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8 Fun and Frugal Things to Do with Origami

Posted 22 weeks 5 days ago by Xin Lu

Frugal Living, Health and Beauty, DIY, Art and Leisure

Origami is a Japanese word that means "fold paper", and it is a very popular pastime around the world. I enjoy origami because it is a very cheap hobby that requires only your hands and paper. I like to reuse magazine paper and left over wrapping paper to make my projects, but origami techniques can be applied to anything that is foldable to create amazing results. Here are some fun and frugal ideas for using origami in your life that goes beyond folding a simple crane!

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101 things to do with a $1 bill.

Posted 1 year ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Frugal Living

money toilet

What can a dollar buy you these days? Certainly not a gallon of gas, which it could have done 6 years ago. Anyway, this idea actually came out of a lunchtime chat with some friends. I’m a sucker for writing lists and I wondered how many different uses I could find for your humble $1 bill. Some are fun, some are silly, some may actually be useful. The list took me a whole week to compile. Enjoy.

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Turn $1 into $100 in about 2 minutes.

Posted 1 year ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Life Hacks

bill face

So, I can think of a few ways to turn a $1 into a $100 bill in a few minutes.

One would be to back a winning horse that has ridiculous odds. Another is to steal it. You could always ask your kind folks or other relatives for the money. Or perhaps pull a con or scam on some unwitting passers by.

But this way seems the easiest. If only I knew how he did it.

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8 fun ways to make money

Posted 1 year ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Making Extra Cash

Funny money

None of these will make you independently wealthy or even allow you to quit your day job (unless you get a serious dose of luck along with your ingenuity), but they just might let you get enough cash to fund something special.

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The Only Tool You'll Ever Need To Buy

Posted 1 year ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Life Hacks

MacGyver

Hey, it's Friday. I thought I'd post this one to give you all a chuckle into the weekend. And I seriously want one of these. Not the paperclip, the packaging. How cool is this? Ahh, MacGyver...the things that guy could do with chewing gum and string would make James Bond feel inadequate. Happy Friday folks.

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