frugal ideas:)

[sunnynight75116]

I have found the best shaving cream....Conditioner. It leaves your skin so soft, and you get a closer shave. LOL...I know I have about 10 bottles of conditioner with just a little left in it. It works great!!!!

[tallulah210]

We live in small town w/only a small grocery store so there prices are outrageous. So we have our own vegetable garden and if you have neighbors that also have gardens think about swapping out some fresh veggies,etc. you give them corn and they'll give you say squash

[StefanieF]

I love reading everyones money saving tips, and I am an avid coupon
clipper myself, but the one thing I cannot get over is how expensive it
is to eat healthy. If I ate a lot of inexpensive foods (Like Pasta,
rice, breads) I would be as big as a house!! When I started the South
Beach Diet after having my baby, I noticed my grocery bill went up
considerably...Maybe its just me

[tallulah210]

when i started doing the "dr. phil" diet our bill went down, lol. but we werent buying cookies,chips, etc. now we buy more fruits and veggies and a lot of them we grow so that helps.

[loreliloalyn]

I noticed our bill went up a lot when I cut out products with excess
sugar and replaced some of our meats with vegitable substitues.
The way I dealt with it was to make the bulk of our meals out of fresh,
in season vegitables.

[loreliloalyn]

I wash and reuse ziploc bags that held vegtables, bread, crackers, or
other Non Meat items. They can withstand a good deal of heat so I
get the water near boiling, turn them inside out, soap them up and let
them soak for a while then rinse them out with water with a little
vinegar in it (to disenfect.) This has probably saved me almost
10 dollars a month because we use SOO many ziplock bags. Once
they don't seem suitable for food anymore I use them to store diaper
wipes, diapers, or a fresh set of clothes in the diaper bag or organize
junk in my junk draw or medicine cabinet.

[WhoIsRenee_com]

You can get a large size of Simple Green at Costco, they also have a
new scent, "Lemon" it smells so nice, and goes a long way.



I love the face cloths, you can cut them in fourths to have them last longer.



In the car, after I have used a wet ones cloth to clean up DD's messy
face/hands, I use the cloth to clean the dash and all the dusty things
around it. The cloths have Aloe in it, so they actually moisturize the
dash, and for just a few minutes of my time, everything is so nice and
clean (at least inside).



I use cotton pads with Burt's Bees toner, and when I'm done with the
pad, I get it wet and clean around cabinets and fisxtures with it.



Great Tips Ladies (and gents).



Renee

[DanielleCotton]

I found a great cleaner in the dollar store called "awesome" of course it only costs a buck, but I use it to clean everything. It works great on scum in the shower, washign floors, washing walls, I have used it instead of laundry detergent, its all all purpose cleaner. It doesnt work well on windows and mirrors though.


It also takes off rust, mold and mildew.


What makes me even more please its a concentrated bottle!


Edited by: DanielleCotton

[Mommee2Twins]

If you have a prescription and your co-pay is the same no matter what the dosage is of your medicine, see if your doctor will prescribe a higher dosage pill. This only works with pills that can be split in half. That way if your prescription is supposed to be 30 pills with a 10 milligram dosage, he prescribes 30 pills with a 20 milligram dosage. You split them in half and you have 60 pills with a 10 milligram dosage, at half the cost it would have been if you had simply filled two prescriptions for 30 pills at 10 milligrams.

[um_hanna]

this might be a little extreme for some, it was for me when i first heard it, but momma cloths..there are no chemicals and can be soaked in oxyclean ...i also use cloth good ole prefold diapers for the baby..it really adds up, i also use baby washcloths and rewash them instead of baby wipes, saves the enviornment and wallet