7-14-10

Get your Buy One Get One Free Crush 20 oz. printable coupon (value up to $1.49)




STRIDEX GUM

Speedway at one time had
buy 1 get 1 free coupons.

Target also has a printable store
buy 1 get 1 free coupon.

This should make for both packages
of gum being FREE!

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8:15-9:50AM

REPURPOSING AN OLD TOWEL

Got all my Clorox mop cleaning pads done.
I took an old towel that had holes in it,
and cut it up.

I found that a magazine made a great
template for the cloths.

After cutting out I zig zag stitched
around the edges to keep from fraying.

This can be used on Clorox Ready Mops
or the Swiffer Sweeper Mops.







How making your own mop pads saves you money...

I priced the cheapest package of Clorox
Ready Mop pads at Walmart for
$6.00 for 16 pads, that's .38 cents a pad.

Let's say you use 4 pads a week, mopping
twice with 2 pads each time.
That's $6.00 a month
for a package of these pads.
Times 12 months is $72.00!

You save $72 a year by making your
own pads from a freebie towel!!

Now add that to our savings with
homemade bathroom wipes and
homemade rags and our total savings
so far each year is....
$202 just for these 3 simple
homemade items!!!

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9:50-10:30AM

Cut up and got the beans from the garden
blanched and put in one of those Zioloc
vacuum bags. First time trying those out.
Seem pretty good.

Next I sliced up the hungarian and banana
peppers from the garden to pickle.
No these are not canned as they will
get eaten too quickly.
I saved all the seeds from the peppers
for next year.










Mom just stopped by after her trip to Meijers.
There she picked me up a watermelon for $2.99,
the cheapest we've seen this year!

I plan on making these drinks below with
some of the watermelon.


WATERMELON LEMONADE
4 Servings



Ingredients

* 2 cups lemonade
* 3 cups seedless watermelon, coarsely chopped
* 1 cup crushed ice

Directions

* In a blender, combine all ingredients; cover and process until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses; serve immediately. Yield: 4 servings.

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WATERMELON AND BASIL ICED TEA
Yield: Makes 8 servings



Ingredients

* 8 cups boiling water
* 8 tea bags
* 1/8 medium-sized watermelon, cut into small triangles
* 1 small bunch fresh basil sprigs
* Sugar, to taste (if desired)

Preparation

Pour the water into a heat-resistant pitcher. Add the tea bags and let steep for 10 minutes. Remove and discard the bags and allow the tea to cool to room temperature before refrigerating. Add the watermelon, basil, and sugar (if using), and pour over ice.

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Taco Bell to embrace breakfast

For those craving a Mexican-inspired burrito breakfast, Taco Bell will soon be your go-to spot. The restaurant chain will permanently launch a breakfast menu starting late 2011 or 2012.

The new breakfast menu is still in the making and will apparently take a year or two of research and testing to launch the ideal line to satisfy customers. Some breakfast items will be double-ham-and-cheese melt, sausage burritos, potato and cheese roll ups, and hash browns. The menu will be a mix of mid-priced items and inexpensive food options, some even priced under a dollar. Taco Bell will partner with Seattle's Best Coffee, Jimmy Dean sausages, Cinnabon Delights, and other brands to expand its breakfast line.

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11:45-12:45PM

Made up some Basil (fresh picked from garden)
Watermelon Tea &
Watermelon Lemonade (Jonathan gives it THUMBS UP!)






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I gotta stay off Craigslist, lol,
lookie what I found for $1,800.
Says cash or cash and trade.
Maybe they would want an explorer
or Tracker???






WHOA check out the price of this
Pontiac 400 motor out of a GTO
for $1495 on Craigslist!!
This is the exact motor we put in
out red TA, a 400 out of a GTO also!!
We got a heck of a deal back then!!
Ours looks a lot better!



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1:15-1:45PM

Worked on sewing some more bathroom wipes.
Got 11 of the smaller ones done.
Still have a huge stack to do!



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1:45-2:20PM

Got chicken thighs in the crock for
tonight's supper.
We will be having chicken alfredo
over top baked potatoes.
dessert will be
iced chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.
I added some orange zest in the dough
and some fresh squeezed orange juice
in the icing
to give them a lil somethin' somethin'.




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2:55PM

Cookies are all done.




Hoping to get motivated soon to do some
more weeding out this week. It's Wednesday,
hump day, and I haven't weeded out anything
but a Shark vacuum.

