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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Canned meat was my favorite when I was growing up! I've been wanting to make some now that I have a pressure canner. Would you share your recipe? Or what directions you use?
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    While I'm thinking about it - some types of maintenance make more difference than other kinds. Vacuuming carpet thoroughly enough and often enough is on the "more difference" end. Especially if you live in sandy areas. The grit moving against carpet fibers really breaks down the carpet fibers.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    The vacuum saga. Now that we have a carpeted staircase again, I want a vacuum that doesn't fall down the steps on top of me. I did some research and bought a DD scorpion plus. I like that it has a cord because it has more power and costs less ($55 or so vs $80-$150+ for similar style cordless...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    We hire most such things done. It isn't because of the cost of the tools and equipment as much as it is the time and energy such projects take. Dh is handy and can build or fix about anything but he is a perfectionist about such things. Whatever he does is absolutely beautiful when he is done...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    About paper goods... we moved recently and our new house has a bidet. It uses somewhat more water, I'm sure, but saves paper as well as all the resources that go into making and distributing the paper. I make a point to not waste water but I'm not very worried about the trade off for such a good...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    The fancy ones do look better if you aren't putting clothes on the baby. Otherwise, it doesn't matter much at all.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I learned something yesterday. I used cloth diapers for my kids and read about wool soakers as diaper covers. What I missed back then is the wool needs to have enough lanolin in it. The lanolin needs to be renewed fairly often. Also, walmart still sells the kind of plastic diaper covers for...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Maybe not for a kitchen stove but the last time we had our propane tank filled, the guy filling it gave good advice I hadn't heard anywhere else. He was also a fire fighter. He said to open the tank only a turn or two (or half a turn? It has been a while. Anyway, much less than fully open)...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I worked for a while for a distributor of appliances including gas ranges. Propane can be used instead of natural gas but it needs a specific adaptor. Something about changing the rate of flow because the btu of propane is different than the btu of natural gas, I think. Or maybe it was about...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Could you share your grandma's rye bread with molasses recipe, please?
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    In a nutshell, accepting the risk instead of paying for someone else to take the risk. Accepting the risk = paying for the repair or replacement or doing without the thing if something goes wrong with it. Some people make a separate account or column in their budget for it. Or for some types -...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    A way to be frugal is to self-insure the products you buy. All those "few dollars for the extended warranty" add up. It doesn't take very many purchases without buying the warranty to save enough money to cover what would have been a claim if you had bought the extended warranty. Or, if you...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Do you have a bucket lid wrench? It is still worth switching to easy off lids for buckets opened frequently. Or Gamma lids if you want the extra security or stability or ease of use compared to standard lids.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    You might look into coffee grounds. I haven't looked it up, but there might be enough tannins or pH or something to greatly discourage the mites. I think it would be consumable enough to not cause problems while the chickens tested whether it was good to eat. They are scoopable - or work with a...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Sorry about the bolding. I can get it off while I write but it comes back when I save the changes. From the following source but I think the concepts apply to other countries. The whole thing is worth reading. It doesn't say much about how hard it is to mine without significant environmental...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Some of the states also have deposit money on bottles and cans. The bottles then go into landfills. I think most of the aluminum of the cans that are returned is reused.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I'm not worried about this partly because the water was tested. When I lived on an active farm, it was tested regularly. Drinking water testing is quite straight forward and well worth doing even when not near farming.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I worked in a call center with several hundred people in one huge room. Most people brought refillable water bottles - maybe 2/3 to 3/4 at any given time. I think some of those who had single use water bottles brought them only sometimes - I did once in a while when life happened that day. Only...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    The rock hard kind put in apple cider is the kind I mean. I broke of small pieces (maybe a third the size of a bazooka gum at the most). Chewing hard at it makes it overpowering; just moving it around and very gently chewing gave taste without too much power. I hadn't heard of it used this way...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    My latest discovery in the frugal/sustainable area is cinnamon sticks as travel food. Well, maybe they are frugal only if you have a source for the long sticks - not so much if you buy spice jar size/quantity. No, i think even spice jar versions would be more frugal than any alternative I've...
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