Looking for a great way to store your garden hoses?
Get yourself a used 5 gallon bucket. Old paint or drywall bucket works great! Secure it to a wall with the open side facing outward.
You can then wrap your garden hose around the outside of the bucket and use the inside for storage for nozzles.
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How often are you really going to need a post-hole digger? It might even be a one time job, like installing a pole for the mailbox. If a family member already owns a post-hole digger then it would make sense for you to just borrow the tool
You must return it promptly however, otherwise, this arrangement will not work.
Did you know that many bugs just can’t stand garlic?
You can peel a few cloves and place around the base of your rose bushes to deter aphids.
You can pulverize some garlic and make a spray to spray on your veggies…. keeps those bugs away. Or you could just plant garlic around the plants tht seem to be targeted. All these solutions work - and it might even keep a vampire or two at bay.
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I was ‘almost’ through the entire store. I was hot and sweaty from pushing that big old weighted down buggy (dog food was an E-value this week)($5 off!!) when I reached to take my glasses ‘off’ to read a label on some flavoring stuff you put in water.
And my glasses weren’t on my face.
And they weren’t on top of my head.
And they weren’t tucked into the front of my shirt.
I’ve had THIS pair of glasses for years! They’re my fallback pair. The pair that feels good on my face…. my favorite pair.
I tried to backtrack through the store, trying to figure out ‘if’ I’d taken them off to read something…… I hadn’t had breakfast and I got to Sams prior to the ’sample hour’ so I was weak and starving and hot…. I turned that buggy around and retraced my steps.
Not by the potatoes, or onions, or ham…. Not by the bread…. not by the bottled water….. or the DP. Not where I wrestled that big bag of dog food into the buggy……
Hmmmm.
Then I thought that maybe, just maybe I’d left them in the car although that is something that I’d never done before…..
I paid and lugged the stuff to the car all the while figuring out how I was gonna get another pair like that one!
Last time I’d bought glasses I had the lady at the eyeglass store write the PD on the paperwork and I remembered ‘where’ my copy of that paperwork was. YEAH. This meant I could order another pair online without messing with trying to talk the doc or the eyeglass store into giving me the required info to order another pair of eyeglasses online…
NOT in the car…..
I unloaded the buggy into the back of the vehicle. Dog food first so that it could be the base for everything else to sit on. Ever tried to move a 50 lb bag of dog food when you’re bone-tired and weak from hunger & thirst….? Then the sodas. Then the bottled water.
THERE WERE MY GLASSES.
Under the bottled water.
HOW IN THE WORLD DID THAT HAPPEN?
Oh well. Am I becoming that absent-minded? I’m betting I laid them on top of the paper towels (that were an e-value this week $3 off!!! - then forgot when I rearranged everything to get the sodas in there….
SO, what do you do with an old shower curtain? You could toss it where it will languish in a landfill for an eternity. Or you can:
(1) Use it under a high chair (toddlers are messy)
(2) Use it under a bird cage (birds are messy)
(3) Use it under a litter box (cats are messy)
(4) Keep it in the car for an emergency poncho
(5) Keep it in the car to lay on wet ground to change a tire
(6) Use to cover plants in the garden when there’s a frost warning
(7) Keep in the car to use on wet bleachers at a ball game
(8) Keep in the car to use under a picnic blanket
(9) Use a a dropcloth when painting
(10) Use as a tarp over the grill, motorcycle, or patio furniture
(11) Make a Girl Scout Sit-Up-On
(12) Sew a beachbag or tote
(13) As a temporary cover over a broken window
(14) Recover outdoor cushions or chairs
The list goes on…..
What’s your best idea?
Have you ever had a dead car in your driveway, or out back that you just couldn’t figure out what to do with?
It’s happened to me before.
We live in the country, remember? And we’re really NOT rednecks, I swear!
We once had an old Ford F150 that had tons of miles on it, but you know, all farm trucks just keep going….. The parts store was a good 25-30 miles away. We came across the same truck for a whole hundred bucks, so we bought it, as an emergency parts truck.
We picked parts off that thing for years.
In fact it worked so well that we also bought another ‘parts’ car the same make and model as mine… So now we’re up to two.
Did I mention that the previous owners of our property had left two non-running cars on the property as well? We’d long since pulled them around behind the barn so they weren’t eyesores, but goodness. It was starting to get a little bit messy.
So what do you do when you no longer need the extra parts cars?
You do the same thing we did when we had a big old gas guzzler that we couldn’t sell. You donate your car to a charity!
When you donate car you get a tax deduction for the blue book value of the vehicle. It might not be much, especially for the old cars left by the previous owners, or it might be bigger, like the gas guzzler we donated. Every little bit of tax credit helps though, and you get the satisfaction not only of getting rid of an eyesore (the parts cars), freeing up space in your driveway (the gas guzzler) and helping a good cause all at the same time.
When you make car donations you’re helping out more than just yourself!
Wildcare, in Noble OK, takes in native orphaned or hurt wildlife, rehabilitates and releases (when appropriate.)
They’re a good charity. They presently house animals adjacent to the house, Wildcare took over the porch and the garage (plus many outbuildings.) The money from this prize would SO help the animals.
As you know, contributions are down for many charities. This prize would help SO much!
Go vote!
I’ve been a member of My Survey for years (and years!)
I answer a few surveys, I let my points add up and cash them in around Christmas time for a gift card.
Love it!
There’s a movement going around that’s related to local foods. Local businesses. It’s called 3/50 Project.
We all want our local businesses to thrive but how often do we pass up the local store to head to the big box store?
The 3/50 movement suggests that we (that’s you AND me) spend at least $50 per month at three local small independent businesses. This will save our stores.
Just this week I saw where a bbq restaurant is closing it’s doors. That’s sad. Did I frequent the place? Well, just a time or two….
Now, since I’m out in the country, I don’t have a lot of businesses to choose from but from this point forward I will buy my bird seed at the nearby farm store. I’ll stop at Sonic for a DP and as soon as Country Boy rebuilds from the May 10th tornado, I’ll be buying some groceries in there (and buying my gas there.)
So we should not only eat local but shop local too.
Think about what’s around you, and locally owned. Give them your business.
What are pillowcases good for besides holding your pillow?
Well, kids used to bring their laundry home in them….
A long time ago, when I lived in an apartment, there was a fire in the 8plex I lived in. The fire was downstairs and on the other side, however my apartment was ruined by black smoke. (We escaped out the 2nd story window.)
But that meant we had to move THAT DAY into another apartment in the same complex. How do you move that fast?
In pillowcases.
I had quite a few, so I’d fill them up, load up the car, drive around to the other apartment, unload by dumping them in the living room floor and going back for another load. Lots of work - but those pillowcases sure came in handy!
Lots of other things you can do with them too. You can add a drawstring for a tote bag. Make a doggie pillow, use old ones for dust rags. and I’m sure the list can go on and on.
How’d you use extra or old pillowcases?
