101 uses for a tea bag

MrsD'ville · Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:37 pm

1. Let them dry then use as fire-lighters

mrsflibble · Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:42 pm

2. place a pieve of muslin on your face, then put a teabag in each eyesocket to reduce puffiness.
3. cut open, pour contents into a bowl. add 2 tsps flour and 1-2 tsps brown sauce. mix well until you can roll into a ball. form into loose torpedo shapes. use as either an april fool joke, or as a potty training aid by placing in potty while a teddy is sitting on it to show a toddler that even their favorite bear can poop like a grownup.

ina · Post: # 72116Post **ina** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:16 am

4. Make tea with it? (Should have been no one, I suppose!

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5. Put on compost

Thomzo · Post: # 72205Post **Thomzo** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:14 pm

6. Dry them out, split them open and use as fake soil for a dolls house garden.

7. Add the contents into home made paper. Gives a great antiqued look. Herbal teas can give really pretty effects. I am seriously thinking of making my own wallpaper from used tea. I just wonder if it will look too much like woodchip.

Zoe

Annpan · Post: # 72228Post **Annpan** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:09 pm

possible 8. can you use it to start seeds off? then when seedling is large enough the whole thing can be planted out. - I am not sure if tea is nutritious enough though

Thomzo · Post: # 72229Post **Thomzo** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:12 pm

Annpan wrote:possible 8. can you use it to start seeds off? then when seedling is large enough the whole thing can be planted out. - I am not sure if tea is nutritious enough though

I did try it once and the stupid thing went mouldy.

Zoe

Annpan · Post: # 72232Post **Annpan** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:19 pm

Hmm...

9. Use a cold, wet one as a missile ... across the kitchen ... at an unexpecting child, husband, cat...hee, hee, hee... I've never done it, just a thought

Thomzo · Post: # 72233Post **Thomzo** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:27 pm

10. Pop one in your bath for an eco fake tan.

then spend 3 hours cleaning the bath

mrsflibble · Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:15 pm

11. chamomile teabags are good for sore boobyfeeding nipples aparently. didn't manage to get boobfeeding long enough to try that one.

kimmysmum · Post: # 76247Post **kimmysmum** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:55 am

12. Haven't seen this one as yet. I put them broken up into my worm farm. They luvs it.

the.fee.fairy · Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:20 pm

Thomzo wrote:
Annpan wrote:possible 8. can you use it to start seeds off? then when seedling is large enough the whole thing can be planted out. - I am not sure if tea is nutritious enough though
I did try it once and the stupid thing went mouldy.

Zoe

Apparently, its what a certain group of people who ride motorbikes swear by to start seeds of recreational herbs. I was told this by one of said group.

Yes, it went mouldy when i tried it too...

ina · Post: # 76278Post **ina** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:25 pm

13. Turn it into a rollup and smoke... No, I've not tried that (don't smoke), but I read about it in one of Christopher Brookmyre's books: a guy in prison stretched one dehydrated teabag into two rollups...

the.fee.fairy · Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:28 pm

i wonder if its any good...

pskipper · Post: # 76344Post **pskipper** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:00 pm

Friend of mine tried the roll-up thing, might have been good if he hadn't used selotape to hold it together

ina · Post: # 76347Post **ina** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:25 pm

the.fee.fairy wrote:i wonder if its any good...

According to the book - stinks like hell, and kept going out.