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Don’t Throw that Away! Save Money By Finding New Uses For Old Items

For the Mommas

1) Leftover cookies make excellent pie crusts for cream pies. When you have a few cookies leftover, put them in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin. One way to reuse these small chips is to take a large washcloth, sew the edges all the way around leaving just enough room to insert the soap chips.

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Don’t Throw that Away! Save Money By Finding New Uses For Old Items

For the Mommas

Leftover cookies make excellent pie crusts for cream pies. When you have a few cookies leftover, put them in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin. One way to reuse these small chips is to take a large washcloth, sew the edges all the way around leaving just enough room to insert the soap chips.

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Ways to Make Do With What You Have

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Learn to hem and patch and sew on buttons to repair minor issues with clothing. Plan uses for your leftovers. Get some shoe polish and shine up those old shoes, take them to a shoe repair shop to have the re-heeled or soled if they are worn down. This used to be a common occurrence with a shoe repair shop on every main street.

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3/4 Pinterest Pin(s) of the Week: Don’t Mess with My Sleep

Nicoles Nickels

Now Premeditated Leftovers tries to put a positive spin on DST by giving you a set of 10 chores to associate and do with the time change twice year. Related Stories 2/25 Pinterest Pin(s) of the Week: I Think I’m Hungry 2/18 Pinterest Pin(s) of the Week: Sewing? Love these baby meme pics – found one for DST on Bostinno !

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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Plastic containers from sliced lunch meat are great for leftover vegetable or casserole servings. Once we used old magazines for a craft project in Camp Fire Girls to make a ‘sit upon’ (cover the magazine with something water repellent and sew the sides together). They fit nicely into ice chests and won’t break.

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Don’t Recycle, Reuse

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I don’t freeze food in the used bags, but do use them for leftovers in the frig. If you want to get fancy, draw, paint or sew buttons on it for eyes. My Mother-in-law always washed hers out and dried them and then used them again. We do this for all bags except those used for meat or those that get stained. Clothes pins.

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Being Environmentally Friendly Saves Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

So instead of menu planning, buying what we need and eating it, we are buying what we feel like, cooking too much and throwing away the rest instead of eating the leftovers. Ny taking your own bags, reusing plastic bags you already have or even sewing some fabric bags from old t-shirts and things you can save a lot.