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If I'm not mistaken its design is called a handkerchief vase
I'm totally going to try that bread! I like to use bacon grease to grease the bowl for the bread dough.
Something I am working on “just” recently is knitting. My sister gave me a huge garbage size bag full of yarn of all colors and textures. I decided to knit scarves and hats. We make up ziplock bags filled with misc things like toothpaste, toothbrushes, snack bags or bars, mittens, hand sanitizers, socks etc to donate around December. We collect things here and there when on sale. The homemade scarves can be added to the bags and / or Christmas family donations. I should be done before December
Mom use to keep left over chicken or Turkey broth from the bones for Christmas Day Soup,or gravy.
The jar way. Water,flour,and baking powder or soup stock.
On Halloween, she used black construction and made a pumpkins face on an orange lamp we had.
She turned it on when it got dark.
Sharen
It's Fenton Made in Williamstown, WV not in Ohio
Not so much a repurpose but rather a use for beans that many people aren't aware of. At the end of the season we are often left with green beans on the plants that have gotten too large and tough to eat, of course, we save some dried beans to use as seeds for next year's crop. But few people realize that after the green beans have dried completely you can shell them and use the dried seeds the same way you use dried kidney beans or any kind of dried bean. We average 3 or 4 lbs of ¨free¨ dried beans that I can add to my frugal pantry. Another unexpected use, after you have harvested your sweet potatoes you can also eat the leaves. I just prepare them the way I would any cooked green. One sweet potato plant provides a lot of very healthy greens. Note please that regular potato leaves are NOT edible. Sweet potatoes are NOT a potato, real potato leaves are NOT edible. Another great repurpose we have done is making a greenhouse out of old windows. We just curb shop for the windows, it took a couple of years to get enough but it was well worth the wait. The roof is old pole barn skylight panels that we scrounged when we saw farmers replacing their pole barn roofs. The old windows are so charming, the greenhouse works great and it keeps stuff out of the landfill and keeps us from having to produce more products.
We found used lumber on the side of the road that was from a deck. We used it to build an addition to our shed. It was $4000 worth of lumber. I got really good at pulling out nails
When my son was little, we used to go ‘junking’ a couple of towns over.
He would be on the lookout from his car seat for things that looked cool.
We found a teeny tiny wheelbarrow that he used to help me in the garden. When he got to big to use it, I took it apart, refinished it, drilled holes, and use it as a planter in my garden. I always think of our adventure when I see it.
I also ‘junked’ an entire farmhouse of old large windows. I couldn’t believe they were just being thrown out. We brought them up to my dad and with my vision, and his skills, they were turned into beautiful trellises for my flowers.
I plant black eyed Susan vines on them every year. 😊😊😊
Why would someone put such a beautiful bowl out for the trash? We bought a new bed, I told my husband, we can use the metal frame. It had hinges in the middle, we "folded" it into an upside down u and used it in the garden to grow squash and cucumbers. I'm always trying to find other uses for something before I throw it away.
I got a Melissa and Doug toy for free because it was missing some magnets. . Pictures of the pieces in the actual size were printed on the back of the toy. I took a photo of the pieces-with my phone and printed it out in color for free at the library. I glued them to refrigerator magnets given away by a local business and cut them out. You cannot tell which pieces I made and which came with the toy originally. My granddaughters love that toy.
I buy internet minutes on my phone card. Can you shorten your intro and help me save minutes?
I love the video and all the great ideas!
That looks like hobnail glass, but is beautiful!
Totally you!
I found some large glass jars with lids.
I use one for storing my homemade toilet bowl cleaner tabs.
The other is used for storing lentils.
My new favorite old is a small clipped article from 1940s I recently found between my grandmother's cookbooks. Pantry cakes. It didn't give any recipes, but it reminded women that you can make crumble cakes (thick pie crust bottom, some filling or thick jam and crumble on top) and store them airtight in cooler pantries and you can serve them up piece at a time for a month. As they are largely sugar, flour and lard/butter – they age well and harden up enough to cut them neatly. They were suggestions of making 2 cakes with different filling and cutting them up in portions so you can give your family a piece of cake every other day with their soup to cheer them up. I think it is actually a very nice idea, because most recipes suitable for it, like poppyseed cake, tend to be quite sweet and wholesame so you cut them in rather small pieces per serving. Goes well with the patch cooking too.
