Using Slow Cooker Liners
There have been tips on this site about putting a fabric softener sheet in a pan with baked on food and let it soak overnight. I wonder if they would work on a crockpot?
Syrup for Flavoring Coffee
I use extracts for coffee flavoring. I use an eye dropper to measure. So, once your coffee is made, including regular flavor coffeemate (or nonfat powdered milk - just double the amount if using) and sweetener of your choice, add one drop per cup of coffee...
For Dryer Lint
Ive heard that birds love dryer lint for their nests. You might want to save it up and put it out in the spring in some kind of net bag so they can steal it for their nests.
Product Review: Magic Mesh
So, are you saying you leave your door open with just a screen thingy even in hot weather so your dogs can go in and out?
How I Quit Smoking
I had the same issue with smoking, living my life around it. I quit twice with Teledyne Waterpick one-step-at-a-time filters. I only started smoking after the first time because I married a smoker and everyone around was smoking. I quit again one year after...
Light Supper Menus Ideas for a Home for the Elderly?
I was thinking about something we had when I was a kid during summer. We would have a variety of lunch meats, cheeses, lettuce, etc. to make our own sandwiches. Then wed have tuna salad and deviled eggs. We kids loved to have this meal instead of hot, heavy...
Controlling Ants with 20Mule Team Borax?
There is a recipe for the boric acid and sugar on this website somewhere. You have to mix it with water and put it out carefully. Depending on the ants you are having issues with, that recipe is for the little black ants that invade your kitchen. If you have...
Creative Sink Storage Ideas
Speaking of something to hold your dish soap, I took an empty bottle from the hand sanitizer type soap and filled it with Dawn Dish Soap. All I have to do is stick my sponge under the spigot, push down and get a little bit of soap on the sponge, enough for...
Creative Sink Storage Ideas
Ha! I just read the tip under this one in the newsletter. Evidently Im not the only one who thought of this.
Press And Seal As Shelf Paper
I found that it makes a good base for the bottom of a bird cage. Also, if you are chesty like me, tear some off and paste it to your boob shelf. Keeps you from staining your blouses. Its mostly colorless and isnt that noticeable when its pressed to your shirts...
Shopping With a Cellphone
I only have a cell phone now and started carrying a local phone book in my car for when I need to run errands or whatever. I have the phone book and can pull over and look up numbers and track things down while on the go without wasting gas running from place...
Remembering My Login?
When I sign up for a newsletter such as Thrifty Tips, whatever user name and password I choose, I send myself an email with the name Thriftytips, my user name and password or password hint in the subject line of the new email. Then, when I get the email I save...
Family Closet for Organizing Laundry
I thought about doing that years ago, but never had a way to do it. I also wondered how you would get the family to put their dirty laundry in there. I dont have room in my laundry room now, but if I ever get a chance to build a house, Id do that very thing...
Adding Nutrition to Meals?
In addition to wheatgerm in soups, you can add it to spagetti sauce. Ive even added it to egg salad so Im sure it would work in chicken, tuna, and salmon salads. It could be added to salmon croquettes too. I also add Flax Seed Meal to a lot of stuff. That is...
Tracking Responses From Requests?
If you will look just below the main title of your request on the feedback page (not in the SUBJECT box but higher up)there are several choices: Post Feedback; Send to a Friend; Print Version; SEND ME RESPONSES; Related. Just to to the SEND ME RESONSES and...
Tips for Storing Toothbrushes?
I keep my toothbrushes in a glass filled to above the bristles in a mixture of 1/3 bleach 2/3 water. This also helps kill the germs from your mouth, colds, etc. Bleach is supposed to be the ONLY thing that really kills germs. The bleach has to stay in contact...
