What is the cheapest thing you do?
01-31-2011, 12:44 PM
#234
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Location: Long Island N.Y.
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When I run out of coffee filters I use paper towels. It doesn't taste any different.
Every spring when I start my garden I have saved milk containers. I cut the tops off the top to place over the plants to protect them from chilly nights.
I don't care for tap water.So what I do is boil it.It taste wonderful. After it cools you will see all the sediment(rust) at the bottom of the pot. Fresh and clean water is the best!
Buy in bulk...can can sales. We love left overs. I will make a dinner that last for at least 2 dinners. And it taste better the 2nd time around too. Do bulk shopping at Costo's and it goes a long way!
Every spring when I start my garden I have saved milk containers. I cut the tops off the top to place over the plants to protect them from chilly nights.
I don't care for tap water.So what I do is boil it.It taste wonderful. After it cools you will see all the sediment(rust) at the bottom of the pot. Fresh and clean water is the best!
Buy in bulk...can can sales. We love left overs. I will make a dinner that last for at least 2 dinners. And it taste better the 2nd time around too. Do bulk shopping at Costo's and it goes a long way!
01-31-2011, 03:51 PM
#235
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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I will only buy clothes from the clearance rack at Walmart, or second hand stores, unless I make them. The only allowable exception is work clothes for DH. He works outside, and takes Coumadin, so I spend what I need to so that I know he is always warm.
I also buy cheap, dry, pet food and mix in a small container of dry premium, to keep them healthy, and happy.
I also use cheap paper plates (with a holder) to keep energy costs down (dishwasher), then use them to feed the dogs, which makes their food smell like ours!
If we use a paper towel to dry our clean hands, we reuse it over and over.
I also buy cheap, dry, pet food and mix in a small container of dry premium, to keep them healthy, and happy.
I also use cheap paper plates (with a holder) to keep energy costs down (dishwasher), then use them to feed the dogs, which makes their food smell like ours!
If we use a paper towel to dry our clean hands, we reuse it over and over.
02-01-2011, 06:39 AM
#236
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: New Hampshire
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Originally Posted by valinwa
this is a bad one, my DH puts holes in sox faster than I can buy them, so I put them on turned around so the hole is on top of my foot, and I wear them around the house like slippers, they're kinda big so I turn the cuff down. Needless to say I am looking for ways to use old worn sox, any ideas? I have bags full. They're all white short crew sox.
02-01-2011, 06:58 AM
#237
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Location: MN
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Originally Posted by renee765
When the kids were little, after they were asleep in their beds, I'd mix up a half gallon of powdered milk and add it to a half gallon of regular milk. I always put it in a gallon milk jug, and they never knew.
02-01-2011, 07:32 AM
#238
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Location: Once an Iowan, always an Iowan, but now suburban Chicagoland
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Originally Posted by bluteddi
Originally Posted by renee765
When the kids were little, after they were asleep in their beds, I'd mix up a half gallon of powdered milk and add it to a half gallon of regular milk. I always put it in a gallon milk jug, and they never knew.
02-01-2011, 08:06 AM
#240
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Originally Posted by harrishs
This year for Christmas, I made drawstring bags of different sizes from scraps and leftover ribbon----for gift bags----can use inexpensive fabric or some "ugly" (if there is such a thing) We plan to use them year after year----so much easier than wraping and no waste----
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