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Make Your Own Sidewalk Chalk Eggs

Here is a great frugal Easter gift that the kids will love. It is a great addition to any Easter basket, or as a gift to be used year round. You can make your own sidewalk chalk eggs with a few simple ingredients in practically no time at all. I love this gift idea because it is an Easter basket filler that doesn’t require a trip to the dentist. And it is very frugal because it costs much less than buying traditional Easter basket toys. The chalk eggs can be used any time at all, not just at Easter. My … Continue reading →

Ideas for Using Leftover Easter Eggs

Don’t throw your money away by letting your Easter eggs go to waste! Being frugal means conserving what you have and reusing what you can. Here are some great ways to use up both the Easter eggs and the shells. Every year around Easter time, my kids get so excited at the idea of decorating Easter eggs. If it were up to them they would decorate at least three or four dozen eggs before they got tired. Normally I try to restrict them to about 12 to 18 eggs. After all, there are just so many hard boiled eggs I … Continue reading →

Frugal Egg Decorating Ideas

Why spend tons on those Easter Egg decorating kits? Make your own unique Easter Eggs with items around your house for a very frugal Easter. It amazes me how elaborate those Easter Egg coloring kits are getting. You can buy all sorts of kits to decorate eggs by dipping, dunking, shaking, etc. I’m waiting for them to come out with an egg decorating kit that involves spray painting! Some of those kits can get a little pricey for just a bunch of color and a sticker or two, but you can easily achieve the same or better results for free … Continue reading →

Frugal Easter Egg Dyes

If you want a frugal and natural way to dye your eggs, look no further than your own kitchen. You’ll save money and have the coolest looking eggs on the block. In an earlier article, Frugal Egg Decorating Ideas, I talked about some frugal ways that you can decorate your eggs for Easter, and how to put the actual eggs to good use instead of throwing all of those hard boiled ones out. In that article, I recommended using food coloring to “dye” your eggs. But did you know that there are even more frugal ways to color eggs? Believe … Continue reading →

Real Kitchen Uses for Egg Cartons

Most people think of crafts when they think of reusing egg cartons. I think the association is ingrained in us from a very young age. We then pass the empty egg carton equals kid’s craft mentality on to our own kids. Many many years from now, when eggs come in some sort of space-age liquid gel packaging, we will still be able to buy empty egg cartons at the craft stores. Regardless of all of that, there are still many other uses for the humble egg carton, as you may have read about in my earlier egg carton related blogs. … Continue reading →

Using Egg Cartons in The Garden

Why throw away a valuable resource? Use egg cartons in your garden and save money! In an earlier blog, Real Storage Solutions Using Egg Cartons, I shared some of the great ways you can use egg cartons to store your stuff. Now in this blog, I’ll cover some great ways to use them in the garden. Reuse your egg cartons. Your garden and your wallet will appreciate it. There is no need to buy those expensive seed starter pots when you have egg cartons around. The carton, paper or foam, can be used to start seeds. The wells aren’t very … Continue reading →

Real Storage Solutions Using Egg Cartons

Unless your are a homesteader, you probably have an almost endless supply of egg cartons. Why not put them to good use instead of throwing them away? Egg cartons can be used for all sorts of storage solutions. My favorite use for egg cartons has got to be to store small breakable objects. The little cavities where the eggs normally go are perfect to nest things such as Christmas ornaments, delicate jewelry, etc. In the case of jewelry, especially, an easy tip is to grab a shoe-box and insert the bottom of the egg carton into the shoe-box. You can … Continue reading →

Reuse Review: Items from The Kitchen

Most of the time, the kitchen really seems to be the functional heart of the home. There is generally a lot of ongoing activity in a kitchen. This makes for plenty of opportunity to reuse items that otherwise might be thrown away. You can also repurpose a lot of kitchen items for other functions as needed. I think you will like the following articles. They focus on some creative ways to use everyday items you might find in the kitchen. Real Storage Solutions Using Egg Cartons Unless your are a homesteader, you probably have an almost endless supply of egg … Continue reading →

New Uses for Old VHS Cases

We are slowly in the process of getting through our many VHS movies. Over the years, we’ve picked up quite a few of them from thrift stores and yard sales. Friends have given us their VHS tapes when they have upgraded to DVD because they knew that we would use them. We were one of the last hold outs in purchasing a DVD player. Some of the movies are starting to wear out and are so loved that we will have to attain the DVD versions. Others have been watched a few times but are not worthy of precious space … Continue reading →

New Uses for Old Inflatable Toys

Now that summer is here and in full swing, you are probably raiding your garage, closets, attics, shred and wherever else you store your summer swim toys. You know the types of toys I am talking about? Those inflatable tubes, mats, beds, dolphins, snakes, water wings, beach balls, etc. And chances are, when you go to blow them back up, at least a few will be flat as a pancake and unable to be used. Maybe the toys were split at the seams near the end of last summer, got thrown into storage and forgotten about. or maybe they got … Continue reading →