Is there a better use for...

[mrsflibble]

coffee grounds? i just stick them on my compost but s there anything else i can do with my little columbian beauties?!

[Stonehead]

coffee grounds? i just stick them on my compost but s there anything else i can do with my little columbian beauties?!

A friend who was a model used coffee grounds as a body scrub, particularly on her thighs and bum. I don't know if it worked or not, but I used to wind her up by saying that whenever I saw her, I found myself wanting to order an espresso...

Oh, and another use - mix with orange peels to make a cat deterrent. Again, I don't know if it works or not.

Personally, I make our coffee go further by using one-third grounds to two-thirds fresh coffee when making it in our stove-top coffee maker.

[mrsflibble]

thankyou stoney, I'm going to be running out to get oranges 'cos I'm sick of next door's cat digging up my bulbs to take a crap in my borders. fingers crossed. if this doesn't work I'm getting off to colchester zoo to buy some lion dung.

[QuakerBear]

Do be careful rubbing coffee on your skin if you're pale. You'd be surprised how easily human skin can get dyed a different colour. I say this after an unfortunate experience with a white-blond flatmate and a tumeric face pack

[Annpan]

Does that mean you can use it as fake tan

Put it around your veg beds to drug, overdose and kill slugs - well that is basically how it works - do slugs feel pain

[mrsflibble]

I like to think not :D
it's more snails and next door's cat that are the problem here.
glad I didn't try the body scrub thing, I'm incredibly pale. my last doctor even went so far as to put on my notes "paleness does not indicate anemia; if anemia is suspected please check eyes. patient is ALWAYS pale".

[Wombat]

Do be careful rubbing coffee on your skin if you're pale. You'd be surprised how easily human skin can get dyed a different colour. I say this after an unfortunate experience with a white-blond flatmate and a tumeric face pack

Hmmm, think I did myself an injury falling off the computer chair laughing!

Nev

PS I've always had a "thing" for pale women, not easy in Aus but that's why I keep Mrs Wombat out of the sun

[Green Rosie]

I'm sure some-one once told me that ericaceous plants benefit from a top dressing of coffee grounds

[Thomzo]

I like to think not :D
it's more snails and next door's cat that are the problem here.
glad I didn't try the body scrub thing, I'm incredibly pale. my last doctor even went so far as to put on my notes "paleness does not indicate anemia; if anemia is suspected please check eyes. patient is ALWAYS pale".

I'm just as bad. In my late teens I was banned from my local pub unless I wore makeup as the landlady said I was too pale and it was putting the other customers off their drinks. In my case, though, anemia does play a part and my skin looks a lot better when I take iron tablets.

Zoe

[Arimiel]

I am on the pale side too... When i got new teachers, they would alway ask me if I am okay... well.. it was good for convincing people that I was ill when i wasn't

I'm just as bad. In my late teens I was banned from my local pub unless I wore makeup as the landlady said I was too pale and it was putting the other customers off their drinks. In my case, though, anemia does play a part and my skin looks a lot better when I take iron tablets.

Zoe

When I worked on the riders holiday ranch of a friend she made me work outside because she was convinced that I would scare the parents away if I didn't put on some tan.... i didn't scare the parents away.... but I didn't get a tan either....

[QuakerBear]

Dear Wombat,

It was a very serious problem. Being a sensible sort of fellow, I'd hoped that you would appreciate the gravity of the situation.

Let it be a warning to you all, of the woe that may come from home made beauty therapies.