Ever start a recipe only to discover you’re out of brown sugar? Make your own…..
Add 1 tsp molasses to 1 cup sugar
for dark brown sugar add 2 tsp molasses
Mix till evenly distributed. I used a food processor.
Make your own brown sugar
Vanilla brown sugar body scrub for Mothers Day
Looking for a do it yourself project for Mothers Day?
Stephanie Lynn has an amazing website full of great ideas. Here is the link to this recipe.
It is yummy Brown Sugar and Vanilla. It’s the perfect exfoliate for your heels, knees and elbows.
Old Fashioned frugal gardening tips
It’s getting about that time of year for some gardening tips:
For roses, sprinkle your used coffee grounds around them
For ferns: When they start looking a bit scraggly mix some unflavored gelatin, diluted, and water them with it. Natural nitrogen.
For Tomatoes: If you have fish scraps or better yet a whole fish, plant one in a hole under your tomato plants. I have an old salmon I never used up last year in the freezer for crabbing so I think I will put it under my tomatoes.
For the best tasting tomatoes, pour a cup of beer around the roots of the plant after it blossoms. Repeat once/week until ripe.
For peppers: Put a matchbook (without cover and staple) in the bottom of the hole when planting for stronger, healthier plants.
For acid loving plants like peppers or eggplant, try a pinch of epsom salts in the hole. The magnesium helps set the blossoms while the sulfur adds acid.
Make your own spray starch
Need to press a shirt and don’t have any starch? Make your own:
4 T powdered starch
4 C hot water
Spray bottle
Shake often
FREE Breathe Right Strips – at Rite Aid
$1 off Produce at Safeway
Safeway has a coupon for $1 off of your produce purchase of $5 or more on their facebook page. Head on over and “like” Safeway to print your coupon. (Remember to hit your “back” button to be able to print 2 coupons)
My Walgreen’s Deals
What a great day I had at Walgreen’s yesterday. Here’s my first score:
2 Head and Shoulders
Tylenol Precise Heat Wrap
Comet
Dawn dishwashing soap
Puffs tissues
Padded envelope
Scotch tape
Nivea razors
Paid $7.99 out of pocket, received $5 back in Register Rewards
I also wanted to buy the Cottonelle toilet paper, but they were out, so later in the day on my way home from work, I stopped at another Walgreen’s (there are 3 Walgreen’s within a 2 mile stretch here in Kent). I used my $5 Register Rewards from my first transaction, 2 manufacturer’s coupons, 1 store coupon. Paid $2.95 out of pocket, received $3 back in Register Rewards.
Today’s FREE Sample – Nivea Body Wash
30 Money Saving Tips
30 money-saving tips
A few minutes is all it takes to save hundreds of dollars over the next 30 days.
Save at the store
1. Give your cart a once-over: Before you reach the checkout, remove at least one impulse purchase. Cutting just $10 a week of unnecessary spending adds up fast!
2. Replace one processed food: Pick one processed item and opt for an unprocessed substitute. For example, making mashed potatoes from scratch twice a week instead of buying a pre-packaged version will save you $60 a year.
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