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Here are some frugal tips that other stay-at-home parents have shared with us.
I want to thank everyone for their tips and hints, and please keep them coming!
From Jennifer:
I am a stay-at-home mommy with 2 very energetic children 1 and 4 yrs. Anyhow, I always ask for paper bags at the store, (Walmart always gives plastic, so I still have plenty of those too). But the paper bags can be used for a variety of things!! From putting your dirty shoes on when you come in from outside, to drawing on them w/ your kids, cutting out eye, nose, and mouth holes to make masks.Also cutting out out the bottoms and down one side to wrap packages in to mail. We also use them for extra backing (or sometimes a light cardboard shoe box) glued on the back of pictures you and your kids have cut out of an old catalog to make paperdolls.
From Heidi:
Ask the greeting card lady at the supermarket if she has extra envelopes. I get all the free envelopes I can use this way, and sometimes free greeting cards, too. She throws away thousands of envelopes every year.
From April:
I use the web free sites constantly to get free things! I have gotten athletic tennis shoes, t-shirs, food, product samples, and many free curriculum kits (I'm a Preschool teacher). Plus, I signed up for being paid to surf the web and I have already received my first 21.00 check and getting ready to get my second one for doing nothing except sitting at the computer. Another site I won 10.00 twice, just for answering a question right. There is so much free stuff on the web you just have to sign up for it!
From Jean:
If you use fabric dryer sheets don't throw them away after use. Save them and get the fabric softener in the bottle. Put used dryer sheets in a pan or bowl and pour in the fabric softner. Spread sheets on a cookie sheet to dry. Then when doing you laundry just reuse one of the sheets in the dryer.. It really does save money and works great.
From Michelle:
I have purchased small bathroom size trash cans for our home, even the kitchen. I then save all the plastic bags I get from shopping and use them for trash bags, it saves money and the trash gets taken out more often from using the smaller trash cans.
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