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Resveratrol may prevent eye disease, blindness

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Supper 5:30PM

Baked potato with chicken Alfredo on top.



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Tonight we stopped in Kroger to get some
pop and some $5.00 discount tickets
for this weekend at National Trail Raceway's
Night of Thunder.
While there I was able to find some
Glade Plugin for .59 cents each.
Bought a bunch to put in each room
of the house. Animals can be stinky
creatures!



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HINTS AND TIPS FOR TODAY

Use Vinyl Tablecloth as Curtain to Keep Out Heat

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Make Your Own Brown Sugar
To make your own brown sugar, mix one tablespoon of molasses with a cup of white sugar. Add more for darker and less for lighter.

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Use Envelope Labels and Return Labels

To save money on return address labels, cut the labels out of everything sent to you. When you need to send out an envelope or package, tape it in the left hand corner of the envelope or package and you have an instant return address label that didn't cost you anything.

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Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

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Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

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Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

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Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

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To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

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For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

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Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza.

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To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

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Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.

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Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

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Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth.

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To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

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Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

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GARAGE SALES FOR THIS WEEKEND

Westerville
BIG MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE July 16-17, 8:30-3. Look for 2 homes on Keethler Dr.S in Westerville (near Hoover Res.- take Sunbury Rd. to College - turn west on College and turn south on Keethler at the first corner). Bikes, video games, toys, sports equip., home goods, books, microwave, kids/teen clothes (great condition) , Barbie comforter set, cleared out the in-law's basement, lots more. SOME ITEMS FREE-PRICED TO SELL

Eastwood Ave, Westerville 43081
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 9-5, SUNDAY 11-3

257 gurgan lane westerville oh
july 16th and 17th
8am-4pm

St. Matthias Church Annual Garage Sale and bake sale will be held Friday July 16 and Saturday July 17 from 9am -3pm. The sale will be in the Air Conditioned gym in the back. 1550 Ferris Rd. Columbus OH 43224. Corner of Ferris Rd and Morse Rd. No clothing is available. Furniture, shoes, luggage, toys, kitchen items, electronics, etc are for sale.

Huge Yard Sale! Sat. July 17th 8AM - 4PM and Sun. July 18th 9AM - 1PM. Located 792 Melrose Avenue,

Garage Sale Friday 7/16 - 7/17 9AM - 2 PM.

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CLEARANCE ON ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS! 2 for $10
These usually go for about $25 to $35 EACH!

7-13-10

7:00-9:45AM

Woke up to another one of my backaches
so ain't moving too swift again this morning.

Been working in Jonathan's room this morning.
I hate these sliding closet doors! I have
taken them off, put them on and just can't
find a mediocre with them. You slide them
and they fall off and are a pain to put back
on! Wonder if in the future we could do something
about them. Here's an idea I had but I would
want regular doors and not ones with glass
windows to put on the closet. This would make it
so much more easier to get into the closets
and see what you want!! I have tried tension
curtain rods with curtains in the place
of the doors but that's also getting
to be a pain in the butt!
Also tried going with no doors and if
you have kids, the closets are areas
where you don't want to expose all their
clutter!



Or if you wanted to get fancier in a master
bedroom you could hang those dressing mirrors
on the front and glue trim on to look
like French doors.
Mirrors we find at Tony's work for free
and the trim wood pieces can be found
at Habitat for about .25 cents a foot.
Or heck just paint he lines on.



Wouldn't it be nice to make closet
doors that tuck back inside when open like on
some of these entertainment stands.
Hmmmm, will have to be on the lookout
for these stands during college move out
time and remove the hardware from them.
Now if the hardware could hold solid wood
doors like this one below I'm sure it
would be able to hold a hollow core door.



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POOL NOODLE CRAFTS

You could probably find these at yard sales,
dollar stores
or marked down in stores come the end of Summer!

- Cut off 3/4" pieces and float in a pool or bathtub as decor or even as packing material, in place of those boring packing peanuts

- Use to cover spokes and frames of bicycles

- Use to make homemade stamps

- Soft building blocks or bath toys

- run thread through pieces and make garlands

- make party straw decorations

- pipe insulators

- draft stopper

- cut a slice in one side of hollow ones
and use around coffee tables when you
have little ones running around.

- Tony uses a pipe insulator on the poles
of his golf cart to keep from banging
his head on them when loading and unloading.










10:30AM

Well I need to get the kids motivated and
something to eat.
Want to head out soon to the library, Walgreens
and possibly the thrift store to find a
flat flannel sheet to start making
fabric wipes for the bathroom.

