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Money Saving Tips: Heavenly Fall Air Freshener

November 1, 2012 - 1 Comment

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The leaves outside are changing and piled on the ground, Halloween has come and gone, and fall is in full swing!

But with everything around looking like autumn, don’t you want to make everything smell like it too?

Here’s an amazing trick to permeate your home with a festive fall smell, and the best thing about it is it’s completely SIMPLE and CHEAP.

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 mug
2 tsp Vanilla Extract (imitation vanilla extract works fine too)
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2-4 cloves

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Here’s what you do:

1. Heat the oven to 300 degrees F.

2. Put all of the above ingredients into a mug and stir them together.

3. Place the mug in the oven for 1 hour and wait as the smells fill the air in your home!

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This is so easy and so yummy smelling! If you want a simpler way to give your home a wonderful smell, just do the same thing as the above and omit the nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves.

happy fall

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Money Saving Tips: Homemade Fat-Free Chicken Broth

October 2, 2012 - Leave a Comment

Are you looking for some simple ideas to save money? We have simple solutions that you can easily apply to your lifestyle to save money!

Chicken broth is really easy to make and there are several way to do it. You can save a lot of money by making it at home, but what if you want it to be fat free?

Here is a quick and easy way to make broth.

Just boil a chicken with a bit of salt, onions, garlic and other spices of your choice:

However, once you’re done boiling the chicken, the fat is released into the broth, making it tasty but oily.

If you want it to be fat free, just refrigerate your broth for a couple of hours. Once it’s cold the fat will rise to the top and harden. It will look like this:

For the fat-free version of the broth, skim the fat off the top like this:

After skimming the fat off the broth, you can use the broth however you want! I love to make a big batch of broth and freeze portions of it in tupperware. That way, when I have a recipe that calls for chicken broth, I can just pull it out and use it.

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Money Saving Tips: 3 Tips to Avoid Freezer Burn

September 28, 2012 - 2 Comments

Are you looking for some simple ideas to save money? We have simple solutions that you can easily apply to your lifestyle to save money!

Freezing is a great way to preserve food, but if your food ends up freezer burnt, it’s just a waste.

So here are 3 simple tips to keep your food from getting freezer burnt:

1. Remove all air. The more air from the bag or container you’re freezing your food in. The more air that comes in contact with your food, the quicker it becomes freezer burnt. Dry air removes moisture from food, creating ice crystals, shriveling food, and leaving an unpleasant taste.

2. Freeze in small amounts. Smaller amounts of food freeze more quickly than a large quantities. The faster the food freezes, the smaller the ice crystals will be in the food. Freezing bigger quantities of food means the food freezes slower, giving the opportunity for larg
er ice crystals to form. Ice crystals break down the cellular structure of food.

3. Wrap it up. Tightly wrap your food in order to minimize its exposure to air.

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Money Saving Tips: Revive Your Lettuce

September 13, 2012 - 1 Comment

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Did you let your lettuce get a little wilted before using it?

Don’t throw it away! There’s a solution!

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Just place your lettuce into a bowl of water for a few hours. The water will soak into the leaves and get your lettuce back to being crunchy in no time!

Check out how to regrow green onions. Look at this trick for keeping blueberries fresh.

Money Saving Tips: Think Twice Before Buying

August 30, 2012 - 1 Comment

Are you looking for some simple ideas to save money? We have simple solutions that you can easily apply to your lifestyle to save money!

A lot of wasted money is spent on impulse, so before making a purchase, think it through.

Here are 5 things to ask yourself before making a purchase:

1. “Do I NEED this?”

2. “Can I live without it?”

3. “Can I wait?”

4. “Do I have something I already have something similar I can repurpose?”

5. “What else can I do with this money? [perhaps something more useful/important]

Read 5 tips to avoid impulse buying.

Money Saving Tips: Check Your Receipt

August 28, 2012 - 1 Comment

Whether you’re at the grocery store or a department store, always check your receipt to make sure you were properly charged and to make sure you didn’t forget anything. This will save you time and money. It’s better to realize you forgot to buy eggs when you’re on your way out of the store than to realize it once you get home.

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Money Saving Tips: Freeze Your Favorite Summer Fruit

August 23, 2012 - Leave a Comment

Did you find your favorite fruit on sale?

Why not buy a little extra and freeze it for later? Come November, you can make a smoothie or a fruit sauce with your favorite yummy fruit without paying outrageous prices for it.

Here are some more tutorials on freezing fruits and vegetables:

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Money Saving Tips: Save .24-.49 Cents Per Gallon on Gas

August 21, 2012 - Leave a Comment

Did you know that driving the speed limit will actually save you money?

Besides saving yourself the a hefty fine for speeding if you get pulled over, you can also save 7-14% of your gas! That’s between .24-49 cents per gallon. For most vehicles, driving over 50 mph causes the car to lose efficiency in its gas use. So, for ever 5 miles you drive over 50 mph you’re essentially paying .24 more per gallon.