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Every once in a while I receive emails that I keep thinking will come in handy someday. The following is one of those emails. Perhaps this information will be useful to someone. Or perhaps someone out there has tried one of these remedies and can confirm that I am an idiot and should delete my emails.

Who Knew?

• Colgate toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns?


• Chewing on a couple of Altoids clears up a stuffed nose? (okay maybe I could have figured this one out on my own, but for how long? Do you just keep chewing them all day long?)


• Taking two tablets of Alka-Seltzer at the first symptoms of a urinary tract infection will eliminate it instantly?


• A dab of honey on a skin blemish covered by a Band-Aid will kill the bacteria and heal the blemish?


• Soaking your fungal toes in Listerine will keep your toenails healthy?

• To remove a splinter all you need is to smear Elmer's Glue all over the splinter, let it dry, and peel it off. The splinter sticks to the glue. (Really? Doesn't tape work?)

• Hunt's tomato paste will soothe the pain of a boil?

• A soaked cotton ball full of vinegar will reduce the blueness in a bruise and speed up the healing process?