Unusual tips

[skw444]

Vinegar on a sunburn. Take a cotton ball soaked in vinegar and rub it all over your sunburn. Wait about 20 minutes and then you wash off the vinegar. This will help to take the sting out of a sunburn.

 

[Belle1962]

For other sunburn remedy: Prep H or any other 'roid treatment cream. It contains an ingredient that numbs the pain. When my dr suggested this several years ago I thought he was nuts--but it worked!!!!!!!

 

[Todd&Copper]

I saw one on CSI last week - clear nail polish on chigger bits (my DSis got a mess of chigger bites on night years ago at Epcot). The polish keeps the air from reacting with the skin and prevents itch. Don't know if it also works on mosquito bites, but that might be worth a shot as well.

 

[Kimmumum]

For sunburn.....pour vitamin D (whole) milk in a bowl. Soak milk up with a washcloth and apply to sunburn. My sister-in-law burnt herself so bad that she couldn't wear any (and I mean ANY) clothes. I told her about this and she was fully dressed the next day.

Mosquito bites....hold a penny on it. The copper stops the itch.

Wilting tulips....if you have tulips in a vase and they wilt, put several pennies in the bottom of the vase and they will stand straight up.

That is all I can think of right now........

 

[perdidochas]

My son came home from camp one summer with warts all over his feet. I took him to the dr. and he suggested duct tape before we went with the "freezing" method. I thought he was crazy. But we put duct tape on his feet and after a few days they were all gone.

When I mentioned this to my friend, she said she taped a banana peel, soft side on the foot of her son for a few nights and a wart he had just came right out.

Gross, I know. But good to know.

Almost anything can work to get rid of warts. Much of it's psychosomatic. I've also heard "tape a penny" as well as the tried and true Huck Finn method:

But say -- how do you cure 'em with dead cats?"
"Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see 'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear 'em talk; and when they're taking that feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!' That'll fetch any wart."

above from Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, Chapter VI

 

[Beep]

Not really a weird one but a good one. If you are wearing sandals or flip-flops and get a rub from them, put a bit of dry oil on the area and they won't rub anymore. I carry a little bottle of baby oil around the parks with me and it never fails to work.

Tea tree oil is a miracle product. Mozzies absolutely hate it. We put a few drops in a spray bottle with water and use that instead of DEET. Always works for us. A few drops in a sink of water keeps them away too. You can use it as an antiseptic and for wiping surfaces down too. It works well on athletes foot.

I found that milk works wonders on sunburn as someone else mentioned too. I burned myself on the oven grill a few years ago and was told to put a cotton pad soaked in vinegar on it. Worked a treat so for those two. Vinegar works well to help blisters heal.

Hot bread on a spot or stye on the eye draws the infection - the heat hurts at first but it really helps. The hot yeast is what draws it out.

 

[tigercat]

I have always used a warm tea bag to help with anything with the eyes. It acts as a small compress and the tannic in the tea bag draws out the gunk.
tigercat

 

[mustachspot]

For mosquito bites, when it's really bad, I take a cotton ball and rubbing alcohol. Sometimes it takes a couple of applications, but it does the trick.

For cold sores, put toothpaste on it and it dries it out. Paste not the gel.

For burns or scars, put honey on it and wrap in a bandage. This will help prevent or lessen scarring.

I'm sre there are more great remedies out there. Anyone else?

 

[Disneyholic]

a spoonful of sugar swallowed dry. A pack of sugar is just the right amount and usually readily available at most restaurants in the parks and elsewhere.
Probably just like the peanut butter it sort of gags you on the way down and counteracts the hiccup.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

WD-40. It works on just about everything (on the outside)

The offiical web site has 2000 uses. the un-offical ones have a lot more.

I.E. on a bee sting, it keeps spiders and roaches out of area sprayed. keeps pets from flower beds if sprayed around, etc.

For those with little kids, it will clean GUM out of HAIR very quickly. Also use it to clean the expensive tennis shoes, and it coats the leather and other parts from water damage!

Pirate Translation:
Arrrrrhhh Arrrgghhh! It be a good and usefull tool for any shipmate O' mine "ta use fer to make his station a little more shipshape. O'l Grumpy use it on his Cutless, so 'ta O'l briney spray warnt eat 'ta sword 'wit rust. It be a good thing, even a'thow it be made by landubbers!! Arrhhh, ye be a smart shipmate whats that stock it in the cargo hold! Arrrhhh arrrrgghhh!!

 

[mickeymousemom]

a spoonful of sugar swallowed dry. A pack of sugar is just the right amount and usually readily available at most restaurants in the parks and elsewhere.

My dad taught me this years ago and it works every time!

I also use nail polish on mosquito bites. It works good for awhile. Whatever you do, don't scratch it before you apply the polish...it burns like a scotch bonnet!