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Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: Selkie on November 06, 2007, 22:28

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 06, 2007, 22:28

ok this is a strange question but can anyone come up with uses for old toothbrushes?

there have been dozens washing up along the coast here - a cargo ship must have lost a container or something. they are all new (but unpackaged) toothbrushes and rather than just add them to the rubbish i'm collecting from the beach (which the council takes away - yay) i thought i'd try and come up with a use for them.

 :?:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Trillium on November 06, 2007, 22:39

If you're so inclined, they're dandy for scrubbing the grout between tiles and the inside edges of greenhouse glass panes. And if you do any painting, they scatter paint a treat.  If you thoroughly wash one, you can clean the dog's teeth. (definitely want a pic of that one!)

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 06, 2007, 22:40

we already have a dog's toothbrush :roll:  used it only a couple of times, i think we still have it somewhere, and a tube of dog toothpaste too

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: mashauk on November 06, 2007, 23:06

I use them in a variety of ways (not allotment though!)

I clean behind the taps with them.

I dye my hair with them!

I clean the thing (think it's called a kitchen caddy) where I dry my cutlery and crockery, as can't get the gunge out otherwise.

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: muntjac on November 06, 2007, 23:11

indelible marker and you have seed tags  :wink:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 07, 2007, 09:03

ooh i like munty's suggestion best, i always forget to use tags and then forget what's what.

will start putting them in my coat pocket today then and see how many i get!

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: GrannieAnnie on November 07, 2007, 09:08

Oh Masha, you used my tips!!!!!!  :lol:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: mashauk on November 07, 2007, 17:05

Sorry  :D

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: flowergirl on November 07, 2007, 19:27

put toothpaste on em and clean silver jewellery works a treat :wink:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 07, 2007, 20:00

i picked up half a dozen of them this morning - they're posh colgate ones that clean your cheeks and tongue too!

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: shaun on November 07, 2007, 20:03

wrap em up and give them to your mates for Christmas  :wink:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 07, 2007, 21:13

:shock: i feel sorry for your friends!! :lol:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: shaun on November 07, 2007, 21:15

funny you say that rose cus they feel sorry for me  :wink:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Lynne on November 08, 2007, 16:09

Use them to scrub out plant pots and seed trays?

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: David. on November 08, 2007, 16:24

* Cleaning the kitchen & bathroom taps.

* Cleaning bicycle wheel rims & spokes.

* Cleaning the inside of flower vases.

* Putting stove black on the fireplace.

Best to use separate brushes for each.

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: leeky on November 09, 2007, 00:52

Cleaning carbs.

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 09, 2007, 08:44

Quote from: "leeky"

Cleaning carbs.

carbs? :?:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Scribbler on November 09, 2007, 10:05

Curburettors

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: leeky on November 09, 2007, 22:02

Great for getting into the crevices of a set of 45 side draught webers!


Cleaning engine bits Rose  :D

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 09, 2007, 23:20

Quote from: "leeky"

Cleaning engine bits Rose  :D

thanks for that! (need to join the dots very close together sometimes for me so i know what you all are on about) :roll:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Little Miss Muffet on November 11, 2007, 07:05

clean jellery

clean the dust of your ornaments in the hard to reach places.

give them to people you dont like

clean the soles of dirty shoes.

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: seadart on November 11, 2007, 14:31

"clean the soles of dirty shoes"

Then give them to people you really dont like!  :lol:  :lol:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: seadart on November 11, 2007, 14:33

Rose have you found any of the plastic ducks on your beach that are going round the world yet?  :wink:

Ducks (http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/5791)

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 11, 2007, 15:39

nope no ducks, i know the ones you mean but none here - and i cover quite a stretch of the local coastline on my rambles.

i did find a weird black plastic octopus the other day though - not sure what i'll do with him, hang him up somewhere or other i guess

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: seadart on November 11, 2007, 16:27

A black octopus?

Sure it wasn't a Haloween Spider?  Just testing!   :lol:  :lol:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 11, 2007, 16:54

:shock:  definately an octopus, would have run a mile if it was a spider

i think it'll go in our bathroom along with my mermaids, seahorses etc (only have one octopus in there and it's lonely!!)

not the best photo in the world but....
 (http://[img]http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee101/rosemarycallsthegoddess/octopus.jpg)[/IMG]

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: seadart on November 11, 2007, 18:13

Wow! I'd love to find something like that on our beach! It would make a change from cotton buds!  :(

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: muntjac on November 11, 2007, 18:19

i use them cotton buds lol ,i use em for booms in sea fishing n railings on my model boats  :lol:  :lol:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: mashauk on November 11, 2007, 19:42

Quote from: "leeky"

Great for getting into the crevices of a set of 45 side draught webers!


Cleaning engine bits Rose  :D

My turn, what are 45 side draught webers?

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: muntjac on November 11, 2007, 19:44

Quote from: "mashauk"

Quote from: "leeky"

Great for getting into the crevices of a set of 45 side draught webers!


Cleaning engine bits Rose  :D

My turn, what are 45 side draught webers?

 carburettors of an older vintage .,like what we had on a toyota crown coupe in the early 70s ..... :wink: also on a mini cooper super s  with a 1600 racing engine in   :lol:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: David. on November 12, 2007, 17:44

When you have a wild party at home, replace all the toothbrushes in your bathroom with ones from the beach, because some people use them to clear the plughole after they have vomitted in the sink.

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 12, 2007, 18:32

Quote from: "David."

When you have a wild party at home, replace all the toothbrushes in your bathroom with ones from the beach, because some people use them to clear the plughole after they have vomitted in the sink.

 :shock:  :?  :shock:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: new_2_veg on November 12, 2007, 19:10

Quote from: "muntjac"

Quote from: "mashauk"

Quote from: "leeky"

Great for getting into the crevices of a set of 45 side draught webers!


Cleaning engine bits Rose  :D

My turn, what are 45 side draught webers?

 carburettors of an older vintage .,like what we had on a toyota crown coupe in the early 70s ..... :wink: also on a mini cooper super s  with a 1600 racing engine in   :lol:

ive got twin 45's on my beetle and my campervan  :shock:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 12, 2007, 19:12

:lol: do you want a fancy toothbrush to clean them???

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: muntjac on November 12, 2007, 19:14

Quote from: "new_2_veg"

Quote from: "muntjac"

Quote from: "mashauk"

Quote from: "leeky"

Great for getting into the crevices of a set of 45 side draught webers!


Cleaning engine bits Rose  :D

My turn, what are 45 side draught webers?

 carburettors of an older vintage .,like what we had on a toyota crown coupe in the early 70s ..... :wink: also on a mini cooper super s  with a 1600 racing engine in   :lol:

ive got twin 45's on my beetle and my campervan  :shock:

 have the got the tuba shaped intakes#?

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 16, 2007, 18:12

:x  :x OI! GET YOUR ENGINE-Y CONVERSATIONS OFF MY POST :x  :x

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Aunt Sally on November 16, 2007, 18:14

Quote from: "rosemarycallsthegoddess"

:x  :x OI! GET YOUR ENGINE-Y CONVERSATIONS OFF MY POST :x  :x

 :lol: You should be offering them down in the Swap Shop to the mechanics Rosemary  :wink:

Title: toothbrushes
Post by: Selkie on November 16, 2007, 18:15

:shock: oooh i like your thinking!! :wink: