Selling Vintage Furniture?
Look on eBay, Etsy, or Facebook Marketplace and search for this type of furniture. Then take a look at whats for sale that looks the most like your dresser; check out the prices and price yours accordingly. As someone advised be sure to always price a little...
Stray Cat Help
Bless your heart for helping out. There are several places on the internet that can give you suggestions for making a winter home for outdoor cats. Many organizations that help feed feral colonies have good experience with this. We had an outdoor stray cat...
Help With Color Scheme?
Its a pretty room. I like the idea of a brown couch and lighter brown pillows. Try gold/bronze colored curtains. Especially if you can get them in a lighter flowing fabric, not stiff and heavy drapes. I did this with my brown couch and was really pleased how...
Creative Substitutions on Theme Weddings
If lace is your choice for a fancy vintage touch to your wedding check out the thrift stores in your area. There are almost always lace tablecloths for a very reasonable price. If they are torn a bit? No worries - a quick hand mend will hardly ever show as...
Omelets to Stay Inside Food Budget
Congratulations on your omelet! You are absolutely right about the benefits of an omelet meal; they are thrifty, filling, healthy, and they taste good. Your omelet pan looks about just right and Im glad you found it to make your omelet making easier. However...
Oatmeal Waffles
What a great idea! I will be using it. My family loves oatmeal and there is often leftover oatmeal. I have been using a Scottish recipe that involves adding onions, basil, and salt to the cooked oatmeal and shaping it into sausage patties and then frying in...
Growing Grape Vines Requires Patience
I got an almost dead grapevine from the garden center for $1 six years ago. Have no idea what kind but the grapes taste like the Concord grapes I remember from childhood. I found out that once it was transplanted it would take 3 years to bear grapes. And that...
Beautiful Crockery on a Budget
This is an absolutely fun and frugal idea. I have a beautiful set of china given to me as an anniversary present but of course we dont use that for everyday. My everyday dishes are a Corelle pattern Ive had for years and while theyre very sturdy they are not...
Using Recycled Gift Wrap
We have used recycled wrapping paper at our family Christmas for years now. Unless the paper has become unusably tattered or worn once it comes off the gift it gets folded up and put in Moms Recycle Pile. Now it has not only become a tradition but a source...
Homemade Vegetable Trellises?
Put some posts in your garden - they can be store bought dowels, or bamboo, or old broom handles, just whatever you want to use. Tie string, twine, or rope horizontally between the posts. Then tie strings all along the horizontal piece to hang vertically down...
Why Do My African Violets Keep Dying?
Tricia, When I first started growing African violets I also had several die. Then I solved the problem by stopping the over-watering. I am sure you are giving them too much water. Let the soil be completely dry before you water, water only from the bottom, and...
Homemade Compost Bin?
I have composted for years in my backyard. The most inexpensive compost pile is just that: a place where you pile up your compostable items and let them do their thing. No fence, no container, just a pile. However, most people, including me, like their compost...
My Frugal Life: Toys Made From Nothing
This certainly brings back memories! We used to make a button spinner by threading string through a button and tying it into a loop and draping the two sides of the loop around our hands with the button hanging in the middle. We would twist up the two sides...
Saving Money on Diapers
I know cloth diapers are not an option for everybody. But if they are something youd like to try and you can sew there are ways to save tons of money on diapers. Buy a few yards of flannel and cut into rectangles that will fit your baby, including some overlap...
