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Frugal way to Save Make your Own Windshield Washer Fluid!!!

Jun 062008

Make Your Own Windshield Washer Fluid

What You Need:
White vinegar
Water
An empty milk jug or container
A funnel

What You Do: Combine equal parts white vinegar and water. Then, use the solution to fill your car’s windshield washer fluid resevoir.

Why This Works:The acetic acid in vinegar dissolves grime, bugs, sap and other windshield nuisances.

Benefits of Making Your Own Windshield Washer Fluid:
inexpensive effective grime and bug remover environmentally-friendly helps to keep windows frost-free in the winter.

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Frugal ways to use Baking Soda

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May 202008

Baking Soda Uses

To remove odors from your hands, wet your hands & rub them together with soda, then rinse.

While running water add 1/2 cups or more of baking soda to your bath water to soften your skin.

While running water add 1/2 cups or more of baking soda to your bath water to help relieve skin rashes. (it also helps with chicken pox too!)

Apply baking soda paste directly to insect bites, rashes and poison ivy to relieve discomfort. Make a paste with water. (this may become messy to when paste dry) so have a towel ready it will flake off.

How to make patse mix a little water with baking soda stir with finger apply thick patse you have a paste!

Take a baking soda bath to relieve general skin irritations such as measles too!

Used as a mouthwash, to make mouthwash mix a little in water – baking soda will also relieve canker sore pain.

To relieve sunburn: use a paste of baking soda and water. (please note it could be messy when dries) to make the patse follow the above directions.

To Make Play Clay with baking soda: combine 1 1/4 cups water, 2 cups soda, 1 cup cornstarch. Mix all together you can add food color if wanted for color.

To use baking soda as an underarm deodorant dust under arm.

If your baby spits up after feeding, moisten a cloth, dip it in baking soda and dab it on stain. The odor will go away.

Unclog a drain. Pour 1/2 to 1 cup of baking soda down the drain, then slowly pour 1/2 to 1 cup of white vinegar down the drain. Let sit for five minutes (covered, if possible). Follow with a gallon of boiling water.

Settle a stomach during occasional indigestion. Stir 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda into 1/2 cup of water.

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Frugal Tips on Using Vinegar

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May 162008

1. Make nail polish last longer. Wipe nails with white distilled vinegar before applying nail polish.

2. For cloudy glassware, soak paper towels in full-strength white distilled vinegar and wrap around the inside and outside of the glass. Let sit awhile then rinse it clean.

3. Remove white water rings from wood with a solution of 1 parts white distilled vinegar and 1 vegetable oil. Rub the solution with the grain of the wood.

4. Shine pennies by soaking them overnight in a bowl of undiluted white distilled vinegar.

5. Did you forget wet laundry in the washing machine & it now smells bad? Pour a 2 cups of white distilled vinegar in the washing machine and wash the clothes in hot water. Then wash again the way you normally would with detergent.

6. Help Prevent lint from clinging to clothes by adding 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar to the wash cycle It also makes your clothes softer.

7. Take the sting out of a sunburn with a spray of white distilled vinegar, repeating as often as you like. Not always but it helped prevent blistering and peeling when I was growing up.

8. To make the toilet bowl sparkle, pour in a cup or more white distilled vinegar and let it sit several hours. Scrub with the toilet brush and flush.

9. Kill weeds and grass growing in unwanted places by pouring full-strength white distilled vinegar on them. It works great in the cracks of walkways and driveways.