What do you do to cut expenses down?

Thats when I am most likely to use the dryer.....as a heater. Double dip!!!

I only use my dryer when I can't hang out clothes for whatever reason.

My 2 largest bedrooms, both have clothes lines inside. I only use my outside clothes line for towels, sheets or when I'm in a rush to dry stuff fast on a hot day. I'm too lazy to go there. I just go straight onto hangers and use my inside lines. When dry, they can go straight into the closets.....already hung up. Sometimes I hang a few batches and go to sleep for the night and seeings as I use a fan to sleep for the noise and the air is hitting the clothes, I wake up to a few batches of dry clothes. Might just have some wet pockets on jeans is all.

i didn't have a clothes line outside or a place to put one so i hung a dog chain between two trees, put the clothes on hangers as i take them out of the washer and hang on the links of the chain. works like a charm, dry and ready to hang in the closet. doesn't work worth a darn on sheets but towels and hanging clothes do great.

Good idea!

Its funny I'm up so early because I had trouble sleeping for knowing I had boiled down the turkey bones for broth from Christmas dinner. I was at it until about 8:00PM and then uncovered to cool and continued to stir, until I finally got up in the wee hours to remove all the bones and cartilage and other pieces you just don't want in your mouth.
So the next several batches of egg drop soup I will make will be larger than usual and will be closer to home.

Reading this I am thinking about that cartilage and small bones. I have a very large colander that I will stuff with my bird carcass and lower into my big canner.
I fill the canner with water, onions, garlic, carrots, celery and whatever else I have on hand...poultry seasoning, oregano, Rosemary, whatevs.
When it's time I can lift the carcass out and stick it on the sink to cool. Then I pick it by hand and add back into the stock and veggies.
How do you do it in your household?

I cut dryer sheets in half but use wool balls most of the time.

Just today, my son and I were at the community garden. Someone tossed whole tomato plants and perfectly good sweet peppers in there! I skimmed off the top, finding lots of cherry tomatoes and a dozen peppers. My 4 yr old son needed help understanding that some folks just get tired of the labor by late summer and give up or don't know what to do with the excess. He decided he was going to make 'pepper pie' when we got home and even though neither of us know what that is, , I let him use a paring knife to cut them all into strips for fajitas or omelets. Whatever is left goes to the chickens.

We also use rainbarrels, make our own compost, and vegetable garden in every spot possible.

More when I think of it...

For the past two years, the kids and I have enjoyed looking for ditch asparagus in the spring. We have some really good finds with mature crowns! The best part...neither of them ever said they didn't like it. They were caught up in the excitement of the foraging to even think that anyone has an aversion to it.

My husband enjoys morel hunting every year and is also an experienced hunter of game. After 14 years of marriage, I've come to rely on that meat in the freezer every year.

Ditch asparagus? Wow - I need to start hunting for that. Not sure if it grows wild around here or not. We do have a bunch of cattails up on the main road that I've been wanting to raid. We also have lots of chickweed, purslane and curly dock that's free for the pickin'!