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TRUST ME... Colgate Sensitive Pro-Relief is NOT the same as Preparation H Effective Relief even though the tubes look the same.

Cans of Secret deodorant and hair spray are not interchangeable either, nor are tubes of Crest toothpaste and Cortizone-10 cream. AMHIK.

Don't forget that Prep H reduces bags under your eyes, too, but toothpaste doesn't!

Toothpaste does cure zits , but Brillcreme is not a good toothpaste.

You two are cracking me up! DH thinks I'm crazy, laughing at the iPad ok I'm crazy but ...

I think I'll laugh later when I feel better.

At least you know your gums won't be swollen...

try super glue and eye drops

Think I'll pass on that combo!

That's AWFUL!!

I'm ashamed to admit this, but here goes...when my sister and I were little (40 + years ago) we lived with our Granny. She kept a juice glass sitting on the kitchen sink next to the faucet. Everytime she walked by she would stop and take a sip of water from it. She was very possesive of this one glass always sitting there with water in it. One afternoon my sister and I got a wild hair and I don't know where it came from but we put a couple of drops of dish detergent in her juice glass. Sure enough she came by and took a sip and we sat and watched for her reaction. Took her a few minutes to catch on and we laughed for days! As everytime she opened her mouth to speak she was blowing bubbles! It was a hoot!

Thanks for the laughs ladies.

Rondi

Rondi, since I am an suspicious old lady, I wonder if that really was water... or maybe something a wee bit stronger to keep Grandma going.

OMG, these are hilarious!!! And off hand I can't think of anything to add.

Oh my goodness. Long ago i put what i thought was Visine in my eye. turned out to be eye glass cleaner!! I noticed after that Visine changed it's color. that helped. I do wander around the house without my eye glasses on so i can't read small print on things!

MIL had psoriasis really bad - especially her scalp. She took an empty nasal spray bottle, cleaned it out, and replaced it with Listerine so that should could section her hair and spritz it with Listerine because she said it relieved the itch.

Well, FIL used nasal spray.

You KNOW where this story ended!

Then I did something silly in a hotel in Austin while getting ready to go to job training. Set the alarm wrong. Jumped up, make up, dressed, sprayed hair - with cologne - lots of cologne then I looked in the mirror and realized I had the yellow travel can of cologne in my hand NOT the black travel can of hair spray.

Made the eyes of anyone sitting close to me cross, sting, and water.

Priceless stories!

Lois, you are probably right. Granny was an alcoholic. She was the kind that didn't drink every day but when the mood hit she would have a nip or two. Usually the holidays or when family from out of state came to visit and stay. This was during the 60's and 70's. After that first nip or two she wouldn't stop and then was basically messed up 24 hours a day. Back then when we load her up in the car, take her to hospital. She would be on the top floor. So now here is where I can keep this "on topic", her therapy was CRAFTS! My sister loved these "stays" for her! She would come home in a couple of weeks with something special for each of us. So many times I have wished I had some of these pieces she made but they are long gone. She made sock monkeys, decopauged, candles, dolls....
I don't know when the final turning point was for her but eventually the therapy finally kicked in and she never took a nip again. This past March 5th Granny would have been 103 years old.

Rondi

These are too funny,
When I was a young teen I used scrubbing bubbles for secret. Oh those bubbles really wake a person up : )
Debbie

Some very good laughs here.

Gary told me his Dad mistook Prep H for toothpaste one time and chewed out the whole house for switching the tubes. I guess it does pay to always put things back in the same place.

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it does pay to always put things back in the same place

Or put them in the right place. Still limping today.

More accurate uses for toothpaste:

http://www.rd.com/home/16-unex...aste/?obref=obinsite

My dad frequently had trouble with the Brylcream & Pepsodent.

LOL Just remembered something! Uncle had - ahem - jock itch. It's a fungus as we all know. Athlete's feet is a fungus. Using this bit of logic he doused himself with some liquid athlete's feet medicine.

As he ran through the house, my aunt would alternately toss cold water on him and fan him with a towel.

I remember my dad (older brother to uncle) just hooting and laughing until he cried. I'm sure Uncle cried too.

Once I was trying to clean out the medicine cabinet and get rid of extra containers and such. I accidentally put a left over little packet of Imodium in the sinus/decongestion pill container. My husband took the pills for several days thinking he was unstopping his head and you can imagine how that turned out.

Back in the late 60s or early 70s hairspray was all the rage with the beehive hairdos. Mom sprayed her do down good one evening when she was getting ready to go out - and then discovered it was not the hairspray can she had used but a can of Raid. Everyone except mom thought that was so funny.

Good thing I am not a hairspray user or I would have to be extra extra careful where I put my can of quilt basting spray.

Giggling at all of these. I feel better. Good to know we've all done something! Lensews...was your mom bugged that she had done that?? hee hee

Sittin' here chuckling at all our little mistakes. Some rather painful ones, for sure.

