More Penny Pinchers
By kaylar, 8th Jul 2010 | Follow this author
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A few more ways to save money by cutting soap in half, using every micron of toothpaste misering electricity and stretching perfume
Soap
How long does a bar of soap last in your house?
You can more than double it. And get a portion of liquid hand soap.
Take a bar of soap, use it, then, while it's still wet, cut it in half. Put one half back in the wrapper and use the other. When the half bar becomes too small, put it in a dish and use the other. When that is too small, put it with the save half, add about four ounces of water and let sit until the pieces are mushy.
Squeeze the two together and there you have your next bar of soap. The soap water is put into a dispenser and used as hand soap.
Your 'hand soap' often becomes the most useful aspect of this procedure which virtually gives you three bars of soap for the price of one.
Tooth Paste
Yes, squeeze from the bottom.
Now, before you toss out that 'empty' tube, unroll it, and use a scissors to cut off the bottom. As you open up the tube you'll find a lot of paste stuck to the inside. Insert your tooth brush, and starting from the opening and working your way down. You can get more than a week's worth of paste out of that empty tube.
What you will find so interesting is that the tiny bit of paste on your brush is as effective as the big squeeze, making you appreciate that you use way too much paste.
Electricity
Getting solar panels or using a windmill or biogas should be on the 'To Do' list. Right now you waste a hell of a lot of electricity without even thinking about it.
Let me give you an example; during the summer months, Jim had his air con on at 75o. During the Winter his heating at 80o. Huh?
During the winter, wear a lot of clothes so that your thermostat doesn't have to be above 70o. During the Summer, wear thin garments and get used to 84o.
(Yeah, just like people lived in the 1950s when there wasn't much air conditioning, heating and people lived more 'green'.)
When the ambient temperature is in the 70 - 85 range, open your windows. Enjoy fresh air. It is far better for you than the stale air in hermetically sealed rooms.
When the temperature drops to 68o inside, close the windows, turn on the heat to 70o. When the temperature climbs above 85o set your air con to 84o.
Get used to being a tiny bit cold and a tiny bit warm and use clothing to compensate. This saves thousands of dollars in a year.
Unplug your fridge at night. In the morning the stuff will still be cold, and if it is not a self defrosting, you have painlessly defrosted and can toss out the water under freezer before replugging it.
Unpluging T.V.s and other appliances when you aren't using them, for example, when you leave for work or at night is extremely wise. TVs suck electricity as do a few other applicance. Further, in case of a lightening strike your property is safe.
Speaking of T.V. why is it on?
Too many people have the T.V. as 'friend'. They aren't watching the program..(my show comes on in 30 minutes, why bother to shut off the T.V.? MONEY.
When it comes to computers, notebooks and those which have batteries are a far better deal than the P.C. Not only do they burn less electricity but using the batteries each day prolongs their life and cuts down costs.
More offices are moving from the cumbersome P.C. to the notebook making the savings in cost via lower electricity bills, convenience, (you don't need to have a computer in each area when people can carry theirs from one place to another).
Cutting down on electricity use should become part of your life style. Using ambient light, enjoying the outdoors, ceasing to be 'plugged in' is sense which saves you cents and dollars.
Perfume
Perfume, good perfume, costs the earth. You try not to waste it, but it is soon gone. Further, you may have dabbed some on this morning, by lunch it is a memory.
There is a way to make your perfume last longer, both in the bottle and on your body.
Mix it with oil.
Mix your perfume with any oil that has no fragrance. Use a little perfume and as much oil as you can. Keep smelling it as you mix it until you get the right fragrance. Oil kills the 'top note' that is the sharp just put on alcoholic smell.
The top note is often the deceiver. You spray the perfume on your skin, give it a whiff, think that is how it will smell. It won't. As time passes it blends with your sweat, the top note is gone, and what is left is the essence.
By mixing it with oil, which doesn't evaporate very fast, the fragrance lasts very long on your body and in the bottle, as oil doesn't evaporate. You often get a product you like even better than the perfume as there's a quietness to it, and people don't smell it, you smell good.
Comments
17th Sep 2010 (#)
Super good info, I admit I do leave the TV on as a "friend", of course I also have solar panels on the roof of my garage!
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18th Sep 2010 (#)
The fantastic thing is that in Jamaica the programs we used to get were great, now we are doing local garbage...hence I'm not watching. Suddenly I have so much time...where did this time come from? Not watching. And of course, my electricity bill went way down.
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