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| Have a Recycled Christmas
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While reading my ThriftyFun newsletter and leaving an answer for someone regarding less expensive Christmas shopping, an idea popped into my head.
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Posted on: 07/08/2008 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Frugal Way to Cool Down
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Wet a washcloth with cold water and wring out. Place over an inverted bowl in the freezer. Thirty minutes later you have a 'cool' hat to wear.
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Posted on: 07/08/2008 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Naturally Refurbishing Wood
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I need to use a cane, but balk at the prices I've seen. I recently found a nice folding cane for $1.00 at a second hand store--the kind that usually costs $20 to $30. The cane is metal with a wooden handle. The handle looked terrible because the wood had been coated with a dark plastic finish that had partially flaked off exposing the white pine wood underneath.
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Posted on: 07/02/2008 | 3 Feedback(s) |
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| How To Make Paper Beads
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 Making paper beads is an easy, fun, and timeless craft activity. You can use the beads for jewelry, decoration, or anything else you usually use beads for. This is a great way to recycle paper, especially all that useless junk mail that piles up. It's also fun for kids to learn, and easy enough that most catch on to the technique quickly.
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Posted on: 07/01/2008 | 4 Feedback(s) |
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| A Guide To Household Recycling
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I'm interested in recycling my household plastics and cans. Where can I get a free guide sent to me to help me start? Also, any good websites. I have limited space so I can't have bins everywhere. Is there a compact sorting bin that works well and is attractive because it will be out in the open? Thanks for all your help in advance!
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Posted on: 07/01/2008 | 10 Feedback(s) |
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| Lipstick Container For Keeping Pills
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I use a old lipstick container that the lipstick is worn down and cleaned out for a pill container for my purse.
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Posted on: 07/01/2008 | 3 Feedback(s) |
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| Reducing the Amount of Plastic We Use
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As we all know, the amount of plastics produced, purchased and ultimately discarded is vast. In one house alone the number of platic items used in virtually every aspect of home living is astronomical. Many plastics are bad for people's health, as well as being bad for the environment during production, and after the fact in the form of litter.
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Posted on: 06/27/2008 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Good Tasting Tap Water Instead of Bottled Water
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I was buying bottled water because I didn't like the taste of the water coming out of the faucet until I set it out for 24 hours. Now it tastes the same as bottled water and I've saved lots of money.
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Posted on: 06/27/2008 | 14 Feedback(s) |
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| Grocery Bags vs. Garbage Bags
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Are plastic grocery bags and garbage bags made from the same type of plastic? If you are required by local ordinances to use plastic bags to dispose of your trash, is there any environmental advantage to using store-bought garbage bags, vs. plastic grocery bags?
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Posted on: 06/27/2008 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden: Vintage Wooden Toolbox Planter
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 Take something old and make it new! This vintage wooden toolbox (a $2 yard sale find) now holds pretty flowers instead of ordinary old tools.
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Posted on: 06/26/2008 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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