Joey Green

Clean a toilet. Pour two cups of Gatorade into the toilet bowl, let sit for one hour, then brush and flush clean. The citric acid in Gatorade removes stains from vitreous china.

Relieve morning sickness. Drinking Gatorade helps maintain the body’s balance of electrolytes, which regulate the body’s electrochemical balance.

Help cure diarrhea. Drinking Gatorade replenishes the electrolytes and glucose being drained from your body during a bout with diarrhea.

Relieve the pangs of food poisoning. Drinking Gatorade replaces the electrolytes (particularly potassium and sodium) and fluids flushed out of your system by vomiting and diarrhea.

Stave off heat exhaustion. Dehydration or profuse sweating causes a rise in body temperature, resulting in loss of appetite, headache, dizziness, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. Drinking Gatorade replaces electrolytes (the potassium and salt lost through perspiration) and fluid.

Settle your stomach after a bout of vomiting and prevent dehydration. Drink Gatorade to replace the electrolytes and fluids flushed out by vomiting.

Cure a hangover. Since dehydration is the basic cause of a hangover, drinking Gatorade, which is absorbed into the body faster than water or fruit juice, quickly rehydrates the body, remedying the hangover.

Store sugar. A clean, empty, one-gallon Gatorade bottle makes an excellent container for storing sugar.

Store bird seed or pet food. Pour an open box or bag of bird seed or pet food into a clean, empty Gatorade bottle and secure the lid to keep the pet food fresh and free from insects and mice.

Make a flower vase. Remove the label from a clean, empty Gatorade bottle, fill half-way with water, and fill with flowers.

Make a megaphone. Remove the cap and cut off the bottom of an empty, clean Gatorade bottle.

Make a drill holster. Cut a clean, empty Gatorade bottle about halfway on the diagonal. With screws, attach the back of the bottle to the wall above your workbench.

Make a hot cap. Cut off the bottom of an empty, clean Gatorade bottle and place the bottle over seedlings. Take the cap off during the day, and replace the cap at night.

Make bowling pins. Collect ten clean, empty Gatorade bottles, decorate, if you wish, with Con-Tact Paper, and use a rubber ball to bowl in the backyard.