Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Three, Number 42, May 18, 2004
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Today we have 8 new tips, 5 new request and 4 new items in the More Reading section.
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Today's Tips:
- Bring Baking Soda on Camping Trips
- Use Oven Cleaner to Remove Lawn Service Chemicals from Windows
- Clean Patent Leather Shoes
- Keep Squirrels out of Your Bird Feeder
- Less Odors from the Cat Box
- Avocado Pits Grow into a Nice House Plant
- Ice Cream Stand at Home
- Milk Jugs to in Your Clothes Drawer
New Requests:
- Homemade Veggie Burgers
- Make a car with a soda bottle?
- Need Help Creating a Sophisticated Bedroom
- Remedy for Flies and Gnats on Horses
- Safari Style on a Budget?
More Reading:
- 13 Ways to Save Your Furniture from Cat Scratching
- Hey Mom, I'm Bored!
- Easy Recipes to make with your kids
- Wedding Day Potluck
- Peanut Butter Cookies
Thanks for reading,
Susan
Today's Tips
Bring Baking Soda on Camping Trips
Take a box of baking soda with you on a canoe trip/camping. You can use it to clean your hair, as under arm deodorant, to brush your teeth, rinse your mouth or as a soap in the shower. You can also sprinkle it in your shoes at night or in your damp suitcase. By Cindy Haugland
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Use Oven Cleaner to Remove Lawn Service Chemicals from Windows
We recently were cleaning our windows and found that chemicals from the lawn service were on some of the windows and would not budge with normal cleaners. Oven cleaner sprayed on did the trick and we now have nice clean windows. By Jean
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Clean Patent Leather Shoes
Next time you make biscuits, save a little dough for you patent leather shoes. Rub patent leather shoes with raw biscuit dough and then wipe off the shoes with a cotton cloth. Then rub a dab of petroleum jelly into the shoes for a glistening shine. Stan
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Keep Squirrels out of Your Bird Feeder
If you have a bird feeder on a pole or post this can be pretty effective. Apply a coat of petroleum jelly to the pole or post that your bird house or feeder resides on. Squirrels won't be able to climb the pole or post.
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Less Odors from the Cat Box
Add a cup of baking soda to the cat box. It will help cut down on odors.
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Avocado Pits Grow into a Nice House Plant
After removing the pit from an avocado, don't throw it away. Wash the pit. Stick three toothpicks around the pointy upper third of the pit. Then fill up a jar water and rest the avocado pit on the rim with the large portion of the pit in the water and small portion above water. After five days, place the jar in a spot where the pit can receive sunlight. It won't be long before you see roots appears and leaves sprout. Once you have a healthy system of roots and several leaves you can transplant to potting soil. Water once a week.
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Ice Cream Stand at Home
Stopping at the ice cream stand getting too expensive? Buy a 1/2 gallon of your favorite ice cream and put out in small dishes: chocolate sprinkles, multi sprinkles, banana slices, chocolate sauce (or your favorite sauce). Let everyone pick their toppings. My grand kids look forward to this when visiting us. Our "ice cream social" is fun and very inexpensive. Happy eating. By Joesgirl
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Milk Jugs to in Your Clothes Drawer
I cut the tops off of milk jugs and place them in drawers to organize undies and socks.
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New Requests:
Homemade Veggie Burgers
Does anyone have any recipes for homemade gargen burgers? - June
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Make a car with a soda bottle?
I have a project that I want to do and I need some help figuring out an easy but efficient way to do it. I need to use a full bottle of soda to make some sort of car move. The energy from the moving soda bottle needs to move a little car somehow, and I have no idea where to start. Any ideas?
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Need Help Creating a Sophisticated Bedroom
i am 23 and I need help decorating my bedroom. I want it to look sophisticated but represent my personality as well. Right now, my room is so plain, I have a canopy bed with light olive green and yellow drapings and a white bedspread. I also have this fantastic bright red and blue tapestry with an orange sun and moon in the middle of it and I really think it represents my personality. I want my room to be able to accomodate both styles. Should I just choose one? If so, what are some ways to do that? Clueless decorator, Angie from Missouri
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Remedy for Flies and Gnats on Horses
I would like home remedies for flies and gnats on horses and around the barn.
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Safari Style on a Budget?
My sister is turning 12 this weekend and we are sending her off to her Grandma's house. We only have two days and three nights to completely decorate her bedroom into a safari theme. Her room is also pretty small and it seems cluttered with an entertainment center, twin bed, and dresser. How can I make this room have a spacious safari theme using the items in her room? Also what do you think of putting her mattresses on the floor and outlining the bed (just the wall portion) with plushy decorated squares as a border? Angie from Missouri
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More Reading
13 Ways to Save Your Furniture from Cat Scratching
By Petar Petrov
The cats are great pets. They love to play, they love to cuddle when you are watching TV or sleeping, and they purr for no reason other than being near you. But they also love to scratch. Unfortunately, the things they love to scratch are often the legs of your antique table, your upholstered sofa, or your expensive carpet.
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Hey Mom, I'm Bored! - Easy Recipes to make with your kids
By Melody Augustson
"Hey Mom, I'm Bored!"... How may times have you heard that statement? Today it is very easy to just turn on the TV or pop in a X-Box game but why not teach your kids something fun in the kitchen? They will enjoy the time spent with you while learning a valuable skill.
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Wedding Day Potluck
By Rachel Paxton
When my husband and I got married, we literally threw convention to the wind. Trying to plan a wedding on a small (almost nonexistent) budget, we decided to have our wedding down by the river at a local park.
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Peanut Butter Cookies
Easy and quick peanut butter cookies.
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