Helpful Hints

Yesterday I saw a post about a lost cat that had been updated to say the cat was home and well.  Turned out he wasn't lost at all, but merely hiding inside the house.  So, to start the Helpful Hints post...

Sing the same song every time you feed the cat.  After a while, the cat will come when you start singing the song.  Warning: If you sing the song to find the cat, you must then feed the cat or the song will stop working as a call.  Also, make it a song you won't sing at other times, so you don't have the cat running up to you to eat when you don't intend to feed it.  I use the tune from Ta-ra-ra boom tee a with the words 'it's kitty tuna time'.

Use salt and cold water to take blood out of cloth.  If you somehow get blood on your clothes, dampen the cloth in cold water, then liberally put salt on the spot and rub it in.  Rinse and repeat until all the blood is gone.  Then wash normally.  This only works if you haven't washed the clothes.  Once hot water or heat from the dryer hits the blood, it's there for life.

Use peanut butter to remove gum from hair or clothing.  Probably works if you have gum elsewhere, too, but use your best judgment.

Olive oil can be used to treat head lice.  Back when the Kid was small and attending public elementary school in Michigan, she got head lice so many times and chemicals to treat it are so noxious, that I searched for an alternate method so as not to permanently damage my kid's brain.  Olive oil contains a single-chain fatty acid that clogs the breathing pores of head lice.  Oil up the head, cover it in plastic wrap, wait like 20 minutes (if I remember right), and all the little buggers will be dead.  Nit comb those dead bastards out and wash your hair.  (Yes, I had them, too, and we both smelled like a salad, but it was worth it.)

I thought I'd have more, but I'm tapped out.  Do you have any helpful hints to share?