Daily Thrifty Tips - March 17, 2008

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope everyone has a safe one. Traditionally, St. Patrick's Day is one of the worst days of the year for alcohol related accidents, so please be careful.

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Here are Susan's grandkids celebrating St. Patrick's Day in their very special hats. The conehead in the middle is their new puppy, Honey.

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Craft: Crocheted Easter Bunny Basket

This adorable Easter Basket is crocheted over a 2 or 3 liter soda bottle.

Approximate Time

Supplies:

• Paper Punch
• Crochet Hooks Size F and Size J
• Hot Glue Gun
• Sharpie Marker
• 4 ply yarn 4 oz. Main color
• 4 ply yarn 2 oz. contrasting color
• Small amount of felt: blue and white for eyes
• Polyester stuffing or strips of Quilt batting
• Pom Poms 1 black 1/2 inch for nose
• Pom Poms 2 white 1 inch for face
• Pompom 1 white 2 inch for tail
• Optional Flower Stamens to use for whiskers

Instructions:

Handle:

Basket:

First Round: SC in each SC around.

Second through 12th round: Working in back loop of stitch only, SC in each SC around.

NOTE: Pull work down to make sure it covers the bottle. If necessary, add additional rounds until it does. At this point, pull work down over bottle and stuff lightly with polyester stuffing, or hold a few strips of Quilt Batting (cut about 4x16 inches) around the bottle as you pull the work down.

Next Round: (Work in both loops of stitch for remaining rounds) *SC in first 3 STS. Skip 4th ST. Repeat from * around.

Next Round: *SC in first 2 STS. skip 3rd ST. Repeat from * around, continuing until opening is closed, then fasten off.

Ears:

Repeat with MC for second ear. Also make 2 pieces with CC. Holding one of each color back to back with the CC facing you, using MC, crochet pieces together by making a SC through each ST of both pieces. Stuff lightly.

Cut 2 eyes as per pattern above right (see PDF).

Fasten 2 inch pompom to basket at beginning of Round 1. Glue ears upright over edge of basket opposite side from the tail. If you prefer you may sew them in place. With a length of MC yarn, tie handle to basket positioning each end midway between ears and tail. Using photo as a guide, glue face on front of basket. Add Easter grass to basket.

Click Here for a PDF of these instructions

By Harlean from Arkansas

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Craft: Cardboard Tube Bunny

Kids will love seeing these adorable bunnies adorn your holiday table.

Approximate Time: 20 minutes

Supplies:

• 2 cardboard tissue rolls or 1 paper towel roll
• 1 sheet of colored paper
• craft paint or makers
• 2 wiggly eyes
• pom pom or cotton ball
• scissors
• hot glue gun and glue sticks or craft glue

Instructions:

By Mom of 1 from Wilkesboro, NC

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No Gardening Yet in Maine!

My gardening tip for Northern Maine is to wait a few more weeks until the snow is gone.

By Carol from Northern Maine

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Waves Near San Simeon, CA

Hi, this picture was taken near San Simeon, California. The trick to getting a good picture of the waves is to sit and be patient. The waves roll in and you find your self relaxed enough to enjoy them and wait for that special shot.

By Tedebear from San Jose CA

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Cheetos Carrots

Jellybeans are expensive when you only need one color, except black. And the kids already get enough candy at parties. So I made 25 carrots out of clear party bags (taped at the bottom corners) filled with Cheetos and tied with green Christmas ribbon (the kind already curled for gift bows). My daughter will take these to school for her second grade Easter party.

By Gretta from Wayne, OK

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Trigger (Malamute/Wolf)

Trigger is 6 months old. He is Malamute/Wolf. I rescued him from a dirty and infested home. I got him when he was 3 weeks old

He loves his chewies, and to run around the house and yard. He also chases his tail round and round. He is a real good dog at this early age, he minds real well.

By Chad from Mesa, AZ

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Unique Organizing Solutions

I've been organizing and reusing items as much as possible. I have a laminated white cabinet made of particle board with holes drilled along the inside for shelves but the shelf pins I have didn't seem to work. I went looking for some slightly smaller and couldn't find any and I didn't want to chance trying to make the holes larger. So I found some metal screws just the right size and was able to put a shelf in it. This holds my daughters cake decorating supplies nicely. I love figuring out unique solutions for problems (I raised 9 children and it was absolutely necessary).

