Uses For An Old Toothbrush

[boxtops]

Hey, you crafty people.... I have just been sent a link from a serious craft website in the US, suggesting what crafty activities can benefit by using a skanky old toothbrush before you discard it altogether.

What would YOU suggest? (keep it clean!)

[gness]

The worst use for old toothbrushes is to take an art class of twenty five children doing splatter painting.

[jim360]

"Keep it clean!"

Well, there goes my idea...

[jno]

file down the end in Armoury Class and use as a dagger. Then clean your teeth with the other end.

[Graham-W]

Use an old tooth brush to clean old teeth?

[Peaspeculiars]

Cleaning bathroom taps
Cleaning between bike gears
Cleaning weeds from between patio slabs
Cleaning Jewellery with brasso
Cleaning the dogs teeth
Paint effects on model railway set-ups/ diorama's

:-)

[wiltsman]

Peaspeculiars - but not the same toothbrush!

[gingejbee]

Jewellery with Brasso? ....
High-class jewels, then?!

[DTCwordfan]

Excellent for cleaning pc-keyboards - if that is a craft

And scratching acrylic paint for sky and sea effects, just as it's getting nice and tacky.

[Peaspeculiars]

No, not the same toothbrush and not in that order! lol,
and cleaning jewellery with brasso (the silver polish type) - Not all of us are rich :-(

[boxtops]

They suggest that you could also break off the brush end, make a hole in the stick that's left, file it down, and use it as a weaving shuttle.

Life's too short. Go buy a shuttle.

[ChillDoubt]

In the Army, we used them for cleaning the welts of our boots/shoes.
I still do it to this day.