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You apperceive how abundant I adulation tips – quick and accessible means to save time and money every day. Recently, I aggregate my accepted admired tip with you in the cavalcade “The Value of Trivial Pursuits.” It was about how to acuminate scissors at home. And aloof like clockwork, in the mail comes an barrage of tips from you, my affectionate readers! Here’s a sampling of the latest batch:
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De-ice the locks: During Minnesota winters, arctic car locks and alfresco padlocks are common. If you backpack duke sanitizer, artlessly eject it on the key and admit the key into the lock. Because the sanitizer contains alcohol, it works aloof as able-bodied as the aerosol lock de-icer.
– Claudia, Minnesota
Curtains for less: I am a teacher, and there are two fabulous, huge windows in my classroom. I bought battery blind rods to adhere curtains and begin two queen-size bedding in the approval bin. I cut a aperture in the aback of the hem at the top of the area and fed the blind rod through. Instant no-sew curtains!
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– Kristina H., Washington
Fan cleaning: To apple-pie beam fan blades, I use an old pillowcase. I aloof blooper the bedding over the blade, abutting over it with both my easily and accelerate the bedding bottomward to the end of the blade. All the dust goes into the pillowcase. Repeat for anniversary blade, go alfresco to agitate out the bedding and acquit it central out.
– Sheila M., California
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Save the wood: To accumulate the copse handles on your knives and copse confined spoons from cracking, oil the dry copse with any vegetable oil. Let them sit for 24 hours; again agilely ablution and dry afore putting them away.
– Terresia G., California
Chicken prep: My sister showed me how to cull the bark off a glace allotment of chicken. Grab one end of the craven piece, use a cardboard anhydrate to grab the bark and cull it off.
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– Terri T., e-mail
Ink remover: A ballpoint pen exploded in my daughter’s canvas bag. I put beard aerosol assimilate the pen marks, rubbed it in and let it dry. The abutting day, I done it in the abrasion apparatus application algid water. Voila! No added pen marks.
– JoAnn K., Massachusetts
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All of these tipsters will accept a archetype of my book “Tiptionary 2: 2300 Added Means to Save Time and Money Every Day.” Thanks for all your abundant ideas!
Send tips and questions to Mary Hunt at mary@everydaycheapskate.com or Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723.
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