EASY MONEY SAVING IDEAS
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2024
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You can also save a lot of money by diluting commercial cleaning products. Most of them are so concentrated and you can use much less. If it's liquid, I dilute it with plain tap water. If it's powder or a sheet, I use 1/2 the recommended amount. That way, it lasts twice as long and costs half as much! I also dilute other products such as fruit juice, shampoo, liquid soap, etc...
Good video! 😊 I wear the same jeans to work at least 3 times a week. I doubt anyone notices. I wear them several times before washing, so less laundry, too.
It works great!
Very timely video for Earth Day! Buying just one or two pairs of slacks also means you can spend a little more for a higher quality, knowing they will last longer. I have also used a 45+ year-old flat floral bed sheet as a tablecloth.
Thank you, Linda! Another great point.
great video! I never thought to use a pillow case for dirty laundry when traveling!
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When my husband and I first got married we bought a very tiny home and in one of the bedrooms of the home was a wringer washer. We purchased the home from an elderly lady who could no longer live on her own and that was the first and only time I have ever seen a wringer washer in person. Quite amazing.
Yes very cool! What did you do with it?
When we actually moved in once she was gone from there I never saw it again so I'm assuming that when it was cleaned out for us to move in it got taken. I didn't know the value of things back then and would not have thought to ask if maybe we could have kept it even as a treasure. We were so young we wouldn't have known anything about that kind of stuff.
@nancysaffield5337 I’ve gained a real appreciation for that stuff as I’ve gotten older.
Very informative! Some of the incompatible products were new to me. For clothing stains I use Dawn and water in a spray bottle with a gentle brush. Friends give me their empty glass pasta jars so I can pour grease from cooking and not in my drain. I plan to buy a couple pairs of work pants to replace the 2 I've been wearing out. If they are not distinctive, no one will know that I don't have a bunch.
The black pants trick works great! Thanks for watching and commenting ❤️
Excellent ideas for cleaning products. This was a very useful video! Thanks so much.
Thanks for listening!
You are so right about clothing. No one else really cares what we wear.♥️🇨🇦
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When I worked as a chef, I got used to wearing the same uniform every day. My motto was "those who know me don't care and those who care don't know me."
@@lindadorman2869 wonderful!🥰
Love it 👍
My aunt had a washing machine that had the crank handle attached to the top to ring the water out, and my mom used the wash board as well
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Loved this video! Thank you! I also have always just used plates to cover bowls of leftovers, in the fridge. My Mom did it, and now I do it. You never have to search for the specific "lid" that fits that specific plastic container !
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Bonita, I have to tell you this is another absolutely excellent video. Always giving us things to think about giving us new ideas things that maybe had not crossed our minds before. Really saving us so much money. And I am not saying this for any other reason but to tell you you were made for not only for frugal living but teaching other people about it. This is your calling.❤❤❤
Nancy, I appreciate you so much!
@@PenniestoDollars same here!!❤💖😊
I also love your idea about just putting a plate over another plate and putting it in the refrigerator. I'm kind of torn for sure with which way to go with that. I always reuse my plastic wrap if I absolutely can of course unless it has touched something raw and then of course I throw it away. So I keep a old used paper towel roll from years ago and I just wrap my plastic wrap or when I was using aluminum foil wrap that around it and then I'm able to reuse over and over again. I keep it right near where I do a lot of my cooking and baking so I'm able to grab it quickly.
This is the way that I grew up with my mom and doing it. We really didn’t have a lot of convenience items growing up and we just used the things we had to cover leftovers.
@@PenniestoDollars yeah that's an awesome idea. I grew up with tin foil in the house and Saran Wrap in the house so that was something I always saw , my mother was very much into convenience things. But I definitely prefer the old ways better. I would much rather save money then constantly throwing it away with things that I have to throw away
And you're so right marketing drives me nuts. I have always told my daughters the media and everything out there is trying to tell you that you need more this more that fix this fix that you're beautiful the way you are. Always remember it. And that's how it is with marketing always telling us we need more of this kind of wrap we need more of that kind of container it all is designed to make us discontent. And think that we need more than we do
It’s all about them, wanting to spend our dollars on their product whether we need it or not.
@@PenniestoDollars exactly very well said
I save packing materials (paper bags, print-free cardboard, heavy brown paper, etc) to mulch new and existing garden beds. When I want to begin a new bed, I lay these materials over the area and then cover them with an old outdoor rug that rain can go through (i.e. without a rubber backing). Over the next season (or two--this takes time, but it's easier than digging!), the ground will mellow. I do remove all the tape. There is no recycling program where I live, so I recycle these materials myself in my yard and garden; it saves me money and makes the whole process easier. I also use tree leaves to make mulch. It's easy, and it's free. Mainstream gardening has become ridiculously expensive, but it doesn't have to be.
