When I was still eating oatmeal cookies packaged in boxes from the store, I saved the silvery plastic box liners, washed and let them dry. When I had enough of them I taped them together to make a reflective curtain for my small shower window. It keeps the hot sun out and provides privacy. I also preciously did this method with some boxed pretzels but discarded the piece when the garlic smell persisted. It was used as an inside dashboard cover to keep the hot sun off the dashboard and steering wheel. For drying my shirts and pants, I put the washed but still wet ones on hangers and hang them on a shower tension rod placed high over the bathtub. I live in an apartment.
Our grandparents mostly lived in houses with backyards where veggie gardens and fruit trees were common. Their home grown produce was shared and swapped with others in the neigborhood.
Modern American appliances are not repairable. They're all computerized. Also, it is nearly impossible to find old fashioned appliances with no computer parts. I've tried.
It is becoming more and more difficult to get things repaired (I only know about Bangalore). Cobblers, tailors, locksmiths, and such have all but disappeared. Getting an appliance repaired is, in many cases, is as expensive as buying a new appliance
The American's who say it can't be done here are silly. Plenty of us repair our appliances just fine. They either just don't know how or where to look for parts. Helps if you're not buying poor quality as well. Good quality isn't always name brand either.
Have purchased a set of Ball canning jars with handles at the grocery store. Also, purchased a set of their plastic, screw on lids. Nice they both go together especially when I put away an unfinished drink in the fridge. The drink does not dry out as a fridge is designed to draw out humidity. And the glass allows me to see what is inside.
Grandma did not have access to plastic recyclables like we do either. Think ahead as to how you can reuse any container, then reasonably do that. Glass takes up a lot of room and breaks. Remember you will have to clean and dispose of any broken glass as well. Be smart and reasonable equals savings and reduces waste and initial costs.
I used my linen shower curtains for my sliding doors for a few years then I decided that I needed a new lightweight summer bedspread. I couldn’t find one online. Everything was quilts and heavy fabric. I live in Florida and I wanted something lightweight and something pretty. So I turn my beautiful linen shower curtains into a beautiful bedspread for my queen size bed. And I sewed it all by hand because it was too big to sew on my sewing machine. Part of it I used, the no sew tape but most of it I sewed by hand it looks like a high end bedspread. If I could take a picture and send it to you, I would. But I do all these things that you mention to save money to us on electricity I repurpose my old T-shirts as dust cloths, and cleaning cloth. I’ve done all these things for years. I never knew it was a my thing I just thought it was an economical and small way of doing things. But I do like your channel. It’s very interesting. I have picked up some new tips as well and I thank you for that.
I don't know if it's because my mother went through the Great Depression as a kid, but I do a lot of the things in this video. I'm 61 years old now. I use my husband and mine clean old underwear as dust rags along with old towels, tee shirts, and other household fabrics. There are other things in this video I've been doing for years.
I tried gardening outside in Las Vegas.🙄 What was I thinking. I found 2 inexpensive ($30) hydroponic units. I bought some AeroPods (guaranteed to grow) and have been enjoying delicious, fresh greens and herbs. It's totally worth it. And bc it is 117° in Vegas, we can literally put a pan outside and cook up eggs, etc.
If you have an upstairs in you home, you might consider hanging a sturdy curtain rod in the doorway that leads up there, and hang clothes to dry on the rod with hangers. The air is moving quite a bit through this area so it dries things quite quickly.
Yup I bought a deep freeze I had it 2 years it when out my warranty just expired they said I ask them how much to send guy to look at it an fix 150 an hour plus part I said no thanks I called for parts my self I fix my freezer my self for 15,dollars it freezers better now then before ❤❤
Every time you lack a skill - you have to pay somebody else to provide a service., Learn to cook, sew, fix your car, repair things, restore old throw away items like tools and furniture, grow your own food, hunt and forage. Ask yourself - when something breaks down, do I have the skills to deal with it, or do I have to hire somebody? If you have to hire people to do everything for you - guess what? You're going to be broke. Services today are outrageously expensive. An electrician wanted 2200.00 to add a generator plug to my electrical panel. Cost of the parts was under 100.00 / the rest was labor for about two hours work. I never made 2200.00 for two hours of work in my life. And neither did he - because I did it myself.
I'm bewildered by something going on where I live, people here in NYC the Bronx, do not cook, and I mean NEVER, I have met hundreds of people here who eat out for 4 meals per day I haven't met a single person here who cooks ever, our neighborhood consists of 400 restaurants in just a few miles radius, I am so confused I'm here for almost 50 years and have never met anyone who cooks soooo strange to me!!
sometimes i do wish I had the bucks to hire out because it does take a lot of time to be repairing, making, preserving, maintaining, growing, digging, hanging, saving, storing, all by ones self, I am single and I see how a life partner can make all the difference. That is life partner, not a bunch of ho-hums traveling through lol.
“Bake multiple items in the oven at once” brought back the memory of my grandmother’s neighbor, Miss Susie with potato in hand, running from door to door, asking if anyone was baking so she could add her potato to the oven
I put vegetable peels in the freezer. When the bag is full, I boil them and make vegetable broth. I make soup throughout most of the year (Fall through Spring) so this is a great savings.
this is so funny and good, funny because it is not just old granny doing this, and good because it reminds me of a few things I don't do. LIKE, my mom and aunties would do cloths and shoe swap meets, and other things that one might not be using. they would get together with kids and put everything in the middle of the living room where chairs would be set around and start picking items that work for their fam and kids. it was fun, and once in a while a young girl like me would end up with an aunties nice dress that was never going to fit her again lol. you know how us girls are at saving and hoping, well it was that way 50 years ago too. and those jeans made into shorts have a name, I still wear cut offs to this day.
My folks grew up during the Great Depression. Frugality, repurposing, and making do was a way of life they maintained throughput their lives and I thank them for passing that down to me.
@elainekilgore1352 I was lucky enough to have spent a lot of time with my grandma and great grandparents. I learned so much from them and do many of these things today.
Portable fans help dry laundered clothes. My bathroom tiny, no way to hang outdoors. Hang on clothes hangers. Attach with laundry clips so they don't fall off the hanger while the portable fan helps dry.
I see a lot of baby cribs for sale or give away, the side panels make excellent cloths dryer hanger in various ways, lean against a wall, hang off a porch ceiling. or basement rafters, use hangers to hang or drape items over the rungs. very good investment :)
@@annsaunders5768Inwas thinking the same thing that maybe we should not use a method that costs money to save money, otherwise we better get out the ole calculator and figure out the cost of a dryer drying vs. a fan having to run several times as long.
Drying rack: These are also useful the rest of the year to avoid using the dryer and it won't burn off bits of your clothes as the dryer does. If you don't have $ for a drying rack, take some nails and a clothesline and string it from the top of the doorframe to the top of another doorframe across the room. Don't forget the clothes pins ;-).
Exactly. In my area some charity shops, as we call them here, tend to be more expensive than clothing section of the local supermarket. I'm priced out from all but one of them.
Really? I go to thrift stores that promote charities like St. Vincent and others. They're still very cheap and numerous in my city of Dayton. And even Goodwill has discounted colors you can look for. I don't don't like to buy new too much. They're cheaply made and ultimately contribute to textile waste. I'd rather use what's already been made. And there's lots of it!
Yes and no. I get my church skirts from goodwill that would be pricey at Walmart or a clothing store. But some stuff absolutely yes they have gone up sadly. Goodwill has color of the day and it's half priced I believe
I'm 61 years old. My grandmother was born in the late 1800s, and these things weren't around at that time. My mother was born in 1926, and by the time I was born in 1963, she didn't have these things. Microwaves weren't even around when I was a kid.
