Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar Gummies
Looks like a great recipe, and I will try it! Just wondering if anyone has tried this with sugarfree Jello powder-- maybe there is potential for creating these in different flavours?
Beans and Greens Soup
There is only a cup and a half of liquid in this recipe-- 4 ounces of stock = 1/2 cup, plus 1 cup water. Can this be correct? The picture appears to have enough liquid to cover the other ingredients.
Clean Inside Spatula Handles
I take them apart to clean them when I do the dishes every day... They are stored in the drawer in parts and only get put back together when I need to use them.
Finding Someone to Haul Away a Pine Tree for the Firewood?
Do you have a local kijiji.com website in your part of the world? I have had some good luck parting with stuff I offered for free on kijiji.
Bleaching Colored Clothing White?
The same company that makes dyes also makes color remover: https://www.ritdye.com/instructions/how-to-use-rit-color-remover/
Substitute for Nonfat Dry Milk Powder?
Try looking for non-dairy substitutes on dairy allergy web sites, or on vegan web sites since vegans eat no animal products. This is an example: https://www.leaf.tv/articles/vegan-substitutes-for-powdered-milk/ You might need to go to a store that specializes...
Prayer Box Blessings
I have a prayer basket! I had a couple hundred business cards left when I changed my email and phone number, and using the backs of them to write prayer concerns on works just fine! I can pray specifically for a handful a day or on busy days just ask and trust...
Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh Longer
I wonder if a little piece of leftover electrical copper wire, with the rubber stripped off, might be more effective than a penny now that there isnt much copper in pennies? Will have to look for some and try it!
Rearrange Furniture To Relieve Stress
Rearranging the furniture would absolutely increase my stress levels! If I want to reduce stress, I get out of the house entirely!
Planting in Cinder Blocks
I have grown herbs in this way for a number of years. Parsley, chives, basil, oregano, cilantro have all done well. Also for decorative purposes, sweet potato vine. I think strawberries would do well too. I think the blocks help hold the water around the roots...
Dental Health Tips
I agree with you, it is so worth it to have your teeth properly attended to! I also have been through a long journey of teeth repair, which cost at least three times as much as it would have if I had been able to have it done years earlier. Yours was the cost...
Cleaning Your Shower?
Avoiding the use of soap certainly helps keep away the buildup, and so does shower spray. I make my own shower spray. Take an empty used Windex spray bottle, put in 1/4 to 1/2 cup of vinegar (depending on how hard your water is), fill almost to the top with...
Cleaning a Fiberglass Tub?
I once found that CLR (calcium, lime, and rust remover) did a great job of getting rid of really encrusted dirt in a bathtub. In my current bathroom, I use a home made spray of about a quarter cup of vinegar in a spray bottle of water, then a couple of drops...
Growing Morning Glories in Hanging Planters?
You can always tell morning glories by the big heart shaped leaves. I tried growing them in hanging planters last year and they were not happy at all. They kept trying to climb UP anything they could reach... like into the apple tree, along the fence, etc. Those...
Something is Leaving a Trail of Dog Food Through the House?
Something similar happened to me once and the culprit turned out to be a chipmunk who had moved in without my knowledge. I discovered his cache of food when I took a couple of books from the shelf and dry cat food poured out from behind the books! The whole...
Getting Rid of Flies in the House Naturally?
I have found these at the Dollarama store, four for a dollar. Yes, they are gross, but they are temporary!
Finding Cheap Mulch
In Kitchener, Ontario Canada where I live, wood chip mulch is available free from the citys landfill site. It is already partially decomposed, so I dont worry about diseases, they have enough to create a huge pile that generates enough heat to kill most plant...
Unplug For a While
I have been without TV for a couple of years now and have not missed it at all. I was getting TV, internet, and home phone from the same provider and watched my bill climb every month until it was about $200 a month, plus $2.00 if I wanted a paper bill! I am...
Advice for Dealing With a Verbally Abusive Spouse?
I have to agree with the other comments here. Leaving him is the only answer. I was married to a verbally abusive man, lived with him for 20 years. When I left I went to another city more than two hours drive away. A couple of days after I left, I remember...
Still Trying To Be Frugal
Im afraid I dont recognize some of your words... What is quosh for db? what are sloes? Is a watebutt the same thing we would call a rain barrel in Canada?
