What Can You Do With Wax Paper, Wax, and Graphite?

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed something, anything to help you solve a problem?  A problem that seems so simple, but yet complex because it’s giving you fits.  

For example, you are in a hurry and you are hanging clothes on the rod in your closet, only the hangers will not slide across the rod like they should.  So you’ve got all these garments bunched up together  at the end of the rod.  Hangers won’t slide, you don’t have time for this static situation.  Know what to do?  Simple, get your wax paper, tear off a small sheet and rub that paper along that rod two or three times and the hangers will glide across that rod like skates on ice.  Some of you might know about this tip, but I am sharing this with those who never heard of doing this.

This works for me every time.  Candle wax, wax paper, and graphite are quite helpful in solving problems around the house. 

If you still do a lot of ironing, wax paper will clean the sole plate of the iron in nothing flat. Place a sheet of wax paper on the ironing board, then run the hot iron over the wax paper. Do this a couple of times, if necessary, and, if you need to, use another sheet of wax paper.  Do this until the iron is clean. 

The sole plate will be clean and whatever was on the bottom of the iron comes off on the wax paper.  Be sure to use a dry iron, no steam. 

Zipper acting up?  Take a small wax candle (birthday size candle should work) or a piece of wax paper and run it up and down the open zipper a few times.  (I tried this on a metal zipper.  I don’t know how this works on a plastic zipper.)  Then try zipping the zipper. This is for a zipper that is hard to zip, not for a zipper that is broken.  This has worked for me.

Another tip for zippers. Since I'm on the subject, use graphite. Take a graphite pencil and run it along both sides of the open zipper, then zip the garment up and down a few times and it should operate very easily.  To go a step further, buy graphite in a small dispenser designed for use on locks and other things such as zippers. Use this on the zipper if the pencil does not do the job. You can find this dispenser in the hardware store in the section where they make keys. Try the pencil first, it is the cheapest way, and for me, it has been the reliable way.

Thanks for reading, hope this was helpful,  goodtips