Love the idea of an apron with pockets ❤️🙌👍 I always have items I need to pick up and take to other rooms to put away. I’m going to try it thanks! (Also I gotta confess I am not loving our frugal journey right now. I’m burnt out. Do you have any tips or videos that give advice on that?)
Dear Emmy, I am baking every weekend bread or bread rolls. I love to do this. Your recipe looks great! I will try it! My first frugal blessing "for free" is to use the old garden of my parents in law, who died 6 years ago. In this big garden we grow lots of potatoes, peas, beans, cale and so much more for our great family. It is always a family event when we are there and share all the harvest. Yesterday, for example, we harvested 30 kg of potatoes, tons of apples and plums and planted 5 big rows of little strawberry plants (for free from my own garden), garlic and winter salads. Our second frugal blessing was a little sports equipment, which we have got for free from a neighbour. Now we can do some exercises in our pantry in the basement of our house. By the way, you are looking so beautyful with your hair❤.
I just bought a decorative clear glass bowl and a green glass vase from the Dollar Tree. I am going to turn the vase upside down and glue the bowl on top. I can put a battery tealight inside the upside down vase. Whalla, I will have a pedestal bowl that I can fill with candy or Christmas greenery and the pedestal base will have a soft light. Bowl and vase cost me $2.50 total.
My husband cleaned out a rental and was taking the contents to the dump. I asked him to pull a glass top coffee table (the glass was broken) off of the trailer. It was carved pretty around the top and I removed the legs and built shelves and placed from side to side, painted and repurposed into a beautiful spice rack. I use a lot of spices so it was perfect.
Bread Recipeand step by step demo was amazing. The 1st 2/3rds talking was difficult for Me to follow. Bow. Is beautiful. Looks like fluted hob nail mm depression milk glass.good find.
My husband wore a big hole in one of our fitted sheets with his feet. It was 100 percent cotton and quite pretty. I cut it into sqares, hemmed the edges and made over a dozen cloth napkins with it!
Love you channel and the video! I love that bowl! One mans trash is another mans Treasure.
In preparation for Grid Down, examples and recipes using NO electricity or commercial fuels, and rather, other means such as open fire, twig hobo stove, fireplace etc. would be VERY helpful! That time and need IS coming!
I think your bowl is Fenton vintage glass. There are similar ones on EBay that are also unmarked. The antique stores near me (NE Georgia) have Fenton glass. What a treasure you found!!
This was such a great video today. Full of wonderful ideas. We had a piece of plywood we used for a homeschool desk. We all signed it. We took the desk down but saved the piece of wood. We got a new puppy that needed crate training, but no room for the crate. Took out the end table I was using and cut the wood piece down and attached it to the top of the crate that we already had and made a nice crate/table.
Hi Emmy, I made the bread this afternoon. I’m not an experienced cook but some of your recipes have been ‘game changers’ for me so I was happy to give it a go. I made it with wholemeal flour and I didn’t have the right size tin but I was thrilled with the result nevertheless. Your clear explanations make it so easy. Thank you 👍. Petra xx
The senior apartment building that I live in has something that I call the Community Table in our community room. People put items on it ranging from food to clothing, books to cookware, all free for the taking. A couple of my favorite treasures are a little painted wooden house with a crow perched on top, a set of felt owl ornaments, and a mug from a local restaurant where I've spent many a happy lunchtime with friends.
Liking your hair Eemy
You saved me from going to the store with your oatmeal bread recipe! I'm making chicken noodle soup for dinner and was thinking I needed to go buy a box of saltines. With prices today, I'd pay two to three dollars. Since I bake regularly, I had all the ingredients on hand. I used my bread machine, so my work time was just a few minutes. The recipe you linked includes bread machine instructions. I just began a No Spend Week this morning, so you helped me not spend and I'll have a yummy loaf of bread. Win win! ❤️❤️❤️
My neighbor tossed out 3 tomato cages. They were brand new with the tags. I actually needed tomato cages because ours didn’t make the move with us last year. I was thrilled! $45 saved.
