Ready for another frugal living tip? This one I learned watching my mother wash and save margarine and Cool Whip and store-bought potato salad containers (no, I was not brought up with the pristine diet I consume now!), then use them to save leftovers and cookies. If you regularly bring containers from the store into the house – ours include coconut oil canisters, supplement bottles, yogurt cups (when I didn’t used to make it myself), and cottage cheese containers (from when I was pregnant and couldn’t eat meat) – you can save them for a variety of uses.

The video gives you just a few ideas – enjoy!

 

Best Form Of Magnesium

May 21, 2013 Nutrition

What is the best form of magnesium? Is there really a “best kind” of magnesium supplement? There is if you would prefer not to have to desperately run for the bathroom five times a day! In this video, I tell what that evil form of magnesium is, then I tell you my favorite kind of [...]

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Reusable Produce And Bulk Item Bags: Gotta Love ‘Em!

May 17, 2013 Environmental issues

Looking for reusable produce bags, or reusable bulk bin item bags? I’ve ordered some from Amazon that look quite promising (links below the video). Watch my video review for more details. http://emilyjacques.com/chicobaghemp http://emilyjacques.com/chicobagrepete

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Frugal Living Tip: Use Your Junk Mail

May 16, 2013 Frugality

In this video I share a frugal living tip my mom taught me: how to save money on notepads and notepaper by repurposing your junk mail! Sure, you can just toss it in the recycle bin, and some days that’s all you have time to do with it. But by opening your junk mail, you [...]

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How To Use Mung Beans

May 15, 2013 Healthy recipes

Over the past few years, I’ve had several people ask me how to use mung beans. Well, I suppose you can throw them in a pot of boiling water and cook them, but they don’t taste the best that way. In the video below I explain how I prepare mung beans, and our favorite use [...]

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Frugal Living Tip: Homemade Liquid Hand Soap

May 14, 2013 Frugality

This video shares another easy frugal living tip: how to make homemade liquid hand soap. It will be free of chemicals, reduce your household garbage output, and – best of all – will help you save money! Enjoy.

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Save Money On Furniture: Our Crazy-Simple Bed

May 13, 2013 Frugality

Want to save money on furniture? Looking for another frugal living tip? Well, you may not want to go to the extremes that Jerry and I do, but what we use for sleeping is not only much cheaper than the conventional way, but also much better for my sleep! Check it out in the video.

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Adrenal Fatigue? Me?

May 11, 2013 Physical health

Crunchy Coach confession time: I have adrenal fatigue. In case you are unfamiliar with that term, it refers to the compromised ability of the adrenal glands to do their job. The scary thing about it is, when the adrenal glands don’t work like they should, eventually, your other systems don’t, either. What the adrenals do [...]

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Natural, Organic Mosquito Control

May 9, 2013 Physical health

I just received the following advice about natural mosquito control in a newsletter from the north Texas organic gardening guru, Howard “The Dirt Doctor” Garrett. It is partly in response to the aerial spraying of poisons most cities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area conducted last summer, because God forbid anybody be responsible to keep down [...]

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How To Save Money On Toys

May 8, 2013 Frugality

In this video, I give you several ideas on how to save money on toys. My apologies for kind of breezing by one of the most critical ways: don’t let your kids watch commercial television! Hope you learn something!  

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