Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Four, Number 56, February 27, 2005
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Today's Tips:
- Tea Bags as a Remedy
- Other Uses for Lipstick
- Using Up Leftover Fruit
- Buy a Carrot Brush
- Newsletters for Your Favorites
- Softening Marshmallows
- Keeping Seeds out of Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
- Preventing Bacon Grease Splatters
- Cleaning the Closets
- Softening Baseball Gloves
- Make Leather Products "Like New"
- Ham & Rice Dinner
- BBQ Muffins
- Chocolate Crunch Brownies
- Apple Crisp
- Caramel 'O Bars
New Requests:
- Keeping Cilantro (Coriander) Fresh
- Storing Magic Markers
- Centerpiece Ideas for an 85th Birthday
- Coffee Stain On Wall
- Sofa Repair Information
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- Getting Kids Involved In Garage/Yard Sales
- How to Water Your Houseplants Wisely
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Max (Rottweiler)
His name is Max he is 1 1/2 years old and he loves to take apart soft toys, he doesn't like playing with hard toys but the soft toys last only 5 min. He also loves being outside and playing with other dogs. He loves people, he will let everyone pet him and hug him. The only thing he hates is when people start fighting. When people start fighting he starts barking at them telling them to "stop". - Eugene
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Today's Tips
Tea Bags as a Remedy
Tea bags can soothe canker sores, tired eyes, bleeding gums, sunburned skin and even pimples. Just place a wet tea bag on the area.
By imaqt1962
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Other Uses for Lipstick
If you buy a lip color you don't care for try it on your cheeks for a blush first before you discard it.
By davey2240
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Using Up Leftover Fruit
To use up left over pieces of fruit, have your kids make a "sundae" for breakfast:
Slice banana into bowl, cut up pieces of any other fruit you may have and pile on top of banana. Cover with yogurt. Top with dry cereal, sprinkles, nuts, cherries, anything you may have on hand.
Let the kids help "create" the sundae, which encourages their creativity and it's also nutritious and good for them!
By vickiandnoel
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Buy a Carrot Brush
Buy a small wire brush, and use it for rubbing carrots clean. You save more carrot than with scraping or peeling.
By ilene courland
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Declutter Your Closet
Know which clothing you wear by reversing the direction of all your hanger heads, now wear what you want and launder as usual, when you return laundered clothes to the closet rehang the hanger in the other direction.
By the end of the season you will know what you wear by the direction of the hanger heads. All you need to do is sort through the pieces you haven't worn all season and decide what you truly no longer need or want.
By Mari
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Newsletters for Your Favorites
Join eclub newsletters at the websites of your favorite restaurants, retailers, etc. They offer specials and freebies on your birthday!
By Portia
If you have a favorite newsletter or sale email from one of your favorites, post it here.
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Softening Marshmallows
If you have marshmallows that have gotten old, stale, and hard all you have to do to make them soft again is to place them in a resealable plastic bag with a slice of bread. Let them stand until soft, which usually takes 1 or 2 days. Then you can remove the bread and the marshmallows should be soft again.
By Robin
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Keeping Seeds out of Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
To keep seeds from getting into freshly squeezed orange juice, just cover the cut end of the fruit with a coffee filter or paper towel before squeezing.
By Robin
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Preventing Bacon Grease Splatters
If you sprinkle a little flour into your pan before frying bacon it will help to absorb some of the grease and keep you from getting splattered!
By Robin
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Softening Baseball Gloves
Did you know that you can use Vaseline instead of oil to soften the leather of a baseball glove? Works just fine!
By Robin
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Make Leather Products "Like New"
Make leather products such as shoes, belts, wallets or even jackets "like new" again with cream shoe polish. If items are severely mared, use liquid dye first and then cream shoe polish to make them like new! Liquid dye is available at some shoe stores, especially ones that make steel-toed work shoes. I keep a bottle of black and brown on hand. Be sure to protect your work surface with newspaper and your hands with plastic gloves because the dye really dyes!
Joan in MN
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Ham & Rice Dinner
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked ham
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 2 Tbsp. butter
- 1 can pineapple chunks
- 1 cup rice
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 2 Tbsp. vinegar
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt (could put less)
Instructions
Cook ham & onion in butter in 10" skillet till onion is tender. Drain pineapple and reserve juice. Add water to the juice to make 2 1/2 cup of liquid. Add liquid, rice, pineapple chunks, brown sugar, vinegar & salt to ham mixture. Stir & bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover & cook for 25 minutes or till liquid is absorbed. Serves: 8
By Terri H.