The first tip about using a cut up tee shirt for a rag,shows that only once in the sink,the rest of the photos are microfiber towels,why bother? Also,the tip on using old sheets for curtains shows lace panels and polyester sheer panels,who slept on those?🙄😖😵💫 The tip on turning vegetable peels into chips,doesn’t show a single photo of that result! And where is the pine one bird feeder?
This is kind of cool. I just bought clothing poles to hang my clothes out after washing. Trying to save in energy , the sun is free😁and the dryer cost energy. I do have a little garden . We gonna have to learn skills with all the crazy is goin on in this world😮. I do make my own vinegars and my own vanilla extract haven’t bought any like five years now. Pressure cann and water bath canning is an awesome skill to learn and you know what you put in them jars .
Need to hang my clothes in the bathroom. Apartment living. Sure miss hanging then...the sun acts as its own disinfectant. The vinegars, another project I want to try in the near future...heard someplace online that imitation vanilla is made with...beaver butt glands(!).. this includes many fast food milkshakes and coffeeshops, or so am told. Am ready next week or two, to get the recommended liquors, it is the vanilla beans I am needing to source online. Am in my second year here, am getting ready to expand my small plants from catnip to sweet potatoes. Weather is great. Just need to get a few more large planters to take the slips and plant them...agree with the learning new skills. Have been doing this for awhile. Learned hurricane prep skills, homeless skills(financial not drugs about ten years ago) combined with frugal and still adding on more frugal skills. These skills often I incorporate in my new apartments. I tend to move about every five years. Don't ask me why. Takes more time. Am a granny so internet helps a lot. Budgeting for garden supplies and small kitchen appliances is the most difficult but I research the product reviews over time up until I am ready to make a purchase. Cannot afford to lose money. For every skill I learn, I challenge to learn to fit in the frugal and off grid categories. Breadmaking I can go to a park close to me and make it skillet style. At home it is cost efficient on many recipes. Same for my yogurt. Just got the gadget, but there is a nonelectric gadget also. Keeps my home body mind busy and am getting a bit more cost savings in as I go in my latest place of about 18 months ago.
Love content! But we had Mom at home, learned sewing ,weeding ,cleaning , cooking picked the fruits,etc. grandma hand turned washer, was a farmer. We hung clothes. Used mangle and hand irons. I loved my life. But , look at how it is now. By the time dinner is over, who’s to do all this?
this "grandma" he speaks of must have run herself into an early grave with these "50" frugal tips. Where did she find the time? She must have been a supergrandma to accomplish it all.
Using clear glass dishes (from glasses to plate sets) insures that when washed you can "clearly" see that they are clean because patterns tend to hide debris left behind, that is one of my Grandma's tips. Also, a hold over from the days of the dust bowl era, placing all cups and glasses upside down in the cabinets insure a cleaner surface when using, that's Grandma tip 2... I sew on my Grandma's treadle machine, saves on electricity and is tons of fun...
I begged for a clothesline for years! Yep. Still don't have one. I do have 2 cheap drying racks I found at rummage sales. I can also hang wet clothes on hangers and hang around my gazebo. They help some.
I do too, I dare you to take your peels of the potatoes if you are making mashed. Its the taste of why they did it. extra love :) I leave the peels for nutrition, and also time-saving. Treat yourself when no one is home heehee.
Actually they did but they called it mason jar gardens, my grandma and mom and most everyone I knew growing up in the 1960’s had herbs growing in jars in their kitchen. Today’s hydroponics are just a fancy version of those.
When my candles are nearly burned to the botton, I let harden, scoop it out and use in wax melter to give it new life. Ironically watching this as I take hem out if the kid's pants. Later I will be making shorts out of those that don't fit.
I grew up on a homestead and I now have a homestead of my own so I do all of these already. And since I grew up doing all of this it just becomes second nature. Another thing I would like to add is that if you are thinking of spending a good amount of your hard own money on something make sure it’s something that would last a lifetime rather that be by getting good Quality items like a cast iron skillet over the cheep ones that fall apart easily or making great memories with friends and family. I personally wouldn’t recommend spending it on things you don’t need like another reusable cup even though you have plenty of them or following the latest aesthetic or fashion trend. Also not replacing something that still works just fine is also another thing, my sister who always wants to stay up to date with the latest of technology may disagree but if your phone for example is working perfectly fine then there is no need to buy a new one, I personally only buy a new one if mine turns off and dies forever and can never be fixed, and even then I’m not going for the newest and most popular phone. Edit: also I forgot to mention learning basic first aid. If you can learn some basic first aid for yourself, your family, and your pets then that would save you a lot of money or even their life’s depending on the situation. Also learning to grow your own herbal medicine is also helpful, I’m not against going to the hospital if it’s something that is out of your control but most things can be treated at home, like a cut that needs stitches or common cold/fever/flu. It does save lots of money in the long run.
How about Mom's frugal tips for raising 6 children on a budget? 1) Feed them mostly yeast bread backed in a wood stove oven. 2) When out of wood go gather dried cow manure from neighboring fields. 3) Tear old rags into 1" strips to use as wicks. Cover wicks with waste butter churned in a cleaned mayonnaise jar from cream skimmed from your cows fresh milk. 4) Hang spoiled goats' milk in gauze to make into cheese, since nobody drank all the goats milk. 5) Use a treadle sewing machine to sew clothes out of whatever fabric comes to hand from older relatives. 6) Always accept hand-me -downs from older relatives. Then figure out how to diy the materials into anything useful or for sale. 7) Send children knocking on doors to find buyers for diy results, since the children have all summer off from school and need something to do. 8) Own your own land in a part of the country with lac building code. 9) Have your own well drilled for free water. 10) Hire an electric line string from the street to your house to save on gas otherwise necessary to buy lamp oil fir lighting at nigh. 11) Plant and tends huge kitchen garden, so you won't have to buy vegetables 12) Wash clothing in a tin tub outdoors and hang outside to line dry. Limit clothing to 3 changes plus one dress up outfit. Or only needs clothing to have on, clothing to launder, and clothing to iron. Having more than 4 changes if clothing is wasteful, especially in a household of 8. 13) If you miss your period, immediately consume the quantity of the household poison you were told about when you were 12 and in the manner you were told about when you were 12 because to do it wrong can kill you, but you really can't afford more kids thought you live babies. (Older kids are hard to tolerate though.) 14) Do you really want to know about genuine frugal living in USA? There's lots more. Mom died in her 30s, exhausted. None of her children had reached adulthood before she died. Money is NOT what life is about.
Wow, drink poison to abort your own child? Insane. No matter why, that baby can't get over the death, but you can get over whatever "trauma" that baby brings, especially if you give it up for adoption. Ugh. Cray Cray...
😂 Apparently you never had grandma's potato chips 😂Us kids would wait for them to come out of the oven. I made them for my kids, too. As well as carrot peels, topped with cinnamon and brown sugar.
I actually think that turning old sheers into curtains is a good ideal i think is using what you have in hand and make it into something useful thank you for that videis thank you for that videos its going to hel hundres of peopls
Instead of going insane to try to use all these ideas, just justify to yourself in your own circumstances if savings is worth it. Making and reusing cleaning cloths will help everybody. Making re-usable menstrual pads, not so much. Not everyone can garden, not all clothes are comfortable after air drying,etc. So, think about what works best for you, then do that. No doubt you will find huge savings. Always look to reuse items, including things you would normally trash. But... Remember some things are trash for a good reason. Be reasonable, think ahead and be smart with your choices. It will save you big time.
