To save money and time when drying your clothes, instead of using dryer sheets or dryer balls, put three tennis balls in the dryer with your load. This saves you money by not having to buy dryer sheets and cuts drying time in half. The tennis balls can be used over and over. They also make your clothes softer. I do this every time.
A lot of people take a tennis ball, cut it in 4 directions and put it on the bottom of a walker to prevent dragging the legs of the walker. This also keeps the walker from damaging hard wood floors.
Teachers also put tennis balls on the bottom of student chairs to keep the noise level at a minimum and to save the waxed floors from damage.
For a do-it-yourself back massage that works every time, try this: Place two tennis balls into the toe of a man's long tube sock. Hold the sock by the top and lower the toe of the sock (with the balls inside) over your shoulder and onto your back. Place the balls where your back aches and lean up against a wall. Now bend your legs and move your body up and down and back and forth. The balls will roll over your ache and relieve your pain. I love it and use it often.
Cut a tennis ball in half, cut a hole in the bottom, and slide up your paint brush to catch drips. You can use the other half in the kitchen to open tight jars, just put the tennis ball over the top and it will make it easier to grip. It opens jars easily.
A good gardening friend of mine uses tennis balls to make a gardening frame and found that the tennis balls are useful for bluetits too, Take a look at the photo of the bird using the tennis ball on this website:
I am always searching through my purse for my loose change, so I decided to cut a slit into a tennis ball. I put all my change into it, now I can find my change without having to search for 10 minutes.
You can also use a tennis ball to protect a padlock. Cut a slit in the ball and slip it over an outdoor lock to prevent it from freezing.
You can make a small slit in a tennis ball and put them on the tips of walkers. Often, walkers can catch on carpeting, especially in offices or homes that the users aren't familiar with. Tennis balls tend to slide/glide across the carpeting, and insulate the walker from static cling in the process. On smooth surfaces, they keep the tip from marking the floors and accidentally slipping out from under the user.
Make lively curtain rods with tennis balls. For my living room curtains, I bought a wooden dowel and mounted it above the window. Then I took two tennis balls, cut a circle (or just a slit) the size of the dowel in each one, covered the balls with fabric, and popped them on each end of the dowel for a perfect decoration. Nobody knows the curtain rod is made with tennis balls!
I use tennis balls in the dryer to help fluff clothes. They also cut down the drying time. In the preschool classrooms, they are helpful on the bottom of chair legs to alleviate the noise when moving.
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I have a box full of tennis balls that are old and beat up from when my son used to play tennis in high school. Does anyone have any imaginative or practical uses for these?
They can be cut in half and used as miniature traffic cones with which to practice slow speed motorcycle manuevers...in fact, I could use about a dozen myself...
Other than the obvious there are a number of additional uses for tennis balls. This is a guide about the uses for tennis balls.
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Uses for Tennis Balls