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| Reusing Toilet Paper Rolls
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What should I do with all the empty toilet paper rolls that I have saved? I hate to just throw them away.
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| Posted on: 11/08/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Make Your Own Pillowtop Mattress and Duvet Cover
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Several years ago, I decided I wanted one of those featherbeds and a feather comforter. Instead of spending all that money, I took two old comforters, washed them up and put one under the fitted sheet on my bed - instant featherbed.
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| Posted on: 11/06/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Use Timer Light Switches for Easily Forgotten Lights
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Purchase timer light switches and install in the bathrooms, kids rooms or any room were lights may be forgotten on. The timers automatically shut the lights off after 15 to 60 minutes or whatever the time is on the one you purchase.
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| Posted on: 11/05/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Reusing Dry Cleaner Hangers
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I like to reuse dry cleaners hangers by saving them up all year. Then when we go on vacation for a week at a hotel, I'll bring them with me and I'm able to hang up all our clothes to keep them wrinkle free and give us more room in the drawers.
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| Posted on: 11/05/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Use Warm Oven to Dry Pots and Pans
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When you have used your oven for cooking or baking and have pots and pans that have to be hand washed, place them upside down on the rack in the warm oven to dry. Do not forget to remove them before you preheat the oven.
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| Posted on: 11/04/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Allow Your Dishwasher to Air Dry
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To save energy costs, I fire off that sucker just an hour before bed time, then when it's done washing, I crack it open and let it air dry. If you are picky, picky, this will not eliminate all of the water spots, but your dishes will be clean!
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| Posted on: 11/02/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Making Junk Mail Useful
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I cut the envelope open with a letter opener (unless the flap can easily be opened without cutting). Uses: store coupons, to do lists, store receipts. If it has see through window on back, with plastic then when I am done with the envelope, I cut that out with border to use for crafts.
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| Posted on: 10/30/2009 | 5 Feedback(s) |
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| Leaves are Free Fertilizer
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 Leaves are a type of free fertilizer, and yet we pay our cities to haul our free fertilizer away every fall, and then buy unnatural, non-organic chemicals, or organic fertilizers in the spring to replenish our lawns.
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| Posted on: 10/29/2009 | 4 Feedback(s) |
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| Reusing Motor Oil
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Has anyone tried to pour waste oil from tractors or automobiles into a newspaper log roll and let it soak in? I would think for a wood stove it would be a way to recycle oil as well. What are your thoughts? Would it burn too hot?
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| Posted on: 10/28/2009 | 5 Feedback(s) |
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| Gift Bags Instead of Wrapping Paper
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The bags can be used over and over, in fact in our family it's fun to go to a party and see a bag you bought being used again. I have started to give gifts in the reusable grocery bags.
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| Posted on: 10/28/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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