Friday, March 13, 2009

Fabric Softener Sheet Uses




Things that you can do with fabric softener sheets.

1. A sheet will repel mosquitoes on your patio. Hang a sheet when outdoors during the mosquito season.
2. Eliminates static electricity from your television and computer screen. Fabric softener sheets are designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television and computer screen with a used sheet to keep dust from resettling.
3. A sheet can be used to dissolve soap scum from shower doors, and the tile walls. Clean the surfaces with a sheet.
4. A fragranced sheet can be used to freshen the air in your home. Place an individual sheet in a drawer, hang one in the closet, locker at the health club, locker at work or under the seat of your car or truck. Leave several in the RV or camper while it's in storage.
5. A sewing needle run through a sheet prior to sewing, can prevent the thread from tangling.
6. A sheet left inside suitcase luggage or travel baggage can prevent musty odors. Place a single sheet inside the empty luggage before storing.
7. Fabric softener sheets are claimed to clean baked on foods from cooking pots and pans. Place a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight. Next morning sponge it clean. The antistatic agent apparently weakens the bond between the stuck on food between the pot or pans surface. The fabric softening agents helps to soften the baked on food.
8. Placing a sheet at the bottom of the wastebasket, helps eliminate odors found in wastebaskets. Placing an individual sheet at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper will accomplish the same results.
9. Collecting pet hairs. Rubbing the area with a sheet will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
10. Eliminating static electricity from venetian blinds and window coverings. Wipe the blinds with a sheet is said to prevent dust from resettling.
11. Wiping up sawdust, on the shop workbench, from drilling or sandpapering is easy. A used sheet will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
12. They will take the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.
13. Placing a sheet in your shoes or sneakers overnight, will help to deodorize them and as a result they will smell much better in the AM.
14.Used fabric-softener sheets are the perfect lint and static-free rags for cleaning CDs and DVDs. Handle CDs by the rim to cut down on fingerprints. The back side of the CD carries the information and is the side that needs cleaning. Use the dryer sheet and stroke out to the edge from the center of the (instead of in a circular motion.)
15. It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them.
16. It also repels mice.
17. Spread them around foundation areas, or in trailers or cars that are sitting.
18. It also keeps mice from entering your vehicle.
19. Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.
20. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.
21. Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. Keeps them smelling fresh.

Source: FlyLady

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