| RE: Storing Christmas Ornaments In Luggage |
I would think plastic storage containors would have been just as thrifty plus you could store more in them. You can buy a fairly decent sized one @ walmart, Kmart or Target for around 10-15 dollars.
But I guess if it works for you, that is all that matters. I personally store jigsaw puzzles in my suitcases however I did not purposely go out & buy the cases to do this. I just figured puzzles were not something I work with everyday and they were taking up room on closet shelves so i stuck them in suitcases. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Free Building Materials From Building Sites |
Isn't most lumber that is to be used for housing, chemically treated? Not sure I would want to use it for fire wood! No telling what chemicals you would be inhaling.
We have a pallet company near my house and we were told to not burn the wood indoors because it had been chemically treated. We do use it for camping but not for anything else. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Print At Your Local Library |
That is a very good idea! Luckily my city is large enough to host 8 or 9 smaller library's. It makes it so much more accessible for a lot of our population that doesn't have transportation or have to take a bus. Our main library is downtown http://www.wichita.lib.ks.us/ and is about 2 miles from me but then we have 'sub' library's scattered in various parts of town (N, NE, S, SE & SW, E, W & NW). The south library is just about 10 blocks from my house. Our Wichita Crochet Guild also uses it for weekly 'stitch & bitch' sessions. I don't belong to the guild but I do go every week @ the library and crochet with them. There's usually anywhere from 3-4 up towards 15 gals there to crochet.
I love going to the library. I don't go often but when I do go, I typically will spend half a day there! I look @ the movies they have, the new additions in books & magazines, I look at just about every shelf of books in my little library!
this is the sub-library by my house http://www.wichita.lib.ks.us/Locations/Alford.htm
My printer takes 2 ink cartridges @ $35.00 each. I think I will keep track of how many printed sheets I get out of the next new cartridge install and then compare it to how much it will cost at the library to print the exact same amount and see if it is any savings. If it is a significant savings (you also need to figure in the cost of gas), I will defintaly start doing it that way.
Thank-You for sharing this!
Anna ... View related article. |
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| RE: Labeling Small Appliance Cords |
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I tag my cords to make them more easier to distinquish one from another. I have many many cords in a drawer and without having them tagged I would never know which cord goes to which appliance without having to try each of them out on an appliance. Sometimes I use medical tape and then write the appliance name on the tape or I'll use those little white estate sale tags that attach with string. This also works with cell phone chargers, camera battery chargers, video game chargers, ect. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Pricing Rag Rugs To Sell |
one of the ladies in my crochet group told me to price crocheted items for sale one should take the price of the yarn & multiply it by 3 and then add the cost of hourly wage. But I just can't see this being feasable. Pretend a sweater took you 20 hrs to make + $50 in yarn. Pretend minimum wage is $6.00 per hr. That's already $120 right there. Plus triple your yarn cost and there's $150. Who in their right mind is going to pay $270 for a crocheted sweater. I don't care how cute it is...I wouldn't do it.
I'm crocheting some dog sweaters to sell at a craft fair. If I went by the 'multiply by 3' rule I never would be able to sell them. I used $6.00 homespun yarn so that would be $18 + a $6.00 fun fur yarn, another $18. Plus it took me approx 8 hrs to crochet it...there's $56 in labor. Who in the world is gonna pay $92 for a dog sweater? I am getting ready to put them in a craft fair and plan on charging $15 for them. The reason I am being so cheap on them is because I could make 20 dog sweaters and still have lots of fun fur left over. It doesn't use much of it at all.
Pricing rugs is probably different than pricing clothing, gifts and other crocheted acessories so I would just go with what you feel it is worth. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Paper Clip Christmas Tree Garland |
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I came here to ask the same question as the rest of u. "sticky" with what? elmers Glue? spray glue? Hair spray? paint? syrup? Lots of sticky things out there. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Preventing Mildew Around Shower |
Like the first poster said...bleach should take care of it. There are many cleaners out there that contain bleach. If you have tile flooring...u want to check a small area first to see if the bleach is going to damage the tile more than the mold has. I had this problem at my old house and was told it was because there was no ventilation in the bathroom. We recently moved, remodeled the bathroom and added a ventilation system and I've not had a problem with it yet (it's been 6 months).
If you don't have a ventilation system (AKA: exhaust fan), you might try opening a window or just putting a small fan in the doorway facing outwards to pull the moisture out of the bathroom. Until you get some ventilation in the bathroom you will continue to have this problem. Getting water on the flooring does contribute to the problem but the gist of it is from moisture...humidity.
If you don't want to use bleach you might try apple cider vinegar. It is a very good cleaner, antiseptic, digestive aide, sanitizer, deodorizer and the list goes on. Do a internet search on ACV and you will be surprised at the list of stuff it is good for. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Keeping Hair from Sticking to Dress |
you can keep a lint brush in your purse or desk drawer and there's also the ol' back up...TAPE. Wrap the tape around your fingers with sticky side out, and run it across your shoulders or where ever you see lint, hair, etc. It will come right off and then you just toss the tape in the trash.
I had thought about static guard. I use it for what it's for. Keeping static off of certain clothes. I've never known it to keep clothes from collecting lint, hair, etc. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. ... View related article. |
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| RE: 20 Year Old Jade Tree Growing Tiny Shoots |
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You might try calling a plant store and see if they can tell you what is wrong with it. could be a fungus or something that just blew in on the wind. I recently lost a 30+ y/o aloe vera and was told by a worker at Natures Way plant shop that it was a fungus that killed it. I too put mine outside during the nice weather and brought it in during the winter. Natures way told me it is real common for plants that are moved in & out alot to develop fungus. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Uses for Store Hangers |
You might check with walmart and see what they do with theirs. I believe a checker told me one time that they return them to the place they order clothing from (manufacturer?) and they (walmart) gets $$ credit for returning them. Depending on the type of # of plastic it is, on whether it would be recyclable. I've never heard of a business accepting them for recycling. I gave all mine away on a place called freecycle. www.freecycle.org.
Churches that offer clothing give aways will sometimes take them off your hands. Nursing homes will sometimes accept them but they typically want the wire hangers.
If you crochet or knit you can make crocheted hangers. It works better with the hard plastic or wire hangers but i have seen the clothing store hangers used like this also.
My mom would make clothes pin bags out of old shirts and clothes hangers. You could probably glue or tape 3-4 of them together to make them sturdier, take an old shirt and make a seam across the bottom, cut off the arms first of course & sew that up and then drape it over the clothes hanger just like a shirt would. She would put her clothes pins in them for outdoor use but also would put mix-matched socks in them (til u can find the matching one), she would store pantyhose in them, any small item that takes up room in a drawer or shelf could be put in it, as long as it's not too heavy when accumilated! ... View related article. |
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