Great Uses for Dryer Sheets
Caution: used dryer
sheets can be flammable. (While we are on the subject, so can
the lint in your dryer trap, the part that goes outdoors. Make
sure that is cleaned regularly.)
- Clean baked-on food from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in the
pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean.
- Collect cat hair? Rubbing the area with a dryer sheet will
magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
- Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a dryer sheet in your
shoes/sneakers. They will smell great in the morning.
- Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a used dryer sheet.
- Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a dryer sheet at the bottom
of the wastebasket.
- Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place a dryer sheet at the bottom
of a laundry bag or hamper.
- Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds. Wipe the
blinds with a dryer sheet to prevent dust from resettling.
- Eliminate static electricity from your television screen. Since
dryer sheets are designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your
television screen with a used one to keep dust from resettling.
- Eliminate static cling from pantyhose. Rub a damp, used dryer
sheet over the pantyhose.
- Freshen the air in your car. Place a dryer sheet under the front
seat or in the back window where the sun will warm it.
- Freshen the air in your home. Place a dryer sheet in a drawer or
hang one in the closet.
- Keep the shock away. Place a sheet in your coat pocket to avoid the
shock you get getting in and out of the car in the winter.
- Prevent musty suitcases. Place a dryer sheet inside empty luggage
before storing.
- Prevent thread from tangling. Pun a threaded needle through a dryer
sheet to eliminate the static cling on the thread before sewing.
- Repel mosquitoes, bees, yellow jackets and other bugs. Tie a dryer sheet through your belt loop when
outdoors during mosquito season. (Note from Kris: I have received
conflicting E-mails on this. One says it works, the other says
it doesn't. YMMV.)
- Repel mice and ants. Use in crawl spaces and basements.
- Use as a facing when doing appliqué.
- Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used dryer sheet
will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
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