My late wealthu frugal Uncle bought one Sunday newspaper by subscription cheaper. Bed remove funnies n reuse as wrapping paper thats 52 free sheets. Hed remove all coupons use n trade. After reading paper he'd wrap it round broomstick n secure with metal coat hanger thats 52 free fire logs per year. Then hed burn n woodburner n compost ashes. Once metal coathangrr became brittle he'd put in with scrap metal to sell to junk yard. Hen e no waste
You can adapt fairly easily if you really want to. You can hang clothes in the hallway at night, or on hangers in doorways. You will be surprised at the amount of food you can grow in pots around the house, lol. Maybe not enough for a full garden, but you can grow greens, green onions, garlic, just about any herbs you can imagine...they even have things like small versions of bean plants for containers. The hardest part for me was reusable cleaning rags. At the time I was handwashing my laundry and didn't feel I was getting the rags clean enough. So I took them to the laundromat and brought them home to dry😂There are lots of little things that add up. Just find the things that work for you.
@@msheidiheidiho I'm right here actually har har. I am not that old, 55, I do almost all these things and have more to offer. I am not Amish, I am rural, and of the First Nations decent, or Indian if you will haha. anyway, I am a half-breed and love that I know all this stuff that somehow has become or is becoming popular :)
@angelaforsyth1092 I agree we are still out here living the life our grandparents taught us. Living with no excuses and making life good for our children's children. I raised my grand babies like my grandma raised us. And the art of family responsibilities, caring, and loving continue. It's good to hear there are others such as ourselves.
I grew up like this video for the most part, and lived most of my life in the same manner. Mostly common sense, and I own my home and both vehicles, so must have done something right 🤣
Yeah, u have the right idea kiddo. However, I think ur talking to a person specific audience. Yes! Indoor drying, reuse them sheets, learn to sew. But, kiddo use baking soda for toothpaste. Buy a scrubboard. It saves even more electricity. Those old sheets can be used for reusable period pads. My grandmother didn't have "thrift stores" just buy things on Clearance. Or even better, make ur own! The rug is a great idea, until u had to beat it. 😅 just learn canning, period! We didn't have hydroponics, we just gardened. There was no plastic. 😂 use nuts for furniture scratches and then use mineral oil. Solar depends on where u live. Yes, make ur own pasta, and who doesn't save seeds? Make ur own mayo! Use oil, not candles. I still have hurricane lamps and oil on hand. Make switzel for a good refreshing drink . A French press works well for coffee. Grandma didn't have garage sales, she had a buckboard to school. There was no freezer. So utilize ur celler. Onions, potatoes, and canned goods stay down there. And don't forget to have amenities on hand for emergencies. So if there is a natural disaster, ur not stuck with the rest of the idiots that don't know how to survive. (Btw, make candles and make shift stoves out of crisco.)
Sorry to break it it to you but many had solar this and that. And water bottles the same they were called canteens or fruit bottles repurpkse. You see retro restaurants use them 😂
I'm honestly surprised at how many people say their grandparents didn't have a solar oven. My grandmother had one made from a box, black paint, and reused tin foil. Obviously she couldn't make a roast in it, but she could make biscuits, heat water for noodles, etc. It took a while but she had it going while she did other things and it wouldn't heat up the house!
All these practices are age old and being practiced in most of the rural and urban homes in India except new generation who are influenced by Western lufe style
Hi Elsmarelda, I would write down each thing I knew I'd be paying. Like phone, utilities, groceries etc. I would write the meals I would be making and make the shopping list from the menu. I would make a menu based on my income. Didn't buy expensive snacks. I made homemade syrup, cakes, cookies. I made fried mush . Instead of cornmeal it used oats. No sugar cereals. Groceries can eat up a budget. I would set aside money for unexpected Drs car repairs etc. A plan keeps you from letting money slip threw your fingers.
Go on different online websites. Like combing through a budget. Try to be flexible and try new frugal tips every so often to see if that 'tip' is going to work for your lifestyle. Have been doing so for years. My latest pride is in my new place, a tourist beach town, great place, good rent price, but the groceries are sky high. Accessed pantries. Some foods I am new to, and might have to look up on the internet. Most foods, I have settled in as a single person, batch cooking as most recipes call for four servings. One for 'now'. One for seconds in the fridge. Two in the freezer. Have been adopting about each month, when I get my paycheck, to start shopping carefully for sales and of course, the foods needed immediately. This is about the first two weeks. Bread gets portioned off for sandwiches, and most in the freezer. Mayo and mustard in a bowl in the fridge. Deli meat I try to buy on sale, larger packages. Take parchment paper to seperate in about two slices, then in Ziplocks, freezer. Cabbage lasts longer in the fridge than lettuce. Red has more nutrients than green, but green does have one of the vitamins red does not. Can freeze off both lettuce(!)and cabbage. Tomatoes I slice up one for mostly a day or two's worth of sandwiches. Buy on sale. Usually in two's or maybe fours. One tomato gets sliced. Another diced and in the freezer to add to a can of soup at a later date. Same for other produce. Produce is usually cheaper in larger frozen bags during harvest seasons. Eggs some people use leftovers for quiches. For me, they go great with many leftovers as scrambled. Rice I can flavour with soups. A grocery store deli rotisserie chicken I learned is great for my tiny kitchen. Seperate the meats, divide or portion most get froze off. Chicken breasts are healthy for cats, my elderly cat I make sure she has her own 'stash'. The bones from both a rotiessre or more recently deli store fried chicken, can be used up immediately as a bone broth. A slow cooker does great for this. Can freeze off the bones until a broth ready to be made. The extra veggy scraps that are frozen off if not used with rice, scrambled eggs, can go in a soup. Look for sales of canned goods. The stores rotate out by expiration date with new stock coming in. Some go in my prepper pantry, I circle the dates and rotate my items. Will go with canned soups and my favorite, black beans. Once the canned goods go off sale, the prices can jump high. Milk I being home, sometimes a food pantry. An old trick of a pinch of salt before the fridge or freezer works well to preserve. Can also add water to milk, lemonades to extend the budget and it cuts down on sugar calories. Am mostly an oatmeal milk drinker. Love the store brands of oatmilk, but in-between, I can take about a handful of oatmeal in the blender to powder. Enough for a large glass or two. My drinking jars are Ball canning with the handles. Purchased this brand of plastic lids. Lids work great from the fridge's job to take moisture out of foods to work more efficiently. And the jars I can see through. Learned this past year how to pack a fridge, especially freezer for energy efficiency. Live in an apartment. Fridge is 30 years old. Works great. Maybe there are manuals that come with these fridges, but apartments do not hand out. Invest in about $7 each temperature gauges for both the fridge and freezer. Helped me monitor the temperature ranges, the warmer and cold spots and if the fridge door was left open all night, or the power went off, my food safety. The freezer am running out of space. As my first two weeks goal was to get enough of my food budget, some in the freezer. Includes things like frozen lemonades or butter on sale which I plastic bag. Fruits includes bananas, I slice up, portion off and make great smoothies. Especially with the homemade oatmeal milk(sometimes I add a bit of salt, honey or vanilla). Do not like coffee. Hot chocolate. Had to give you my favorite brand of caramel syrup as I enjoy flavoured coffee creamers in my hot chocolate. Have learned to tolerate powdered milk as a cheaper substitute. On my list soon to make caramel, I think a recipe calling for condensed or evaporated milk cans straight in the slow cooker with water. Lots of things. Just learn a few skills to try each month. All of this basic information, trust me, I did not learn overnight. Internet helped a lot with ideas and learning frugal skills. With savings, expect usually to do manual labour. Am not a canner. Am struggling more with breadmaking because I don't care for hand making years to rise and kneading. Dense breads and exploring. But did not realize how many types of flours and other ingredients. Kind of backburner that project right now. After scrimping and saving, and window shopping online, finally purchased a food dehydrator which I am glad I opted out of canning. Food saver is next month with some of the bags to be for that 'sous' chef boil the bag a bit in a pan of hot water. Right now, my crockpot and toaster convection oven doing ok with heating up frozen leftovers. Am choosing to store my dehydrated foods that I prefer for longer term storage in the freezer with a foodsaver. Once I had my fridge-freezer and small prepper pantry going in my recent move, it is nice to be able to 'shop from my pantry' and pull together meals, be creative. My yogurt maker I scrimped and saved for a long time, now yogurt for some of my smoothies will take organic milk I can buy on sale, get it fermented, healthier and that will stay in my fridge about two weeks. Yogurt with no chemicals and now the gadget will pay for itself soon as the cost of yogurt will be about half price. Am a person to learn new things. Have a disability that keeps me home. Miss working for wages, but this keeps me busy on positives. And my daughter and grandkids share information. She also is interested in my yogurt maker. So, not only saving money here and there, learning new frugal things that others in my family are curious. Won't get rich off my tips. But is starting to free up my budget for other needed things like specialty, expensive shoes. This is my basics and for others that had to get started, seems to match up. Almost always starts with a slow cooker. Yogurt can be made out of a slow cooker, but I decided to not go this route making yogurt. Good luck with your frugal journey endeavors. One day, one frugal tip and step at a time and you are sure to do well. 😊
I hang them to dry, then run them through the dryer for a few minutes to fluff them up. I laugh hearing the jeans making that crunching sound stuffing them in the dryer. Oh, and socks, too😂
Im a grandma, I seen only 2 things that grandma didnt do. Bottled water was invented, we used the hose, Solar power wasnt invented yet either. The rest is correct.
