Things with additional, unintended uses.

Allira

There's no spare Coca Cola in this house because I refuse to buy it.

I do remember a teacher getting the children to take a baby tooth in each and watch it dissolve in Coca Cola 😯

Is Fanta just as bad? I do hope not!

I carry a folding grabber in the bottom of one of my supermarket shopping bags. Very useful for out of reach items. I used it this week for ice creams at the back of a high freezer cabinet. There is never a tall person around when you need one, and I am 'vertically challenged'.

A good tip I read on GN was to use a shiny copper coin to scratch off limescale around taps. Works a treat!

I use my fish fryer to hook things from the back of top shelves where my husband often likes to place things

Mmmn. Luckygirl
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NotSpaghetti

I use a wok tool to flick cereal boxes of the top shelf and used a toothpaste tube lid as a "buffer" for my shower sliding door when the white plastic door stopper wore through and fell off. The tube cap has been there at least 5 years now.

At my mother-in-law's house I also use a spaghetti server to close the high up window light above her sink unit.
Maybe lots of people do this.

Reminds me .... my OH used to call our spaghetti server the camel castrator!

Oops cereal not serial!

There are some great tips on here 😃

I have a sofa in front of my living room bay window that has plantation blinds. I use one of those extending spring loaded rods for net curtains to push open and close the slats. The rubber end on the rod prevents any damage to the blinds. I use long silicone tipped tongs to get serial packets out of tall cupboards (I am only 5'2). I use the plastic pots from Christmas puddings to mix polyfiller in and old ice cream tubs for steeping dishcloths in bleach. I also use an old ice cream tubs for putting decking oil in when preserving the fence and I use a long handled small paint roller to apply it.

We save four pint milk bottles for garden supplies in the greenhouse and decant grit, pelleted fertilizer, vermiculite etc into them. They stack more compactly than if left in the original assortment of containers, sacks, tubs etc. We write the contents on the outside with a permanent marker near the neck to be read easily

Esmay thanks for the reminder about shaving foam. I have a canister in the cupboard. Recently I was looking at it and wracking my brain trying to remember why I bought it. You've reminded me!

....why do shops..... Sorry!

53Gin

Toothpaste got rid of a stain on my cherished cashmere sweater.
I use barbecue tongs to get stuff from a top cupboard and my walking stick to get items in supermarkets which always seem to put the things I want so high up they are only accessible to those a lot more than my five feet in height.

Off track but why do shoes put the smallest size shoes on the top shelves. Stands to reason that most size 3, 4 shoe wearers are short in stature. As a 5 foot nothing girl maybe I should take my sweeping brush to get them down

Shaving foam is brilliant on fabric stains and on those nasty stains produced by fake tan .

I use a fluffy bathroom back brush to flick down toilet rolls from the top of the bathroom cupboards. OH stores them up there. Always shut the toilet lid first

How can toothpaste work on cashmere? It's a mild abrasive, surely?

Kate1949

Toothpaste makes chrome taps etc sparkle. Just rub some on, leave for about 10 minutes and rinse off - shiny taps.

It also cleans car headlights which have gone dim.

jojogogo

Good morning!
Bit of fun. I will start with my non intent ended use. Got some jar covers from ikea. You put over yogurt etc in fridge. Come in three sizes. But the small size is perfect to grip my cava to open! Works on jars too!

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Toothpaste got rid of a stain on my cherished cashmere sweater.
I use barbecue tongs to get stuff from a top cupboard and my walking stick to get items in supermarkets which always seem to put the things I want so high up they are only accessible to those a lot more than my five feet in height.

I use the clip on the top of my bathroom “lobby” brush, (the clip that clips it to the long handled dust pan) to put things on hangers to finish drying on the bathroom curtain rail.

Tea makes a good window cleaner (without milk and sugar!)

Me too BlueBelle - I think lots of us wash hair daily.

My son uses shower hats to cover the smoke alarm when he is sanding.

When 'serious' cleaning, the window cleaning squeegee gives a brill finish to the hob & worktop.

I wash my hair every day Oreo so someone does like to

After I had my cateracts done and was told not to wash my hair for a week or was it a fortnight I borrowed a pair of y grandkids goggles out of a chemistry set and it kept them completely dry

Another use/misuse - sugar tongs to lift teabags out of mugs of tea.