Archive for the 'Green and Frugal' Category
I did several posts on cheap laundry recently, but I forgot to mention two things.
I talked about thinking out of the box when it comes to drying solutions and gave several suggestions. However, I forgot to mention this one…if you run out of room on your line or your drying rack, try draping some [...]
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One of my readers wrote to me asking for a cheap and green oven cleaning suggestion(the reader doesn’t have a self-cleaning oven). I’ve had a self-cleaning oven in nearly every place I’ve lived, so I’m pretty clueless on this subject. I found several sites which gave some directions for using baking soda to do the [...]
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Potty Girl has had a bit of a setback in the last day or two. Sigh. While we were on vacation, she was in pull-ups pretty much fulltime, and towards the end of the week, I could tell she was getting less and less motivated about getting to the toilet in time. [...]
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A napkin alternative
Admittedly, this is more of a green thing than a frugal thing since napkins aren’t terribly expensive. But, they’re not free and so using less of them will save money. Plus, you can feel good about saving some trees by cutting down on your napkin usage(personally, I’d much rather give up napkins [...]
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This is sort of backwards, I know! I should have talked about the benefits of line-drying and then done the how-to post. Oh well. This is what happens when you blog with no plan.
Of course, the main reason that I line-dry is that it saves money. The amount [...]
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Living(mostly) without the dryer
A number of years ago, when I was newly married, I was reading The Complete Tightwad Gazette and I came across the part about line-drying. I’ll admit that I kind of rolled my eyes and thought how ridiculous it was to give up using a dryer. Of course, at that point in [...]
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Or maybe just a few laundry days, depending on how much I have to say!
Since the Horrible Electric Rate Increase happened in our area, my husband and I have been trying really hard to reduce the amount of electricity we use. We figure there’s nothing we can really do about the rate we [...]
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Food waste and green smoothies
Here’s what I wasted in addition to the beans I posted about earlier. It’s about 1/4 cup of green onions and 4 apple slices. The green onions are just the tail end of a bunch I bought a couple of weeks ago. While I wish I’d managed to use them all, I [...]
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