How To Un-Shrink Clothes. Editor’s note: I updated this post because so many readers added in their ideas.
Read and become enlightened…and…unshrunk. I do laundry with a certain level of ferocity. If I can’t bleach something into submission, I’ll stick it in the dryer on high heat until it screams “Uncle!” While I recognize this is probably foolish, I didn’t really care until I shrunk my Juicy Couture velour pants. The most comfortable item I own! Here’s the HOW-TO: Fill a sink with lukewarm water and add a capful of baby shampoo into the water. Let the item soak in the baby shampoo water and gently work it through. Remove the garment from the shampoo water and gently squeeze it out. Take a large towel and lay the clothing flat on it. Roll the towel up with the clothing inside it. Your goal is to absorb the extra moisture, so your clothing is damp but not wet. Then, get another dry towel and put the piece of clothing out on the dry towel. Gently stretch the clothing item as it lays out to dry. Michelle Gowersays:
101+ Real Life Cheats & Hacks! Why You Should Stop Eating Out So Much. We’re not telling you anything new when we say we all eat out too much.
The bill is always higher than estimated, and we feel stuffed to death after. We’ll prove to you it’s a bad deal, and give you 4 easy ways to wean you off the restaurant. The rise of the sit-down, mid-priced chain restaurant happened too long ago for most Primer readers to take notice. But in the grander history of human eating, it’s a relatively newfangled trend.
Before the American diet got balled by the chain, eating out was either a necessity for travelers or a luxury for revelers. But anyone who balances their budget or steps on the scale with any degree of conscientiousness knows that this isn’t true. Okay, not really, but eating out at chain restaurants is certainly among the biggest money wasting opportunities available in the 21st century. Restaurant Markup The markup between what a restaurateur pays for food and what you pay for food is astonishing. What Should I Do With My Life? The Universal Packing List. 50 Creative, Cheap Ways to Have Fun. “Never let lack of money interfere with having fun.”
~Unknown Back when we were young, we may have asked our parents for money to do things, but more often than not, we found creative ways to have fun without spending a dime. At least I know I did. My cousins and I turned their bulkhead cellar doors into a slide—and the main attraction of our DIY amusement park. We turned cardboard paper towel rolls and rice-filled soda bottles into instruments, and entertained ourselves for hours on end. We didn’t wait for overtime or vacation weeks to have fun.
I highly doubt I’d spend one of my adult Saturdays banging on a homemade coffee can drum, but there’s something to said for getting a little creative with your downtime. If you’re looking for some cheap, creative ways to enjoy the weekend—or perhaps an upcoming weekday you’ve chosen to liberate—I recommend: Have Fun Outside. What You'll Wish You'd Known. January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school.
I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? What are the most useful websites on the web? : AskReddit. T-Bucket's Wacky Tips to Survive Being Broke in a Recession - T-Bucket. 1.
Put an egg in your Ramen. Why you should travel young - Converge. As I write this, I’m flying.
It’s an incredible concept: to be suspended in the air, moving at two hundred miles an hour — while I read a magazine. Amazing, isn’t it? I woke up at three a.m. this morning. Long before the sun rose, thirty people loaded up three conversion vans and drove two hours to the San Juan airport. 25 clever ideas to make life easier. Via: amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com Why didn’t I think of that?!
We guarantee you’ll be uttering those words more than once at these ingenious little tips, tricks and ideas that solve everyday problems … some you never knew you had! (Above: hull strawberries easily using a straw). Via: apartmenttherapy.com Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes. Via: unplggd.com Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40 (also works on walls). The Perfect Massage - Q by Equinox - StumbleUpon. Learn to give a mind-blowing rubdown.
(You can both thank us later). Thursday, September 8, 2011. Get Rich Slowly - Personal Finance That Makes Cents.