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Comment by Azmaria on June 11, 2012 at 11:51pm

Turn one bar of soap into a gallon of body wash. grate bar of soap into a pan. Melt it with a little water. keep sturing. When it is all melted get a gallon container fill half full of cold water. then pour soap in and fill the rest with more water. shake then wait 24 hours. it will thicken really good after it sets the 24 hours. It feels slimey but it works great! Makes your skin really soft. It saves a load of money! You can use almost any kind of bar soap out there!

Comment by Jaguar Sun on May 7, 2012 at 12:02am

My number one tip would be Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. I could go one forever with what Ive done but I think you all know what I mean.

Comment by Shadow Witch on November 12, 2011 at 3:15pm

I save money by buying my things at places where the goal of the store is to actually save you money. I get a ton of Sabbath items cheap after the holiday's. I officially have enough black candles to light my altar for the next five years. Yay, I'm so good, so good, so good.

Comment by Maureen Whichello on August 24, 2011 at 11:03am

I do the same thing, the books and envelopes that is.  The reading lamp sounds interesting would like to see photo when it's finished.

Admin Comment by Bekah Evie Bel Carman on June 21, 2011 at 1:52am

I recently had an old broken and cheaply made wardrobe sitting in the shed waiting to rot away...

We also had a bit of a mouse plague in our house, and some of the were getting into our bedside drawers, and some of my wooden filing cabinets, ruining everything and dirtying everything...

 

How..? not holes, but apparently manufacturers "forget" to completely cover the back (they leave a 5cm gap for air flow i suppose), and if the bottom is raised, sometimes there is nothing covering that either...

 

So i got the old wardrobe, pulled it apart, cut up the ply board from the back of it into perfect sizes and nailed them onto the drawers to protect our socks, underwear and my paperwork from the mice...

 

Problem, er, Bekah'd LOL...

Comment by Christina IsHere on April 12, 2011 at 7:32pm

where is everyone? i joined the goup, but i see people haven't commented since 2009....is this an active group or not?

Comment by Charlemagne on February 2, 2009 at 12:03pm

Hi I would like to coment on ways of saving taught to me by my Beautifull grandfather. When you buy only buy whats on special but buy a lot of it this is for non-perishables. My garnd father always had lots of food in the pantry like 6 jars of this 10 packets of tea, etc etc. I asked him why & this is his answer only buy when it's cheap you will always use it ,it wont go off & when you get down to you last or second last start looking for it on sale. Yesterday our local Coles were getting rid of their own brand chocolate normaly $3.20 a block I got it for $ .80 & bought about 20 blocks I saved $2.40 a block it soon adds up what you can save in a year if you shop this way all our meat is bought when it is reduced in price. we grow our own as well you dont need a lot of space to grow food & if you rinse your dishes in a bowl you can put the water on the vegie garden

Comment by Iain on December 3, 2008 at 9:07pm

Living in the bush, what every I carry in, i have to carry out in the way of packaging. Water, only what I can collect from the sky, so do not waste. Fruit, veg, much as possible from my garden, along with the firewood for heating.

Comment by Jane on November 28, 2008 at 5:49pm

Thanks for the invite. This is something everyone deals with day to day, recycling and saving money. I am looking forward to learning many more ideas from other people. My boys recycle all the bottles and cans and we started a compost bin for all the food scraps. My young boy saves all the cereal boxes and egg cartons and takes them to kindy so they can make things with them. Its all so interesting to see what can be done from things people throw away. As the saying goes other peoples junk is someone elses treasure.

Comment by Suzie G on November 28, 2008 at 12:19pm

This subject is dear to my heart. I throw as little as possible away. I live on a farm, and there is no rubbish service out here so the less rublish you have the better. All food scraps go to the chooks, the dogs or to the compost heap. Paper also is composed. We do a trip to the local tip at least once a month and they have a recycling depot there for glass, paper and cans. Its also a great place for 'shopping'
We built our chook pen all out of materials from the rubbish tip.
At the moment we are building another house on our property and we are putting in grey water tanks for watering our garden and we will be using solar and a wood stove to heat our water. (The stove came from a garage sale) Most of our building materials have come from salvage yards (Got some beautiful jarrah windows and doors) or left overs from building sites. (My partner is a brickie)
We grow most of our own food, and what we dont grow our neighbours do and we have a bit of a barter and swap system here in our small farming community.
So i recommend having a good old scab at the tip if its allowed. (I know city tips wont let you) and salvage yards for building materials and gardening stuff are always worth a look and can be less than half the price.

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