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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    When it comes to food, we only buy what we will eat. I personally could not taste the difference between the name brand peanut butter and the Dollar Tree peanut butter. Neither could Dear Wife. So, I started buying the Dollar Tree peanut butter, saving some money, and getting some parts storage...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Are you talking about these type of bags?... I see they are a bit more expensive up front, but if you can reuse them a number of times, maybe they are less expensive over the life of the bag. Are all the air valve ports on these bags the same size that would fit the jar sealer attachments...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Those are the kind of stories I hear that got me interested in a vacuum sealer. Although we freeze some of our garden food in the fall in regular zip lock bags and plastic containers, the fresh food does lose flavor over months in the freezer. I am hoping that a vacuum sealed bag will extend the...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    There are a number of different ways to use those jars. Here is a picture of a guy who made a revolving parts jar organizer... He used glass jars for his project, but I prefer to reuse plastic jars in the garage. I just think plastic is safer to toss into a tool bag than a glass jar. Here's...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Not directly related to your comment, but it got me thinking about my personal reuse for some of my plastic jars. I buy peanut butter at the Dollar Tree (now $1.50 each) in the small 10 oz jars and reuse those jars as parts organizers and holders for out in the garage... Those peanut butter...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I will be sure to check the price of bags out. I am in no great hurry, so I can wait for them to go on sale. I know Menards sells vacuum sealers and bags, and they both do go on sale ever so often. Hoping to get a bit more freezer shelf life out of our food. In theory, I see people buying food...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :idunno Treasure or Trash?! I just bought a used Weston Vacuum Sealer at our local church charity Thrift Shop. It looked in really good shape, so I hope it works. I really don't know much about vacuum sealers, so I thought this was maybe a ~$40 unit like at Menards. When I was in the Senior...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    For better or worse, technical degrees require constant updating. Back in the early 2000's, I was a certified A+ Computer Technician. I knew all the specs of the computers and most of the software back then. I could fix/repair just about any home/small business computer on the market. I don't...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :lau Yeah, what I expected! Very nice.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I don't know what years he had has his 1st apprenticeship, but I think the last time I ever had any electronics repaired was in the mid 1970's. I had a nice little portable album player, cassette player, and AM\FM radio. It broke, so we took it into the shop for repair. Spent months in the...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    My smoke alarms in the hallways are hardwired into 110v AC, with a battery backup. The smoke alarms in the bedrooms are battery only. My house was built around the year 2000. I just don't see the need for any dual electric/battery if the sealed battery smoke alarms now last 10 years and need to...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I have started checking the sales ads for replacement smoke alarms. Turns out 2 (so far) of my old electric/battery units don't even sound off anymore, just a fainting buzzing sound that you would never hear. Do I have to replace them with new electric/battery smoke alarms or will the 10-year...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I did not know that. I guess I should have purchased new smoke alarms rather than new batteries. My smoke alarms are 26 years old now. I never saw anything on them like a warning label to replace in 2026. You would think that if the smoke alarms have a limited lifetime, they should be labeled...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Some of the batteries I looked at had a 10-year shelf life advertised. Well, I don't really believe that either. I try to get only what I need and use them as soon as possible. In any case, I do have a couple of battery storage containers and they have also have a battery checker. So, if a...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :barnie 9 Volt Smoke Alarm Batteries I have a couple of smoke alarms chirping like birds around the house. Time to replace the batteries. IIRC, a couple of years ago I got them 2 for $1.00 at the Dollar Tree. So, when I was in town yesterday, I was going to pick up a couple 2 packs of 9v...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Thanks for the shout out. I'm looking over what is on sale to see if there are any gaps in my tools. But yeah, I lost out on a couple of our local store clearance deals this winter. Somebody needs to be shouting at me! Thanks again.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :thumbsup Big Savings on Broken Bags of Feed My local Fleet store will discount bags of feed that get damaged in the store from moving them around. That's one way I can save some money. The discount is always more than the feed that was lost out of the bag. I put all my feed into 5-gallon...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I just want to be clear, I am already in an Amazon chat session, so I don't say anything - I type, "I want to chat with a live rep." But maybe asking for an agent or operator in a chat box would work as well. I don't know. FYI, I use the chat feature because my Tracfone cell phone charges by...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Yep. I read somewhere that the chat bots are programmed to take any problem and put it into either the send it back for a replacement box or send it back for a refund bin. Chat bots are not good problem solvers. But they are cheaper than hiring humans and probably solve 90%+ of the problems. I...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    "I want to chat with a live representative." The chat bot will continue to try to help maybe a few more times but if you insist on chatting with a live rep and you will get transferred. Some reps are better than others, of course, and if I get the feeling that the rep I am chatting with does...
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