Apply to the bruised area, refrigerate food and eliminate the smell in the refrigerator - I do all this with the same object.

I want to tell you about four ways to use a regular foam sponge for washing dishes - at home. The first method is the most obvious - pour detergent and wash the dishes on it. Others are not so straightforward.

It happens that some people are very susceptible to injury - out of the blue they can stumble, bruise and get painful bruises and abrasions. For such people, the availability of a cold compress in quick access becomes a necessity. Therefore, before I always had a bag of snow in the freezer, frozen for the first time in case of injury. Then they began to buy hypothermic bags. But when the pension was not enough for medicine, they had to leave the bags and freeze the snow again. Of course, it is inconvenient, because it melts and spreads in the package.

And then I accidentally stumbled upon the advice to freeze water in the freezer in a sponge. And it turned out to be a great way - water from the sponge, even when it melts, does not flow out in large quantities, the bag with the cold does not change its shape. Moreover, it is not necessary to use a new sponge, a used one is quite suitable.

In addition, I freeze water in sponges before driving somewhere in the car, when we take a refrigerator bag with food or drinks with us in the summer. Ice does not melt in sponges for a long time, helping the bag to keep the temperature. It is very convenient and practical.

And finally, in addition to washing dishes, I also use this item in the refrigerator to remove excess moisture. There is especially a lot of it in summer, when the air condenses heavily and melted droplets appear on the back wall. Of course, in modern refrigerators this is superfluous, but we have the usual "Biryusa" without any new functions of dry cold and so on. Poem sponge helps to avoid unpleasant smell, rotting of vegetables and berries.

These tips are for those who do not have extra money, or do not have the opportunity to buy some newfangled gadgets. If you search the internet, you can find replacements made from China for everything. But we are pensioners and we have to save a lot. Therefore, I decided to share these tips with you.