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After a bath or a shower, it’s refreshing to pull open your dresser drawers or closet doors and enjoy the fragrance of scented liners, sachet envelopes, cedar blocks or candle tarts. Problem is, all of these luxury solutions tend to be costly. Why spend more when you can add scents to your home for less?
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Most of us know that common household items can wear many hats. Wallpaper becomes a shelf liner or a bookmark; newspapers get their second wind cleaning windows and ripening tomatoes; and coffee filters become great dusting cloths or grease strainers.
Today, we’ll consider new uses for muffin pans. They are easy to find and inexpensive to buy, whether new or secondhand. Their obvious purpose is to make delicious …

One aspect of frugality is seeking out multi-uses for common household items. Coffee filters are extremely inexpensive. You can often find them priced at $1 for a package of 200. They can be used in more ways than simply brewing coffee, so it’s handy and frugal to have some stashed away. If you’ve recently switched to a reusable filter or are low on paper towels, paper filters can be …

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It’s back-to-school time for the kids and for many parents it means back to looking for lunch box ideas. Some parents pack simple lunches such as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, yogurt, and a drink and their children are happy throughout the school year. I’ve never been that fortunate. My kids get the lunch box blues, if I feed them the same old sandwich too often. …