Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Three, Number 146, October 9, 2004
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Hello,
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of tips so we are now going to publish 7 days a week. We are
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Today's newsletter contains:
Today's Tips:
- Uses For Film Canister Lids
- Dollar Store Beauty Gift for a Young Girl
- Closing Bags Without Re-sealable Tops
- Frugal Weed Killer
- Take Time to Enjoy Company
- Splitting Dinners at Restaurants
- Clip Your Shopping List To The Shopping Cart
- Keeping Sewing Machine Needles Handy
- Keep Necklaces From From Getting Tangled
- The "No Buy" List
- Making an Incense Burner with Shell Buttons
- Make Your Own Lunch Box Ice Packs
- Storing Dehydrated Food
- Beautiful Wooden Crochet Hook Caddy
- Uses for the Styrofoam Fast Food Containers
- Uses for Old Fabreeze Bottles and Dryer Sheets
- Foodsaver Uses
- Recycling Shoes
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- Vegetable Container Gardening
- Grama Browns Baked Beans
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Today's Tips
Uses For Film Canister Lids
These can be used to make checkers or to replace missing parts
from games. A coat of that new fusions paint and some stickers
and they can become a concentration game too. Try the Alphabet
matching the Large letters with the small numbers with Pictures
that have that number or just pictures.
By Debra in Colorado
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Dollar Store Beauty Gift for a Young Girl
At the dollar store you should be able to find a tube of different colors of lip gloss. Near the lipstick you should also be able to find some body glitter that is so popular with kids of the younger set. Jewelry is cheap there, too. Clip on earrings and a couple of bead necklaces are great.
Take a gander over to the hair bow section and pick up a couple. Add to this a hairbrush and a mirror. You can make cute curlers for a youngster with film canisters and bobby pins. They can roll their own hair or the hair of their favorite dolly. Put all of these into one of those clear plastic drawstring bags and you have a nice gift. You could also include some glitter nail polish but I would get the mom's permission first.
By Debra in Colorado
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Closing Bags Without Re-sealable Tops
When opening a bag of frozen food, any kind, that doesn't have a re-sealable top, I cut of a strip at the opening of the bag, use what I want and tie the bag up with the strip I cut off. No need for clips or twisty ties. Saves time and money.
By Pam
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Frugal Weed Killer
To get rid of grass, weeds, or anything you don't want.
1 gallon white vinegar
1 lb. salt
1/4 cup dish washing soap
Mix together and spray on whatever you DO NOT want.
It really works and is much cheaper than weed killers or spray.
By Marj
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Take Time to Enjoy Company
We had friends lived out of state that we had invited for lunch as they were going to be in our neighborhood. I had planned on offering them a home cooked meal. My husband suggested taking them to a restaurant as he thought that if I didn't have to cook and cleanup that I would have more time to enjoy my company. At first I didn't think it was a good idea but then the more I thought about it the more it made sense. So off we went to a restaurant & had a great time and yes, I did have more time to enjoy my company.
By Joesgirl
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Splitting Dinners at Restaurants
Do you ever get disgusted with the large portions of food you get when eating in a restaurant? Yet you don't want to take a doggie bag home? And sometimes you end up eating more than you planned, not because you were hungry, but because it's there. Here's what I do, many times my husband orders a prime rib which is usually a larger piece of protein than any one needs at one sitting. It comes with rice or potato. I order a large salad with an extra plate & share the salad with my hubby. He in turn shares his prime rib and rice or potato with me. It's less expensive, we don't overeat and there are no leftovers. Happy eating.
By Joesgirl
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Clip Your Shopping List To The Shopping Cart
Start your shopping list down an inch or two on the paper, then fold it over the front of the supermarket trolley and clip with a spring hair grip. Then you can see at a glance what's on your list.
By Lizaixi
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Keeping Sewing Machine Needles Handy
When sewing heavy fabrics (e.g. jeans) on the sewing machine, keep the little box the needles on a piece of Blu-tack on the front of your machine. That way you will know at a glance where the right needle for the next job is.
By Lizaixi
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Keep Necklaces From From Getting Tangled
To keep your necklaces from tangling, thread the chain through a drinking straw. For traveling, Place the chain and straw in a toothbrush holder.
By Cheryl
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The "No Buy" List
Keep a list in the front of your calendar or day planner. See how many items you can add to it that you will never have to buy again.
