I am always entertained and often educated by the tips readers mail in. Today is no exception. I’m pretty sure you will agree with me. Safely Frozen I am on a waiting list to get a safe deposit box at my bank. While I wait, I am keeping my important papers in a heavy freezer…
How to Have a Successful Garage Sale
Whether your goal is to purge your home of stuff you no longer need or you want to raise some cash—or both—you have options. You can sell your items on an auction website such as eBay.com or list them in the classified in a local newspaper or on Craigslist.org. You can unload unwanted clutter on…
How Clearing out Clutter Can Improve Your Life
Getting organized is like dieting. Everyone knows how to do it, but the problem is getting around to it—to clearing out clutter, cleverly organizing what remains, and then maintaining the results. When we remodeled our kitchen a few years ago, I emptied every cupboard and drawer, carefully labeling every box and bin with its contents….
Do I Need to Drink Filtered Water or Is the Tap OK?
These days, a trip to the grocery store requires nerves of steel. The cost of everything, it seems, is soaring. Why? Can we blame the pandemic? Will prices return to pre-pandemic levels once this thing settles down? Will it ever go away? Who knows? One thing is for sure: It’s time to hunker down and…
Cleaning Tips and Tricks That Promise to Cut Costs and Save Time
Cleaning is the one chore that most of us dread, but we all know it has to be done. And while none of these cheapskate cleaning methods pretend to make it fun, they do promise to cut costs and save time. Also, most of these tips can be implemented with everyday items you probably already…
Meet Your Own Personal Loan Shark
Imagine paying outrageous amounts of interest to a greedy finance company and loving every minute of it. Or how about making off-the-record, back-alley deals with a loan shark so you can skip all the credit checks and paperwork? Impossible? Not if that loan shark is you. You’ll be borrowing from yourself, making payments to yourself,…
3 Ways to Clean a Bathtub That Are Easy on the Back and Knees
Cleaning the bathtub is one of those housekeeping chores that’s more pain than pleasure for those with health issues that make bending and kneeling difficult. So hard on the back and knees that it just doesn’t get cleaned well. Here to the rescue are three very effective and efficient ways to keep any bathtub sparkling…
Q&A: Laundering Big Items, Where to Sell Books, When to Cancel Term Life Insurance
Dear Mary: It’s summertime and I would like to wash the large blankets and comforters on the beds, but they’re too big for my standard size washing machine. A large machine at a laundromat is at least $5 a load! Yikes! What’s a better and/or cheaper way to get them washed and hang them out…
Simple Secrets for Grilling Cheap Cuts of Meat
Getting our outdoor grill cleaned, polished, and ready for summer got me thinking about how much fun it would be to celebrate. After all, summer is just a few months a year, so why not do things up right with an amazing menu and a few good friends? What happened next I can only attribute…
How to Get Back at Your Creditors
Late fees, punitive interest rates, over-limit fees, loading up your credit report with negative information—it’s enough to make you scream! It’s not that your creditors are doing anything illegal. You just didn’t understand the power you gave them when you accepted that credit card. It was buried in the fine print. And now, it seems…
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