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2:30PM

Just back from library, Walgreens and the
thrift store.

Did not have a good experience at the library.
Could not find my reserved book so asked a
librarian. She looked it up on the computer
and saw that another person with the same name
took the book I reserved. She turned it back in
saying she didn't reserve it and it got shipped
somewhere else. So now I have to wait another
3-5 days for it.

Next WALGREENS so here's the breakdown for that trip

$63.94 BEFORE COUPONS

$20.03 I PAID

$43.91 SAVED

Dr. Scholl's gel arch supports
reg. $6.99
paid FREE

Dr. Scholl's Gel insoles
reg. $9.99
paid $2.99

8 pocket folders with tabs
reg. $2.32
paid $1.00

6 packs of 10 pack mechanical pencils
reg. $25.00
paid $2.34

8 mini highlighters
reg. $3.12
paid .72 cents

5 pencil sharpeners
reg. $3.95
paid $1.45

2 packs 100 count index cards
reg. $1.98
paid .78 cents

3 Tuf paper towels
reg. $2.97
paid $1.77

100 count envelopes
reg. $1.29
paid .69 cents

4 legal pads
reg. $3.96
paid $1.16

Charmin 6 double rolls
reg. $3.79
paid $1.99

6 Crayola posterboards
reg. $5.94
paid $2.00

bag of chocolate covered pretzels
$1.00





THRIFT STORE

$10 and some change (don't remember exact amount)

3 polo school shirts

1 Titanic model ship (already built)

1 toy car

3 wire baskets for organizing

pkg open shoe insoles

1 flannel sheet
(decided upon this one as it has
squares already on the design of
the fabric so it would be easier to
cut out)





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4:15PM

Just got done cutting all the fabric wipes.
I got 66- 2 block wipes
and 40- 4 block wipes made.
If you do make your own I highly
recommend finding fabric with
lines or squares on it.
It makes it soooo much easier
when cutting them all out!
Total cost to make all these...
$1.99.



I didn't find the pinking shears
so I will need to zig zag stitch
them all around the edges so they
don't fray.

Let's see how much I would be saving
by doing this...

Let's say a person uses a roll of
toilet paper each week. (a regular roll)
4 people in household is
a 4 roll package of tp a week.
Let's say each pack is $1.50
times 52 weeks is $78 a year.



This is just about like using rags
instead of paper towels at $1.00 a week.
Savings of $52 a year.

Between the TP and paper towels
alone you can save at least
$130!!

See the little things do start adding
up!!

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6:30

99 bathroom wipes to sew, 99 bathroom wipes,
take one down and sew it around, 98
bathroom wipes to go.

Got about a fourth of them zig zagged
around the edges. This is the tedious
task after that it's smooth sailing,
or should I say wiping, lol.

This is gonna take a long time I see as
I still have rags to make from towels
and cut towels down to fit the swiffer
mop along with these wipes.



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Another cost saver. Screw buying cat toys.
Get them a plain cardboard box! LOL.
Think I can put a return label on
it and ship it back???



Don't these two look soooo innocent.
HA HA HA HA!!!


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There's been a lot of talk about cutting back
and saving money when doing laundry on my Yahoo groups today
so I will once again add it here of what to do.

-Full Loads

-Wash in Cold whenever possible.

-Use a fraction of the detergent that the label says to.
use 1-2 T. of liquid detergent

-Wear clothes multiple times before washing

-If you use dryer sheets cut them into
about 4 pieces. Use one piece per load.

-Line dry your laundry.

-Wash clothes during non peak electric hours
such as morning or night.

-Match sales with coupons for soap and
fabric softener.

-If using fabric softener use smaller
amounts and dilute it.

-Buy a 5 gallon bucket of detergent.
Use 1 TBSP per load. It will last about 2 years!

-Make your own powder laundry detergent
* 1 bar of shaved bar soap (Ivory, ZOTE, Fels-Naptha)
* 1/2 cup of borax
* 1/2 cup of washing soda
Mix together and store air tight container.
This doesn't suds up. Use only 1 tablespoon.

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$1.00 off McDonald's Real Fruit Smoothie
or Frappe.

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Where was this next tip when I painted yesterday?

Clean Paint Brushes Easily!

Easily clean latex paint from paint brushes by mixing about a cup of water and a half cup liquid fabric softener. Stir the brush in the mixture and watch the paint come off! It also softens the brush bristles!