Daily Thrifty Tips
Volume Three, Number 82, July 13, 2004
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Today's Tips:
- Trade Flowers with Friends and Save Money
- Freeze Banana Peels for Roses
- Make Lettuce Last Longer
- Baby Food Tip
- Cleaning and Polishing Copper
- Reading to the Kids
- Clean Scuff Marks on Shoes
- Coloring Books and Crayons in the Car
- Candle Tips
- Featured Feedback: RE: Looking for Ideas for Beer Caps
- Featured Feedback: Freezing Corn
- Today's Recipe: Campfire Potatoes
New Requests:
- Buying Strawberry Baskets in Buik
- Above Ground Swimming Pools
- Looking for Ideas for Beer Caps
- Removing Stuck Light Bulb
- Crocheted Rug from Strips of Sheets?
- Dog with Chronic Ear Infection
- Cat Pee! Aaaaargh!
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- Teaching Teens the Value of Money
- Controlling Food Portions for Weight Loss
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Today's Tips
Trade Flowers with Friends and Save Money
Do you need to add to your flower garden but are low on funds to do so? Not to worry. Start trading with your friends. For example, every spring I have new shoots from my hostas. I let it be known that I am willing to trade. And the nice thing about this is that when you get a plant from a friend you associate that plant with that friend. Now that's what I call a really & truly great FRIENDSHIP GARDEN. Happy trading.
By joesgirl
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Freeze Banana Peels for Roses
I save my banana peels, ( or yuckie bananas ) and freeze them, when I plant a new rose bush, I plant the banana peels with it. Roses love banana peels.
By rosa
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Make Lettuce Last Longer
This tip helps you save lettuce and it is amazing at how long it will last. Buy a cheap plastic shoe box with a lid. When you buy your lettuce head or leaf, I wash it, shake it, and put it in the shoe box with a paper towel in the bottom, close the lid and it will last any where from 1 to 2 weeks.
By Patricia
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Baby Food Tip
This is a great tip for baby food. I learned this from my Mom when I was pregnant with our first child. We bought squash and carrots. We cooked them till soft, then ran through a food processor or you could use a blender. Then, freeze in ice cube trays. After they are frozen, pop them out and put in baggies. When it is feeding time, pull out a cube and microwave till it gets to right temp. Its natural, no preservative baby food for pennies! You could do this with many veggies or probably even fruit. It was so much cheaper than those jars! Especially in the Fall when you can buy from all of the wonderful farmers market stands!
By Jill
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Cleaning and Polishing Copper
To polish up copper pots and statues I use lemon and salt. Take the lemon cut in half and sprinkle salt on to it and scrub the bottoms of your pans they are like new afterwards and I like mine so much that I keep them hanging in my kitchen for easy grabbing and also a decorative touch. This works on any copper.
Cindy & Lisa
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Reading to the Kids
My 4 yr. old Grandson loves to soak in the tub when taking his bath. I use that time to read him classic children stories from a book that doesn't have pictures. So he isn't wanting to hold the book with his wet hands to see the pictures.
BrendaLea
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Clean Scuff Marks on Shoes
Remove scuff marks from back of heels with hair spray; wipe with soft rag while still damp/wet.
Rosalyn
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Coloring Books and Crayons in the Car
When I take coloring books and crayons in the car, I use an old baby wipe container with a snap lid. The kids can open it by themselves and they aren't spilling them in the car thus no lost crayons and they are responsible for their items.
Tina
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Candle Tips
I love candles and I am always getting candles for gifts. Sometimes the candles come in very nice looking glass designer jars. When you cannot burn anymore of the candle simple put the jar in the freezer and let freeze in a few hours and your candle should just pop out. Then you can reuse the jar or container for new candles. I make my own so I never have to buy any jars or containers to put new candle wax in. I just reuse the ones I get as gifts.
P.S. If you put your candle in the freezer before burning it will last longer too.