Love your beautiful fall colored top! My most recent 'fix it up' story is with a purse. I wanted a new purse for this coming winter, and found a very cute, stylish, black and white Rossetti purse at the thrift store for $1! As I got to the check out, I saw that one of the fabric sides had a coffee stain on it. For a dollar, I decided to try to get it out. Sure enough, my wet Norwex cloth took the stain out in 30 seconds! The inside lining needs a little stitching in one place, but that will be easy to do by hand. Hello cute 'new' winter purse! Also, our son needed some more storage in his room, and I'd been thinking a 6 section cube shelf would work well. While walking this summer, I FOUND one out for the garbage! I heard the trash truck on a nearby street, so I hurried home to get the car. Even though the shelf unit needed cleaned and tightened, it was just what we wanted. Husband and son cleaned and tightened it, and it looks like new! Another example for our young adult son that God provides!!
I reuse my large birdseed bags and guinea pig hay bags to collect recyclables and bring them to our local Green Truck for ♻️ recycling.
My home here in the uk is filled with thrifted and gifted. My father always used to say, an item to have needs to tell a story. I always used to make up the coal fire when I was a child, I taught my 6 year old grandson how to clear and build a fire today. Absolutely love your account, I wish I found you earlier as I was in beautiful New York last spring.
Funny story: in my area people put things out by the road when they don't want it anymore. Not a special day or time. I saw some plastic chairs with a wooden table at bottom of hillside house. I was going to pick it up. Saw couple days again. Saw someone mowing the house on the hillside and stopped just to be sure. The nice woman answered door and I asked about the items. She said they were there for her children to wait for the bus. I explained I almost took them and she laughed and said she would put up a sign "bus stop". She then explained the chairs were on clearance at Walmart and their location in store. Here plastic chairs are $30/each this year. I would not pay that. These chairs were $5/each. I went to Walmart and got few $5 chairs. I am so glad I did not take those items!
I love that you saved that beautiful, blue bowl from the trash! And that bread looked amazing – I'm inspired to bake bread when I'm out of the loaf I'm currently eating. Thanks Emmy & Paul!
great find
is it Fenton?
Wow! I can’t believe anyone would put that bowl in the garbage! It’s beautiful! It reminds me of the Fostoria glassware that my grandma collected. Hers was clear but it had that same raised pattern. 😊
Fenton is correct!!!
SCORE!!!!
Fistoria is the name of the bowl.
The joy of being a frugal person- love that!
As a lover of Fenton glass, I think your bowl is a Fenton piece.It sure is pretty,good for you Emmy! Love your channel,from Indiana ♥️👵
Oatmeal bread looks delicious!!. I will definitely make.
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Always wanted one of those big wooden welcome signs, just last month a neighbor put one out in the trash! Love it!
We have bulk pick up once a month. My son found a big TV a few years ago and just needed to put a new cord on it and it still works.
Love your posts. Retired and enjoying. Your bowl looks like Fenton glass. Might be an imitation. Blessings for your wonderful ideas.
Our neighbor called us and said her sister was redoing their backyard. We were gifted three large terra cotta planter pots…one even has an awesome lemon tree.
How nice that your beautiful glass bowl had found a new loving home!
I love your new bowl. It is beautiful. Lots of good suggestions in the video. My family was getting together for a monthly jigsaw puzzle night, but stopped when covid hit. We need to get back to that. One thing I wanted to ask you is if you found another purpose for the containers that walnuts and almonds come in. I've seen them in your grocery hauls and I buy the same ones. I was trying to think of what to do with the containers so they don't end up in a landfill. Maybe something for Christmas giving? Any ideas Emmie and Paul? Great video, I need to try the bread.
I'm fairly certain that blue glass vase is Fenton hobnail…retails about 75 dollars. Great find.
Went to an Estate Sale and on the last day was gifted for free, many, like new popular author books for our neighborhood sharing table library.