Coffee Filters

Happy thrifty day to ya'll!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are staying cool. I think you could fry an egg on our sidewalk. As you can see we are going to talk about coffee filters. A lot of the time we think about things for one use only. This picture is from an article in an old Real Simple magazine.

You can see they have used filters to separate mugs or bowls. This might be helpful when you are packing to move or you have too many and need to store them. What about using filters for popcorn? You could keep a stack of them handy to separate popcorn and not have to mess up a whole bunch of bowls.

They have used them to make a little sachet for baking soda to put in your fridge or closet. This article also indicates coffee filters are better for cleaning windows or mirrors because they don't leave lint on the clean surface. Now who would have thought of that?

You may have other ideas for them too. You never know where you will get useful information. It doesn't always have to be on the internet. LOL!

Well, that's the news from Thrifty Sissy today! Ya'll have a blessed week and remember to stay thrifty!!!

Thrifty Magazines

Happy Summer days to you all!

Today's thrifty post is about one of the most expensive things we still enjoy... Magazines! Before Pinterest was born and I still worked one of the treats I gave myself was getting a magazine at the grocery store every week. Of course that was before I became a Thrifty Sissy. LOL!

When you can look on line with Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook it's hard to justify paying $5.00 and up for a magazine filled with advertisements. So I don't because of that, plus I had rather spend my money else where.

I go to the library pretty much every week and I have seen the rack of magazines they have. I've never really wanted to spend time there thumbing through magazines when I like to have a cup of coffee with them at home in my favorite chair.

But just the other day I asked if you could check them out and to my surprise they said yes. Oh my word! That just made my day. I gathered up the five you were allowed to check out at one time and rushed home to get my cup of Joe and settle in to enjoy.

If I happen to see something of interest I just get out my phone and snap a picture of it. Listen it doesn't get any better than this. This will definitely get the "Thrifty Award" of the year. While you can't check out the most recent magazine who cares. You can get them later but you can still go home with five magazines.

Needless to say I'm happier than a pig in slop. LOL! If you are a magazine lover go on down to the library and get some to enjoy this week. Remember to" stay thrifty" and enjoy your week!!

Safety Tip for Girls!

Hello Friends,

I'm glad you stopped by today because I have a safety tip for just us girls.

When we get to the grocery store or Target or really anywhere they have a shopping cart we have to think safety. All of us carry a purse and when we get our cart the first thing we do is open up the child's seat and plop our purse in it. That's all good and well but when we begin to focus on our grocery list we can forget about our purse.

If we really get distracted with a bargain rack we might even walk away from our cart and our purse without even thinking about somebody taking it. First of all we need to make sure our purse is zipped or snapped closed to keep someone from grabbing our wallet right out of it.

As we are getting our cart and reaching for one of those sanitizing wipes to get the cooties off the handle we need to grab the little child's seat belt and buckle our purse to the cart. It only takes a minute to avert any potential disaster.

Its' sad to have to think about someone taking something that doesn't belong to them but it happens way too many times. It's even a good idea to leave our purse buckled onto the cart until we have put our purchases in the car and are ready to return the cart to the cart storage area.

A theft can happen in the store but also in the parking lot when you have your head stuck inside the trunk trying to get everything loaded in.

I hope this will help someone. It only takes a minute to do this and we don't even want to think about all the mess that comes with the loss of our purse.

Have a wonderful "Thrifty" week and remember to buckle up in the car and in the cart!!!