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Grandpa Terry's Tip of the Week
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Grandpa Terry's Email
Subscriber's Tip of the Week 2
Subscriber's Tip of the Week 3
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Special Recipe - Peachy Pork Chops
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Grandpa Terry's Update
Welcome to The Budget Stretcher!
I would like to remind you that the use of any tips in this
newsletter or any place else should be used with caution and
your better judgment must prevail. There is absolutely no
way each and every tip can be checked to make sure that it
doesn't cause any harm.
I mentioned in last week's newsletter that I had to install a
tub and shower in my house over the weekend. The project is
done and it actually turned out pretty good. I still have some
trimming to do but I'll get to that. Now if I could just get
all of the aches and pains I still have from that project under
control.
Do you check your credit card statements to make sure you are
not charged for things you didn't purchase? My credit card
article this week explains just one reason that you must check
them every month.
I would like to try something a little different for the next
few weeks. If you have a favorite recipe you would like to
share please send it to me and I will try to get it in the
newsletter.
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Grandpa Terry's Tip of the Week
My buddy Ken sent me a list of tips that I think you will find
interesting and helpful. I thought I had seen this list before
so I did a search of my web site and found it in a newsletter
dated November 2002. I think it's safe to say that most of you
may not have seen this before.
THINGS TO KNOW
1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair.
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off
and see the dead skin and blackheads if any
6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
7. Sunburn - empty a large size Nestea into your bath water
8. Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste
9. Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
10. Arthritis WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too
11. Bee stings - meat tenderizer
12. Chigger bite - Preparation H
13. Puffy eyes - Preparation H
14. Paper cut - crazy glue or Chap Stick (glue is used instead
of sutures at most hospitals)
15. Stinky feet - Jell-O!
16. Athletes feet - cornstarch
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub
18. Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent
section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we
drink this stuff)
19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon
plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won't
hurt them if they eat it!
20. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with
a coffee filter paper
21. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
22. Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands!? Keep a
can in your garage for your hubby
23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn
starch and watch them slide on
25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
26. Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco
in the microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with
the food color of your choice!
27. Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container,
tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda
and cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min. and let dry, will
last for many years!
29. A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate
toothpaste
31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into
the salt.
32. To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax
stain, it will absorb into the towel.
33. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!
34. Baked on food - fill container with water, get a Bounce paper
softener and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the
baked on food to adhere
to it.? Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets,
soak overnight!
35. Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
36. Dirty grout - Listerine
37. Stains on clothes - Colgate
38. Grass stains - Karo Syrup
39. Grease Stains - Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains
from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from
car batteries!
40. Fleas in your carpet 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let
stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back
again.
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer
aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.
42. When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever
wondered which is the freshest, so you "squeeze" for freshness
or softness Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the
stores five days a week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Each day has a different color twist tie.
They are:
Monday = Blue,
Tuesday = Green,
Thursday = Red
Friday = White and
Saturday = Yellow.
So if today was Thursday, you would want red twist tie; not
white which is Fridays (almost a week old)! The colors go
alphabetically by color Blue- Green - Red - White - Yellow,
Monday through Saturday. Very easy to remember. I thought this
was interesting. I looked in the grocery store and the bread
wrappers DO have different twist ties, and even the ones with
the plastic clips have different colors. You learn something
new everyday! Enjoy fresh bread when you buy bread with the
right color on the day you are shopping.
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Site of the Week
The Frugal Life
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Grandpa Terry's Email
Four years.........in internet time that is forever isn't it?? :)
Great newsletter, it isn't Sunday without it around here.
Keep up the great work!!!
Sue
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Subscriber Tip
We use liquid soap in bathrooms as the bar soap is just too
messy with so many little fingers in our home. To save money
on liquid soap, we purchase foam dispensers and refill with
our own soap (we usually use dish soap). The ratio of soap to
water is somewhere around 1 part soap to 8 parts water (give
or take). The dispenser that I like for bathroom use is the
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body wash/shampoo. We go through so little liquid soaps now!
Gina
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Special Recipe
Peachy Pork Chops
4 pork chops
1/2 cup peach jam
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1 1/2 tsp. mustard
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
dash Tabasco
In a frying pan brown meat and cook until done.
Combine rest of ingredients, heat in a saucepan
and serve over meat.
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~~Spray the inside of a mayonnaise jar white. Store
it in the refrigerator as a hiding place for money
or valuables.
~~Put a metal spoon into a glass before pouring in
any hot liquid - this will prevent the glass from
cracking.
~~Soak a cloth in carbonated water and wrap around
a rusty bolt and leave for a few minutes. The bolt
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