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Tips Submitted by Susan from Niagara Falls, NY

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Dollars & Sense - At Home

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Plastic clothespins Uses

When ever you need to close a bag of chips or food you opened but do not use the whole package. Take a Plastic clothespin and use it instead of a Chip clip. You not only get more clothespins per package for less money, they even clip better! You get any where from 12 to 20 or 40 per bag. Cheaper than buying Chip clips! Some are so pretty you can use them to hold back curtains so you can get sun into any room. I even use them to hold plants on a stick. So clip a bag or a curtain or use them to hold your coupons when you go shopping, or when you want to keep papers from cluttering a desk, clip it with a clothes pin. Makes a great conversation piece too. Or use them to clip mittens or boots together with their mates. Inexpensive and effective!

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niagara falls, NY
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Dollars & Sense - At Home

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counter top quickie

When the formica comes off on the side of your cupboards, dont fret, use some nail polich as glue and glue it back on. Takes only a second and dries quickly!

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niagara falls, NY
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Neat & Clean - Laundry

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Cleaning the Dryer lint basket

You can use an old baby bottle brush tied to a string as a handle for extending the brush down into the area where the lint may be; you can also use the string hanging it up. You can also brush the actual lint trap using the baby bottle brush. Lint comes off quicker and faster!

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Niagara Falls, NY
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Healthy Hints - Eating Healthy

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Tea for health!

Place 4 tea bags in a pot of water before you cook any vegetable and it will increase the amount of antioxidants in your meals! It also gives more color to vegetables.

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Niagara Falls, NY
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Dollars & Sense - Reuse / Recycle

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Cards and Envelops

I save old calendars and magazines and use the pictures I like from them to make cards and envelopes. It's easy to make an envelope -- just take and old envelope apart to use as a template. Trace it on the page you like, cut around the line, fold and glue. I use these cards and envelopes for party invitations or thank you notes. I have not bought thank you cards since learning this trick, so I've saved a bundle and reuse our precious resources! Have fun with recycling!

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Niagara Falls, NY
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Everyday Sense - Hobbies & Interests

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Reusing Items for Crafts

When saving items to reuse for crafts, it makes it much easier to find what you need if you keep it organized. So reuse items to organize your reusables! Great organizing items are shoe boxes, see-through salad containers, pill bottles and SCOTT® Moist Wipe containers. Label the outside or even use a box top to indicate what's inside.

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Niagara Falls, NY
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Neat & Clean - Kitchen & Bath

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Home Made Scrubbies

When you need a quick scrubby, take a sponge and cut it up with scissors into one inch size pieces. While you're washing your dishes, put a drop of dish soap on the rough side of that sponge and use it for a scouring pad. If you have a scouring pad and all the soap is gone, but the steel wool is still good, just add a drop of dish soap on the pad and it makes it last longer!

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Niagara Falls, NY
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Everyday Sense - Hobbies & Interests

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Recycling for Crafts and Such

I can find a new use for any recycled cardboard or plastic. This Christmas I saved the plastic from Advent candy calendars and reused the forms to make my own candy! I also salvaged the cardboard from the Advent calendar to make bookmarks, which I cover with a laminate plastic. I save medicine bottles and SCOTT Wipe containers for beading boxes or to store small craft items. I also save pictures from magazines for scrapbooking and use old calendar photos for cards!

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Niagara Falls, NY
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