Frugal tips you tried and are still using today

pomdarryl · 12-23-2007, 07:20 PM

I love the new forum guys! I get a lot of great frugal tips from Wisebread but I have to admit after a while I get lazy and stop using them.

There is one tip I keep using on a weekly basis: Put leftover wine and coffee into ice cube treys. The wine cubes are great for cooking and the coffee cubes make great gourmet coffee drinks. Put the coffee cubes into the blender for a fantastic ice cappuchino!

Have you found a new tip that you really stuck with?

lazy23 · 12-23-2007, 07:50 PM

This isn't a tip from Wise Bread, but my ex-girlfriend forced me to pack my lunch to work every day for about 4 years. When she was home from school she would make the lunches for me. That really stuck with me. It is a great money saving tip and I am much healthier now!

CFOontheGo · 12-23-2007, 09:15 PM

I make all our families bread. I have a great bread machine, and I have all the ingredients ready to go, so it takes about 5 minutes to dump everything in the machine. We go through at least a loaf a day, and I figure I am saving at least $2 a loaf, so the bread machine has paid for itself!

soupkitchen96 · 12-23-2007, 09:19 PM

It only takes 5 minutes to make bread?!

Teach us!

I'll bet your house smells wonderful.

katlady · 12-23-2007, 11:17 PM

A CFO who makes bread for his family? Are you single?

Julie Rains · 12-24-2007, 06:37 AM

I'd like to know more also. The bread I used to make in my machine stopped rising like it should so I finally ditched the machine; what brand of machine are you using and what are some recipes?

I actually took a bread-making class at the community college, and still make a zucchini bread recipe. My last batch of sourdough didn't take too well so I have made that in quite a while.

Emily · 12-24-2007, 08:06 AM

I buy used textbooks and sell them after the class is done. I'm allowed to print 600 pages per semester in the lab at school, so anything and everything I print gets done there (and I have yet to come remotely CLOSE to that 600 pages).

I use open-source software at every opportunity.

billsux · 12-24-2007, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emily

I use open-source software at every opportunity.

Way to go!

*stands up and claps*

pingem · 12-25-2007, 03:38 AM

Quote:

I'm allowed to print 600 pages per semester in the lab at school, so anything and everything I print gets done there (and I have yet to come remotely CLOSE to that 600 pages).

In college we also had free printing as long as it fits within our quarterly printing quotas. It was a ridiculously high quota so basicaly you can print infinite amount of pages for free.

Sometimes when I run out of paper myself, I would go to the computer lab to get some paper. Once I got caught by a new lab admin. He insisted that I cannot take any paper back with me even though other lab admins usually looked the other way.

I argued that the quota allows me to take almost inifite printouts. The admin said printouts is different from blank pieces of paper. OK fine, I said. Let me take the paper from the recycle bin so I can use it for scratch paper. Again he said no. The recycle bin may contain private information.

We reached a compromise in the end. I ended up printing two letters on each piece of paper I wanted to take home. I picked the letters: f.u.

Yes. I was was a jerk in college.

Isis Uptown · 12-31-2007, 12:15 PM

Since our dog, Jackson, and our tenant's dog, Schatze, are both outside and very dirty right now, I'll mention that washing a dog with original blue Dawn helps deter fleas and gets the dog clean and soft. We were in Petco today and I must say, it's far cheaper than dog shampoo.

I know there was a Wise Bread article about Dawn recently, and I made a similar comment then.

12-23-2007, 07:20 PM	#1
pomdarryl Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (10)	Frugal tips you tried and are still using today I love the new forum guys! I get a lot of great frugal tips from Wisebread but I have to admit after a while I get lazy and stop using them. There is one tip I keep using on a weekly basis: Put leftover wine and coffee into ice cube treys. The wine cubes are great for cooking and the coffee cubes make great gourmet coffee drinks. Put the coffee cubes into the blender for a fantastic ice cappuchino! Have you found a new tip that you really stuck with?

12-31-2007, 12:15 PM	#10
Isis Uptown Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 20 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (10)	Clean dog Since our dog, Jackson, and our tenant's dog, Schatze, are both outside and very dirty right now, I'll mention that washing a dog with original blue Dawn helps deter fleas and gets the dog clean and soft. We were in Petco today and I must say, it's far cheaper than dog shampoo. I know there was a Wise Bread article about Dawn recently, and I made a similar comment then. __________________ Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats. Tom Stoppard

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12-23-2007, 07:50 PM	#2
lazy23 Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 42 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (15)	This isn't a tip from Wise Bread, but my ex-girlfriend forced me to pack my lunch to work every day for about 4 years. When she was home from school she would make the lunches for me. That really stuck with me. It is a great money saving tip and I am much healthier now!

12-23-2007, 09:15 PM	#3
CFOontheGo Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: CA Posts: 23 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (10)	I make all our families bread. I have a great bread machine, and I have all the ingredients ready to go, so it takes about 5 minutes to dump everything in the machine. We go through at least a loaf a day, and I figure I am saving at least $2 a loaf, so the bread machine has paid for itself!

12-23-2007, 09:19 PM	#4
soupkitchen96 Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 51 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (11)	It only takes 5 minutes to make bread?! Teach us! I'll bet your house smells wonderful.

12-23-2007, 11:17 PM	#5
katlady Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 30 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (11)	A CFO who makes bread for his family? Are you single?

12-24-2007, 06:37 AM	#6
Julie Rains Wise Bread Blogger Join Date: May 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 406 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (197)	I'd like to know more also. The bread I used to make in my machine stopped rising like it should so I finally ditched the machine; what brand of machine are you using and what are some recipes? I actually took a bread-making class at the community college, and still make a zucchini bread recipe. My last batch of sourdough didn't take too well so I have made that in quite a while.

12-24-2007, 08:06 AM	#7
Emily Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 29 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Reputation: (10)	I buy used textbooks and sell them after the class is done. I'm allowed to print 600 pages per semester in the lab at school, so anything and everything I print gets done there (and I have yet to come remotely CLOSE to that 600 pages). I use open-source software at every opportunity.