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Multipurpose Household Sollutions: Basic items and their uses. Try these for yourself, as some are amazing and some aren't so great.
Liquid Tools
 
Windex Window Cleaner
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Hydrogen Peroxide; $1.00 3% Bottle.
* Clean mirrors without smearing.
* Canker sores and whiter teeth: One cap full, 10 min a day, then spit it out.
* Spray onto counters and table tops to kill salmonella & other bacteria.
* Won't harm your septic system like bleach or most other disinfectants will.
* Foot fungus: Spray 50/50 water & peroxide onto feet & let dry.
* Cold, or plugged sinuses: Spray 50/50 mixture of peroxide/water into nose. Hold for two minutes then blow nose.
* Lighter hair color: Spray 50/50 mixture onto wet hair and comb through.
* Skin infections/boils: Pour half bottle into bath tub with your bath.
* Whiten clothing/remove stains. Use peroxide in place of bleach. Let sit on stain for a minute, then rub with cold water and repeat.
 
Vinegar
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WD40
* Remove tree sap without damaging the car paint. Also oil hinges everywhere, make car door seals not frozen in winter; unstuck house/car key holes. Also protect tools from rust.
 
Boiling Water
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Superglue, Stapler, Hot Glue, Needle&Thread, Large Safety Pins: Cracks, breaks, around the home. Pants buttons break off. Latch breaks. Hole in pocket. Warning: Glue may eat fabric, use common sense.
 
Liquid Dish Soap in Gallon Bottle.
* Easy on hands & antibacterial: Wash Hands, Car, Body, Dishes, Entire Bathroom, Kitchen Floor, Counters. Degreaser.
Solid Tools
 
Baking Soda
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Sewing Pins
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Saftey Pins
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Silicon Sealer Calk
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Stapler
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Hot Glue Gun
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Glass Jars
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Pocket Lighter
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ZipLock Quart/Gallon Bags
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* 2007 Entertainment Book, area specific. See http://www.entertainment.com/
 
* Push Pins & Thumb Tacks: Hang light stuff on wall/cork board.
 
* Paper Clips: I’m not really sure…
 
* Rubber Bands: Group objects. Roll papers/posters. Hold folders closed.
 
* Petroleum Jelly (Vix): Shines & Protects car leather/dash/interior/steering wheel. Cheap and highly effective way to keep your skin moist!
 
* Printer Paper and Yellow Sticky Notes. For printing, drawing, lists.
 
* Label Printer. Fashionably label your personal items, bathroom door, office doors, and pens.
 
 
* Tongs: Grab anything such as salad, noodles, fork you accidently dropped in the trash, etc. Also get rubber oven mitts.
 
* Permanent Marker: Label back of remote control battery lids, label stereo/pc cables, label things you own. Electronic Label Machines work well here.
 
* Poster-Size Wall Calendar: Schedules, meetings, parties, reminders, chores, bill due dates,
 
* ZipLock Gallon Bags, Plastic Storage Tupperware, Storage Bins with Compartments: Air/Waterproofing and or Storing foods, organizing gadgets & connectors, sorting jewelry, sort any small stuff in one place. Bin: Store out-of-season clothes and items to be protected from weather/bugs. Makes good laundry bin. Many plastic bins may/will break in direct sunlight.
 
* 2GB – 80 GB MP3 Player: Music, Audio Books, Scanned-in Text Books placed in text-to-MP3 program, Class Speeches.
 
* MemoryCard, CellPhone,
Garage Hardware Tools
 
* Hardening Foam Insulation Spray:
 
* Gator Grip Wrench: Wonderfully replaces many kinds of wrenches, but doesn’t always work in tiny spaces.
 
* Plumbers Tape (spool of metal strip with holes in it.) Good for hanging ANY items in garage and holding heavy items together.
 
* Pliers. Bend and torque any metal wire or stubborn nails/objects.
 
* Metal Construction Tape, or Plummers Tape. (Non-sticky spool of metal strip with holes in it): Hang stuff in garage, tie things together,
 
* Dremmel Rotary Tool: Saw/cut/polish/grind/holes/chop/etc. Does anything really.
 
* Battery Charger/Air Compressor In One: Combines two heavy tools into one.
 
Duct Tape
* Wrap a foot of duct tape around the base of a water bottle in case you need some tape for any reason.
* Temporarly seal tares in clothing.
 
Leatherman Utility Multi-Knife
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MULTIUSE SOFTWARE:
* Open Office: Text related projects. Replaces Microsoft Word. Free.
* Google Earth Beta (And GoogleMaps): Fly around the earth in 3D, exploring towns and streets.
* Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2: Like iTunes, sort your music and play it in style. Winamp’s playlists are helpful if you have slow computer.
* VLC Media Player: Play many kinds of video formats other players cant. MegaCodecPack will really help playback if you download odd movie formats.
* NERO CD/DVD Burner: Burn data disks, storage DVD’s, music CD’s, MP3 CD’s, Presentations, etc. I don’t think Nero does Blue-Ray yet. Sometimes thumb drives can replace DVD’s.
 
 
 
MULTIPURPOSE RETAIL CHAINS:
 
Costco
Wallmart, Target, Fred Myers,
Hardware stores such as LOWES, Home Depo, Orchard Supply Hardware, Ace Hardware.
Laptop Running Windows XP Can Do the Following and More…
* Type documents, letters, cards, anything.
* Print photos from internet or digital camera.
* Quick Online Banking and Tax Papers.
* Email.
* IRC Chat around the world.
* Watch DVD’s, burn CD’s,
* Download Music
* Tinker with downloads and creativity programs.
* Online recipes, tutorials, information archives.
* Entire encyclopedias and libraries online.
* Any papers/audio/movies and media of all kinds can be produced on a fast computer.
 
 
 
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