My ex boyfriend's family were like that. I once made an expensive Christmas gift for his brother, and not only was I accused of being cheap, the gift ended up in the bin afterwards. I wish he just returned it to me as that was €60 worth of yarn.
I wouldn't like a wild bird in my house and I'm sure 'grandma' didn't either. They make a whole mess and dont want to be in there anyway. Having a wild bird come into your house is usually a sign of death pretty soon.
If I told my grandmother I used a menstrual cup, and explained what it was, she would say OOOHHHHHH!! Imply that I'm a liar, say that's not possible, and tell me we don't talk like that. (Hell awaits the perverse). I really miss her and loved her very much.
Grandma didn't have a dehydrator A lot of this stuff is awful. My grandmother didn't have a reusable water bottle. She drank water out ofva glass A solar oven? Are you mad???
Really, This is how you make a house a home, and how you find Joy in your life.
When I was still eating oatmeal cookies packaged in boxes from the store, I saved the silvery plastic box liners, washed and let them dry. When I had enough of them I taped them together to make a reflective curtain for my small shower window. It keeps the hot sun out and provides privacy. I also preciously did this method with some boxed pretzels but discarded the piece when the garlic smell persisted. It was used as an inside dashboard cover to keep the hot sun off the dashboard and steering wheel. For drying my shirts and pants, I put the washed but still wet ones on hangers and hang them on a shower tension rod placed high over the bathtub. I live in an apartment.
Our grandparents mostly lived in houses with backyards where veggie gardens and fruit trees were common. Their home grown produce was shared and swapped with others in the neigborhood.
It needs to be revived!!!! Otherwise Monsanto and other globalists will dictate our lives. Together we are strong
We do all these things everyday in India every day. We don't throw away appliances. We repair them use it for decades
Modern American appliances are not repairable. They're all computerized. Also, it is nearly impossible to find old fashioned appliances with no computer parts. I've tried.
Americans also did this for years. Now things are not meant to be repaired and it's cheaper to buy a new item than repair the old ones.
This video will resonate with most middle class Indians.
It is becoming more and more difficult to get things repaired (I only know about Bangalore). Cobblers, tailors, locksmiths, and such have all but disappeared. Getting an appliance repaired is, in many cases, is as expensive as buying a new appliance
The American's who say it can't be done here are silly. Plenty of us repair our appliances just fine. They either just don't know how or where to look for parts. Helps if you're not buying poor quality as well. Good quality isn't always name brand either.
Grandma didn't "buy" reusable drinking bottles/ cups. She used mason jars or other glass jars that could be covered with a lid .😊
Have purchased a set of Ball canning jars with handles at the grocery store. Also, purchased a set of their plastic, screw on lids. Nice they both go together especially when I put away an unfinished drink in the fridge. The drink does not dry out as a fridge is designed to draw out humidity. And the glass allows me to see what is inside.
I swear, growing up we never used an actual glass. Jelly jars for the win!
Grandma did not have access to plastic recyclables like we do either. Think ahead as to how you can reuse any container, then reasonably do that. Glass takes up a lot of room and breaks. Remember you will have to clean and dispose of any broken glass as well. Be smart and reasonable equals savings and reduces waste and initial costs.
We drank out of the hose😫
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I used my linen shower curtains for my sliding doors for a few years then I decided that I needed a new lightweight summer bedspread. I couldn’t find one online. Everything was quilts and heavy fabric. I live in Florida and I wanted something lightweight and something pretty. So I turn my beautiful linen shower curtains into a beautiful bedspread for my queen size bed. And I sewed it all by hand because it was too big to sew on my sewing machine. Part of it I used, the no sew tape but most of it I sewed by hand it looks like a high end bedspread. If I could take a picture and send it to you, I would. But I do all these things that you mention to save money to us on electricity I repurpose my old T-shirts as dust cloths, and cleaning cloth. I’ve done all these things for years. I never knew it was a my thing I just thought it was an economical and small way of doing things. But I do like your channel. It’s very interesting. I have picked up some new tips as well and I thank you for that.
Thanks to you too, Marie for sharing this!
I don't know if it's because my mother went through the Great Depression as a kid, but I do a lot of the things in this video. I'm 61 years old now. I use my husband and mine clean old underwear as dust rags along with old towels, tee shirts, and other household fabrics. There are other things in this video I've been doing for years.
Frugal is good.❤
Yes! 💯
Frugality and environmentalism go hand in hand.
Wow! 44 out of 50...😊 I've learned a lot with my grandparents! ❤ Excellent video! Congratulations! 👏👏
Yes! Thank you!
I tried gardening outside in Las Vegas.🙄 What was I thinking. I found 2 inexpensive ($30) hydroponic units. I bought some AeroPods (guaranteed to grow) and have been enjoying delicious, fresh greens and herbs. It's totally worth it.
And bc it is 117° in Vegas, we can literally put a pan outside and cook up eggs, etc.
If you have an upstairs in you home, you might consider hanging a sturdy curtain rod in the doorway that leads up there, and hang clothes to dry on the rod with hangers. The air is moving quite a bit through this area so it dries things quite quickly.
Yup I bought a deep freeze I had it 2 years it when out my warranty just expired they said I ask them how much to send guy to look at it an fix 150 an hour plus part I said no thanks I called for parts my self I fix my freezer my self for 15,dollars it freezers better now then before ❤❤
Grandma's know just about everything Thankyou !
