corroding - A dab of shaving cream can keep your bathroom mirror from fogging and can remove juice stains on carpeting - Petroleum jelly makes a great lip balm, makeup remover, and moisturizer - A turkey baster is the perfect tool for watering Christmas trees and hard-to-reach plants - Beer can be combed through your hair as a setting lotion, used as lure to trap insects, and polish gold jewelry - Sandpaper can be used to sharpen needles and scissors, roughen slippery soles of new shoes, remove ink stains and scuff marks from suede, and remove stains on grout lines - Wax paper will prevent a cast-iron skillet from rusting, restore the nonstick surface on your iron, and use on the bottom of a microwave when cooking messy foods If you hate to throw things away or if you delight in dreaming up new ways to use ordinary items, then you'll love the ideas in this book. You'll be amazed at the problems you can solve. It's a book you'll be sure to turn to again and again for helpful ideas, trustworthy advice, and entertaining reading.Presents cost-effective alternative uses for household objects, including vinegar as a cleaning agent, banana peels as fertilizer, and various household items as craft projects.
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: PSU:000067179497
Category: Reference
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Presents cost-effective alternative uses for household objects, including vinegar as a cleaning agent, banana peels as fertilizer, and various household items as craft projects.Provides a collection of household hints involving unexpected uses for common items from meat tenderizer to yogurt, arranged alphabetically, along with lists of the most useful things to have on hand for different jobs and other details.
Author: Reader's Digest Association (Great Britain)
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ISBN: 0762108746
Category: Recycle
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Polish your rings with toothpaste? Absolutely! In fact, you can clean piano keys, even ink stains with the sfuff. Surprised? Then get ready. EXTRAORDINARY USES FOR ORDINARY THINGS has thousands of ways to help you get more value out of more than 200 everyday items you probably already have in your home.If you hate to throw things away or if you delight in dreaming up new ways to use ordinary items, then you’ll love the ideas in this book. You’ll be amazed at the problems you can solve.
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781621454373
Category: House & Home
Page: 384
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An updated edition, now fully illustrated and in color, of the classic guide to using common household items to replace, restore, repair, or revive almost anything in your household—including yourself. When you have a household problem, don’t run to the store and waste good money, just open your pantry door—and EXTRAORDINARY USES FOR ORDINARY THINGS. You’ll be amazed at what you can do with baby oil, bleach, duct tape, tea, rubbing alcohol, and dozens of other handy items. This book will open your eyes to more than 2,000 creative and helpful uses you can make of familiar household products, such as: • Aspirin can revive a dead car battery and a coating of petroleum jelly will keep the battery’s terminals from corroding • A dab of shaving cream can keep your bathroom mirror from fogging and can remove juice stains on carpeting • Petroleum jelly makes a great lip balm, makeup remover, and moisturizer • A turkey baster is the perfect tool for watering Christmas trees and hard-to-reach plants • Beer can be combed through your hair as a setting lotion, used as lure to trap insects, and polish gold jewelry • Sandpaper can be used to sharpen needles and scissors, roughen slippery soles of new shoes, remove ink stains and scuff marks from suede, and remove stains on grout lines • Wax paper will prevent a cast-iron skillet from rusting, restore the nonstick surface on your iron, and use on the bottom of a microwave when cooking messy foods. If you hate to throw things away or if you delight in dreaming up new ways to use ordinary items, then you’ll love the ideas in this book. You’ll be amazed at the problems you can solve. It’s a book you’ll be sure to turn to again and again for helpful ideas, trustworthy advice, and entertaining reading.It ' s used to dilute gaseous anesthetics during surgery and to inflate lighter -
thanair blimps and balloons . One of its most important properties is its inability to
burn ; helium is completely nonflammable . In one sense helium has the most ...
Author: Carl H. Snyder
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ISBN: UOM:39015032226030
Category: Science
Page: 656
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Examines the chemistry of the substances of our everyday world. Our daily lives are immersed in chemicals; an effective way to teach and learn chemistry is by examining the goods and substances that we use in our daily lives and that affect us and our environment.It must be unusual and extraOn the other hand , it is contended that the com
ordinary with reference to the particular road ... that , according to the view of
these been used for carrying bricks or other things judges , the comparison , so
far at all ...
