5 Alternative uses for dryer sheets
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Most of us purchase dryer sheets to toss in the dryer to make our laundry smell fresh, feel soft and reduce static. I shared that you can cut them in half and get the same results, as well as you can tuck them away with your linens to keep them smelling fresh. But did you know you can use those dryer sheets can come in handy in other rooms in the house?
5 Alternative uses for dryer sheets
Fabric softener sheets are designed to help eliminate static cling. When dusting the house, wipe your television, computer screens, and window blinds with a used sheet to keep dust from resettling.
When storing luggage away, toss a fresh dryer sheet in your suitcase before you zip it up. Next time you travel, your suitcase will smell fresh, rather than musty.
Does Rover leave hair all over the couch? Wipe the surface where he lays with a dryer sheet and it will attract most of the hair– and freshen it up a bit too!
Place a dryer sheet inside smelly shoes and leave them overnight. The smell will be gone in the morning.
If your pots and pans have burned food stuck on them, place a dryer sheet in the bottom before you fill them with water and leave overnight. The burned food will come off easily in the morning.
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I use dryer sheets to put on the cover of the litter box and on the ground around it. Makes it smell much better!
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Great to cut in pieces & place in lingerie drawer. Hang one in your closet to freshen the stale closet smells. Also helps odor in shoes–sprinkle a little baking soda in also–helps remove the odor.
I am a waitress and my apron can smell pretty bad by the end of the day …so I just take a dryer sheet and keep one in my pocket while I work..its helpful in the winter too for when my hair gets alot of static.. .then when I get home after I take off my shoes I throw a dryer sheet in each shoe…no stink!
After I use my dryer sheets, I keep them in a used baby wipes box and use them on my Swiffer. They are almost a perfect fit. Usually, I will put two at a time, vertically, on my Swiffer. They pick up the lint bunnies like magic!
I like to keep one under the cushions of our couch.
Dryer sheets are great to help remove static from hair brushes, furniture, car seats, and even your hair! I keep a dryer sheet in my purse in the winter so that I can pull it out to help remove static build-up in my hair. Cheap and very portable! 🙂
I keep one in the bottom of our trashcan.
Also, for our extra sheet sets, I keep each set of sheets inside the pillowcase so it stays nice and organized. I put a dryer sheet in with each set!
I put one in my purse and sometimes put one in my car. Always put one in clothing drawers.
I put one sheet in each drawer of my dresser so my clothes always smell fresh. 🙂
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Under my hat while hiking to keep away black flies & bugs.
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When I wear gym shorts or a dress that seems to be extra static-y and sticking to my legs, I wipe the inside of them with a dryer sheet!
Under the seats in my car.
I typically only use them in the dryer. I have followed your tip to cut them in half, and am pleased that they last twice as long. I appreciate these other suggestions and plan to put them to use. Thanks.
We’ve rubbed them on our hair/kid’s hair to keep the gnats/bugs away when playing outside! 🙂 Crazy but it works.
I use them to wipe down my washer and dryer from things like dust, and spills that happen in their like laundry soap and stain treatments.
I sometimes use dryer sheets to wipe down my smelly dogs when they come in the house. It helps get rid of that nasty dog smell.
I’ve been using dryer sheets for years. They are so much more convenient than the liquid fabric softener. I also cut mine in half. I reuse dryer sheets for quilting appliqué! I sew the fabric (wrong side down) to a used dryer sheet, clip curved areas for easing, then cut a slit in the dryer sheet, turn, and press. Then I stitch the appliqué down, either by hand or with machine. No raw edges for unraveling!
on my brush to eliminate static in my hair. under couch cushions to combat funky husband butt. placed at the bottom of my trash cans. on hangers in the closet to combat musty closet. in shoes. under the seats in my truck. on my mattress, under the mattress pad & sheet to keep my bed smelling fresh.
I use them for the dirty clothes hamper
I like to stick a few dryer sheets in the trunk that I store all the winter comforters in. Keeps them smelling fresh.
My cat box is in my laundry room, so I like to open a brand new box and use it as an air freshener in there. Dryer sheets smell soooo good!
I put dryer sheets around the base of my squash plants to keep squash bugs away. I think they mask the plant’s smell and the bugs can’t find them.
i use them in the dryer
I use the used dryer sheets to clean out the lint trap from the dryer.
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I use them on my hair if it has a lot of static.
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I just starting cutting them in half for dryer use. I heard this many years ago but I guess I just thought it wouldn’t work as well–it does though. My other uses are in my dresser drawers to keep them fresh, in the linen closets, wipe down the dog to get off loose hair and also gives her a fresh scent, in all our waste baskets, wiping out the lint trap after clothes are dried–and lots more uses…
My hubs likes to mountain bike, and his gear which is normally dirty and smelly is in a truck in our apartment(we don’t have a garage) and it has a box of either dryer sheets or baking soda or both at all times to keep the smell better.
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I use dryer sheets to reply insects. Stuff one in your pocket when your out in the woods hiking and the bugs will leave you alone!
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After using them in the dryer I save them for dusting surfaces and I also use a fresh one to clip in front of an oscillating fan to quickly freshen up an area.
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