10 Ways of Making Do

MAKING DUE

Heads's up folks! When we are trying to be frugal, then thee is no time to be laying around doing nothing.

This was posted many years ago by a very dear friend of mine that sadly is no longer with us today so in her memory I am sharing this here with all my friends today.

I will always miss you June.

There is many ways a person can make due if they really want to do so.

Let me give a few examples:  

1. We love thick wash cloths/face cloths but you know the premium price one has to pay for them.  Well I kind of eliminate the cost of these, when visiting yard sales/thrift stores I check out to see what they have in the line of heavy thick towels, sometimes the ends might be frayed but the centres are strong and sturdy for just a few cents.  I buy them if the price is right, and take them

home and cut out wash cloths, hem them and there I he thick face cloths for the price of pennies. 

This also goes for the towels we have, when they get worn on the ends, I turn them into face cloths.   
 
2. Old sheets can be turned into pillow cases. 

3. Old blankets can be turned into beautiful quilts with the making of a new quilt top from old clothes or scrap fabric one has laying around. 

4. I often turn cold mashed potatoes into potato soup, and for that matter anything left over in the food line can be turned into soup of a sorts.  One can keep a container in the freezer to put in left over vegetables and stuff which can be made into soup or stews. 

5. In the old days left over pieces of soap would be turned into a liquid soap for washing ones hands. 
6. No dish detergent, laundry detergent works just as well to clean the dishes with. 

7. Nothing to scour ones pots with, don't panic do what they did in the old days. They would find some clean white sand and use that for scouring and it really did work well.  I often watched my grandmother use this method on her cast iron pots, the old flat irons one had to heat on the stove to

remove burned on stuff. 

8. If ones irons doesn't glide smooth one can use wax paper to put a slick finish on the iron, but be sure and do this with an old rag under it to catch the wax.  Old candles also work well. 

9. Have a bottle or jar you want to use for something else but the glue from the label will not come off.  Try wiping it down with lamp oil, mineral spirits or something similar and off comes the glue. I

have also used it on bath room fixtures, to remove scum from the water.

10. Vinegar will remove mineral deposits on plumbing fixtures.   

And the list goes on and on.

So how about the rest of you wonderful folks, what do you do? 

Please share your ideas in the comments section below so that we can help others learn these simple and economical tricks so as to help make their lives just a little bit easier.