Author: Great Britain. Courts
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:35112103821163
Category: Law reports, digests, etc
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Ask her to take up exercises that are fun - golf , dancing , bicycling in the park ,
tennis , bowling - anything that is fun , gets her ... Some Unusual Uses for
Ordinary Things PRACTICAL POINTERS FROM READERS CONSULTANT / May
1965 13.
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ISBN: UCAL:B4327610
Category: Medicine
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All these were “ subjects chosen from ordinary life , " just as much as Peter Bell ,
the Idiot Boy , Alice Fell , Beggars , or the Sailor ' s Mother . ... used by men , and
at the same time to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination , whereby
ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and
further and above all , to make these incidents and situations interesting by
tracing in ...
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ISBN: PRNC:32101067624997
Category: Great Britain
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The case was tasen ordinary in kind as well as in amount . carriage of materials ,
and goods used for to the Court of ... in the district of a highway board , and vary
carts not alleged to have been unusual , tiles , fuel , and other similar things .
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ISBN: OSU:32437010371694
Category: Justices of the peace
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wanted tra Edw ! SECTION I 44 What You Should Bring to Your Business
EXTRAORDINARY USES FOR C Lou ... Find extraordinary uses for ordinary
things !
Author: Arthur H. Kuriloff
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: UOM:49015000201427
Category: New business enterprises
Page: 663
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Despite all his fondness for the unusual word , Meredith often uses commonplace
diction . ... may often refer to something previously named or described , but
sometimes it shows ordinary vagueness of reference : “ The terrible reality of
things .
Author: Rebecca S. Hogan
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015050607012
Category:
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... benevolent fund dispensed at my discretion to whoever needs help . The fund
has been put to some unusual uses . Besides the ordinary things - plane and bus
tickets for stranded tourists , meals for the hungry , clothes , gasoline , and room ...
Author: Jim Reid
Publisher:
ISBN: WISC:89065270928
Category: Evangelistic work
Page: 183
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As Leung's poem “Onion” suggests, not all ordinary things are the same; they
may change from time to time. In a word ... pass from unusual to usual, from
irregular to regular, and can move the other way (what was an ordinary part of my
life, is no more). There is ... Nevertheless, unlike some critics, such as Randall's
interpretation, Leung uses the terms “ordinary,” “everyday,” and “daily”
interchangeably.
Author: C. T. Au
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793609380
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 216
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This book resolves around the fundamental question, “What is Hong Kong modernism?” To address this issue, C.T. Au identifies three significant characteristics: a renewal of traditions, an obsession with ordinary things, and an expression of concerns about social and political issues, shared among Western modernisms, Chinese modernism in the 1940s, and such Hong Kong modernists as Ma Lang, Liu Yichang, and Leung Ping-kwan (Yasi/Ye Si). This research concentrates on an examination of the major modernist tenets embodied in Leung’s literary works. Leung Ping-kwan is one of the most prominent and widely read Hong Kong modernist writers; however, there exist only a few scholarly works which focus on the direct relationship between Leung’s works and modernisms. The author argues that Leung paid special attention to issues regarding tradition, daily life, and colonial culture in order to understand his past, his identity, and the unique features of Hong Kong modernism, which celebrate multiple perspectives and inclusiveness. This study not only helps differentiate Hong Kong modernism from other modernisms—positioning the former as a variant of the latter—but also provides a response to the problems evoked by Hong Kong’s colonial milieu.... as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men, and, at
the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby
ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and
further, ...
Author: William Minto
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Extraordinary uses for ordinary things . ( Advertisements in magazines and
newspapers are a good source of " ordinary things . " ) 5 . Opportunities for social
change . Create a New Business or Purchase an Existing Business ? Starting a ...
Author: John J. Bullaro
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN: WISC:89012333233
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 364
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