Tip of the Week: Old socks.

"What? Old socks?" you might think. Well, so did I when my mother-in-law told me to keep all my old socks.
This was this summer when I was sorting through all my old clothes to give away or throw out. But here is what she told me I could do with them.

Shining shoes:
This is a tip my husband knew about too. Apparantly they used it in the military to shine their army boots.
If you keep a few socks with your shoe shining stuff, you will always have a polishing cloth ready. Ofcourse, try to choose the fine woven cotton ones for this purpose.

Polishing bronze, silver etc.
This I actually had heard before. Keep some old, clean socks with the bronze or silver (or whatever) polish. Then when you need to polish your silver, you can use a sock to apply the polish, and you can use it to get that perfect shine. And when you are done you can just throw the sock away. No need to have dirty rags around that you need to boil or wash again and again.

Cleaning rags:
My mother-in-law insisted that socks make exelent cleaning rags... I trust her on that. Never tried it myself. But here too you have the advantage that you can just throw the sock in the garbage as soon as your done.'

Getting rid of bad odour in shoes:
put some litterbox sand in an old sock and put it in your shoe. Will get that smell out reall quick.

If you have any other ideas, please contribute ^^