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101 things to do with an old toothbrush!

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1 - use for cleaning around the taps in the kitchen.

RULES: Keep it clean please! Only one suggestion at a time per person but no multiple posts all at once / back to back! LOL!

See how fast we can get to 101 uses!

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2. - cleaning jewellry

Great for polishing all the little corners and bits.

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Using the handle for drill holes for seeds

3- scrubbing stains off clothes before they go into washing machine

4, cleaning the chain/gears on the bike.

5- eye brow brush!!!

sorry for stating the obvious but....

6 .... for cleaning teeth :-) :-) Xx

kat read the title it says OLD toothbrush :op

I used to do majorettes as a kid and used one to clean my baton with toothpaste too I have no idea why we used to do this.....!

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7. cleaning teastains off the teaspoons - also by using toothpaste

Cleaning the dog's teeth!

*sticks tongue out at clarebear!* :-p

9.... Cleaning mud off fresh home-grown vegetables!

101 things to do with an old toothbrush!

Splatter painting!

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11 getting mud off shoes

exfoliating lips-

(this comes from rather bonkers housemates)

x

13 - use as a microphone when singing in the shower lol

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14- cleaning a caligraphy pen

if you get the brush damp but not to wet you can clean the pen and get rid of ink clots in the nib and because its not to wet but not to dry it wont scratch your pen ! x

15. Cleaning violin bow hairs, with washing up liquid too :o)

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18 (Just rounding up the numberless tips! LOL)

I keep one in a poly bag under the sink for cleaning unmentionable stuff off shoes.... and it is duly labeled so!!

KitKat.... Yuck! LOL!

19. Put it in a bag that you always travel with so that if you forget to pack your new tooth brush at least you will have your old one when away from home!

(..and yes I do actually do this!!)

Twizzle

That's 20 uses, folks - GornFishing's post near the start wasn't numbered and the numbering didn't skip one to take it into account!

In fact, it's 21 uses if we include Clare's ""baton polishing""!

20. To clean the hinges on the Loo Seat

21. To groom small rodents like ratties and hammys

22. to clean mould off tile grouting

21: cut off the handle and use the worn out bristles as a wig for a vole or a ""punk"" style mohican hairdo for a wasp.

Oh that's brilliant Blue Jam!

22. Shorten handle and train your hamster to cleans its own ""Pottie.

cleaning alloys on car xx

24- give it to your ex after rubbing it round the toilet bowl and hope and pray he

uses it lmao i wish i thought of that before me and ex split up

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25 - I used to use one when I used to do a lot of rock climbing esp on indoor walls to clean the crud off the hand holes!

26. Paint the bristles black, remove handle and glue under nose and do impressions of Hitler or Charlie Chaplin.

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27 - Hamster hairbrush! Good for detangling long haired hamsters.

28 - cleaning dogs teeth

29 (really 28) - paint a face on it and turn it into a little toy person!!

Still on Number 28, I did cleaning dog's teeth on post number 8, So who is going to come up with twenty nine then!

Katina

29 Cleaning the grout between tiles with a little bleach

30 Cut off the bristles and stick them individually to two thirds of a paper oval. In the last third take a black pen and draw two eyes - Hey! You've made a hedgehog!

Once a playleader, always a playleader.

31 dusting the tops of picture frames, piano keys and computer keyboards-gets in all the hard to reach places.

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33 - (just rounding up the number chaos LOL!!)

getting the fluff and crumbs out of gaps in the car interior that the vacuum doesn't reach............. it comes out amazingly hairy!

I use one for giving the bunnies a manicure! the soft ones are great for getting their paws clean especially before I let them in the house. Just the right size for the job!

Take care

Rabbit

Used as a small hammer to put my CTRL key back in place on my laptop.

Chinese Emperor invented the toothbrush in 1498. Attach a little square of material to the toothbrush head and wave as flag to say thanks.

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For art work -flicking paint from brush with nail to give mottled effeect

use a soft one to clean the delicate nooks and crannys in models and statues. Works particularly well with the Play Arts Final Fantasy models

39. For those of you who remember Vinyl. attach to arm of record player to automatically clean records whilst being played (WARNING HAVEN'T ACTUALLY TRIED THIS, SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO BUT TRY THIS, I SHALL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR ""Birdie Song"" 45 rpm LOL)

40. Today, I'm using mine as a plant label. Writing plant name on handle to place in pot with cutting.

x

41. Cleaning the inside of my fish tank and filter to take away the gunk that builds up

xx

Clean in between rope pattern around bathroon sink.

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43. My grandad recently told me that you clean your medals and ribbon bars with a tooth brush.

44. nailbrush especially after gardening, cleaning car/bike...

No idea what number we're on but here's a few more:

*Extender tool for getting things out from under furniture/down back of sofa.

*If a very well-used toothbrush, use to show hairdresser what my hair looks like first thing.

*Back scratcher.

*Conductor's baton (at least the orchestra will know their conductor doesn't have bad breath)

*Use as pointer esp. at dental conferences.

50. A polisher tool for either your shoes or silver items. Scrub a dub dub!! X

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