On the canning jars, I use old socks to cushion the jars on the shelves to avoid any breakage.
Every time you lack a skill - you have to pay somebody else to provide a service., Learn to cook, sew, fix your car, repair things, restore old throw away items like tools and furniture, grow your own food, hunt and forage. Ask yourself - when something breaks down, do I have the skills to deal with it, or do I have to hire somebody? If you have to hire people to do everything for you - guess what? You're going to be broke. Services today are outrageously expensive. An electrician wanted 2200.00 to add a generator plug to my electrical panel. Cost of the parts was under 100.00 / the rest was labor for about two hours work. I never made 2200.00 for two hours of work in my life. And neither did he - because I did it myself.
I'm bewildered by something going on where I live, people here in NYC the Bronx, do not cook, and I mean NEVER, I have met hundreds of people here who eat out for 4 meals per day I haven't met a single person here who cooks ever, our neighborhood consists of 400 restaurants in just a few miles radius, I am so confused I'm here for almost 50 years and have never met anyone who cooks soooo strange to me!!
@@EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777would hope people take home leftovers, doggy bags.
sometimes i do wish I had the bucks to hire out because it does take a lot of time to be repairing, making, preserving, maintaining, growing, digging, hanging, saving, storing, all by ones self, I am single and I see how a life partner can make all the difference. That is life partner, not a bunch of ho-hums traveling through lol.
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Agreed
“Bake multiple items in the oven at once” brought back the memory of my grandmother’s neighbor, Miss Susie with potato in hand, running from door to door, asking if anyone was baking so she could add her potato to the oven
This is so priceless and sweet!!!!
Im 70 and my mom taught me these life skills. Still live this way. My daughter does too. 😊
I put vegetable peels in the freezer. When the bag is full, I boil them and make vegetable broth. I make soup throughout most of the year (Fall through Spring) so this is a great savings.
Sounds great!
Grandma did NOT tell us to use bottles for water, she told us to drink out of the garden hose!!!
😂
I'm 61 years old, and as a kid, that's what we would do. I can basically remember what drinking from the garden hose tasted like. 😊
Me,too.@@psychedelicpython
Yes!!!! We didn't have such a thing as bottles. BUT, being told to use only 1 glass a day was definitely a rule.
@@psychedelicpythonI can taste it now. Hot, and "hosey" lol
I come from a large family (8 siblings) my mom used to add stale bread cubes to pan fried left over potatoes to stretch them to feed us all. 🙂
My goodness there are too many complainers on here. It's very simple to just go to another channel if you don't like the content. 🤷♀️
I remember as a child my grandmother cooking in an iron wood burning stove thing looked like it was from the 1800's .
this is so funny and good, funny because it is not just old granny doing this, and good because it reminds me of a few things I don't do. LIKE, my mom and aunties would do cloths and shoe swap meets, and other things that one might not be using. they would get together with kids and put everything in the middle of the living room where chairs would be set around and start picking items that work for their fam and kids. it was fun, and once in a while a young girl like me would end up with an aunties nice dress that was never going to fit her again lol. you know how us girls are at saving and hoping, well it was that way 50 years ago too. and those jeans made into shorts have a name, I still wear cut offs to this day.
Amazing channel. Appreciate ur efforts to create awareness and make this planet a sustainable one.
Thank you very much!
It's called common sense!😊
I guess I must have picked up a lot of my mama's habits of doing a lot of these things talked about here. Saves money and the world in many ways.
My grandma wouldn't have done any of these 😂 but I've done them all for over 50 year's to save money.
Was she a fascist?
I. Do. All. This. Thanks. My. Mom. And. Grand. Mother. Did. This
Forget herbicides, Grandma told me that when times are tough, learn what wild plants are edible, and eat 'em!
I think I've listed it here th-cam.com/video/YdyfRu4J_bM/w-d-xo.html. You can actually make a salad out of them.
My neighbors and I decided we would grow something different in each backyard. That way we just exchange the produce.
Old coffee ground work great as a body scrub as well
Yes!!
Common sense...the lost art.
Along with work ethic and kindness
My folks grew up during the Great Depression. Frugality, repurposing, and making do was a way of life they maintained throughput their lives and I thank them for passing that down to me.
My mom was goalie on the road hockey team, so old papers and magazines wrapped around her lges, held on with rubber bands!
@@laurag7295 , nothing quite like that kind of ingenuity. Brava 👏👏
@elainekilgore1352 I was lucky enough to have spent a lot of time with my grandma and great grandparents. I learned so much from them and do many of these things today.
@@moonlightcrafter6299 , we are, indeed, fortunate to have such industrious parents and grandparents still influencing our lives today. God bless.
USDA website is a valuable source for safe canning. Stale bread can also be used breadcrumbs for breading, making meatloaf and meatballs.
I have always done this!
if you keep bread in the freezer it doesnt go stale, have not ever wasted bread
Portable fans help dry laundered clothes. My bathroom tiny, no way to hang outdoors. Hang on clothes hangers. Attach with laundry clips so they don't fall off the hanger while the portable fan helps dry.
I see a lot of baby cribs for sale or give away, the side panels make excellent cloths dryer hanger in various ways, lean against a wall, hang off a porch ceiling. or basement rafters, use hangers to hang or drape items over the rungs. very good investment :)
Those fans cost money to run. Skip them and place in an area with good airflow.
@@annsaunders5768 this is my best airflow my apartment has to offer.
@@annsaunders5768Inwas thinking the same thing that maybe we should not use a method that costs money to save money, otherwise we better get out the ole calculator and figure out the cost of a dryer drying vs. a fan having to run several times as long.
Drying rack: These are also useful the rest of the year to avoid using the dryer and it won't burn off bits of your clothes as the dryer does. If you don't have $ for a drying rack, take some nails and a clothesline and string it from the top of the doorframe to the top of another doorframe across the room. Don't forget the clothes pins ;-).
we still have clothes lines here in NZ, all that lint in the dryer is towels and clothes wearing out
I use styrofoam from packages in my windows. It insulates against the sun or cold uet lets in light. I also use old food jars.
I already do most of these.
Trift stores are not cheap anymore, id rather buy new clothing, its about the same price.😮
Exactly.
In my area some charity shops, as we call them here, tend to be more expensive than clothing section of the local supermarket. I'm priced out from all but one of them.
I was going to say that Goodwill is not what it used to be, might as well buy from Ross or Walmart.
Yes, Goodwill ad Salvation Army have gotten so expensive. But, local and church run, and garage sales can still be a great day
Really? I go to thrift stores that promote charities like St. Vincent and others. They're still very cheap and numerous in my city of Dayton. And even Goodwill has discounted colors you can look for. I don't don't like to buy new too much. They're cheaply made and ultimately contribute to textile waste. I'd rather use what's already been made. And there's lots of it!
Yes and no. I get my church skirts from goodwill that would be pricey at Walmart or a clothing store. But some stuff absolutely yes they have gone up sadly. Goodwill has color of the day and it's half priced I believe
Dehydrator? Water bottle? Hydroponics? Solar oven? MY grandma never had these!
Right? Lol
Same here. My grandmother didn't do most of the things mentioned in the video.
I'm 61 years old. My grandmother was born in the late 1800s, and these things weren't around at that time. My mother was born in 1926, and by the time I was born in 1963, she didn't have these things. Microwaves weren't even around when I was a kid.
And who’s excited these days to use the dehydrator with the cost of electricity 😫
@@TanyaSutton-bj6fp I still am. Food needs to be persevered regardless.
these are great, unique ideas. Thank you!
