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Angela S

Cromwell, IA
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  • How many times have you thrown food away because it spoiled before you ate it?
  • We changed our approach to food and have stretched our savings and food stores by using these few tricks.
  • Buying nuts in bulk is cheaper, but you don't want them to go back.  Separate them into air tight containers until you're ready to use them.
  • We freeze our own beans!  We soak them and divide them into meal size servings and lay them flat to freeze.
  • We portion our meats and freeze them.
  • Just make sure to label the freezer bag with the date and remove as much air as possible.
  • We do this for all our meats - chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, pork loin steaks. 3
  • TIP! Save all your chicken scraps, skin and bones, as well as any vegetable scraps.  I store them in a freezer bag and once the bag is full, I slow cook the scraps into a broth.  I let the broth cool and skim the fat, then store it!
  • For portion control, freeze your cookie dough. We fly through a batch of cookies in a few days.  Roll the dough into small balls and freeze them.
  • Transfer them to a freezer bag with the baking instructions on the outside.  Only take out the number of cookies you want to eat.
  • We make our own granola.  It's so easy, just find your favorite recipe and make. Much cheaper than store bought without all the preservatives. 1
  • One of our biggest money savers is making our own pizza.  We buy frozen dough in bulk.  We've made our own pizza sauce, too.  Each pizza comes to about $2.75! 1
  • Making your own bread may be daunting, but it's really quite easy.  One recipe we use makes two loaves.
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Stretching Your Grocery Budget

I share tips and tricks to stop wasting the food you buy.
Noting Grace
Noting Grace Henderson, NV
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mushrooms, flowers, and gnomes oh my!

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Kelly S Bremerton, WA
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Re-purposing pallets

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Allison House Sumter, SC
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Master Bathroom

Laurie
Laurie Jonesboro, AR
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  • Kids can change out their Lego creation art.
  • Glue flat pieces of Lego to scrapbook paper backing.
  • Take an old frame and remove the glass. Also a great use for a frame that you may have that's missing the glass.
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Lego Display

I found this frame at a local thrift shop, removed the glass, added a piece of scrap book paper to the back. and glued on large flat pieces of Lego. Now the boys can change out their Lego displays.

2 Little Superheroes
2 Little Superheroes Raleigh, NC
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  • Classic Living Room with custom Tall window treatment. The window treatments are designed by Klima Design Group team to frame the room and the view outside. The top treatment- valance is part of the design as it is attached to panels.
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Classic Living Room with Two Storied Window Treatments

It is true that window treatments create the first impression for your home. Just like eyes are the windows to your soul, your house windows are connectors between you, your home and the ...»
world you live in.

If you think about that, it is no wonder that it is the windows that we think of first when we decorate our homes. For a very long time retailers and manufacturers of window covering industry create large variety of accessories for window treatments

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Marina Klima Goldberg Morganville, NJ
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I built my mancave myself.

I started with our unfinished basement. I had helped a neighbor take down an old 19th century barn. I used oak beams and chestnut posts to give it the old barn feel. I hand built all the ...»
doors out of pine. The door frames and trim are chestnut barn battons. I built the hearth out of western md flagstone and wallstone. The walls and ceilings are stucco done to look like old plaster. The other side of the room is the bar I posted earlier.

Ponds Patios and Waterfalls Co.
Ponds Patios and Waterfal... Manchester, MD
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I built my mancave myself.

Ponds Patios and Waterfalls Co.
Ponds Patios and Waterfal... Manchester, MD
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  • Homemade dog shampoo

Homemade dog shampoo

Make your own dog shampoo that is better for your dog and inexpensive! These are the three main ingredients: 1) 1 cup generic brand uncolored antibacterial liquid hand soap 2) 1/4 cup glycerin (found in the pharmacy section near the rubbing alcohol) 3) 1 cup white vinegar. Mix all ingredients in two quarts of warm water (I use an empty apple juice bottle) and pour it over your dog. I still use baby shampoo for her face and do not get this mix in her eyes or ears. It pours on, soaks in, ...»
suds up and rinses off much better than any other dog shampoo I have ever used. The antibacterial hand soap kills any bacteria on the dogs skin (which is what makes them smell "doggy"), the vinegar balances the ph in their skin so they don't get flakey and itchy and the glycerine makes their coat soft and shiny. I've been using it for a couple of years and it is the best! As soon as my dog sees me mixing it up she gets into the bathtub and waits for her massage and bath.

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Julee S Bangor, MI
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