You’ve probably already heard that dryer sheets can be used to wipe dust, take odors out of shoes, wastebaskets and clothes, and eliminate static cling, but did you know that if you hang a few sheets outside they repel mosquitoes? Or how about the fact that they can be used to wipe off soap scum from showers doors and tile walls?  From the DIY blog here are a few other ways to use those handy sheets:

1. A sewing needle run through a sheet prior to sewing,   can prevent the thread from tangling.
2. Fabric softener sheets are claimed to clean baked on foods from cooking
   pots and pans. Place a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit
   overnight. Next morning sponge it clean. The antistatic agent
   apparently weakens the bond between the stuck on food between the pot
   or pans surface. The fabric softening agents helps to soften the baked
   on food.
3. Collecting pet hairs. Rubbing the area with a sheet   will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
4. Wiping up sawdust, on the shop workbench, from drilling or sandpapering
   is easy. A used sheet will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
5. They will take the odor out of books and photo   albums that don’t get opened too often.

Check out BounceEverywhere.com for more "fresh ideas" on creative ways you can use dryer sheets around the house.