Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Four, Number 124, May 17, 2005
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- Rascal (Australian Cattledog) and Baileigh (Border Collie)
- Polishing Mission Oak Furntiure - A Moth with a Mission
Today's Tips:
- Asthma Attack Remedy - Coffee
- Uses for Leftover Coffee
- Wrap Flashlights With Fluorescent Tape
- Prize Bull Joke
- Remedies For Stinky Feet
- Remedies for Heel Spurs
- Saving on Toilet Paper
- Dinosour Joke
- Remember Your Membership Discounts
- Ice Cream Serving Tips
- Removing Clingy Styrofoam Peanuts
- Easy Theme Birthday Cakes
- Whipped Cream Icing
- Locked Your Car Keys In The Car?
- Saving Money on Jeans
- Remedies for an Ingrown Toenail
- Toothache Remedies
- Suitcase Planters
- Buy Asian Spices and Products at an Asian Market
- Wine Crate Planters
- Danish Pastry
- Never Fail Pound Cake
- Powdered Sugar Doilies
- Man Food - Potatoes, Sausage and Eggs
- Crock Pot Potatoes
- Pineapple Banana Pound Cake
- Orange Cookies
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- Protecting My Hibiscus Plant From Little Green Worms
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- Help For Severe Eczema
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Today's Photo Contest Entries
Rascal (Australian Cattledog) and Baileigh (Border Collie)
Here is a picture of Rascal and Baileigh. A picture was being taken of Rascal and Baileigh had to get in on the action too. Rascal is 9 years old and is an Australian Cattledog. We have had Rascal since he was 8 weeks old. Baileigh is a 3 year old Border Collie and we adopted her 2 years ago from a local rescue group. They both love to play with squeaky toys and chase balls in the backyard along with going on long walks.
By Marie
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Polishing Mission Oak Furntiure - A Moth with a Mission
Use lemon oil to polish your Mission Oak furniture.
By April
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Today's Tips
Asthma Attack Remedy - Coffee
If your are having an asthma attack and you are out of your medication, drink two to four cups of strong, black coffee. The caffeine in the coffee may give you some relief until you can get your medication
By MrsMoted2
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Uses for Leftover Coffee
Tips and ideas for using leftover coffee. Post your ideas.
Refrigerate leftover morning coffee in the summer for great iced coffee drinks! Use the used coffee grounds to mulch around acid loving plants!
By Karen
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Wrap Flashlights With Fluorescent Tape
You always seem to forget where you put the flashlight when there's a power outage. A good way to help you find useful items such as these in the dark is to wrap them in fluorescent tape.
By MrsMoted2
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Prize Bull Joke
Farmer Fred had a problem arise when, upon preparing his prize bull for market, the barn door slammed shut cutting the tail off the bull. His prize bull was to be sold that very day, yet now Farmer Fred couldn't... whole sale him or retail him.
By Terri H.
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Remedies For Stinky Feet
Tips for preventing stinky feet. Post your ideas.
Tea for Stinky Feet
Brew two tea bags in one quart of warm water and soak your feet for ten minutes. Do this every night until the problem is gone. Then you can soak them periodically. Tea is terrific at keeping your feet odor free and it also will keep your feet perspiration free because of its tannic acid.
By MrsMoted2
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Remedies for Heel Spurs
Tips for treating heel spurs. Post your ideas.
Take a piece of brown wrapping paper (grocery bag works) and cut it into the shape to fit in heel of your shoe. Soak the paper well in Apple Cider Vinegar, place in shoe and wear every day resoaking periodically. Within 2-3 weeks my spur was completely gone
By MrsMoted2
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Saving on Toilet Paper
Flattening the Rolls
I find that if I flatten the roll of toilet paper so the tube is bent a bit and doesn't roll so easily my family goes through a LOT less toilet paper! Same thing works for paper towels!
By washburn6394
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Dinosour Joke
What does Barney get when he scrapes his knee?