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The pictures are more elegant than the way it would look like normally.
The first tip about using a cut up tee shirt for a rag,shows that only once in the sink,the rest of the photos are microfiber towels,why bother? Also,the tip on using old sheets for curtains shows lace panels and polyester sheer panels,who slept on those?🙄😖😵💫 The tip on turning vegetable peels into chips,doesn’t show a single photo of that result! And where is the pine one bird feeder?
Grandma never heard of "solar" or "Hydroponic". 😂
gramma had a solar cloths dryer :)
And mine could stick a potato in a Mason jar filled with water and grow a beautiful vineing plant hydroponically 👍@@angelaforsyth1092
Well, actually I am a grandma, and I have. But ya, my GM hadn't.
There were good and bad in the old days. We all have brains. Use them.
Grandma may not have used those terms, however she used them everyday!
❤ wonderful ❤
Wow! What a great channel! So many helpful tips! 😎❤️
Glad you like them!
❤❤❤ Great job
This is kind of cool. I just bought clothing poles to hang my clothes out after washing. Trying to save in energy , the sun is free😁and the dryer cost energy. I do have a little garden . We gonna have to learn skills with all the crazy is goin on in this world😮. I do make my own vinegars and my own vanilla extract haven’t bought any like five years now. Pressure cann and water bath canning is an awesome skill to learn and you know what you put in them jars .
Need to hang my clothes in the bathroom. Apartment living. Sure miss hanging then...the sun acts as its own disinfectant. The vinegars, another project I want to try in the near future...heard someplace online that imitation vanilla is made with...beaver butt glands(!).. this includes many fast food milkshakes and coffeeshops, or so am told. Am ready next week or two, to get the recommended liquors, it is the vanilla beans I am needing to source online. Am in my second year here, am getting ready to expand my small plants from catnip to sweet potatoes. Weather is great. Just need to get a few more large planters to take the slips and plant them...agree with the learning new skills. Have been doing this for awhile. Learned hurricane prep skills, homeless skills(financial not drugs about ten years ago) combined with frugal and still adding on more frugal skills. These skills often I incorporate in my new apartments. I tend to move about every five years. Don't ask me why. Takes more time. Am a granny so internet helps a lot. Budgeting for garden supplies and small kitchen appliances is the most difficult but I research the product reviews over time up until I am ready to make a purchase. Cannot afford to lose money. For every skill I learn, I challenge to learn to fit in the frugal and off grid categories. Breadmaking I can go to a park close to me and make it skillet style. At home it is cost efficient on many recipes. Same for my yogurt. Just got the gadget, but there is a nonelectric gadget also. Keeps my home body mind busy and am getting a bit more cost savings in as I go in my latest place of about 18 months ago.
Way to go! Thanks for sharing this!
Love content! But we had Mom at home, learned sewing ,weeding ,cleaning , cooking picked the fruits,etc. grandma hand turned washer, was a farmer. We hung clothes. Used mangle and hand irons. I loved my life. But , look at how it is now. By the time dinner is over, who’s to do all this?
I don’t think grandma had a soil free hydroponic system to grow herbs.
this "grandma" he speaks of must have run herself into an early grave with these "50" frugal tips. Where did she find the time? She must have been a supergrandma to accomplish it all.
Spray white vinegar n water on windows n wipe with newspapers.
Using clear glass dishes (from glasses to plate sets) insures that when washed you can "clearly" see that they are clean because patterns tend to hide debris left behind, that is one of my Grandma's tips. Also, a hold over from the days of the dust bowl era, placing all cups and glasses upside down in the cabinets insure a cleaner surface when using, that's Grandma tip 2...
I sew on my Grandma's treadle machine, saves on electricity and is tons of fun...
These are all very obvious for us older people, youngsters might benefit though.
If the whole of the usa hanged their washing outdoors to dry,imagine the impact on the environment
I begged for a clothesline for years! Yep. Still don't have one.
I do have 2 cheap drying racks I found at rummage sales. I can also hang wet clothes on hangers and hang around my gazebo. They help some.
So how do I keep the sap dripping from my walnut trees from getting the clothes all sticky?
@@priscillabade614 move your washing line
Cover your washing line
trim your trees and provide your own firewood
Use common sense
I live in a city. I have a pulley system clothesline. @@sickofcrap8992
HOAs don't allow clotheslines.😂
I simply leave the peels on my veggies and cook them.
Me too 🎉 when I want a crispy snack , I peel whatever fruit/ veggie I'm craving and put the peels in the Air-Fryer and use the rest in my next meal 😊
I do too, I dare you to take your peels of the potatoes if you are making mashed. Its the taste of why they did it. extra love :) I leave the peels for nutrition, and also time-saving. Treat yourself when no one is home heehee.
@@angelaforsyth1092I leave the peels on my potatoes for mashed, boiled, fried, etc. we love the taste and nutrition.
I seriously doubt grandma in old fashion living had a hydroponic system..lmao.
it was the 60's, grandma was a hippie chick and had a little "operation" going. 😂
@@frankprit3320 -lmao🤣
Actually they did but they called it mason jar gardens, my grandma and mom and most everyone I knew growing up in the 1960’s had herbs growing in jars in their kitchen. Today’s hydroponics are just a fancy version of those.
@@MamaDeb62 it’s a lot different trust me
Grandma wouldn't have time to do all those things working 9 to 5 till 67
When my candles are nearly burned to the botton, I let harden, scoop it out and use in wax melter to give it new life.
Ironically watching this as I take hem out if the kid's pants. Later I will be making shorts out of those that don't fit.
I grew up on a homestead and I now have a homestead of my own so I do all of these already. And since I grew up doing all of this it just becomes second nature. Another thing I would like to add is that if you are thinking of spending a good amount of your hard own money on something make sure it’s something that would last a lifetime rather that be by getting good Quality items like a cast iron skillet over the cheep ones that fall apart easily or making great memories with friends and family. I personally wouldn’t recommend spending it on things you don’t need like another reusable cup even though you have plenty of them or following the latest aesthetic or fashion trend. Also not replacing something that still works just fine is also another thing, my sister who always wants to stay up to date with the latest of technology may disagree but if your phone for example is working perfectly fine then there is no need to buy a new one, I personally only buy a new one if mine turns off and dies forever and can never be fixed, and even then I’m not going for the newest and most popular phone.
Edit: also I forgot to mention learning basic first aid. If you can learn some basic first aid for yourself, your family, and your pets then that would save you a lot of money or even their life’s depending on the situation. Also learning to grow your own herbal medicine is also helpful, I’m not against going to the hospital if it’s something that is out of your control but most things can be treated at home, like a cut that needs stitches or common cold/fever/flu. It does save lots of money in the long run.
Thanks for sharing this! Love it.
How about Mom's frugal tips for raising 6 children on a budget?
1) Feed them mostly yeast bread backed in a wood stove oven.
2) When out of wood go gather dried cow manure from neighboring fields.
3) Tear old rags into 1" strips to use as wicks. Cover wicks with waste butter churned in a cleaned mayonnaise jar from cream skimmed from your cows fresh milk.
4) Hang spoiled goats' milk in gauze to make into cheese, since nobody drank all the goats milk.
5) Use a treadle sewing machine to sew clothes out of whatever fabric comes to hand from older relatives.
6) Always accept hand-me -downs from older relatives. Then figure out how to diy the materials into anything useful or for sale.
7) Send children knocking on doors to find buyers for diy results, since the children have all summer off from school and need something to do.
8) Own your own land in a part of the country with lac building code.
