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You can never accept abundant sponges in your home.
Even if you don’t like abrasion dishes with it, the absorptive blot has abounding uses that go above cleaning. From architecture to car maintenance, the blot can be acclimated in means you've never imagined.
Here are 43 things you can do with a sponge:
Sponges can advice you get an ombre attach design.Concrete Girl/Flickr
Get acclivity or ombré attach art: Trim a blot to the admeasurement of your barb and acrylic your attach the lightest blush of the ombré (or white). Afresh advance your attach brightness colors on the sponge, absolution them overlap and actuality acceptable with the bulk polish. Next, blot the attach brightness assimilate the nail, patting up and bottomward to alloy it into a gradient.
Add a beam tip to your attach polish: After painting a abject blush and absolution it dry, booty a architecture blot and dap beam brightness on the tips of nails. Apply a added accoutrement at the actual tip and a lighter accoutrement activity appear the centermost of the attach for an ombre animation effect.
Make a DIY attach brightness remover: Instead of application a actor affection balls, being a blot into a architect jar and blot it in acetone to accomplish an accessible DIY attach brightness remover. Keep it closed in a jar aback not in use and aback it gets too dirty, alter the blot and add added attach brightness remover.
Get an easier pedicure: Put pieces of cut up sponges amid your toes so you don’t blemish attach brightness while painting your toe nails. It’s like a salon toe separator, but cheaper.
Remove lint from clothes: Just like with pet hair, a clammy blot wiped on your clothes will additionally abolish any exceptionable lint — aloof apple-pie off the down with your fingers.
Blister-proof shoes: Cut up a annular architecture blot and admit it amid your heel and the aback of your shoe. If you adulation the accession of the sponge, you can alike use a hot cement gun to defended it permanently.
Keep earrings together: Poke adornment pairs through a baby allotment of sponge, accepting them in the back. This will accumulate them calm as a brace and will additionally apple-pie the spokes afterwards anniversary wear.
De-puff eyes: Soak architecture sponges in abrading booze and water, and afresh abundance in the freezer covered in artificial wrap. The abrading booze will accumulate the sponges from freezing completely, authoritative them acutely algid and bendable — absolute to abode over annoyed eyes in the morning.
Sponges accomplish accomplished DIY pincushions.Theen.../Flickr
Make stamps for painting crafts: Sponge stamps are accessible to accomplish (just cut the blot into your adapted shape) and use (dip the blot in acrylic and columnist into the bolt of your choice). This is absolute for aggregate from kids’ projects to grown-up DIYs.
Paint fondant: Create a brindle blush aftereffect by dipping a apple-pie blot into icing or aliment appearance and ablution the blush assimilate block fondant. You can additionally do the aforementioned affair with a cardboard towel, waxed paper, or artificial wrap.
Use as a pincushion: If you don’t appetite to buy a pincushion, accomplish your own with bolt accoutrement a kitchen sponge. You can additionally use two sponges if you adopt your pincushion thicker.
Make an ink dauber: Crafty bodies love ink daubers, but battery out for the absolute affair can be big-ticket aback you do it over and over again. Instead, accomplish your own by capacity architecture sponges central PVC aqueduct and then craft to your heart’s content.
Paint watercolor trees: Mix a few watercolors calm and dip your blot into the paint. Afresh artlessly dab the blot breadth you appetite to accept the leaves. The sponge’s arrangement will actualize the abounding capacity for you and all that’s larboard to do is acrylic a block and add a ablaze ablution over the leaves already aggregate has dried.
Keep an oil aperture at bay with a blot and artificial bag until you can fix it.Bryn Pinzgauer/Flickr
Absorb oil leaks: Instead of absolution oil leaks ruin your garage, abode a blot and a artificial bag beneath the aperture to bolt the oil until it’s been fixed.
Use as a beanbag while raking: Accomplish a advertise or rake added adequate by wrapping the handle in a blot and accepting with a elastic band. It’ll save your calmly from blisters while you’re alive outside.
Make a fly repellent: Accomplish a DIY accustomed fly abhorrent with capital oils, witch hazel, and vegetable oil. Dip the blot in the admixture and abode in a coffee can or added pot.
Lowe's has a tutorial on how to acrylic brick with a sponge.Lowe's
Re-paint brick: If you don’t adulation the blush of your brick, you can calmly acrylic over it with the advice of a sponge. Acrylic the absolute bank or broiler in a abject blush and afresh cut a blot into the brick appearance and columnist a darker blush on top. The blot will accumulate the brick arrangement and attending natural.
Remove old wallpaper: Mix hot baptize and laundry starch to actualize a paste. Rub the admixture all over the wallpaper with a blot and let it angle and dry until the wallpaper can be bald away.
Sponge acrylic a wall: Nothing is easier than blot painting. Combine paints with covering and afresh awning a abject accoutrement by daubing on altered colors of acrylic to actualize a cloud-like aftereffect in your home. See added instructions here.
Dry umbrellas: Place dry sponges in awning stands to blot up added baptize and accumulate puddles from basic on your floors.
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Create your own blemish bouncer protectors: Cut up little $.25 of blot pieces and cement them to the base of abundant frames, vases, or tchotchkes that could blemish your tables. They're cheaper than the professional alternative.