A Dino Sore
By jellosheriff
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Remember Your Membership Discounts
Don't forget about your easily overlooked discount opportunities such as AARP, an Entertainment Book, AAA, and other memberships that offer travel discounts.
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Ice Cream Serving Tips
Tips and ideas for serving ice cream. Post your ideas.
Scooping Ice Cream
Use two spoons held tightly together when scooping out ice cream.
By Laurei Smith
Editor's Note: Good idea, especially if you don't have an ice cream scoop handy, no more bent spoons.
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Removing Clingy Styrofoam Peanuts
I use dryer sheets or antistatic spray when opening boxes containing styrofoam peanuts. Wipe the item being removed from box with the dryer sheet or a paper towel sprayed with antistatic spray, and all the little styrofoam pieces will come off.
By Rosemary McGwin
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Easy Theme Birthday Cakes
For birthday cakes, ice cream or regular, I use a theme napkin and put on the top of the cake. Then I outline the napkin or part of the napkin with piped icing. It looks like a movie premier sheet. The kids love it and you get the true picture!
By Kelli Hermsen
Editor's Note: What an easy way to create a themed cake. Just be sure to tell the kids not to eat the napkin. :-)
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Whipped Cream Icing
Use real whipped cream for icing. Just whip it up and add flavoring at the end for a tasty treat. I personally like to use vanilla, almond extract, or Bailey's cream liquor (for adults only).
By Kelli Hermsen
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Locked Your Car Keys In The Car?
Argh! Locked out of your car? Here are some tips to help you out. Post your ideas.
After locking the keys in my car twice, I learned an expensive lesson. I invested in an inexpensive, but powerful magnetic key box, put an extra key in it and stuck it on a metal substrate underneath the car. Be sure to invest in a strong magnet box so you don't lose it on bumps. A $2 investment saves $40 to $60 in car opening charges. It's a "no-brainer."
MartySmarty
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Saving Money on Jeans
Tips for saving money on jeans. Post your ideas.
Check the Thrift Store for Jeans
Check the jeans rack at your local thrift store, there are some great deals to be had! Name brand stuff, too!
By Valerie
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Remedies for an Ingrown Toenail
Remedies for ingrown toenails. Post your ideas.
Before you go to bed, put a small wedge of lemon on the toenail, securing it with a band-aid. (put on a sock!) When you wake up, the nail should be soft enough to ease it away from the skin so that you can trim it.
By MrsMoted2
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Toothache Remedies
Tips for reducing the pain from a toothache. Post your ideas.
Put a few drops of clove oil on a cotton ball and pack it against the aching tooth. If you don't have any clove oil handy, a clove will work almost as well. Or, try chewing on a clove of garlic. It tastes pretty bad and forget about your breath! Your pain should be gone within a few minutes!
By MrsMoted2
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Suitcase Planters
Old hard suitcases work well as planters. Drill a few holes for drainage in the bottom and lay somall rocks over them then fill with dirt and plant. Also, try closing the lid and cutting a space in the top for a plant to grow out of instead of just leaving it open.
Raintree from South Dakota
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Buy Asian Spices and Products at an Asian Market
Don't buy your Asian spices and products (soy sauce, peanut or sesame oil, tofu, chile paste, etc.) at the grocery store. You'll pay anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 less by going to an Asian market.
Becky Tillman
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Wine Crate Planters
Ask your local liquor store for wooden wine crates or wherever wine is sold to use for planters... line with moss if need be.
Raintree from South Dakota
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Danish Pastry
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup flour
- 2 Tbsp. cold water
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- Dash of salt
Directions:
Mix the first 3 ingredients as pie crust. Put crust mixture into a jelly roll pan. Bring 1 cup water, 1/2 cup butter to a boil. Remove from heat, add flour and eggs, one at a time. Add almond and salt. Spread over crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Frost with a powdered sugar frosting, if desired.
By Robin
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Pound Cake
Pound Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 cup butter
- 6 eggs
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 3 cups sugar
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. vanilla or lemon extract
Directions:
In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar and eggs. In a medium bowl, sift dry ingredients. Pour dry ingredients into butter mixture. Mix well. Add milk and extract. Pour into a loaf baking pan. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes or till it tests done.
