House Care
How to save while keeping your home functioning and looking its best.
Baking Soda Page [offsite link] A list of many uses for baking soda in cleaning and personal care. I put mine in an old cheese shaker and use in place of chlorine cleaners. Baking Soda Uses - Book Review  A review of 500 Uses for Baking Soda, and how my baking soda experiments turned out. Beat The Heat  Here are some basic concepts to help you lower summer heating costs. Borax Page [offsite link] Nice easy to use site with many uses for borax in home, beauty, garden. Build Your Own Generator [offsite link] Cool survival site with plans for building your own power generator. Buying and Cleaning Used Bedding  If you are like me, you get a thrill from discovering used luxury-level bedding and linens. I have a whole linen closet bursting with Egyptian cotton sheets, combed Pima cotton pillowcases, and the like. They feel luxurious with their superior cotton blends and higher thread counts. Cheap Cleaning  Here are some cheap cleaning ideas to keep your house sweet and eco-clean! Cheap Cooling  Here are some basic concepts to get heat up and put out of your house to save on summer cooling. Cheap Cooling - Part II  Here are more ways to cut your cooling costs this season! Cheap Eco-Cleaning Page [offsite link] Eco is also cheaper! A wonderful page of cheap eco suggestions to clean your whole house! Cheap Emergency Preparation  Here are quick cheap ways to light your home and cook during an emergency power outage! Cheap Heating  Save hundreds of dollars a month on home heating by following these simple steps. Cheap House Cleaning Basics  You really only need about five household products to run a clean and tidy home. By using basics like vinegar, baking soda and an oil-based soap for wood, you can be frugal and live more simply.
Cheap Spring Cleaning  Here are some suggestions to do all your spring cleaning in and earth friendly cheap way! Cheap Ways to Improve Indoor Air Quality  In the wintertime, things are generally chilly to downright cold, keeping you indoors, with the windows and doors shut! This is a good time of year to focus on creating a healthy indoor environment. EPSOM SALT PAGE [offsite link] Wonderful page of many, many uses for epsom salts for cleaning, gardening, and health!! How to Buy Used Blankets  Best ways to hunt for and find gorgeous, high-end used linens at thrift stores and garage sales. How to Look for Quality Used Cotton Sheets  Thread count is all the rage these days, and you can buy new sheets for absurdly high thread counts, for absurdly high fees. And while a high thread count does ensure a good feel (if finer cottons are used), you won’t make a long-term bargain out of the expense. Keep Cool in Summer´s Heat!  Here are tips to help keep cool without crazy high energy bills. Lower Your Heat Bills with a Heat Catcher  With just aluminum foil and some black latex paint you can take as much as a third off your winter heating costs. Make Your Car a Power Supply in An Emergency  You can get an inexpensive power inverter to hook to your car and generate enough power to keep refrigerators, sump pumps, and freezers running in power outages. NORTHERN TOOL [offsite link] SUPER SITE for Emergency Prep and Solar supplies. Free Shipping on many items. Proctor and Gamble Freebies [offsite link] A comprehensive P & G listing of all their laundry product and bath freebies. Shopping for Quality Used Bed Linens  When you buy used, you can afford to be a linen snob, buying only the best for your bed. Spring Cleaning  Here are cheap eco ways to Spring clean.
Start Sampling.com [offsite link] Get free samples of household products by logging in every few days and selecting a free daily sample. Ten Ways to Re-Use and Re-cycle Plastic Bags  Learn ten easy and smart ways to reuse those plastic grocery bags before recycling them for good. Vinegar Page [offsite link] All sorts of uses for vinegar at the vinegar producers page! Links marked with the [offsite link] designation point to websites not associated with BellaOnline.com. BellaOnline.com is not responsible for the material found there.
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