Texas Spring/Summer Thread

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Are you kidding? I hadn't heard of that method of ear wax removal before, so I don't know whether you're serious or joking.

Bird, peroxide will work, when we where kids, my grandmother would put it in our ears every time we went swimming. Dont know if it worked, but if we didn't use it, we had bad/severe ear aches. If your ears where real dirty it bubbled like he77!!

BTW, went to the Azle Walmart, they had some of the best looking fruits and veggies I have seen there:confused3:, usually we go to Brookshires or other grocery for that "stuff", must be the season.. ONE caveat though, the sweet corn was .25 cents each and looked like it rode in the back of a pickup from Utah!! Looked worthy for pigs.
 
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Dennis, when we had a swimming pool, I kept a bottle of a 50/50 mix of mineral oil and white vinegar to put the kids' ears after they went swimming.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #1,593  
Are you kidding? I hadn't heard of that method of ear wax removal before, so I don't know whether you're serious or joking.

Bird,
I use it a couple times a week. The fancy stuff in the little dropper bottles is nothing more than peroxide and glycerine.
My ears get to itching from the molded hearing aid ends and every time I used to go the the hearing aid guy when I had the old plastic type
he would say, you got some wax in there. It doesn't take much to block the speakers somewhat. So I started researching a few years ago.
The fancy stuff with the oil doesn't work as well for me as plain 3% peroxide available everywhere for less than a dollar a pint. Same stuff we use to
boil out a cut or splinter.
I saved an empty bottle from the fancy stuff, pull the dropper top off and fill it with peroxide. Then put the dropper top back in. We usually try to get a little nap
in the afternoon, at least during winter months, so once or twice a week if they are itching, or my hearing diminishes, I rare back in the Lazyboy and lay on my side and drip about 10 drops in the ear. After a few minutes
I stick a tissue up to it and roll over the other way and let it drain out. Usually at night I flush my ears a bit with the warm water from the hand held shower head.
I went to behind the ear type aids a couple years ago which have a soft, silicone like insert. They make my ears itch as well. I go in to get new tubes between the aid and the
insert every three months or so as the tubes get stiff and the guy never sees any wax.
Another thing you can use if you don't like the gurgling of the peroxide is sweat oil. Old time remedy for ear ache when I was a kid. It is nothing more than olive oil.
Some folks mix oil and peroxide together. Others add a little vinegar.
Check it out on a reliable site on the net ( if there are any left) or ask your doctor.

Ron
 
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Thanks, Ron. I occasionally use the store bought ear wax removal stuff, then rinse out my ears with my water pik with warm water; turned down to the lowest possible pressure of course.
 
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BTW, went to the Azle Walmart, they had some of the best looking fruits and veggies I have seen there, usually we go to Brookshires or other grocery for that "stuff", must be the season.. ONE caveat though, the sweet corn was .25 cents each and looked like it rode in the back of a pickup from Utah!! Looked worthy for pigs.

I mentioned, a few days ago, that I bought a few ears of corn a Walmart for $.22 each. The main reason I bought them was to try out the FoodSaver vacuum contraption I recently bought. Anyway, my wife and I each had one of those ears of corn today; the kernels were very small (don't know if that was because they were picked too early or just that kind of corn), but the flavor was OK. Not the best I ever found by far, but I reckon worth what I paid for them. Of course I reckon corn on the cob is my wife's favorite vegetable and she says, "I thought they were real good.":laughing:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #1,596  
The ear wash for your hunting dog at the vet works good. Keep it in the pack for dog and me.


HS
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #1,598  
Bird; I don't guess it would be smart for you to tell your wife that corn isn't a vegetable. Technically, it is a grain. :laughing:
 

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