I tried every thing to make my new athletic shoe fit on one side of my foot. Wet it, ice it, used a wooden shoe expander, paper in it, nothing worked. I read that using a hair dryer near the spot works- and it did wonderfully.
I have also used it to warm up pipes that are frozen.
Clean dusty screens.
Any other ideas?
Help to dry off the dog after a bath - a cooler setting. And actually he hates it so we don’t do it - but it could help!
I use it lately for our dog in the winter. She got used to it on a warm setting. It also helps that the doors are shut to the bathroom and she knows a special snack awaits her at the end.
My 1 yr old grandson drools a lot when he sleeps. I often use the hair dryer on the wet spot. Beats changing the crib sheet a couple of times a day.
Shrinking plastic film. When you apply insulating window film with adhesive tape a hair dryer takes the wrinkles out of the film and makes it taut.
We once had a large candle fall over and splatter liquid wax all over the wall. Turns out it’s very hard to get hardened wax off the wall without damaging the paint. Luckily we learned that a hair dryer works wonders - it softens up the wax just enough to let you wipe it off fairly easily!
Something I do not miss here in San Diego! We had to cover our dining room sliding door every year, plus the very long horizontal window in our loft.
You can use it in lieu of a hot air gun, to dry watercolor paper faster (in order to be able to keep painting without risk of colors running together due to wicking from wet paper).
Use it to heat up stick on price labels on purchases. Heat a corner and continue heating as you peel off.
Wow, I had no idea of these uses.
Have used it to dry off flood-soaked tennis shoes when were at hotel on vacation. None of us had spares and they were drenched. Dried them as much as possible with towels then used blow dryer.
I’ve never used my hair dryer on hair. Instead i use it to dry other things – drying small paint area (this is also standard among Home Depot employees when confirming color match of paint), drying surface before painting, drying wet carpets/furniture, drying wet shoes, …
Thawing out frozen hummer feeders. 
I hope this isn’t tmi, but years ago my ob/gyn advised me to use my hair dryer to dry off after a shower (after first toweling off.) We lived in a hot and humid climate and I was all too familiar with Zeasorb powder. My doctor said using the blow dryer on low or medium heat to make sure that every nook and cranny was thoroughly dry would cut way down on rashes. It was a great help. I rarely dry my hair after showering, but always use my hair dryer.
When traveling with a small number of underwear or socks, I wash them in the sink at night and, if they’re not dry in the AM, use the hair dryer to finish drying them.
A quick blast to pajamas on a cold winter night does wonders.
Same. Under breasts and undercarriage does wonders. As a nurse, I have seen too many rashes in nether regions.
Wow. Just wow.
Drying ski gloves and ski boots, so they are ready for the next day.
We have a small bathroom in the basement that H will sometimes use when he is especially dirty from working outside or just when working in the basement. It can run chilly. Sometimes he turns on the hair dryer to shoot warm air into the bathroom!