Tablecloth Recycle

Today's quick tip. Don't throw away your holiday vinyl flannel backed tablecloth after the holidays are over. It makes a great waterproof mattress cover for a child's twin bed. The flannel clings to the mattress so that is won't slip around. Just cover it with a mattress pad or old swim towel so that your poor child doesn't sweat to death. If someone does have an accident it's super easy to throw the sheets in washer and wipe your "new" mattress cover with a disinfecting wipe (much better than having to cleaning the mattress).

More Garbage Recycling

Okay it's another quickie idea, again! I swear, after the holiday's I will sit down, and produce some quality frugal ideas. Unfortunately, right now the house is still not clean, and HOLY COW, the laundry is pouring out of the laundry room door! If I don't get on top of it today; child #3 and #4( both boys) will be wearing their sister's Hello Kitty underpants tomorrow!

I am a bread baker (and also a bread snob). Unless I can find a great deal on good quality bread at the store I like to bake my own. When I do find good sales I save the plastic bread bags to store my homemade bread in (right now Fred Meyer has been selling the Country Oven brand for $.79 - .89 a loaf. It's at its sell by date, but throw it in the freezer and your good to go. I have been finding it back by the dairy piled in shopping carts). After a while those bags start to pile up; making a mess of my pantry. Well, today as I was picking up an empty Kleenex box to toss in the trash I realized they are the perfect thing to store my bread bags in! Kleenex boxes would be great to store plastic grocery sacks, or washed out Ziploc bags, too. They hold a ton of bags, and they stack great. I have also been known to cut the tops off the boxes, and use them to organize my bill drawer. Just make sure you label your box, so someone doesn't try to blow their nose on your good reusable bags!!!

Reuse Those Mesh Bags

Okay it's just a quickie hint today because if I don't clean my house soon the Health Department's going to shut me down!! Save those mesh bags that the Cutie Clementine's come in. There have been some great sales on them at Fred Meyer's lately, and they are the perfect kid friendly fruit. My kids love them. Anyway, the mesh bags make great storage bags for tub toys. Have the kids put the toys in it when bath time is over, and hang it from your shower caddy to drip dry. If your in a pinch for a pot scrubber. You can scrunch it up, and scrub away! When your done toss it in the trash. You can store bread bags in them, too. Hang it from the pantry wall with a push pin, and your bags are easily accessible. Let your imagination be your guide!!!