9) Have your own well drilled for free water.
10) Hire an electric line string from the street to your house to save on gas otherwise necessary to buy lamp oil fir lighting at nigh.
11) Plant and tends huge kitchen garden, so you won't have to buy vegetables
12) Wash clothing in a tin tub outdoors and hang outside to line dry. Limit clothing to 3 changes plus one dress up outfit. Or only needs clothing to have on, clothing to launder, and clothing to iron. Having more than 4 changes if clothing is wasteful, especially in a household of 8.
13) If you miss your period, immediately consume the quantity of the household poison you were told about when you were 12 and in the manner you were told about when you were 12 because to do it wrong can kill you, but you really can't afford more kids thought you live babies. (Older kids are hard to tolerate though.)
14) Do you really want to know about genuine frugal living in USA? There's lots more.
Mom died in her 30s, exhausted. None of her children had reached adulthood before she died.
Money is NOT what life is about.
Sorry to hear about your experience. These are totally extreme ways of frugality.
Wow, drink poison to abort your own child? Insane. No matter why, that baby can't get over the death, but you can get over whatever "trauma" that baby brings, especially if you give it up for adoption. Ugh. Cray Cray...
I hang clothes on two racks in the cellar in front of the furnace. it does help
Keep veggie peels etc and make vegetable broth
Amazing .❤
I guess if someone stays home, this works.
Making your own pads for monthlys was used with a belt made for this kind of thing. Very uncomfortable.
all of this is fine if you don't work and have a village to help out.
None of the rags used were old t-shirts. Those potato chips weren't potato peels. Honestly, I can't get through this
It's called " Advertising Art" 😂
All rags came and come from old everything mostly cloths towels sheets drapes
You could take the peels of the potatoes that have been, bake them. Didn't say they were potato chip
😂 Apparently you never had grandma's potato chips 😂Us kids would wait for them to come out of the oven. I made them for my kids, too. As well as carrot peels, topped with cinnamon and brown sugar.
I actually think that turning old sheers into curtains is a good ideal i think is using what you have in hand and make it into something useful thank you for that videis thank you for that videos its going to hel hundres of peopls
I totally agree!
Since when did anyone use net curtains for bedsheets?
My question too. Maybe for mosquito nets around your bed.
That is why gramdma had money. Waste not
Instead of going insane to try to use all these ideas, just justify to yourself in your own circumstances if savings is worth it. Making and reusing cleaning cloths will help everybody. Making re-usable menstrual pads, not so much. Not everyone can garden, not all clothes are comfortable after air drying,etc. So, think about what works best for you, then do that. No doubt you will find huge savings. Always look to reuse items, including things you would normally trash. But... Remember some things are trash for a good reason. Be reasonable, think ahead and be smart with your choices. It will save you big time.
Why is everyone so critical it's just u tube not set in stone
My late wealthu frugal Uncle bought one Sunday newspaper by subscription cheaper. Bed remove funnies n reuse as wrapping paper thats 52 free sheets. Hed remove all coupons use n trade. After reading paper he'd wrap it round broomstick n secure with metal coat hanger thats 52 free fire logs per year. Then hed burn n woodburner n compost ashes. Once metal coathangrr became brittle he'd put in with scrap metal to sell to junk yard. Hen e no waste
I buy everything used or get free at donation store
For apartment dwellers not so easy
You can adapt fairly easily if you really want to. You can hang clothes in the hallway at night, or on hangers in doorways. You will be surprised at the amount of food you can grow in pots around the house, lol. Maybe not enough for a full garden, but you can grow greens, green onions, garlic, just about any herbs you can imagine...they even have things like small versions of bean plants for containers. The hardest part for me was reusable cleaning rags. At the time I was handwashing my laundry and didn't feel I was getting the rags clean enough. So I took them to the laundromat and brought them home to dry😂There are lots of little things that add up. Just find the things that work for you.
@@ladywytch129 not if your in bad health you don't know everything about the rules where I live so please take that into consideration
Common sense!!
But as the saying goes, "common sense is not common." 😅
That Grandma will only be found in a museum these days, or in an Amish community.
That Grandma never existed at this point
@@msheidiheidiho I'm right here actually har har. I am not that old, 55, I do almost all these things and have more to offer. I am not Amish, I am rural, and of the First Nations decent, or Indian if you will haha. anyway, I am a half-breed and love that I know all this stuff that somehow has become or is becoming popular :)
@angelaforsyth1092 I agree we are still out here living the life our grandparents taught us. Living with no excuses and making life good for our children's children. I raised my grand babies like my grandma raised us. And the art of family responsibilities, caring, and loving continue. It's good to hear there are others such as ourselves.
I grew up like this video for the most part, and lived most of my life in the same manner. Mostly common sense, and I own my home and both vehicles, so must have done something right 🤣
I'm from rural West Virginia and these women do still exist. I
My daughter is only nine so I'm not a grandma but I do many of these things.
Yeah, u have the right idea kiddo. However, I think ur talking to a person specific audience. Yes! Indoor drying, reuse them sheets, learn to sew. But, kiddo use baking soda for toothpaste. Buy a scrubboard. It saves even more electricity. Those old sheets can be used for reusable period pads. My grandmother didn't have "thrift stores" just buy things on Clearance. Or even better, make ur own! The rug is a great idea, until u had to beat it. 😅 just learn canning, period! We didn't have hydroponics, we just gardened. There was no plastic. 😂 use nuts for furniture scratches and then use mineral oil. Solar depends on where u live. Yes, make ur own pasta, and who doesn't save seeds? Make ur own mayo! Use oil, not candles. I still have hurricane lamps and oil on hand. Make switzel for a good refreshing drink
. A French press works well for coffee. Grandma didn't have garage sales, she had a buckboard to school. There was no freezer. So utilize ur celler. Onions, potatoes, and canned goods stay down there. And don't forget to have amenities on hand for emergencies. So if there is a natural disaster, ur not stuck with the rest of the idiots that don't know how to survive. (Btw, make candles and make shift stoves out of crisco.)
My Grandparents never had a solar overs. My Grandparents never had water bottles. Most of the things on here My Grandparents didn't have or do
Sorry to break it it to you but many had solar this and that. And water bottles the same they were called canteens or fruit bottles repurpkse. You see retro restaurants use them 😂
I'm honestly surprised at how many people say their grandparents didn't have a solar oven. My grandmother had one made from a box, black paint, and reused tin foil. Obviously she couldn't make a roast in it, but she could make biscuits, heat water for noodles, etc. It took a while but she had it going while she did other things and it wouldn't heat up the house!
All these practices are age old and being practiced in most of the rural and urban homes in India except new generation who are influenced by Western lufe style
I need help saving money for real 😭
Hi Elsmarelda, I would write down each thing I knew I'd be paying. Like phone, utilities, groceries etc.
I would write the meals I would be making and make the shopping list from the menu. I would make a menu based on my income. Didn't buy expensive snacks. I made homemade syrup, cakes, cookies. I made fried mush . Instead of cornmeal it used oats. No sugar cereals. Groceries can eat up a budget.
I would set aside money for unexpected
Drs car repairs etc. A plan keeps you from letting money slip threw your fingers.
