Thrifty Tips 8/30

Winterizing Your Steel Doors

If you live in a manufactured home or trailer, most or all of them have steel entry doors. I have found that by using a magnetic curtain rod and hanging an insulated drapery panel on the inside of the door in the winter, cuts down on a lot of cold coming off the door.

--Jean from Charlevoix, MI

Show Up At Government Offices Toward End Of Day 

Don't spend the day at any Government Department, telephone and ask what time is their closing time. Arrive 1 hour before closing and I ASSURE you, you'll not spend more than 1 hour waiting; no matter how many people are waiting or the time of year

--Cajun62234 from Collinsville, IL

Freeze Butter Wrappers For Greasing Pans

Save the wrappers from your bar butter or margarine after you have used up the bar and store them in a baggie in the freezer. Then, when you're baking just grab a couple of them and use them to grease your baking pan and toss them after. If you use tub butter or margarine, wipe the tub out with a paper towel before discarding and freeze the paper towel to use later. This gets the

pan greased exactly where you want it, doesn't cost anything, and saves you the mess to clean up when the spray gets all over the place.

--By Sheilamay from Bronx, NY

Homemade Cleaner for Wood Cabinets

This cleaner is used for wood cabinets: 2 Tbsp. of olive oil, 4 Tbsp. of vinegar to 1 qt. of warm water (I use a nice empty windex bottle). It really shined up my cabinets nice and I even used it for my stove tops and other kitchen appliances. What a beautiful shine it left.

--By Lisa from Patton, Pennsylvania

This Last one is for you Joe Sangl

Using Soda Bottle for Yarn

If you knit or crochet, an empty 2-liter soda bottle is useful. Cut off the bottom and place a skein of yarn into it, after you've started the skein from the middle, and feed the yarn through the bottle neck. This will keep the yarn from getting tangled up. You can use the bottle cap to keep the end of the

yarn from falling back inside, when you take a break.

--By Monica from O'Fallon, MO