Great tips in there! And yes, that would make it so much easier! Thank you for sharing!
I have used the ammonia and water dup for Windex for many years. I always added a couple of drops of blue food coloring to turn the solution “Windex blue”. My husband always thought he was using the name brand stuff!
Haha too funny!
Great video Bonita. Thanks for all the tips 💚
You bet! Hope they help!
That is so cool. I love oatmeal containers too, lol. Several years ago when my oldest granddaughter was a little girl I gave her one to use as a drum which she loved I think it's still in her cabinet of toys when she and her siblings come to visit. And I just love oatmeal containers my husband uses containers all the time they're great.
They really are. I’ve even made a hole in the lid and decorated for Christmas to use for drawings at work before.
@@PenniestoDollars oh cool!!
Bonita saves money not buying paper towels. I have been watching! (or else a good guesser) Thanks for the recipes.
Yea we use cut up towels or tea towels. :)
A worn out old towel is a treasure!
Very helpful video. I will try out some of the cleaning recipes because cleaning products are very expensive in my country
I hope they help!
Yay for water and vinegar❤. You taught me how to make a cleaner out of that and I've been using it ever since. Saving myself tons of money😊
I wish I had all the money back that I spent on cleaners when I was young!
@@PenniestoDollars oh me too. It's kind of funny in my basement Pantry I have several things when my older daughter was going through a divorce that she gave me that were just cleaning products that are still sitting up there I haven't used them at all I suppose I should find a use for them they were things I never would have bought but I hated to see them get thrown away like a big bottle of Mr clean. I don't know I'm just not much for chemically kind of cleaners so I guess I'll have to use some of them I even have a big gallon jug of Murphy's Oil Soap. I've had these things for a couple of years now and every time I look at them I keep thinking I'll take those down and use them and I still haven't. Not sure even what I would do with either one but I guess I should read the label, LOL
@nancysaffield5337 Mr. clean you could use in water to mop floors. Murphy’s oil can be used on wood, nicks, and scrapes, and just to polish wood.
@@PenniestoDollars oh cool thanks Bonita you're a lifesaver
We think other people notice what we're wearing but they really don't. I couldn't tell you what any of the people I am around on a regular basis are wearing most of the time. Because really each person is focused on themselves they don't really think about what somebody else might be wearing. Doesn't mean somebody wouldn't notice a cute pair of pants, a cute top. But it's not something that we regularly dwell on
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Thanks so much Bonita for turning us on to the Hispanic laundry detergent. I was able to snag a few bottles of foca at my local Walmart down the road and in fact I'm getting ready to start using it . I'm almost out of the current container of a different laundry detergent and I added foca to my stockpile and that's my next one to try so I'm excited to try it. I was thrilled about the price $2.27 for a bottle of it. I was able to snag about six or seven bottles.
Sometimes you can even find it in the gallon containers!
@@PenniestoDollars oh wow I'll have to check that out in the future
Wow, I also love your idea about the pillow slip for laundry. Typically what I do when we travel is I will put a black trash bag into our luggage and I will use that for our laundry bag bring it home if I can't do the laundry when I'm away do the laundry and then use that bag for trash when I get home that might need to be taken down to the end of our road. So I'm at least getting a couple of uses out of it.
That works, too!
@@PenniestoDollars yours is much more frugal though😉
I save the foil lid liners from yogurt, cottage cheese, etc., to cover open round containers. I secure them with a rubber band.
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Navy blue is my color. I will put a pair of navy blue pants or Capri's with just about any color or style shirt.
That works!
And we have the same philosophy about sending home containers with our kids of leftovers. We from time to time get Chinese food which is pretty Frugal for us as it lasts several meals after the initial eating of it. And my husband got the notion let's just start saving the containers that the Chinese food comes in they're decent plastic containers and we put those aside and when we need to send leftovers home with our kids that is what we use and we don't need them back
That works, too! Sometimes the carry outs do give you good containers!
@@PenniestoDollars yes for sure, I'd have to say I see the best ones with Chinese food
I like Dawn dish soap with alcohol and water no streaks on my windows
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My husband loves when I have leftover containers like sour cream, yogurt, even larger containers that may have had supplements in them, he use the them all the time as well
And then I don’t feel so bad if I mess one up for one reason or another, and I need to throw it away.