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BBQ Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 (10 oz.) can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 3 Tbsp. brown sugar (packed)
- 1 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp. chili powder
- 1 cup (4 ozs.) cheddar cheese (shredded)
Instructions
Separate dough into biscuits; flatten into 5" circles. Press each into the bottom & up the sides of a greased muffin cup; set aside. In a skillet, brown the ground beef; drain. In a small bowl, mix ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar & chili powder; stir until smooth. Add to meat & mix well. Divide the meat mixture among the biscuit lined muffin cups, using about 1/4 cup for each. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes. or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes. before removing from muffin pan to serve. Makes: 10.
By Terri H.
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Chocolate Crunch Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 6 Tbsp. cocoa
- 1 cup flour
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Instructions
Mix and spread into a greased 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for approximately 25 minutes. Spread with a jar of marshmallow creme. Melt 2 cup semi-sweet chips with 1 cup peanut butter. Stir in 3 cup Rice Krispies cereal. Spread over marshmallow creme.
By Robin
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Apple Crisp
Ingredients
- 6 apples (peeled & sliced)
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar (firmly packed)
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 3 Tbsp. melted butter
Instructions
Put layer of apples, then sprinkle with brown sugar & cinnamon mixed together. Repeat till all is used. Sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs, then with melted butter. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.
By Terri H.
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Caramel 'O Bars
Ingredients
- 1 bag caramels
- 1/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 4 cups Cheerios
- 1 cup peanuts
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 Tbsp. shortening
Instructions
Unwrap caramels and place in medium size bowl. Add 1/4 cup water and 1/2 cup peanut butter. Microwave 3-5 minutes on high, stirring once. Add 4 cup Cheerios, 1 cup peanuts, and stir to mix. Spread into 9x13 inch pan. Let cool. In small bowl mix 1 cup chocolate chips, 1/4 cup peanut butter, and 1 Tbsp. shortening and microwave 2-4 minutes on high. Spread on top of bars.
By Robin
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Keeping Cilantro (Coriander) Fresh
How does one keep purchased fresh cilantro (coriander) with roots on stay fresh AND for as long as possible?
-YT in London
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Storing Magic Markers
Looking for a way to store magic markers so my daughter can remove and replace the top without getting the ink all over her hands. I tried making a plaster of paris tub and setting the markers in with tops pointing down, but it doesn't last more than a couple days. Any ideas? Thanks.
Terry from NY
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Centerpiece Ideas for an 85th Birthday
We are giving my mother-in-law a party for her 85th birthday. I'm in charge of the table centerpieces and favors for the guests. I really would like something unique. I was thinking of an antique or vintage theme. There are no pictures of her as a baby or child or any of her younger days so I can't use that idea. Please help as we want this to be extra special.
Thanks,
Audrey from Illinois
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Coffee Stain On Wall
Does anyone know how to remove a coffee stain from a wall? i tried cold water, luke warm water and detergent, vinegar, even shout. My fiancee is going to call it off if she finds out!
David Ennis
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Sofa Repair Information
I have a sectional sofa that needs repair to the sagging springs in the seats. I have been looking for someone to repair it and have had no luck. Could someone recommend a business in the San Francisco Area.
If not, is there a manual on how to do the work myself? Does anyone have any tips? I've been working on this for some time now and am getting frustrated. I haven't had any luck on the internet, so far.
Thanks for your help.
Bob from San Francisco
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How to Water Your Houseplants Wisely
By Kori Puckett
Over watering ranks first in causes of houseplant demise because it causes roots to rot. Most plants are tough so they can recover from under watering with only the loss of a few leaves -- unless you wait too long and pass the point of no return.
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Getting Kids Involved In Garage/Yard Sales
By Jona E. Kessans
Spring is coming and now is the time make preparations for having a yard or garage sale. And, yes - this includes the kids too.
I know for me spring always meant upcoming garage/yards sales to go to with my mom, but more importantly those garage/yard sales I had with my mom. From these early experiences, I learned many valuable lessons that I use to this day. These include, the necessity of de-cluttering, finance, how to make change, how to price an item, how to organize and display items, and customer service. Thanks to my mom's help, I was able to engage in an entrepreneurial endeavor at the tender age of eight. I have fond memories of my many mini-business endeavors and feel that these ventures contributed to my desire and successes in owning my own business now. Here are some pointers to get your child involved in having a garage or yard sale of his or her own when you have one.
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