Category Archives: Save The Buck$

Good ‘Til the Last Drop

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No, I’m not talking about coffee here.  I don’t need drugs to get me through the day. I’ve got a natural high (or I just tough it out).  I’m talking about buckypaste, or better known as toothpaste.

This is a photo of my and Mr Beaverelli’s toothpaste.  Our vanity consists of 2 sinks, so each side is stocked with our own personals.  I’ll give you one guess on which tube belongs to whom.

DSC08200-001 You guessed it, the neat one on the left is the Mister’s.  Not what you expected?!  Yeah, I wouldn’t have guessed it either.Beaverelli Tip

It is now time for me to take a tip from him on the waste front…not to mention the tidy front.  I think it’s pretty self explanatory: grab a bobby pin (that is probably already laying at the bottom of a drawer in the bathroom somewhere) and nicely roll up your tube, moving it down as you go.

This is a good representation of just how lazy I am.  It really doesn’t take that much effort to make sure the tip is cleaned off.  In fact, I probably ultimately work harder because I have to twist and turn the tube to get the paste out.

I will try to be more non-wasting next time.

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Trash or Not? Save ALL Those Plastic Bags You Bring Home

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Okay, so yeah, plastic bread bags actually ARE trash when the bread is gone…but they don’t need to be thrown away just yet.

Do you ever have that awful, spoiled food smell in your garbage can in the kitchen?  You don’t notice it at first. You go off to work, then you come home to the lodge smelling like a dumpster?  There aren’t a whole lot worse smells that I can think of.

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I also take the produce bags and save them separately to use for discards when I’m cooking.  We normally try to keep bread from entering our front door because Mr. Beaverelli will go through an entire loaf in a sitting if he isn’t monitored.  His folks were visiting, so we bought some for them and this is what was left in the end.  I filled it up with the Beaverelli’s Healthy Breakfast Cheeseburger Casserole discards, tied it up and threw it away.  No more rotten food sitting in the garbage to make us gag!

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