Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Three, Number 47, May 25, 2004
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Today's Tips:
- Sharpen Pins with Your Pin Cushion
- Save Money on Heating Fuel: Think ahead to save dollars!
- Inexpensive Lip Gloss
- Removing Shoe Polish from Carpet
- Use Curtains for Canopy Beds
- Clean Caulking Around Tubs and Showers with Vodka
- Featured Feedback: Tasty Fried Potatoes
New Requests:
- Frugal Tree Removal
- Prevent Cat from Peeing on Friend's Clothing
- Looking for Recipe Software
- Keeping a Mouse out of My Kitchen!
More Reading:
- Leftover Makeover!
- Kitchen Basics: Getting Started
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Susan
Today's Tips
Sharpen Pins with Your Pin Cushion
Make a pin cushion using steel wool as the stuffing. The steel wool will sharpen pins. Use corduroy, felt or suede as the material for your pin cushion.
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Save Money on Heating Fuel: Think ahead to save dollars!
If you use fuel oil for heating, have your tank topped off now, the price will be more expensive when you need it in the heating season.
I am on the budget plan and am locked into $1.349 per gallon until July. I am also on automatic fill up, too.
With gasoline prices getting out of sight now, you can imagine what the oil prices will be!
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Inexpensive Lip Gloss
For an inexpensive lip gloss use a little petroleum jelly. Also works for treating dry lips.
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Removing Shoe Polish from Carpet
Try a cloth dampened with turpentine or alcohol and rub the stained area.
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Use Curtains for Canopy Beds
Instead of buying those expensive drapes made specifically for canopy beds, why not try curtains. Curtains are less expensive if you buy them at the right store. Just make sure the curtain's rod length fits the canopy's frame rods. It is easy and cheap! By Angela from Missouri
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Clean Caulking Around Tubs and Showers with Vodka
To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set five minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew. By Debbie Cummings
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Featured Feedback: Tasty Fried Potatoes
These tips are in response to a recent request about frying potatoes:
Start with cooked, cold potatoes. It's easiest to bake a bunch the night before along with dinner. (Doesn't waste extra energy). Add some oil to a pan, saute some onions. Then, to the hot oil and onions, add cubed potatoes. You can add peppers, too. Fresh rosemary from your herb garden is good. Saute, turning only as needed with a spatula. Turning too often creates mush.
- Linda
Fry cubed potatoes in olive oil until half done, add diced leek, salt, pepper, and for more spice, blackened seasoning. Cover and cook until done, turning from time to time.
- Alex777
You might try sprinkling some flour on the potatoes before you cook them. this makes them more crunchy.
- Vlfivecoat
Never thought of putting flour on them. That is a good idea. One thing I do is a sprinkle a little paprika on them for color. That seems to help crispify. And I usually bake or boil the potatoes first. Then chill them. Then cube them. I like to chop up some garlic and saute that with some onions before I add the potatoes.
- Joe
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New Requests:
Frugal Tree Removal
Hi there, we have 6 to 8 giant evergreen trees that are dropping more and more debris on our house as they get bigger. It's pretty bad when it is windy. We are going to have to hire someone to cut them down. Anyone have any tips for going about doing this. Is their an inexpensive and safe way to have it done? LS
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Prevent Cat from Peeing on Friend's Clothing
For some reason, when ever I have company over my cat decides to not use the litter box. Instead, he pees on my friends clothing or on the carpet. I guess guests upset him but he is generally a friendly cat. Anyone had this problem? - Mel
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Looking for Recipe Software
Can anyone recommend good software for organizing recipes? - Tracy
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Keeping a Mouse out of My Kitchen!
Does anyone have some tips or ideas from keeping a little mouse from ruining my kitchen? This mouse poops on my countertop and gets into my drawers. He comes out at night. I am petrified of mice and can't get myself to set a trap. Please help. Thank you!!! Rhonda from Pennsylvania
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More Reading
Leftover Makeover!
By Brandie Valenzuela
Oh, how much I have learned over the years! When I was first married, some 10 years ago, I wasted so much leftover food. I wasted leftovers not because we were the wealthiest couple in our neighborhood (definitely not), but because I was 1) unorganized in the general running of my home, and 2) I had no idea what to do with them, other than serve them exactly the same the next day for lunch or dinner.
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Kitchen Basics: Getting Started
By The Maitre D
I can still remember when I first moved away from the family home, and my Mother's great home cooking, into my first apartment. First there was the joy and excitement of being on my own followed quickly by the stark realization that I was on my own and had to feed myself. Delicious meals no longer appeared on the table as if by magic.
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Susan
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