How Do You Save Money By Reusing Household Items?
• Reuse old towels. Instead of buying new washcloths, hand towels, tea towels or dishrags, cut your old, thin and ragged bath towels into hand towels and dish towel-sized pieces. Once the dish towels and hand towels get to the point where they’re better off as dish rags or washcloths, cut up some of the former. When the dish rags and washcloths are too pitiful looking to be used for their intended purpose anymore, they become cleaning rags. • Cut, hem and embroider old sheets. They make lovely table doilies, table clothes, table napkins, pillow cases, curtains, neckerchiefs, and handkerchiefs. They can also be used for cleaning rags, car polishing cloths and dust rags. If 100% cotton, they can be boiled, laundered and dried, then folded and ironed for use as emergency medical bandages, sanitary pads, and diapers. What do you think they used in the olden days? • Avoid costly laundromats. Clothes can be scrubbed with any suitable or mild detergent or soap in a bathtub, sink, bucket or an
