• It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them.
• Repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.
• Eliminates static electricity from your television screen. Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
• Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
• Freshen the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang in the closet.
• Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
• Freshen the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.
• Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food.
• Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.
• Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
• Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
• Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
• Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.
• Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away. Shall we try it while horseback riding?

In order to extend your fly spray, use ordinary, kitchen products. Mix fly spray 50/50 with vinegar. I've also heard that some people mix garlic with their fly spray, too.

Use vinegar to get urine stains out of light colored tails. Straight vinegar gets the discoloration out.

Another kitchen item that works well at the barn is vegetable oil. If you have large water troughs that can not be emptied on a daily basis, a cap full of oil poured in the water will suffocate any mosquito larvae that may have hatched in the water. This not only lowers the number of mosquitoes that call your barn home, it also helps reduce the odds of West Nile Virus exposure.

Use fly sprays and shampoos made for cattle to help cut costs. Cattle products are typically much cheaper than horse products. I guess the companies know that cattle people aren't going to spend that much money on their calves. It works just as good on your horses.

Did you know you could purchase show supplies at Wal-Mart. Large portions of them come from the health and beauty aisle. For example, before a big show, horses can get a hot oil bath on their entire coat. Use the regular hot oil treatments made for people. The horses stand tied with a cooler on while they dry, then they're good to go."

After banding a horse's mane, apply mousse to the mane. It helps to set the hair so it doesn't move as much.

Another Wal-Mart find is baby oil gel. Use baby oil gel instead of the liquid for the horses' muzzles. It's just as shiny, and it adheres better to their skin.

To keep white socks looking white, apply baby powder after the socks have been closely clipped with a #40 clipper blade. Also use spray paint to get their socks looking really clean and white. Use caution because some horses have a reaction to regular spray paint, and in that case they use paint made for cattle.

Spray paint also works well to disguise blemishes and old scars. "Leather” is the perfect color to match a Chestnut horse. It's a great way to cover a scar where the hair didn't grow back, making the scar much less obvious.

To keep our horse’s hooves from packing full of dirt in the show pen, we spray Pepsi (Sherry, you could probably use Coke) on the soles of their feet once they are cleaned out. The oil helps prevent dirt clods from sticking in their hooves.

Also use car wash sheepskin mitts to dust off horses just before they go in the ring. You can wipe them down with a mitt, and they look all clean and shiny.