The My Frugal Home Forum

Clem, save a few to dry for seeds and plant. You could have a lucrative and trouble free little side business going next summer.

It's Stay Out of the Sun day for me every day. I took after my mother's Irish side if the family, not Dad's Cherokee side, and am super pale. Skin cancer runs rampant in my mother's family, so I have been big on long sleeves and hats for decades. Last night I slept like the dead for ten hours. Would...

Hi, frugal ones. I am whupped, as we Southerners like to say. Although I worked for this university before, everyone seems to think they should walk me all over the campus on hard, hot cement sidewalks to show me the sights. And then I spend hours cleaning and carrying loads of junk to the dumpster....

Good evening, frugals. It was a long first day at work and there was lots of walking. But I was also left alone in my new office for a long time. It is in fact an old and rather nasty office, so I swept and dusted, organized the storage closet, moved a small bookcase so that I could use it and also ...

I defrost my little chest freezer, which is manual defrost, with a hair dryer. I take the food out and put it in a laundry basket and wrap it in a heavy quilt. Then throw some old towels in the bottom of the freezer, point the hair dryer at the sheets of ice, and the ice falls on the towels. It's a ...

I never see them for sale used any more. We have a small chest freezer that we organize with plastic baskets from the dollar store. It works out well for a small family. We have had it since about 1996.