Walmart’s freebie right now is a coupon good for a free glass cleaning cloth and eye glass cleaner. Print the coupon and redeem in store. They also have a Sargento coupon posted as well
http://instoresnow.walmart.com/In-Stores-Now-Free-Samples-and-Savings.aspx
Got the empty cardboard tubes from toilet paper laying around anywhere? Here is a couple quick and easy uses and crafts with them
1. Party Favors- Add some small toys and candy to the inside and cover with tissue paper and you have perfect little party favors!
2. Bird Feeders- Let the kids spread peanut butter or honey over rolls then roll in cheerios or actual bird seed and hang outside for critters!
3. Pets- Pets, like hedgehogs and etc love playing with these and have a ball with them!
4. Cord Storage- They can be used for travel or storage to keep cords from getting tangled.
5. Seed Starters- Use them in a tray to separate your seedlings that you are growing for the spring!
6. Crafts Galore- Seriously, hand one to a kid along with some craft supplies and see what they come up with. Telescopes, cars, rockets, a hiding place for polly pockets, spaceship, and etc etc……..
Have a Great Weekend Guys!
At 3pm eastern today Dr Oz website is supposed to be giving away free General Mills Cereal!!!
Here is the link to this
http://www.doctoroz.com/general-mill…ereal-giveaway
Happy Hunting!
Jessi
I’m not talking about the song from the PussyCat Dolls, but what to do about a loose button, or one that has fallen off and you are nowhere near your sewing kit. Dental floss can be used instead of thread, and will actually hold a button on better than thread! Worried about one falling off and you know you wont have time to fit it? Coat the front of the button threads with clear super glue or a small amount of candle wax to keep it in place!
OK I will admit, I am in L-O-V-E with Pinterest!! But, are you using it to save money or is it costing you money??? I would love to hear everyones opinion on this, because I have heard people rave about their savings, and others rant about spending &40 on one recipe!!!
Thoughts anyone?????
Sure, filters are a very important part of making most of ours preferred Nectar of the Gods, but did youy know they can clean your TV and computer screens as well? Or strain the yucky bits out of your deep fry grease to help make it reusable oil again? Use a coffee filter in your strainer to trap all the bits out of your freshly strained grease to get another use out of it!!
I’m back, well I hope I am, lol. Life has a way of catching up with you and making you forget about things. I was digging through stuff on my desk and found outlines of money saving blogs I had wrote up but never put on here. I’m sorry about that guys, lets see if we can get back to the savings and the fun. And now is as good of a time as ever!!
Hubby and I took in our crushed aluminum cans the recycling center this last weekend. We live about 20 minutes away from a place called West Virginia Cashin Recyclables in Nitro West Virginia that will buy any kind of recyclable metal materials you have. The rate at the time we took ours in was 69 cents per pound for pop cans. We ended up having 140 pounds of cans to turn in so our take was $96.60!! Not bad for something that we would have recycled anyways for free! Now I know that recycling laws and what facilities are available vary from state to state, but it is worth checking into to see if these facilities exist in your area. If this idea will make one non-recycling family decide to start recycling then it is worth every little bit of time it would take you to do it. We have a separate garbage can inside for our cans then transfer them outside when the bag is full. We then crush the cans in our can crusher ( $10 at home depot) that drops them into a big garbage bag to store them in till we have enough to fill the back of our S-10 Blazer with bags of cans to take to the recycling center.
The other types of items they take are anywhere from small appliances, deep freezers, sheet metal, engines, even old aluminum rims off of cars! The small appliances are normally purchased for a small flat fee due to them having to be taken apart for recycled pieces. Plus you need to find the current prices for your recycling center, the prices they quote can vary almost daily as its tied to how much those materials are worth on the market that day.
A final note to leave you with about the benefits of recycling- For each can recycled, you save enough energy to run a big screen TV for 4 hours, run a 100 watt bulb for twenty hours, or enough energy to equal a half a gallon of gas! And that is just for one can! Thats enough of a reason in my book any day, but the value of them adds another fact to it;
1. Between 1990 and 2000, Americans wasted a total of 7.1 million tons of cans: enough to manufacture 316,000 Boeing 737 airplanes—or enough to reproduce the world’s entire commercial air fleet 25 times.
2. Had the 50.7 billion cans wasted in 2001 been recycled, they would have saved the energy equivalent of 16 million barrels of crude oil: enough energy to generate electricity for 2.7 million U.S. homes for a year, or enough to supply over a million cars with gasoline for a year.
3. From 1986 to 2000, about 9.6 million tons of cans with a market value of over $10 billion were wasted
Source- http://www.container-recycling.org/publications/trashedcans/sample.htm
Have a great week everybody! And happy recycling!!!
http://mommysblessings.blogspot.com/2010/08/remaking-crayons.html
This is the link to Holly’s blog called “Mommy’s Blessings” and her post on how to save all of the broken crayons that we all have laying around! She’s got 6 kids worth of broken crayons to deal with and found a way not to waste any of them!
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