50 - 30 - 20 Spending Plan
Sounds like a plan if you have money enough to do it with...but my mortgage payment including property taxes is already 66% of my limited income! Groceries can cost twice as much as other people pay because I need to avoid eating wheat and soy products, which...
Controlling Hypertension?
I had a long struggle with hypertension and over 10 years have gradually figured out what works for me. Medication lowers the BP, but gives side effects I was not willing to live with; especially scary was realizing that thinking and reasoning were becoming...
Unclogging Washing Machine Drain Pipe?
I recently had this very same problem. I found a product at the hardware store called Liquid Lightning which cleared up the blockage in about 15 minutes. Just follow the directions on the bottle. A word of caution: avoid any of this product splashing on you...
Are There Tomatoes That are Green When Ripe?
A couple of local plant nurseries here in Ontario Canada had Zebra tomato plants. The tomatoes were green when ripe, with darker green stripes. They were close enough to yellow tomatoes to cross pollinate and I got some ripe yellow ones with slightly green...
White Spots on Zucchini Leaves?
Look at this website: http://www.pioneerthinking.com/tv-mildew.html It describes successful research on treating mildew on zucchini and other squashes by spraying with diluted milk! This looks easy and I am trying it tomorrow!
Use Kitty Litter Tubs as Garden Planters
I have been doing this for a couple of years. Yes, the kitty litter buckets work great as planters! I have grown tomatoes in them successfully and this year am trying pole beans and snow peas too. Also, when the local landfill site is giving away free compost...
Revitalize Old Clothes
I have done this from time to time and it works fine. However, I got a good laugh the day I tried to revitalize some underwear! I learned that not all fabrics in a bra take the dye equally, so I have certain undergarments with an interesting combination of...
Disposing of Bacon and Cooking Grease
In my city, we are requested to put fat, bones, wet or greasy paper towels, dryer lint, kitty litter & pet waste, etc. in the green bin for composting by the city. It is all picked up every garbage day. In the summer when I can get to the garden compost bin...
Burning Off Grass to Make It Greener?
I remember people doing this years ago when we lived in the country. It does create ash to fertilize the soil, and makes turning sod for the first time easier. However, setting a grass burn is illegal where I live now. I would highly recommend checking out...
Instructions for Making a Doggie Backpack?
What I am looking for is more like doggie saddlebags, I guess. The vest pattern does not seem to be designed to carry anything.
Stop Drinking Soda
An additional benefit of not drinking soda-- your teeth should last longer! My dentist has congratulated me for not drinking soda, says the acid that creates the carbonation actually eats away the enamel over time, as well as the high sugar content encouraging...
Pack Up Christmas For New Years
This is different from my familys traditions. We dont view Christmas as over until Epiphany, the whole Twelve Days of Christmas! The decorations go up on Christmas Eve (when I was a child, this was the day we all went out to the bush to locate and cut down...
Pack Up Christmas For New Years
Same here... Christmas is not over until the 12th day is over! The tree does not go up till Christmas Eve, and stays for the 12 days of Christmas. Epiphany marks the end of Christmas and the decorations come down.
Purslane Potato Salad
I have made a hot spinach dip and also spinach lasagna using purslane for the spinach. Both turned out just fine. I just followed basic recipes that can be found online.
Invasive Plants and How You Can...
Chemical weedkillers like Roundup are illegal in my city. The most effective method I have found so far is to dig the roots up manually and cover the plot of ground with heavy black plastic for a whole season so that the heat of the sun in summer can cook the...
My Frugal Life: How Coupons Made Me Richer
I think coupons must work differently in the USA than in Canada. I find here in Ontario Canada that coupons are really not worth the trouble most of the time. I recently shopped with a handful of coupons and could not use most of them-- coupons for brands of...
Getting Rid of Glare on a Laptop Screen?
I tried the black nylon stocking idea. It made it possible for me to not see a thing at all! Next idea? Id really like to be able to work outside in nice weather!
Keep a Spray Bottle of Vinegar and Water Handy
I put about 1/3 to 1/2 cup of vinegar in the spray bottle, fill it with water, then add about a teaspoon of dish detergent or shampoo. Be sure to add the detergent AFTER filling the bottle-- otherwise you get so many bubbles you cant fill the bottle with water...
