I came across this article recently, and thought that this is the perfect time to put this up here for others to consider. (I summarizing the ideas quickly, so if you're interested in more specifics, check out the site. It goes into more detail on many of these.) Personally, I find this timely considering the increased amount of coffee that my household has been drinking lately with the cold weather. And I'm also curious: does anyone have any other useful tips?
Creatively re-purposing used coffee grounds & tea leaves
1. Used coffee grounds or tea leaves/tea bags can help remove food smells from your hands before washing them with soap & water.
2. Tea can shine up a wood floor or wood furniture.
3. Coffee grounds can get rid of garden pests like ants and slugs (and cats!).
4. Used coffee grounds work as a natural abrasive for cookware. Soaking a greasy piece of cookware with a used tea bag is another way to make clean-up much easier.
5. We all knew that some plants flourish when fertilized with coffee grounds, right?? Tea can provide some good nourishment, too for plants that have less acidic needs.
6. Tea soaked toes (sandal season is coming sooner than you think!)...
7. Used coffee grounds (completely dried) placed in an open container in the fridge is even cheaper than a box of baking soda.
8. Crafty? Coffee makes for a quick and cheap natural dye.
9. There are a million different recipes for homemade beauty secrets. Here's #1,000,001: coffee as an exfoliant and tea to reduce puffiness (check out the site on this one, for sure).
10. Dark-colored dress shoes can benefit from a buff with a used tea bag.
Again, if you have any other helpful hints on this topic, please leave a comment. And, if any of these tips have worked especially well for you, we would like to know that as well!
David Swinehart contributed this interesting idea:
ReplyDelete"My aunts in Seattle had a car and they always kept a tea bag in it. The purpose was to use it, wet, as a cleaner for the windshield wipers when they started leaving streaks on the windshield. This would be especially helpful in Seattle, of course, as the number of rainy days was quite high and the amount of rain was typically low, falling as a mist. So you couldn't depend on the rain alone to help much with clearing off the streaks."