Old Coffee Grounds --- Thought they were just trash?

Most people have heard of putting coffee grounds in your garden or compost bin.  However there are many more uses you may not have thought of.  With the price of coffee these days you need to get as much value out of the stuff as you can.  As an added benefit this helps the environment by using less chemicals.  For some of these ideas you will use the wet coffee grounds right out of the coffee maker, for others you will want to spread them on a cookie sheet and let them dry out first. 

1. Put dry grounds into a plastic container with holes poked in lid. Place in the refrigerator to absorb odors.
2. Keep grounds in a can near the sink. Rub a small amount over your hands after cutting onions, chopping garlic or preparing fish to get rid of the odors.
3. Take an some old pantyhose and fill with dried coffee grounds.  Tie off the hose and place one in odorous shoes.
4. It is said used coffee grounds get rid of cellulite. Here is the recipe: "Mix 1/4 cup warm, used coffee grounds and one tablespoon of olive oil. While standing over an old towel or newspaper, apply the mixture to your problem areas. Next, wrap the areas with shrink wrap and leave on for several minutes. Unwind the wrap, brush loose grounds off your skin and then take a shower in warm water.  Repeat this procedure twice a week."
5. Soften and add shine to hair. When washing your hair, rub coffee grounds through wet hair and rinse. For brown hair, coffee grounds add highlights.
6. Use coffee grounds as an exfoliate for skin. Pat on skin, massage over skin, rinse.
7. Add coffee grounds to your skin mask beauty routine.  Mix one quarter cup of coffee grounds with one egg white and use as mask. 
8. Make homemade tattoos (temporary) with henna and coffee grounds.
9. Fertilize plants. Old coffee grounds are nutrient-rich for plants that thrive in an acidic soil.
10. Add used coffee grounds to the pots of indoor plants.
11. Work used coffee grounds into your garden soil before seed planting. After your plants start to emerge, work in coffee grounds near the plants. Used coffee grounds are said to repel snails and slugs as well as adding nutrients to the soil.
12. Increase your carrot and radish harvest by mixing seeds with dry coffee grounds before planting the seeds.
13. Use coffee grounds to repel ants. Leave little mounds around your garden and the ants and slugs will stay away.
14. Keep cats from using your garden as a kitty box by spreading used coffee grounds and orange peels throughout flower beds.
15. Deodorize a freezer. Place a bowl with used coffee grounds in the freezer to remove unwanted odors. Add a few drops of vanilla to coffee grounds.
16. Rub coffee grounds on hands to get rid of smells from chopping or cutting up pungent foods.
17. Make a used coffee grounds sachet. Fill old nylons or cheesecloth with dry used coffee grounds. Hang in closets to absorb odors.
18. When you need an abrasive cleaner, coffee grounds can be used. Be careful of any surfaces that might stain.
19. Remove furniture scratches with wet coffee grounds.
20. Got a fireplace? Sprinkle wet coffee grounds over the ashes to keep from becoming engulfed in the plume of dust ashes create when you need to remove them.
21. Dye fabric, paper or Easter eggs. Simply add used coffee grounds to warm water and let sit a bit to create a dye.
22. After you give your dog a bath, rub coffee grounds through the coat of your pet. Coffee grounds are said to repel fleas.
23. Keep bait worms alive by mixing coffee grounds into the soil before you add worms.
24. Grow mushrooms on old coffee grounds.
25. Sprinkle damp coffee grounds on the floor of you garage to help keep dust down when you are sweeping.
26. Scrub away grease and grime from pots and pans.
27. Make pin cushions out of old coffee grounds. 
28. Spread coffee ground on your feet to help eliminate foot odor.
29. To remove bugs and tar from your vehicle, use a soft cloth and work up a lather with your regular washing solution. Add a tablespoon of coffee grounds to the cloth and use that to scrub the gunk off.
30. Dry coffee grounds can be burned in a charcoal pit to help heat it up. It burns hotter than charcoal, so be prepared to watch food more closely if you use it.
31. Coffee grounds make a very good addition to a compost pile.
32. They make a gentle abrasive for cleaning gunky things like ovens and grills, stinky ash trays, greasy pans and so on. Mix just a little dish detergent and scrub away.
33. Got gray? Wash it away! Steep a day's worth of coffee grounds in a cup of hot water for 15 minutes or so, then strain and use it as a hair rinse to cover gray hair.
34. Fill a muslin bag with used grounds and use as an all over body scrub in the shower. It's a gentle exfoliate and deodorizer in one. It works for your face, too. Just scrub gently and rinse with warm water.
35. Kitchen drain odor remover – Boiling water and coffee grounds help to get rid of stinky odors.
36. Use a pot of coffee & grounds when washing brown clothing, fabric etc. The stains will give new life to fading fabric.
37. Make a sachet out of old dried coffee grounds and old pantyhose or other cloth.  Throw it in the bottom of trash cans that have an odor problem to help absorb odors. 

Thank you all for allowing me to share these ideas with you.  I am really enjoying finding out the different uses for various items.  Please let me know your thoughts and ideas.  If you have any questions please ask.