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I got a newsletter from my friend the Gorton’s fisherman today and visited his website to print off a coupon (We do buy Gorton’s since some of their grilled products are gluten-free. See my husband’s review of their gf products here.) While I was there I took a look around. I have to admit I love the . . . → Read More: August 13, 2010: The Daily Frugal – Visit Gloucester Massachusettes in this wonderful video and snag a coupon too I remember sitting in the basket of my mom’s cart at the A&P back in the 70s while the clerks ground up 8 o’clock coffee in those big grinders at then end of the counters – back in the days when the registers had keys and the products had price tags. I loved the smell of . . . → Read More: August 12, 2010: The Daily Frugal, Gr8 radio from Eight o’clock coffee edition – with coupon! I love using aluminum foil… much more so than plastic – but we can’t recycle it here. The company we use does not accept it. Bummer. So when I saw that Reynolds was putting out a recycled version I was really happy. At least by using post-consumer aluminum foil I can do less damage to the . . . → Read More: August 10, 2010: The Daily Frugal – Recycled Aluminum Foil edition As a geographer, I spend a lot of time learning about places and people and my favorite place to study is my home state, Pennsylvania. Our state has such variety that it is hard for me to think about living any place else. One of the reasons I love our state so much is because of the . . . → Read More: August 7, 2010: The Daily Frugal – Pennsylvania magazine review July/Aug edition, Double Cola and the Tannersville Cranberry Bog I do not use paper napkins, nor do I think anyone should BUT I do appreciate Vanity Fair providing us with a quick reference on how to fold a napkin (works with cloth too folks!) Check out their website here . . . → Read More: Vanity Fair Napkins teaches napkin folding Buying paper napkins and paper towels is a huge waste of money and resources so at our house we almost always use cloth – even for picnics. Cloth napkins are usually sized from 10 to 22 inches depending on if they are cocktail or dinner sized ones and they are usually square, but they do not have . . . → Read More: Cloth Napkins, how to make and buy them I made a trip to the Salvation Army on Trindle Road in Camp Hill yesterday and picked up some great stuff including two new VHS videos for our two year old. If you are trying to find good educational viewing material for children or grandchildren, consider buying VHS tapes rather than DVDs. While it is true that . . . → Read More: July 21, 2010: The Daily Frugal – Keep that VCR (Or get one back) edition Do you microwave a lot? If so, you should consider switching from plastic containers to glass. Why? Plastic containers stain. We’ve moved away . . . → Read More: July 8, 2010 – The Daily Frugal Ditch the Plastic, Switch to Glass edition Sunshine Rhubarb Drink Concentrate If you’ve ever wanted to give canning a try but didn’t want to invest a lot of time or money, there is a product you should take a look at this summer. The Ball Corporation has just released a “Canning Discovery Kit” kit that you use with a stockpot/saucepan you have at home. . . . → Read More: Try your hand at Canning – new Canning Discovery Kit Available from Ball Driving through town one day I saw a sign that said only “Home Delivered, 737-MILK.” I thought, “Nah, couldn’t be, nobody delivers milk any more.” Then I saw the sign in our post office, “MilknMor, home delivery of dairy prodcuts and lots more.” Hmm, OK. Perhaps not a coincidence, but really, somebody would deliver milk to my . . . → Read More: Home Delivered milk in 2010? Yep, we have a milk man! |
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