By Pat from Phoenix, AZ

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Reusing Medicine Dispensers

How many of you have extra medicine dispensers. The cup kind and the syringe kind? I have two young children so I have a lot. I have been letting them play in the tub with the extras and one day it hit me that I could use them to dispense shampoo and conditioner as well as meds. I use the syringe for my son and put about 1/2 tsp. in it and he just squeezes it onto his hair when he shampoos. I put my daughter's in the cups since she had longer hair and need more shampoo. Once she had dumped it I tell her to put a little water in it and swish it around to get all the shampoo or conditioner out. This way they feel like big kids and can wash their own hair with minimal help and I don't go through as much shampoo and conditioner.

Source: Thought of it all by my lonesome.

By Anita from Normal, IL

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Scanning Craft Patterns and Instructions

This pertains to instructions for just about any craft item. I scan the instructions or pattern into my computer to enlarge and then print it out. This works especially well for cross stitch or counted cross stitch because this way you can actually see the graph better and easier to count.

By Elaine from White Pigeon Mi

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Baking Soda and Vinegar Fabric Softener

Here's a simple recipe for keeping your fabrics soft and fluffy. It's a lot gentler on your clothes, than commercial fabric softeners and much easier on your wallet as well.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup baking soda
• 1/2 cup white vinegar

Directions

Fill washing machine with water. Add baking soda and then the clothes. During the final rinse cycle, add the vinegar into your fabric softener dispenser if your washing machine has one (or add directly during the rinse cycle.)

By Sabrina from Council, N.C.

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The Worst Age - A Joke

"Sixty is the worse age to be," said the 60-year-old man. "You always feel like you have to pee and most of the time you stand there and nothing comes out."

"Ah, that's nothin'," said the 70-year-old. "When you're seventy, you don't have a bowel movement any more. You take laxatives, eat bran, and sit on the toilet all day and nothin' comes out!"

"Actually," said the 80-year-old, "Eighty is the worst age of all."

"Do you have trouble peeing, too?" asked the 60-year old.

"No, I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no problem at all."

"So do you have a problem with your bowel movement?"

"No, I have one every morning at 6:30."

Exasperated, the 60-year-old said, "You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at 6:30. So what's so bad about being 80?"

"I don't wake up until 7:00."

By MCW from NY

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Have a UPS to Protect Your Computer from Power Surges

Regarding surge protector power strips and computers, please be aware that a nano rated circuit interrupter is required to protect a PC from voltage surge. The $10 power strips you see at hardware stores with John Madden's face on the box may prevent a sustained surge from causing your PC from busting into flames, but the slow trip speed WILL NOT protect it from damage. But even more importantly, over 75% of computers damaged by power issues are cause by brown outs, not surges. Only a properly rated UPS (uninterrupted power supply), also called a battery back up will protect your PC from both surges and sags in voltage. UPS's can be found in any computer store.

Source: 26 years personal experience in the electronics industry.

By Tony from Jacksonville, FL

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Summer Hat for Easter Basket

Here's an Easter tip. When my children were babies, instead of Easter baskets, we picked out a cute summer hat and used it as a basket instead. We put little things in it a baby could use, like a small bottle of juice, a teething toy, a small book, etc.

When my second child, a son, was a baby, we gave both of our kids sunglasses for Easter. They looked so cute, so we took their picture, and it's one of my favorite family pictures! My son looked SO CUTE in his hat and sunglasses!

By Marie from Idaho Falls, ID

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Masking Tape for Picking Up Small Items

Use masking tape sticky side out for easy clean up for small items like broken glass, glitter spills, tiny paper pieces. It makes a great lint brush, too!

By Mandie from New Philadelphia, Ohio

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Use Your Fan When Chopping Onions

Fed up with the tears when cutting up onions? Put your cutting board on the stove (while the burners were off, of course) and turn on the range's vent fan. Chop my onions tear-free!

Source: A tip from another thrifty newsletter submitted by Sarah S

By Diana from Prospect

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Car Alarm Goes Off for No Apparent Reason

I have a car alarm that goes off for seemingly no reason. We have had trouble off and on with the key fobs. Sometimes they work to unlock or lock the truck, and other times, they do not. Now we have had the alarm go off for no reason. My husband wants to leave the truck unlocked because he is afraid it will go off, but I don't like leaving it unlocked. It does not matter if we set the alarm or just lock the doors. Has anyone else had this problem? Could a low battery in the key fobs be causing it?


