[quote user="Gary"]  What other options are there? If incandescents use too much electricity and florescents are hard to dispose of, what choices do we have?[/quote]  Well, three points.  First of all, incandescents don't all use the same amount of electricity.  A new generation of incandescents meets the new ...

Until I read this, I had no idea there was such a thing as a Crock-Pot liner--and even now that I know they exist, I can't say I see any need for them.  I've never found cleaning the crock to be all that difficult.  Just soak it in some hot water with a squirt of soap, and then wipe it out.  Simple.

 Oo, neat!  Here are two minor recent triumphs of mine: 1) I got my two-year-old winter boots re-heeled at the local shoe shop.  I was uncertain when I took them in, because when I asked the same place about resoling my Teva sandals, they quoted me a price of $40 for the job--twice the amount I'd paid for the sandals.  ...

[quote user="cycler"] I glued individual strips of ribbon on the front (keeping the leather patch to seal the hole) and I embroidered a wider ribbon and glued that along the sides and I embroidered a small design on a new pair of shoelaces that I had in the house so now they look better than new! [/quote]  That's so ...

[quote user="seaturtle"] She gives them to me - if you mark over the addrress with a  marker, they are usuable. Some of them are 35c and 37, 9c, but others have 1 and 3 and 5c stamps on them, too. I cut out the stamps and paste them onto envelopes with a glue stick. So I never have to pay postage.[/quote]  I used to do that, ...

[quote user="Toni B."]Has anyone here made a decision to change their lifestyle and go with something totally different? What age were you when you made this change? What reaction did you get from friends and family? Was it tough making the transition? Did something happen to prompt the change? Was the change temporary or permanent? ...

 [quote user="Cinnamonhuskies"] I got a $5 bag of candy for free with a coupon that came inside a $14 dvd that ds#1 bought.[/quote] Just in time for Halloween! We went yard-saling yesterday.  Our best finds were a pair of black pants for my husband for $1, two trellis nets for our garden for $1, and a whole box of assorted ...

I selected $20-$40 in the poll because that's the amount I typically spend, but the most I ever spent was, if I remember correctly, $80.  That was the sale price--about half the regular price--for a pair of hiking boots with hemp uppers and recycled rubber treads.  I figured they would be worth the money, but unfortunately those ...

We just got a couple of applications in the mail for absentee ballots.  Apparently New Jersey is now allowing anyone to vote absentee without having to give a reason.  However, we prefer to go push the buttons in person.  It was more fun when we had the old mechanical machines and you could actually pull the lever and hear that nice ...

 It's not quite as staggering for us, because we had already paid down a good chunk of the principal.  But it does still work out to quite a lot of money over the life of the loan.  And of course, in reality we'll save even more than that, because we intend to prepay this new mortgage too (at least until interest rates get ...