Keep abridged plants hydrated: Place wet sponges into the basal of abridged plants to advice plants blot moisture.
Keep your vegetable crisper dry: Vegetables will break fresher for best if there’s no clammy accession in your crisper. Line the drawer with dry sponges to blot balance water. If a blot gets wet or dirty, booty it out and let it blot in hot baptize with a burst of achromatize afore dehydration and abiding to the crisper.
Letting soap dry on a blot will anticipate soap algae from basic beneath your bar.Shutterstock
Remove exceptionable pet hair: Use a clammy blot to apple-pie off any exceptionable pet fur, whether it’s on your clothes or the carpet. It’ll assignment bigger than a lint brush, and will calmly appear off the blot with a bash of the hand.
Prevent soap body up: Instead of putting your wet bar soap on the adverse or in the battery and absolution it advance scum, set the soap on a sponge. The blot will blot the clammy and acquiesce the soap to dry absolutely afterwards any body up. Plus, already the soap is gone, you can use the already-soapy blot afterwards for cleaning.
Make DIY dryer sheets: Fill a alembic with two cups of bolt softener and four or bristles cups of water. Stir together, add sponges, and abode a lid on the alembic for storage.
When you’re accessible to use, clasp out a blot and put it in the dryer with a amount of wet clothes. Aback clothes are dry, artlessly put the blot aback in the bolt softener container. The aftereffect will be the aforementioned as dryer sheets, and you alone accept to bushing the alembic alert a year.
Deodorize fridge: Keep your fridge smelling beginning by agreement a clammy blot brindled with baking soda inside.
DIY a antiquated sponge: For boxy crud or aliment ashore on dishes, accomplish a DIY antiquated blot by agreement the artificial cobweb that onions or oranges appear in about the sponge, and defended with a aliment or aberration tie. It’ll add some added action to your scrubbing.
Polish silver: Use a clammy blot and some baking soda to brightness argent accoutrement in a snap.
Dry a alpine vase: After washing, dry the central of a boutonniere (or any added alpine vessel) with a dry blot captivated about a adjudicator or stick and defended with a elastic band. It will ability further than your duke could.
Freshen the room: Dampen a blot with baptize and your admired aroma or capital oil and abode it in a exhaustion bag or canister. While you vacuum, the aroma will be acclaim released.
Clean micro-suede furniture: Saturate your couch with abrading booze (no water) and rub and abrade your couch with a white sponge. You’ll see the blot accepting dirtier, so accomplish abiding to buy assorted sponges and bung aback it becomes too bedraggled to use. Let dry.
Sponges ability assume boring, but not aback they're in fun shapes.jac bean/Flickr
Make a “sponge baptize bomb”: During the summer or aloof for fun, accomplish an accessible DIY “water bomb” that kids can comedy with. Start by acid up sponges into fourths, afresh tie four pieces calm with elastic bands and let the kids comedy with them (more abundant admonition in the link). They’re bigger than baptize balloons aback they’re reusable and don’t accomplish as abundant of a mess.
Grow plants for a science project: Cut sponges into adapted shapes (trees, leaves, etc.). Blot the blot and clasp out balance baptize afore abacus seeds on top. Abode the blot in a brilliant window and brume circadian with water. The sprouts will abound on the sponge, and this works with lettuce, spinach, and broccoli seeds.
Attract butterflies: You can actualize a butterfly agriculturalist by attached a blot biconcave in amoroso baptize to a timberline with a bit of twine. You’ll be afraid how abounding collywobbles come.
Create blocks: Cut sponges into altered shapes like rectangles, triangles, and circles, and afresh let your kids go wild.
Grow alkali and alkali crystals: Another accessible science activity for kids is to abound alkali and alkali crystals on a sponge. Combine the water, salt, and alkali and abscess afore cloudburst over the sponge. Dot the blot with aliment appearance and set the bowl is a sunny, balmy breadth to watch the crystals grow.
Make a cement sponge: For little kids, instead of acceptance them to accomplish a blend with glue, accomplish a cement blot that they can aloof tap their projects on for an alike accoutrement of glue. The best allotment is it stays accessible to use for over a year in any closed container.
DIY ablution toys: By acid up sponges, you can cement the pieces calm and accomplish your own toys for your child’s ablution time. For inspiration, analysis out this blot baiter with cork sailors.
A clammy blot can advice with envelopes and stamps.Flood/Flickr
Pack fragile, abate items: Dampen a blot and abode it about a aerial account (like a figurine). Use assorted sponges if it’s a beyond account (like a vase), and defended aggregate with a elastic band. The blot will accommodate to the brittle account and will go aback to its aboriginal appearance afterwards it gets wet again.
Create an ice pack: DIY an ice backpack that won’t aperture by freezing a clammy blot and agreement in a Ziploc bag. Aloof be abiding to antisepticize the blot every so often.
Seal envelopes and wet stamps: Instead of beating your envelopes or stamps, dab a clammy blot on them for the aforementioned effect.
Make two sponges from one: Cut your blot in half. It’s a money-saving drudge that’s cool simple.
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