Joanne from PA

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Converting Aquarium into Terrarium

I'm thinking about converting a 30 gallon aquarium into a terrarium. I would like advice from anyone who has done this successfully. What types of plants are slow-growing and would do well under glass? The top will not be sealed, but will be mostly covered by the aquarium top that has the light in it.


Chloe

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Healthy Easter Baskets

I have small children and much of the stuff to put in the Easter baskets is candy or are not really suited to little ones. I'd like to include healthy snacks rather than candy. Does anyone have suggestions for a safe and healthy Easter basket?

- Tamara

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Rubber Stoppers for Refilling Ink Cartridges

I am trying to find small rubber stoppers for refilling ink cartridges. Could you help please?

Keith

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Outdoor Casual, Non-traditional Wedding

I'm planning a very frugal wedding for May. Let me give you some details first. We are renting a building at a local campground for the "wedding" and "reception". It will not be anything traditional. We will be getting married in bride and groom t-shirts and shorts/jeans. No flowers. No catering. We are ordering pizza for everyone and buying pop (soda) to drink.

As long as the weather is nice, we may even be able to get married outside and have some of the games and activities outside. The wedding and party will go from 12 noon to 4 or 5 pm. Afterwards we are jumping into our truck, pulling our camper and going to an island for a few relaxing days in the sun and visit a local amusement park. We will have our dogs with us.

Is there a tactful way of saying "You can give us money instead of a gift!" for our wedding?

It would help out with our "honeymoon". Maybe there is no tactful way though. If not, is there a tactful way of suggesting what we are doing for our honeymoon so that other's can get us stuff we can actually use and need instead of items we already have? (We've been living together for 7 years now and both of us have been married before.) Since we've been living together for so long, I already have toasters, tea pots, dishes, etc.

Also, any ideas for games? How about prizes? We need to keep it frugal though. Maybe a scratch off lottery ticket for the winner of a game? Should we plan inside and outside games? What are other things we could do for our wedding and reception that would be fun and keep everyone busy?

Our pastor is marrying us for free. She is also giving us our pre-marital counseling for free. What would an appropriate gift be for her (to tell her thanks)? She has everything and if she ever needed anything at all, she could run out and get it. So I have to think frugal but also want to get her something that she could use. I hate to think of gifts not getting any use out of them.
Thank you everyone! You all are the BEST!

Misty from Wooster, OH

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White Spots On Frosted Glass Desk

We bought an inexpensive green frosted glass desk and I made the mistake of cleaning it one day with rubbing alcohol. Now it has white spots all over it that I cannot get off. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

Nancy

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Threading a Handy Stitch Machine

How do you thread a handy stitch machine?

Denise from Beaumont, CA

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Cleaning Out Waste in Dog Kennel

I am setting up a new kennel in the yard for my Sheltie, Blue. How should I keep it clean? Is there a system that can have the waste washed into or do I have to scoop
daily? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.

Nelwyn from Bunkie

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Tippin's Restaurant Style Key Lime Pie

Does anyone have an easy recipe for Key Lime Pie? I would love to find the recipe they use at Tippin's restaurants. The pie was great and the topping was unbelievable!

Fran from St Joseph, MO

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Natural Treatment for Yeast Infection in Dog's Ears

My dogs have a yeast infection in their ears. I need a natural way to treat it. No money to go to the vet.

Rachal from Norcross, GA

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Painting Walls in a Mobile Home

I rent a mobile home. I painted and stenciled one bathroom. It looks pretty good. For bigger rooms, what do you do with the spaces/panels? Do they spackel well? Wallpaper is not in my budget. Thanks in advance.

Keeper from NC

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Non-Soy Substitute for Soy Milk

Is there such a thing as a non-soy substitute for soy milk?


Duane

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Garter Snake Producing Strong Odor

My neighbors have owned a Garter snake for years now. Every time she opens her front door to her apartment, a smell comes out that almost smells like a strong, druggish smell. Is this normal for a Garter snake? When I walk by the tank that the snake is kept, it definitely is the culprit for the smell.

It is so gross that I literally avoid seeing her so I don't get pulled into her house. I had dinner over there tonight and couldn't eat. When I got home I changed my shirt and smelled it to see if the odor was there and it was. Is this really possible from snakes? The smell is not just sometimes, it is constant. They are not dirty people. So how could this snake smell engulf their entire house?

Danika from Sierra Vista, AZ

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Do Old Kenmore Dryers Have a Circuit Breaker?