By Terri
Easter Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) Butter
- 2 cups Sugar
- 4 Eggs
- 3 cups all purpose Flour
- 3 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2 cups Sour Cream
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions:
Cream butter; add sugar and cream together. Add eggs one at the time mixing well after each. Add vanilla to above mixture.
Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and add to mixture alternately with sour cream. Mix well, but do not overbeat.
Batter will be thick. Spoon batter into 2 loaf pans which have been lightly greased and floured. (Shake out excess flour)
Bake at 325º F for 50-60 minutes checking for doneness after 50 minutes. If not done in the middle, return to oven for the other 10 minutes. Check again for doneness.
Because of the various sizes of eggs used, the moisture content of flour, and your own oven temperature accuracy, it could take an additional 10-15 minutes to get properly done.
Pound cakes are most often baked at a lower temperature than other cakes, giving the eggs a chance to do all the leavening, but this cake has both baking powderand baking soda as well, so it will rise more quickly and thoroughly.
When done, cool in pan on wire rack for 5-8 minutes, then turn loaves out onto wire rack and cool thoroughly.
Optional: Dust tops lightly with a mixture of 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tsp ground cinnamon, or use confectioner's sugar to make a lacy design with a paper doily.
Julia
Colonial Pound Cake
Here is another pound cake that is even easier.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks Butter
- 1 1/2 cups Sugar
- 1/4 tsp Mace
- 5 Eggs (large)
- 2 cups all purpose Flour
- 1/2 tsp each of vanilla, orange and almond extracts (Optional)
Directions
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at the time, mixing really well after each addition in order to obtain the maximum volume of the eggs
Sift flour with mace and fold into above mixture,
mixing well, but do not overbeat. It will toughen
your cake.
Spoon thick batter into a greased and floured
loaf pan. Bake at 325º F for 1 hour, then
testing for doneness. It may take longer (an
additional 10 minutes or so) for your cake to
reach the desired doneness. Check it again after 10 minutes.
When done, remove from oven and allow to cool
on in pan on wire rack for about 5-8 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack and allow to cool thoroughly.
You may choose to lightly glaze this pound cake
with a mixture of undiluted frozen orange juice
and confectioner's sugar. Use about a cup of
confectioner's sugar with 2 TBS orange juice. Add
more sugar or juice to get desired pouring consistency.
Pound Cakes are the most versatile cake to keep on hand. It can be served with sour cream, whipped cream (flavored or unflavored), ice-cream or fruits (fresh, canned or frozen).
Julia
Never Fail Pound Cake
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. box powdered sugar
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon extract
- 6 eggs
- 3 sticks margarine
Directions:
Melt the margarine and let cool. In a large bowl, sift your flour and powdered sugar. Mix all ingredients and bake in a loaf pan. Put in cold oven and then turn on to 325 degrees for about 1 hour or till it tests done.
By Terri
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Powdered Sugar Doilies
Ingredients:
- 3-4 eggs
- 2 cup flour
- Sweet milk (enough to make mixture squeezable through a pastry funnel)
Directions:
Drizzle into hot fat in a deep iron skillet. Brown on each side, lift and shake fat off, then lay side and the other on powdered sugar waxed paper.
By Robin
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Man Food - Potatoes, Sausage and Eggs
Potatoes, sausage, eggs, cayenne, seasoned salt, pepper.
Brown sausage, then drain fat. Add in taters that have been cut into 1/4 inch cubes. Then add eggs that have been cracked and sturred. The whole time you're frying, add the cayenne, seasoned salt, and pepper. Don't have a hay-day but just add enough until it looks good. If it looks good it will taste good!
Jordan
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Crock Pot Potatoes
Ingredients:
- 2 Cans Cheddar Cheese Soup
- 1 (1 Lb) Pkg Hash Browns
- 1 Sm Can Durkee Onion Rings
- 1 Can Condensed Milk
Directions:
Mix together and cook in crockpot on high for about 3 hours or until potatoes are cooked.