Go on different online websites. Like combing through a budget. Try to be flexible and try new frugal tips every so often to see if that 'tip' is going to work for your lifestyle. Have been doing so for years. My latest pride is in my new place, a tourist beach town, great place, good rent price, but the groceries are sky high. Accessed pantries. Some foods I am new to, and might have to look up on the internet. Most foods, I have settled in as a single person, batch cooking as most recipes call for four servings. One for 'now'. One for seconds in the fridge. Two in the freezer. Have been adopting about each month, when I get my paycheck, to start shopping carefully for sales and of course, the foods needed immediately. This is about the first two weeks. Bread gets portioned off for sandwiches, and most in the freezer. Mayo and mustard in a bowl in the fridge. Deli meat I try to buy on sale, larger packages. Take parchment paper to seperate in about two slices, then in Ziplocks, freezer. Cabbage lasts longer in the fridge than lettuce. Red has more nutrients than green, but green does have one of the vitamins red does not. Can freeze off both lettuce(!)and cabbage. Tomatoes I slice up one for mostly a day or two's worth of sandwiches. Buy on sale. Usually in two's or maybe fours. One tomato gets sliced. Another diced and in the freezer to add to a can of soup at a later date. Same for other produce. Produce is usually cheaper in larger frozen bags during harvest seasons. Eggs some people use leftovers for quiches. For me, they go great with many leftovers as scrambled. Rice I can flavour with soups. A grocery store deli rotisserie chicken I learned is great for my tiny kitchen. Seperate the meats, divide or portion most get froze off. Chicken breasts are healthy for cats, my elderly cat I make sure she has her own 'stash'. The bones from both a rotiessre or more recently deli store fried chicken, can be used up immediately as a bone broth. A slow cooker does great for this. Can freeze off the bones until a broth ready to be made. The extra veggy scraps that are frozen off if not used with rice, scrambled eggs, can go in a soup. Look for sales of canned goods. The stores rotate out by expiration date with new stock coming in. Some go in my prepper pantry, I circle the dates and rotate my items. Will go with canned soups and my favorite, black beans. Once the canned goods go off sale, the prices can jump high. Milk I being home, sometimes a food pantry. An old trick of a pinch of salt before the fridge or freezer works well to preserve. Can also add water to milk, lemonades to extend the budget and it cuts down on sugar calories. Am mostly an oatmeal milk drinker. Love the store brands of oatmilk, but in-between, I can take about a handful of oatmeal in the blender to powder. Enough for a large glass or two. My drinking jars are Ball canning with the handles. Purchased this brand of plastic lids. Lids work great from the fridge's job to take moisture out of foods to work more efficiently. And the jars I can see through. Learned this past year how to pack a fridge, especially freezer for energy efficiency. Live in an apartment. Fridge is 30 years old. Works great. Maybe there are manuals that come with these fridges, but apartments do not hand out. Invest in about $7 each temperature gauges for both the fridge and freezer. Helped me monitor the temperature ranges, the warmer and cold spots and if the fridge door was left open all night, or the power went off, my food safety. The freezer am running out of space. As my first two weeks goal was to get enough of my food budget, some in the freezer. Includes things like frozen lemonades or butter on sale which I plastic bag. Fruits includes bananas, I slice up, portion off and make great smoothies. Especially with the homemade oatmeal milk(sometimes I add a bit of salt, honey or vanilla). Do not like coffee. Hot chocolate. Had to give you my favorite brand of caramel syrup as I enjoy flavoured coffee creamers in my hot chocolate. Have learned to tolerate powdered milk as a cheaper substitute. On my list soon to make caramel, I think a recipe calling for condensed or evaporated milk cans straight in the slow cooker with water. Lots of things. Just learn a few skills to try each month. All of this basic information, trust me, I did not learn overnight. Internet helped a lot with ideas and learning frugal skills. With savings, expect usually to do manual labour. Am not a canner. Am struggling more with breadmaking because I don't care for hand making years to rise and kneading. Dense breads and exploring. But did not realize how many types of flours and other ingredients. Kind of backburner that project right now. After scrimping and saving, and window shopping online, finally purchased a food dehydrator which I am glad I opted out of canning. Food saver is next month with some of the bags to be for that 'sous' chef boil the bag a bit in a pan of hot water. Right now, my crockpot and toaster convection oven doing ok with heating up frozen leftovers. Am choosing to store my dehydrated foods that I prefer for longer term storage in the freezer with a foodsaver. Once I had my fridge-freezer and small prepper pantry going in my recent move, it is nice to be able to 'shop from my pantry' and pull together meals, be creative. My yogurt maker I scrimped and saved for a long time, now yogurt for some of my smoothies will take organic milk I can buy on sale, get it fermented, healthier and that will stay in my fridge about two weeks. Yogurt with no chemicals and now the gadget will pay for itself soon as the cost of yogurt will be about half price. Am a person to learn new things. Have a disability that keeps me home. Miss working for wages, but this keeps me busy on positives. And my daughter and grandkids share information. She also is interested in my yogurt maker. So, not only saving money here and there, learning new frugal things that others in my family are curious. Won't get rich off my tips. But is starting to free up my budget for other needed things like specialty, expensive shoes. This is my basics and for others that had to get started, seems to match up. Almost always starts with a slow cooker. Yogurt can be made out of a slow cooker, but I decided to not go this route making yogurt. Good luck with your frugal journey endeavors. One day, one frugal tip and step at a time and you are sure to do well. 😊
During racks are good, but NOT for jeans and towels unless you enjoy the feeling of cardboard against your skin.😊
I hang them to dry, then run them through the dryer for a few minutes to fluff them up. I laugh hearing the jeans making that crunching sound stuffing them in the dryer. Oh, and socks, too😂
Unfortunately Illinois won't allow you to set up rain barrels they find you for them
Por favor. Traduzca al español. Gracias
Im a grandma, I seen only 2 things that grandma didnt do. Bottled water was invented, we used the hose, Solar power wasnt invented yet either. The rest is correct.
Wasnt invented bottle water. Opps Sry
A highly respected w😢idow neighbour raised a respectable fanily by keeping pigs and collecting scraps from neighbours. Ahead of her time
Bird feeders can also attract squirrels, raccoons and mice.
I hang up my clothes after washing them. It's healthy and they last longer.
What about eating the potato peels by not peeling potatoes
Coffee makers can't be repaired...kept the carafe,tho.
I have a family that is all about money. Hand made gifts are not good enough for them. GREED
My ex boyfriend's family were like that.
I once made an expensive Christmas gift for his brother, and not only was I accused of being cheap, the gift ended up in the bin afterwards.
I wish he just returned it to me as that was €60 worth of yarn.
I wouldn't like a wild bird in my house and I'm sure 'grandma' didn't either. They make a whole mess and dont want to be in there anyway. Having a wild bird come into your house is usually a sign of death pretty soon.
Some of these suggestions did not originate with grandma unless grandma was born in the 60s.
grandma doesn’t have arthritis ?
Can’t afford thrift store clothes. $9 for a USED, stained girls t shirt! $15 for a girls (7/8) USED DRESS!!!
I get used Tshirts from free clothing give away charity store for rags
Lol. I had several braided rugs I made from the free shirts the thrift store gives away. I also make warm rice bags for sore muscles and dog/cat toys.
This is a grandma of somebody who is now 70 years old?
Sharpen the razor blades with aluminum foil, It actually does.
If I told my grandmother I used a menstrual cup, and explained what it was, she would say OOOHHHHHH!! Imply that I'm a liar, say that's not possible, and tell me we don't talk like that. (Hell awaits the perverse). I really miss her and loved her very much.
Only use 1 glass a day.
Grandma didn't have a dehydrator
A lot of this stuff is awful.
My grandmother didn't have a reusable water bottle. She drank water out ofva glass
A solar oven?
Are you mad???
…what did grandpa do?