My late 80's Kenmore Dryer worked one day, then just stopped the next. It won't turn, it won't heat, nothing happens! It's as if it came unplugged suddenly, but it didn't. Is there a circuit breaker in there somewhere like blow-dryers have in case they get too hot?

The circuit breaker in my wall panel is fine. If they DO have a circuit breaker, where do I look for it? I have to fix this one. I can't afford another one. My house looks like one big clothesline, with clothes and sheets drying all over the place! Please Help!

Cyinda from Seattle

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Building Inexpensive Table and Shelving

I am a clothing designer living in a TINY studio apartment looking for a cheap table (preferably a high one that is big enough to work on), and shelving that I'm assuming would fit under the table. I'm okay at building things, but maybe you know a cheap way to make shelving and a table? Please give me advice!

Jenn from the city

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Will Play Fighting Make Puppy More Aggressive?

I have 1 Pomchi 15 weeks old, male, and 1 chihuahua, 11 weeks old, female. The boy is very active and when we got the girl, 2 weeks ago, she was very cuddly. I am sure this was because she was new to the house. I am worried now because she "play" fights with the Pomchi all the time and really doesn't want to be cuddled. Will all this fighting make her more aggressive and not want as much contact with humans?

Laura from Sydney, Australia

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Making Ribbons Sticks for Chinese Ribbon Dancing

Does anyone know how to make the silk ribbons on the sticks for Chinese Ribbon Dancing?


Di from Leesburg, FL

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Recipe for Chocolate Groom's Cake

I need a really good chocolate cake recipe, for a grooms cake. Also, any ideas on decorating one too. Thank you!

Steph from Sidney, Ohio

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Burnt Stain on a Ceramic Stove

I have a flat top stove that has burnt on 'stuff'. I've tried just about everything on the market, to no avail. Does anyone know of something that will get the black burnt on mess off my stove?

Renee from Middleburg, FL

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Keeping Bugs Out of My Face

The weather is going to get warmer and we'll be spending time up north which means you can't be outside without gnats and mosquitoes bothering and getting in your face. Any suggestions to keep them away from my face would be appreciated. Bug spray doesn't work.

grammamre from Charlotte, MI

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Trouble With Sewing Machine After Bending Needle

I have an old sewing machine, labeled Gimbels, 40yrs old. After inadvertently bending a needle while in the machine, it will not freely move up and down. It displays great resistance while the clutch is engaged. Can you indicate where the problem may be and where I can get parts? Thank you.

Helen

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3 Year Old With Sleeping Problems

We are moving in two weeks and my son is three and half. He has a very difficult time sleeping, getting out of bed, wanting to sleep with us. Any suggestions to make the transition easier? He adapts very easily to new situations but night time is tough for him. Thanks

Mindy

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Removing Oil Spots on Linoleum

How do I get oil spots off linoleum caused by casters?

Doreen from Cranbrook, BC, Canada

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Melted Crayon Dried on Clothing

Can anyone help me with wax crayon stains? I must have left an orange one in my wash and I have tried all the usual stain removers. Nothing seems to help.

Antje from UK

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White Rainbow Tea Ideas

I need ideas for a Rainbow Tea. My color is white.

Renee

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Should I Bury a Fence for New Dog?

I'm about to buy a 7 week old Siberian Husky. Do I need to bury a fence into the ground for risk of him tunneling out? Is it safe to let my dog off the lead or is there a good chance I'll lose him? Thanks!

Paul from Northern Ireland

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Cheaper Medicine for Dog With Seizures

We have an Australian Shepherd who has seizures. He is now 4 yrs old. He is on large dosages of phenobarbital, 10 tablets a day, and 800 mg of potassium bromide. The vet wants to see him quite often. Each visit costs from 150 to 225 dollars. I don't want to sound cheap, but is there a more cost effective way to buy his medicine, and to get blood tests?

Rusty from Kansas City, MO

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Forcing Branches: Bringing a Touch of Spring Indoors
By Ellen Brown

For me, one of the hardest parts about spring (besides keeping the mudroom clean) is the endless waiting for it to get here. The arrival of March (at least here in zone 4) brings the first few promises of spring-the sun is noticeably higher in the sky and the snow at the base of neighborhood trees is starting to recede. Too bad March also brings a huge case of 'garden fever.' The cure? Forcing spring branches may be just what the doctor ordered.

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