In answer to the sometimes-asked question, "If you don't eat sugar, why do you have a 5-pound bag of it in your cupboard?", I give you sugar waxing for hair removal. It's far cheaper than waxing, and the excess sugar washes off with water, unlike wax. Cleanup is a cinch.
Sugar "Wax"
2 cups sugar
¼ cup lemon juice
¼ cup water
Cook until mixture reaches 250° F on candy thermometer.
Wait until cool enough to put on skin (test carefully...).
Tear a cotton bedsheet into strips 3 inches wide or so, and about the length of your leg.
Realize that you really needed that bedsheet for something else. :-)
Spread sugar very thinly (back of a flat butter knife works well) in a stripe down your leg.
Press a fabric strip firmly over the sugar, down your leg. I run my hands down it a few more times.
Pull fabric off, from bottom to top of leg.
Note: make a batch of sugar ahead, store in fridge, and reheat when needed. Fabric strips are washable and reusable, of course.
I find sugaring my legs kind of relaxing; no doubt I'm getting a beta-endorphin rush every time I pull hair out.