By IMAQT1962
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Pineapple Banana Pound Cake
Ingredients:
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 cups diced bananas
- 1 (8 1/2 oz) can crushed pineapple (juice and all)
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 1/2 cup cooking oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Directions:
In a large bowl, sift the dry ingredients together. In a medium bowl, mix all other ingredients and add to flour mixture. Mix well by hand, not by mixer. Cook in a tube or Bundt pan at 325 degrees for 1 hr. and 20 minutes.
This is a moist and tasty cake.
By Terri H.
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Orange Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- Grated rind of 1 orange
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. soda
- 3 1/2 cup sifted flour
- 1 cup sour milk
Directions:
Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs. Sift flour, salt, baking powder, and soda together. Add sour milk to creamed mixture. Add sifted ingredients and grated rind and mix well. Drop by spoon on baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees.
Icing for cake::
- 2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 Tbsp. butter
Cream together and frost cookies.
By Robin
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Killing Grass and Weeds
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Gardening Challenge - Planting In Shade
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Restoring the Cedar Smell in an Old Cedar Chest
I have a cedar chest that was mine as a young girl. The top is now gone and for many, many years it has held toys for my kids (now grown) a nephew, and now my Grandson. I love the old chest and now that I'm OLDER I appreciate it and would love to strip off all the old paint, have a new lid made and try to restore it. My question is how do you get the old Cedar smell back or does it just die out and can't be revived? I'm just curious if anyone would know.
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Looking For Simple Pleasures Dessert
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Egyptian Feast
My daughter is having an "Egyptian Feast" in her gifted class on Friday. Her teacher asked me to decorate the tables for the food. Does anyone have any suggestions what I can do on a LIMITED budget? Also, I need to include some Egyptian food items; any ideas on that too? Thanks!
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Protecting My Hibiscus Plant From Little Green Worms
I need some help! We have several hibiscus plants and every year they are attacked by something that eats the leaves, they look like tiny green worms and they leave the leaves looking like lace. The plant continues to grow and flowers but the plant looks terrible. We have tried everything, can some one tell us what this is and how to take care of it?
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Chinch Bugs In Lawn
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Stuffing Envelopes at Home
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Help For Severe Eczema
I have had allergies, asthma, and eczema my whole life. I just celebrated my 28th birthday by staying home because I am embarrassed to be seen in public. My eczema was very severe from birth until I was about 5. In my teenage years, it was bad on the back of my legs only.
About 4 years ago, I got a severe sunburn on my face, neck, chest, and shoulders. I had to go to the hospital to be treated for it. Now, my eczema is all over my body but the most prominent spot where I was sunburned. I have been prescribed lots of creams and ointments and I am allergic to everything I have tried. Even if something works at first, I seem to develop an allergy to it.
My face just looks terrible all the time. I can't wear makeup anymore. I can apply moisturizer 7 times within 1 hour of getting out of the shower and my face still dries right up. It is flaky and red and I have scratched sores in it from itching so bad. If my face sweats, it instantly makes my eczema go crazy. The dryness in my face has started to cause deep wrinkles and I look much older than I am.
The only medication I have taken that clears it up and makes me look normal is prednisone. I know it is bad for me in the long run and in the past it made me gain a lot of weight but I don't know what to do now. When I take the last prednisone pill, I feel like I start itching from the inside out. My skin will still look normal from the prednisone treatment but it will be burning and itching so badly I can't stand it!
I have done elidel, protopic, cortisone, eucerin, Lubriderm, Crisco, dermatop, mineral oil, olive oil, and a million other things I can't even think of. I also have a baby girl who will be 2 next month. I don't want her to suffer because of my skin. It is not a vanity thing although I would like to feel presentable, it hurts all the time.
There are no more good days and it seems like no one can help me. Please help me if you have any ideas or advice. It is getting very depressing.
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