Saving Money on Calendars?
Save your calendars. The years will repeat themselves eventually,and they can be used again.
Thrift Store Shopping Tips?
A tape measure is useful to have along. Not all items are marked with the dimensions , such as curtains or picture frames.
Hot Cross Buns
Oh ! what memories this evokes ! My father used to give the store clerks good natured trouble about false advertising because these buns were not hot but cold !
Name Tags for 40th High School Reunion?
We used copies of senior pictures from the yearbook on our nametags. Spouses/partners got a nametag of that photo of the the classmate reading Im with.... and then their name. It worked great !
Chili Peppers for Kitchen Decorating?
There are some great posters of chili peppers to frame. Allposters.com has some, all sizes, many ways to mat and frame. There are fabrics ( could you match the curtains?) to make potholders, decorate dishtowels with borders, make an apron, napkins, placemats...
Removing Hair From Hairbrushes?
And then save the hair for the birds to make their nests- put hair strands inside the orange mesh bag that onions come in and hang outside in the spring. Add the short pieces of sewing thread that are leftovers.
Healthy Treats for Halloween?
I gave out small packages of cocoa/hot chocolate one year and the kids remembered and asked for them again the next year when I has something else. A friend of mine gives out toothbrushes!
