Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Four, Number 2, January 2, 2005
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Due to time constraints we have a shorter newsletter today but still have quite a bit of information and 7 new requests.
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Today's newsletter contains:
Today's Tips:
- Watch Package Dates At The Grocery Store
- Light Banana Bread
- The Best Hot Chocolate Mix
- Make a Mobile With a Yogurt Container
- Removing Rust From Cast Iron
- Frugal Spray For Flying Pests
- Inexpensive Facial Oil Blotters
- Chopping Green Onions
New Requests:
- Removing Dye That Transfered From Denim Skirt To Boots
- Sharpening Crayola Crayons
- Homemade Cleaner For Cleaning Shower Heads
- Candle Wax Carpet
- Treating Rust On Weeping Willow Trees
- Repairing A Sofa Button
- Making a Fabric Freshener
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- The Treasure In "Used"
- 7 Ways to Make New Year's Resolutions That Stick
- Renew Your Hard Drive...
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Today's Tips
Watch Package Dates At The Grocery Store
Look at meat package date. If the expired date is the day you're in the store, ask the manager for a discount. They usually will mark it down, otherwise, they have to throw the package away & pay for the loss.
By Palma
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Light Banana Bread
The best and easiest and lightest banana bread.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cup mashed bananas
- 1/2 tsp. of vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 2 1/3 cups Bisquick
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
- 1 cup sugar
Directions:
Mix altogether in one pan and put into 4 small greased loaf pans. Or two large. Cook on 350 or approx. 25 minutes for small and 40 for large.
By Connie
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The Best Hot Chocolate Mix
Ingredients:
- 8 qt. box of Non fat milk
- 2 lb. box of Nestle Quick
- 6 oz. Jar of Cremora or Coffee Mate
- 1/2 C. Powdered Sugar
Directions:
I used all generic stuff and it still tasted great. Make sure to blend really well. I put mine through a sifter at least three times. To pass out I put into baby bottle inserts. One cup makes three servings as 1/3 of a cup and 6 oz of milk or water make a serving. Give away with three marshmallows, two Hershey's Kisses and a candy cane in a mug and you have given away the ingredient for Snowman Soup.
By Connie
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Make a Mobile With a Yogurt Container
I don't throw anything away. The other night my Brownies were making mobiles. Instead of buying hangers I used the empty yogurt containers. Punched holes around the bottom and they hung stuff from it.
By Connie
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Removing Rust From Cast Iron
Don't use fancy chemicals to clean rust off of your old cast iron. Simply dunk in a solution of half water and half plain vinegar.
By Connie
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Frugal Spray For Flying Pests
Spray flying pests with a solution of 1/3 rubbing alcohol, 1/3 vinegar and 1/3 water. This is the same solution I use to clean my hard floors. Spraying flying creatures with windex or hairspray also works.
By Lynn
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Inexpensive Facial Oil Blotters
If you have extremely oily skin as I do, it can become expensive to purchase oil blotting papers. My hairdresser gave me a great tip: The tissue paper rings used to cover public toilet seats work just as well, at a fraction of the cost! Just cut them up into postcard-size pieces and store them in a zip-loc bag. These paper rings can be purchased at any cleaning or janitorial supply store, and one purchase will give you a supply of oil blotters that will last for years!
By Hope from Oregon
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Chopping Green Onions
Even chopping green onions can make my eyes water. So instead of using a knife, I use my kitchen scissers to chop them. Just clean the green onions as normal and snip until you have the desired amount. It's quick and no watery eyes. =)
Joelygirl
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New Requests:
Removing Dye That Transfered From Denim Skirt To Boots
Hi my name is Sonia from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
I have a lovely pair of tan leather boots, unfortunately I got caught in the rain, I was wearing a long denim skirt and the skirt rubbed against my boots and the dye from the skirt has stained my boots. It looks as if the top layer of leather has rubbed away and the exposed under layer has been stained by the dye from my denim skirt. I've been told by a local shoe shop that white spirit may remove the dye but they could not gaurantee the outcome. Can anyone please give me some suggestions for removing the stain. The boots are new and I'd hate to have to throw them out.
Thanks
Sonia Bradley
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Sharpening Crayola Crayons
Has anyone discovered a technique or tool to sharpen to a point a crayola crayon once used for only a minute?
Thank you.
Melaniem
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Homemade Cleaner For Cleaning Shower Heads
How do you clean shower heads? Is there anything I can make at home to unclog the holes in the shower head from lime deposits. The stuff you buy in the store is so strong, the odor bothers my asthma.
Thanks,
Jenny in KY
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Candle Wax Carpet
Does anyone know how to get wax out of a carpet, I knocked a candle over and the wax went all over the carpet.
Toddy
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Treating Rust On Weeping Willow Trees
I planted a 25 gal weeping willow last fall. It now has rusty looking spots on the underneath side of the leaves and some of the leaves are yellow. How do i eliminate this problem?
Thanks
Designsmith
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Repairing A Sofa Button
How do you repair a sofa button?
Don Poor
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Making a Fabric Freshener
Does anyone have a recipe for making something similar to Febreze fabric freshner.
Kathie from Portland ME
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More Reading:
The Treasure In "Used"
By Arleen M. Kaptur
You've spent the entire day shopping for new furniture or accents for your home and yet nothing seems quite right. You come home exhausted and in ill spirits. You grab the newspaper to check out the ads and possibly something there will light up that spark in your eyes and put that spring in your step. You sink back down into that old chair that your great Aunt Tessie gave your grandmother, who gave it to your mother, who passed it on to Sister Sue, until she got tired of it and you inherited it.
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7 Ways to Make New Year's Resolutions That Stick
By Maria Gracia
New Year's resolutions have a tendency to be made with enthusiasm and determination. Unfortunately, very often they're forgotten by the time February rolls around.
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Renew Your Hard Drive: Here are the Simple and Easy Ways to Cleanup your Hard Drive
By Steven Presar
You know that a regularly scheduled simple maintenance may help keep your computer in shape. There are plenty of third-party programs to help you keep your computer in peak form.
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