If you are someone that has a lot of tennis balls laying around then you probably play or have played tennis or else you have a dog. A lot of dogs enjoy playing with tennis balls. The question is, what do you do with all those tennis balls?
Tennis balls can be used in a number of useful ways which is better then just throwing them away. The landfill doesn’t need old tennis balls added to the trash that’s already there. How can we keep those tennis balls out of the landfill?
Making old tennis balls into something new is fun and easy to do. It could also save you time and money. Here are some useful ways to use tennis balls.
1. Use Tennis Balls on Walkers – when elderly people need to use a walker it can cause some issues. Walkers can cause the elderly to slip sometimes. This happens a lot on floors with no carpets. The legs can get slippery. Also walkers can cause scratches and scuff marks on floors. To avoid all of these things from happening just use tennis balls. Tennis balls on the legs help keep walkers from sliding and floors from getting scratched. Tennis balls can be a wonderful safety precaution when it comes to the ones we love.
2. Use Tennis Balls to Get Rid of Shower Curtain Mold – removing shower curtain mold just got a lot easier and no longer will take up time. Tennis balls can now be useful when doing the laundry. To get the mold off the shower curtain liner just put it in the washing machine with at least two tennis balls. The tennis balls act as a scrubber and will work to remove the mold and mildew while it’s being washed. This is a very easy solution to a tough problem.
3. Use Tennis Balls to Relief Gas in Pets – how many times have you fed your dog and by the time you get out of the room the dog has finished eating? In other words, the dog basically inhaled the food. This happens all the time. Dogs get so excited when they eat and they don’t take the time to chew all their food. When dogs eat fast this causes them to gulp air. This is what causes dogs to get gas. Which can be very uncomfortable for the dog and not to pleases to our noses. The best way to help with this problem is to place a clean tennis ball in the center of the dog dish. This will slow down the dogs eating and will actually make them chew more of the food. You will notice that the dogs gas will subside a lot. Both you and your dog will be a lot happier.
These are just a few of the useful things you can do with tennis balls. There are many more ideas that are available to you. Do some research and you will find other useful ideas that will work for you and your family.
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