KYIS, I'd probably have killed you with the perfume, or taken you to the nearest rest room and washed you from top to bottom. Fragrances set off migraines for me.

My Mom and I switched out my Dad's vodka with water one time. He was so drunk it took him three days to figure it out. That was a riot!!!! Gotta find your humor where you can with an alcoholic.

Here's to all that have survived these misadventures and here's to never having them happen again.

paus - LOL That's what I was afraid of! I use a real light cologne, spritz it on the inside of one arm, then smear the other arm. My sister-in-law didn't even know I wore fragrance of any kind...it's that light.

But in volume! UGH! I've had women near me so drenched in some strong smelling stuff that even my eyes cross and water an my nose clenches shut for self-preservation.

Our guild had to put "Please do not wear perfume to the meetings" in the newsletter. I agree -- some people wear scent with nearly visible fumes emanating from them. My BFF for one! I had to ask her to please wash it off, because I was actually getting nauseated.

I love to smell a hint of a light perfume, but can't stand it when it seems the person has taken a bath in it. I use a light spritz and like it when someone gives me a hug and tells me I smell nice. I used to work with a man that used so much colone you could smell where he had been for a long time after he had left the area. He wore expensive colone, and it smelled wonderful if you only had a "whiff". I once asked him if he used a whole bottle every morning, it was enough to sting your eyes.

The SMELL of Tabu zones out my brain. I can't think around it and it makes me feel sick.

I don't know how I made it thru the "Jovan Musk for Men" & the "Charlie" perfume years, when everyone wore those.

Now the Crabtree & Evelyn scents aren't too bad, especially if applied as hand cream. But my favorite lotion is made by the Bronnley Co./Royal Horticultural Society. The rose scent is wonderful & light! Very hard to find that brand, though. I stumble upon it sometimes in gift shops.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/About-Us...nsing/gifts/Bronnley

Have any of you used the hand creams they sell in the quilt shops? I can't think of brands off the top of my head, but most shops sell something for hands. I'm always worried about getting anything on my fabric, but every now & then (esp. in winter), my hands are so rough I can't handle silky fabrics or brocades without snagging them. Hard to find something good to use on your hands that will hold up through hand washing but won't transfer to fabric. I especially don't want anything rubbing off when I'm hand sewing.

Thanks for the laughs!

I actually like the quilt shop "cow udder" stuff...but it smells awful even though it works great. You can't get near fabric however, afterwards.

Somewhere, I read the best thing to do was lather up good and put your hands into some cotton gloves right before going to bed. In the morning, the oil of the lotion has done it's trick. (Although I think that nurse gloves would be better because the cotton would be too absorbent)

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Originally posted by Shawkl:
Somewhere, I read the best thing to do was lather up good and put your hands into some cotton gloves right before going to bed.

I've done that, and if you use something that's too petroleum-based, you have to hand wash the gloves in really hot water with Dawn dish liquid, or else they won't get clean (in the washer).

Kathy, I use the Udderly Smooth (udder creme) that SC Lady gave us and I love it. Once its rubbed in well, I don't have any problem with it coming off on the fabric. If I'm sewing all day, I'll have to apply it two or three times, what with washing hands and handling fabric and papers and such.

Oh, and the last thing before hopping into bed at night is lip balm and applying hand creme lavishly and rubbing it in good.

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I use Gold Bond Ultimate (healing with aloe). It really sinks in. I always do wash the insides of my hands from any lotion. I don't like that feeling.

I used Hoof-Maker on my horses hooves and my hands. LOVED that stuff! But I have not had a horse in 15 1/2 years now. I miss it sometimes...

I like Udder-eze, but am using Aveeno at home and Gold Bond with sanitizer at work.

LOL I WORE CHARLIE!!

ONE more story from me...not using the wrong product, just the wrong person using it.

Back when I used Charlie, 1st DH used Brut or his favorite British Sterling. Well, it got to where I couldn't find either easily. One day says he, "Daddy uses Old Spice. Think I'll try it."

I got him some Old Spice. He shaved and showered and we went to bed. Kissy. Kissy. "Hmmmm," I say.

He asks, "What?"

"Smells like I've crawled into bed with your dad."

OH MY GOODNESS!!! Harumph! He rolled over and went to sleep. Next time we visited his parents he gave his dad the Old Spice. We did NOT tell my in-laws what I had said.

Funny thing is today's DH wears Old Spice. Smells NOTHING like my 1st FIL. Different body chemicals.

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A friend of mine used a diaphram to prevent additional rug rats from occurring. One night she and hubby were amourous under the quilt (keeping it on topic) and she got up in the dark to get her diaphram and filled it with toothpaste rather than the cream designated to prevent rug rats. She put it in but thought it felt funny then decided to turn on the lights. Laughed so hard, never got back under the quilt!