Money Saving Tips for Tight Dollar
As Monty Python says, “And now for something completely different.” We’ve talked about the housing market and you can’t even go online to any news site without reading about the economy. So to mute the noise coming from the constant buzz about the financial crisis, let’s pull up our bootstraps and do something about it!
I found the Milk Your Money site a couple of months ago, but was waiting for a perfect time to use these 27 tips for around the house! Try as I might, I can’t limit to just “house” stuff, so here you go! Some of the 27 tips…
- Newspaper weeds away: Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as you go over with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
- Squirrel Away: To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.
Get Rid of Ants: Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed! (Also try dry Grits, when the ants eat the dry grits, the fluid in their stomachs will cause the grits to expand blowing up the ants and the colony.)
Read more here! And visit the whole Milk Your Money site to see tips on saving gas money, dealing with your cell phone company, what to do with your IRA’s, and more!
PS - Here’s another site that says grits don’t work on ants!
November 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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