I’m serious about saving money, but the following tips are a little to extreme for me:
- Keep dog and cat fur that they shed, to stuff pillows with.
- Keep dryer lint to stuff pillows with.
- Use cloth toilet paper (yes, I have actually heard of a family that did this).
- Use hand signals when turning in your car, so your blinker bulbs will last longer.
- Take fewer showers, and on the rare occasion you do shower, skip the soap and shampoo to save even more money!
- By 2 ply toilet paper and pull it apart to make one ply.
- Not going to the doctor or dentist when you really need to.
- Using your fallen out hair to scrub things with. One of the sites I get weekly tips from actually had a lady suggest this! The next week, they apologized for the “gross” tip! lol
Oh….my…goodness!!!!! Ha ha ha
Way too extreme for me, too!
haha! Way to funny!
Who knew that I was being extravagant when throwing away my dryer lint and dead hair?! Btw, if someone is frugal enough to keep dryer lint, why are they using a dryer to begin with? Why don’t they just hang their clothes? haha, things that make you go hmmm….
Ummm…with the amount of hair I lose, I could probably make a NEW pillow
That was funny about the comment on dryer lint and line drying! Good catch!
I think that many of these came from my grandmother’s generation. I remember that she had a beautiful blown glass bowl with a silver filigree top on her bedstand, and she put all of the hair cleaned from her brushes into it. She would then use her hair to make dolls, stuff small decorative pillows, and wind it into ropes to use in shaping various up-do’s.
The mother of a friend of mine still has a small stuffed cat that her mother made for her. Pregnant mama kept all of the hair shed during her entire pregnancy, and then during her “lying in”, made a doll from an old shirt of her husbands.
Oh, and for #5 – Ewwww!
#7 is just plain silly. A health issue ignore will invariably cost you MUCH more money than simply taking care of the issue when it first comes up.