When you are trying to lead a frugal lifestyle, you look for ways to reuse different things. One of the things that I look for are ways to reuse is aluminum foil. Picture by Rakka at Flickr.com A couple of weeks ago, in the "Did You Know" Helpful Saturday Tips, I wrote about washing aluminum foil and reusing it. What are some ways you can … [Read more...]
Helpful Tip Saturday — The Great Mismatched Sock Dilemma
March 28, 2009 By 5 Comments
Have you ever put in a load of laundry with socks in it to wash only to find that when you pull the clean laundry out of the dryer that you now have missing socks? If you are like me, you just thrown them in the drawer and hope the mate reappears some time. Most of the time the mate never is found, so now you have a drawer full of mismatched … [Read more...]
This post may contain affliate links. Please read my disclosure policy here.
Helpful Tip Saturday — Frugal “Did you know…”
March 21, 2009 By 9 Comments
Did you know... grating your own cheese is cheaper than buying the pre-grated bags of cheese. you can wash and reuse plastic "zippy" bags. you can wash and reuse aluminum foil. that using a spatula to scrape the inside of jars can get almost all of the contents out of a near empty jar. cutting a whole chicken yourself may be cheaper … [Read more...]
This post may contain affliate links. Please read my disclosure policy here.
Frugal Tip Saturday — What to do Empty Plastic Jugs?
March 14, 2009 By 5 Comments
Do you buy a lot of milk or orange juice? If so, you probably have a lot of plastic milk jugs to throw away by the end of the week. Did you know that plastic milk jugs have an extra life or two in them before going in the trash or recycling bin? Milk or orange juice jugs have at least one, maybe even a couple of extra lives in them. Of … [Read more...]
