Here are those hints

Posted By: Ginger
Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003, at 6:53 a.m.

In Response To: hints (Eiko)

Instead of store-bought bows for gifts, use pompoms, dried or fabric flowers, measuring spoons, candy canes, balloons, bells, ornaments, barrettes, erasers, combs, etc.

Instead of commercial wrapping paper, use wallpaper roll ends. They are stronger and often prettier than wrapping paper.

To recycle expensive gift wrap, lightly spritz the wrong side of paper with spray starch, then press with a warm iron.

Towels, scarves and fabric napkins make useful wrapping paper.

Arrange painted picture frames over newly wallpapered walls for inexpensive, yet effective decorating.

Use leftover wallpaper for shelf paper and drawer liners.

Save postcards and special occasion cards and laminate them. Use to line shelves and drawers.

Squeeze a new roll of toilet tissue before installing. This will prevent waste because it won’t roll excessively.

Toilet tissue is much cheaper and goes a lot further than facial tissue. Also, you can use more or less as needed.

When you receive junk mail which includes return envelopes, use the envelopes to store small items such as seeds, pictures etc.

Use the backs of business envelopes and the unwritten side of circulars for writing grocery lists, notes to children, etc.

When mailing a get-well card to someone in hospital, use the patient’s return address rather than your own. In this way, should the person have been released from hospital, he is assured of getting the card.
If your stamps and envelopes are stuck together, place them in the freezer for an hour or so. Then you should be able to spread the stick part easily with a knife without damaging the glue.

Messages In This Thread

hints
Eiko -- Wednesday, 24 September 2003, at 6:42 a.m.

Here are those hints
Ginger -- Wednesday, 24 September 2003, at 6:53 a.m.

Re: hints
Ginger -- Thursday, 25 September 2003, at 11:44 a.m.

 

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