Saturday, August 10, 2013

Become a MacGyver of floss

We've already done toothbrushes, so now it's time to give you alternative uses for floss.  Here's ten ways:


1.  Use (unflavored) floss to cut a cake horizontally.  And when you do, bring me some. 

2.  Use (unflavored) floss to cut the cheese … And I mean real cheese, not the metaphorical cheese, thank you.  Certain cheeses really stick to knives, so floss works wonders in these situations.

3.  Use (unflavored & unwaxed) floss as twine to tie down the wings and legs of a turkey before cooking.

4.  Use floss to hang items, such as pictures.  

5.  Use floss to separate your stack of photos stuck together.  Gently slide the floss between the photos – much better than peeling with my hand and bending photos.

6.  Use floss to help train plants to grow vertically (example: morning glories) or to support a plant (example: tomatoes).

7.  Use floss as an emergency shoelace if you’re on the go and yours breaks.  Perhaps make a fashion statement while you’re at it.

8.  Use floss as an emergency thread to sew something.

9.  Use floss to silence a leaky faucet.  Definitely not a permanent solution, but if you can’t get a plumber right away, it’s a next best solution.  Tie a piece of floss at the spout and make sure the other end is long enough to reach the sink.  Water will drip along the floss instead of making the irritating, eye-twitching drip noise.

10.  Use floss to escape out of jail, assuming you have a window cell.  Obviously kidding, although there IS a report of a prisoner climbing out of his cell by braiding floss.  It worked!  He just didn’t get too far afterwards…

If you have other suggestions for handy ways to use floss, be sure and comment!  Don't forget to use floss for it's original purpose too -- your teeth!

Toodles,
Tracie



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