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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 6:10pm

A little healthcare trivia/home remedy facts.

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Fear

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Registered: 04-30-2003
Tue, 10-19-2004 - 6:36pm

Neato! I wonder about the Gatorade one. One of my x's heard water helps headaches, so he would drink a lot. then feel sick. lol. I get headaches all the time, so drinking would be nice, but so much easier just to take an excederin. lol. I'm a walking OTC pharmacy. sad, but true.


thanks. i have to remember some of these GREAT ideas. like the bug spray one. I HATE bugs. But then again, I used to use hairspray (aquanet) on spiders. lol. If they didn't die, they were STUCK!

~Cher




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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 7:03pm
LOL Cher!

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Fear

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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 7:10pm

I don't even like to kill them, not cuz I don't want them dead, but that would mean getting REAL close to them. So, i've learned to kill anything with anything that sprays. lol.


So, how long until you thought about rolling down the window?

~Cher




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Registered: 05-17-2004
Tue, 10-19-2004 - 7:13pm

I killed the sucker before I thought about it.

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Fear

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 10-19-2004 - 9:22pm

Thanks for these Kerstin...


....you know I've used some of these, and the DO really work!


Drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately - - without the unpleasant side effects of traditional "pain relievers."
Good for hangovers too ;-)


Colgate toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns.
Good for blemishes too ;-)


Before you head to the drugstore for a high-priced inhaler filled with mysterious chemicals, try chewing a couple of curiously strong Altoids peppermints.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 10-19-2004 - 9:24pm

You girls are cracking me up....Kerstin I don't think you'd do well down here at all- cockroaches are BIG here! And believe me they DON'T like Lysol spray either, lol!!!


As for skeeters....have you ever heard of gin (or vodka)- on the skin, not actually drinking it, as a bug repellent? Believe me, it works!!


OK...enough bug talk, I don't want to jinx myself into finding something later!

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Tue, 10-19-2004 - 9:46pm
Kerstin,

I've got my son trained too, hes 6 and when every he sees a bug he runs around the house with a shoe... I'm terrify of Mice, I need to get a cat at my barn, but I just can't make myself let it live out there during the winter and I can't bring it home b/c I have two Jack Russell Terrorist (terriers) that would terriozie the poor cat so..... I have to deal with mice...and and spiders I can't stand them, I guess because I got bit by a brown recluse 1 time and still have problems out of my foot years later, I've got sticky traps all over my house.
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 10-20-2004 - 7:41am
Ouch- a brown recluse bite! I have a friend here who's been bitten 3 times (on her arm, leg and back) in about 5 months from them!! Needless to say she moved away from here, and now we are ALL terrified of any spider we see!
cl-vi_islandgirl

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Registered: 06-20-2004
Wed, 10-20-2004 - 10:09am
Method makes this great smelling Melon household cleaner and ants die if you spray them with it.
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Registered: 06-20-2004
Wed, 10-20-2004 - 10:11am
ewwww I hate earwigs. YUCKO!

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