@@PenniestoDollars yes he says something very similar. If he has to send his guys to a job with nails or screws in the different containers it doesn't have to come back he's not worried about it.
I pick up the produce bags from the grocery stores as tin foil or plastic wrap
Slipping them over a bowl of leftovers works great!
I use produce bags from my purchased produce to pick up after my dogs on our walks.
I also often find clean produce bags in shopping carts or on the ground just outside of the grocery store. Since these will just be trashed by the employees, I pick these up as well.
Just this week alone, I've found seven produce bags outside of two stores. At least this way, they'll be used instead of just being thrown out.
Great idea!
I like your idea about using a cookie sheet in place of aluminum foil. I have not bought tin foil in forever because it's a ridiculous price. So I compensated by just going without it a couple of times if the temperature has not been really high in my oven I've even laid like a sheet of parchment paper baking kind that I have and that seems to work. But I like your idea I would have never thought about doing that thanks again Bonita❤
You’re welcome!
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Yes, good for you with getting mustard off a shirt especially I think you said it was light blue. Mustard is so hard to get off, great to know😊
It boosted my confidence with stains for sure!
@@PenniestoDollars it puts you in the master stain remover class, LOL
Love all your ideas …..great video ❤
Thank you!
Great video 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you!
As soon as you said you were going to share the recipe for the shout alternative and the OxiClean alternative I grabbed a pen and paper to jot it down thank you so much I appreciate that. I bought a box of OxiClean several months ago and maybe even been a year ago and yes it was expensive I even bought it from BJ's. I use it sparingly but the box is getting low. I definitely needed a replacement. And I've also used the Dollar Tree versions of pretreat and they sometimes work sometimes don't so thanks so much for the shout alternative as well
You bet! Cleaners are so expensive and definitely an area we’ve been able to save money!
@@PenniestoDollars 💖 you're my hero!
great video. thank you
Thank you for listening!
Very interesting tks
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I also wash bags and reuse them. I do have somewhat of a stockpile. And it's so funny my husband knows that I do and he says you know what instead of throwing away those baggies that you use for my lunches or miscellaneous things you could always just use some of the containers that we put our leftovers in in the refrigerator for my lunches. Well first of all Bonita I do use those containers in his lunches and I told my husband you're so funny you don't even realize I've been washing out and reusing those baggies over and over again in your lunches, he started laughing and said oh good no I didn't know you were doing that. It's funny what they sometimes observe and sometimes don't observe.
I’m so glad he’s supportive of those money, saving things that you do to help!
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I have also done the same thing as we are heading closer to retirement is downsizing my wardrobe which was never huge but definitely there were things I needed to let go. And I am so much more content on less. And I'm the same I have one pair of black dress pants that really for me are for funerals, weddings and then I can just pair it with whatever kind of top that would be appropriate. And then everyday pants I have bought the athletic pants from Walmart that have a nice loose fit on me and I bought them in black and then Cove blue and I alternate I think I have two pairs of black two pairs of blue that's all the pants I have and I just alternate and you can't even tell I'm wearing the same thing all the time just in two different colors. I just switch out the tops. And I own one pair of jeans.
It works nicely and gives you the opportunity to change up your wardrobe with a different top.
@@PenniestoDollars exactly, that's kind of what I thought
I have never been good with stains either but I feel like this is what's really going to help me. Plus I just refused to pay between 15 and $20 for a box of OxiClean from BJ's or whatever the price might be I'm pretty positive last time I got it it was between 14 and $18 for the box. Ridiculous
It is crazy expensive. It had been on my wish list for a long time and I didn’t want to pay that much and then I decided, I can just make my own.
@@PenniestoDollars yes, you're a smart cookie
Question for you, can you also purchase washing soda inexpensively at like a Walmart or maybe a Dollar General someplace like that I feel like I've heard of washing soda before? I'm a little bit concerned in my own home personally about baking the baking soda in my oven. My husband has asthma and is highly sensitive to things that could trigger it. And he has actually been sick with bronchitis for over a month now and I would just be worried about doing that while he is ill. I didn't know if I could just go buy washing soda and then mix it with hydrogen peroxide
You can buy washing powder or washing soda. I have not checked at the dollar general but I’m sure Walmart probably has it.
@@PenniestoDollars oh excellent. Thanks so much for the tip. He has chronic asthma and a couple of months ago when I got sick with a two or three-day virus he caught that from me. Neither of us have been sick in several years but for him when he gets sick it automatically turns to bronchitis sometimes he's been sick two or three months sometimes even longer