Some include: waxed paper (cereal box liners); memo tablets (use all scrap paper); pens (use free ones); scotch tape (use misc. labels from stamp edges and junk mail); dish rags (use--rags!); plastic containers (use ones margarine & other foods come in); wash cloths (cut up & hem worn towels); envelopes (make your own from scrap paper and junk mail); lip gloss (make your own by mixing a little petroleum jelly, ends from old lipstick & a couple drops peppermint extract); window cleaner (use ammonia & water); household cleaners (for most purposes a little dish liquid in water does the job); paper napkins (use cloth); paper towels (use newspapers or rags); plastic wrap (use saved bread and other food product bags); you can see your list can get quite long.
Try to add a few more items to your No Buy List each year.
By Jayne
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Making an Incense Burner with Shell Buttons
Try to think up ideas to make any little thing with items you may already have on hand. I needed an incense burner for stick incense. I had a bunch of nice-looking but mismatched shell buttons. Each was flat with 2 holes. Stack them up aligning the holes, largest one on the bottom, glue them together, and you have an interesting homemade incense burner.
By Jayne
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Make Your Own Lunch Box Ice Packs
I find those store bought ice packs ineffective. There are 2 kinds. The big bulky ones that take up too much space or the thin kind that don't reach everything. Freeze ice cubes and seal in a vacuum sealed bag, then let it melt until you have moldable ice pack to refreeze that will fit your needs. It's reusable and leak proof to boot.
By mildred ruckert
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Storing Dehydrated Food
I like to dehydrate food and find it bothersome to find something has re-hydrated from the air in the storage container. Vacuum sealed bags is the best solution. It keeps the kids from leaving the zipped type bag open. also saves space in storing them. You can line up bags in a shoe box and put on a shelf.
By mildred ruckert
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Beautiful Wooden Crochet Hook Caddy
Supplies:
- 1 piece of cutoff 2x4 board
- 1 small can of any color stain
- 1 small can polyurethane varnish
Tools:
- Router and beading bit
- Drill and various sized drill bits
- Sander or Sanding block
Directions:
Find yourself a good sized scrap of 2x4 (layout your crochet hooks to decide how big it will need to be). Run the router with a beading bit around the top edge of the 2x4 while laying it flat. Sand throughly until smooth.
With a drill and drill bits: Drill holes to fit the size of your crochet hook's bottoms so that the crochet hooks can be stuck in wood with the hook side up.
Stain and varnish now or try these option: Embellish with some decoupage on either end of the board with the holes for the hooks in the center. You could personalize this by decoupaging pictures on the ends for the person you are making it for. You could also wood burn a saying or write the recipient's name before you apply the stain and varnish.
Add the crochet hooks when it is dry.
By Debra in Colorado
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Uses for the Styrofoam Fast Food Containers
Save all of your styrofoam fast food containers and foam food trays. When you think you have enough, shred with a pair of scissors. This now can be used for packaging for presents to be sent away or you can make a nice warm cushion for your older dog with them. The styrofoam holds in the heat so these are great for dogs with achy bones.
By Debra in Colorado
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Uses for Old Fabreeze Bottles and Dryer Sheets
I use old Fabreeze bottles that are empty, fill 3/4 full of warm water and put in three or four fabric sheets and spray around the house as a fabric refresher. I also spray on the clothes in the dryer before turning it on.
By Racer
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Foodsaver Uses
That foodsaver vac 300 is useful for more than just food. I don't own one, but it would be great for packaging jewelry for a yard sale, salt for your husband's lunchbox, even as a type of laminator for precious keepsakes. I have a Christmas card from my Mother, who is now with the Lord. I keep it in plain sight in my kitchen and it gets a lot of dirt. Wouldn't the Foodsaver be great for it?
By springmaid5
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Recycling Shoes
My old leather shoes were beyond repair according to the local cobbler. So I tore the leather away from the sole and cut it into interesting designs and hot-glued them onto a plain pair, and then glued a nice button on top for decoration. Now I have "designer" shoes that I designed.
By springmaid5
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I would like to know if anyone has any Ideas of what I can use as containers, by recycling, or ways to make or buy cheap containers. Also what could I grow in these? I have never grown winter vegetables, does anyone know what vegetables can be grown this time of year in the Pacific Northwest.
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Grama Browns Baked Beans
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