Homemade Cinnamon Rolls in One Hour
Use brown sugar with the cinnamon instead of white. Makes them taste like caramel...
Metal Part of Light Bulb Stuck in Socket?
If you have unplugged the curio stand from the wall outlet you are fine. If the pliers keep tearing the metal, try this: Cut a potato so that it just barely fits into the socket. Push it down into the socket hard and turn the potato to the left. This should...
Painting a Room with an Accent Wall?
Paint is fairly cheap (compared to a lot of other changes) and easy to change when you move out. Painting a stripe on a wall is easy if you use good quality painters tape to set the edges (be sure to take the tape off while the paint is still wet). I like the...
Go Barefoot Whenever Possible
I have gone barefoot as much as possible all my life. As a child, I couldnt go barefoot outside because of there were a lot of plants with burrs that were very painful. As soon as flip-flops appeared on the market, I wore them all summer. As a working adult...
Buy Whole Chickens And Save Money
When you skim off the fat, strain it and freeze it in ice cube trays. In the Jewish community this is known as Shmaltz Then put the cubes in a large zip top bag and keep in the freezer. When you fry chicken or make gravy, sub some of this for other fats. It...
Recipes on a Budget?
If you live within driving distance from Aldi, try shopping there. You should be able to feed two people very comfortably on $200 a month by doing the majority of your shopping at Aldi.
Dealing with Recipes on the Internet
Install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer (its free). Then when you want to save a recipe, print it to the Adobe PDF printer. It will prompt you as to the location you want to save the file) Then you can try it out (I just set my laptop on the counter) and...
5 Reasons to Get a Pet Rat
When my youngest daughter was still small, we had two rats (separately over a period of years). We purchased them at a pet store and both were great pets. Rats are very intelligent and know who cares for them and respond in kind. Both Dorothy and Lickey Lou...
