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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:49 AM
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What to do with used dental floss?
1. Throw it away.

2. Reuse it.

3. Do what I did as a kid with June Bugs. Tie the ends together, tie it to Chimpy's ankle let him fly me to the moooooooooon......


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Any other suggestions?

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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:55 AM
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1. Give it to the cats
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 10:22 AM
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4. Oh please no!!! One of my cats ate some once out of the wastebasket,
and she swallowed it and then eliminated just about 3 inches of it, and the rest was tangled up in her innards; could have been very bad...
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 09:23 AM
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2. If you camp..............
use it to make fire starters. Take an old egg carton (cardboard kind), fill the individual compartments with the dental floss, dryer lint, and a small amount of wax. Light the thing and it starts campfires in a jiffy. I think I read that in "Ask Heloise" or someplace like that.
The closest I get to camping these days is a Holiday Inn Express (my bones are too old for that stuff anymore) but starting fires always used to be a pain. They do work, my brother uses them all the time.
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 09:26 AM
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3. I use dryer lint for that
stuff it in a toliet paper roll and a wha-la. A fire stick

DDQM
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 10:23 AM
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5. Excellent suggestion, thanks for the tip! eom
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 11:03 AM
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6. Save it/ start macrame evening classes. ....
alternatively, burn immediately. Your personal DNA could be traced from it.
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