Susanna
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Featured Feedback: RE: Looking for Ideas for Beer Caps
Drill holes on the top and bottom of the sides (where the beer name is facing out to you) and tie together with beading wire or fishing line and make a curtain or valance for your kitchen window or a door curtain in your kitchen doorway.
Find a pretty vase and fill with beer caps and put a floral arrangement inside.
Hot glue magnets to the insides of the caps and use as magnets all over your refrigerator.
Hot glue around edges of a beer themed mirror frame.
Find an old metal serving tray, a large size one. Paint the tray in whatever colors you want and then paint the inner bottom with chalkboard paint. You could even glue bottle caps around the edges of that. Use as a message chalkboard.
By Tawnda
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Featured Feedback: Freezing Corn
Freezing fresh corn. My father-in-law taught me a quick, easy way to freeze corn with wonderful results. Partly pull husk down just enough to cut the ends off and pull husk back up on ear. Fold the husk back over the end of the ear of corn and put a rubber band around it to hold the husk down on the ear. Place corn in the freezer in paper sacks, husk and all until you are ready to eat. You can run hot water over them to peel husk and de-silk them or you can take them and put them in the microwave. Three minutes on high setting per ear of corn and the silks slide right out. This is a wonderful method for people who only want to cook one at a time.
By LaDonna
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Today's Recipe: Campfire Potatoes
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - thinly sliced
- Carrots - thinly sliced
- Onions - diced
- Margarine or butter
- Salt
- Pepper
Optional:
- Grated Cheese
- Spicy Pepper Medley
- Or -
- Fresh or dried dill
- Different vegetables
Directions:
Prepare enough potatoes, carrots & onions for the crowd you're feeding. Spray tin foil with Pam. Place vegetables on tin foil. Put a few dabs of butter or margarine on top. Season. Double
wrap in tin foil.
Can be placed on a grill over hot coals in the fire or on a barbeque. Turn occasionally. Takes 1/2 - 3/4 hour to cook depending on the heat.
Dill is delicious with new potatoes. Leftovers can be fried for
breakfast.
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Buying Strawberry Baskets in Buik
I have been trying to find those strawberry baskets to buy in bulk. I have a huge strawberry garden and would like to start selling them next year. I need the baskets to sell them in. Anyone know where I can buy them??? kehoespub
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Algae in Above Ground Swimming Pools
We Have A Very Large Above Ground Swimming Pool. Does any one know how to get them clean after algae has gotten in? we have used shock it and chlorine and clarifier. Still green. Thanks Sharyl
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Looking for Ideas for Beer Caps
I have hundreds of beer caps (I'm thirsty?) i wanted to put them on cork and put them on my cabinets in my kitchen (it has a bar theme, go figure) but that didn't work, I need an idea for a bachlorette pad, no cutsie stuff. I live in an apartment so it can't be too permanent. please help :) - Dawn from CA
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Removing Stuck Light Bulb
How do you get a light bulb out of the hood of a stove, it is completely stuck? Thanks, Ginny
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Crocheted Rug from Strips of Sheets?
Could someone give me a pattern for a crocheted rug using strips of sheets. Sincerely, Patricia
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Dog with Chronic Ear Infection
Hello! My Basset Hound has chronic ear infections! He's taken antibiotics and medicated powders. I don't know what to do for him! Does anyone have a home remedy to heal or prevent ear infections? Thank you!
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Cat Pee! Aaaaargh!
Please help me! I have a 4 year old male cat, neutered, who has decided to pee on my couch instead of in his litterbox. Each time, I clean the couch with vinegar and wash the blanket/pillow/etc that he has hit, and the smell goes away but a few days later more pee appears.
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Teaching Teens the Value of Money
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Controlling Food Portions for Weight Loss
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When I was a youngster my family owned a restaurant for a period of time. That's when I first learned about portion control. Portion control is important in the restaurant business to maintain product consistency and costs.
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