Katherine Tapley-Milton Expert Guru

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Katherine Tapley-Milton lives with her husband, Dave, and four cats in Atlantic Canada. She graduated from Mount Allison University with a B.A. in the areas of psychology, sociology, and history and then got a two year Master of Theological Studies degree from Tyndale Seminary in Willowdale, Ontario in 1981. Katherine has been a freelance writer for the last 25 years and has been published in over 100 periodicals, ezines and websites. Recently, her book “Mind Full of Scorpions” was launched on Amazon. In May of 2005, she graduated from the BUILT’s Customer Service Representative Course in Moncton, N.B. . Her hobbies include cooking, organic gardening, and writing, reading historical romances doing crafts,etc..

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A Milk Jug Spring Garden

Take the milk jug and cut the top half off. Put large gravel in the bottom and plant some indoor bulbs. Keep the roots wet, but not the bulb. Most people use bulbs like daffodils, narcissis, or hyicynths. This should give you lovely Spring flowers in winter.

Cheap Way to Conquor Impossible Baked-on Food

Save your used Bounce fabric softener sheets and put three or four of them with some water in a baked-on casserole dish or impossible to clean frypan. Let soak overnight. This will make your pan easy to clean in the morning! If you have cast iron fry pans a paste of cream of tartar and vinegar will help cconquor the mess.

Keep Kitty Happy With Cheap Litter

Is cat litter costing you a bundle? Get a shredder and shred up all your old newspapers and flyers. Make sure that there aren't any staples left in them. Then put a dollar store litter liner in you cat's litter box, fill with shredded newspaper, and top with a small amount of gravelly litter on top to give kitty the feel she likes. If you don't have the time to shred paper then go to a professional paper shredding company. I have done this and paid $35.00 for 100 pounds of shredded paper. It's still a big bargain.
Over the years you will save a lot of $$!

How To Have a Blow Out Yard Sale!

Yard sales pop up in the spring like mushrooms and go “poof” like puff balls by the late fall. There is an art to having a blow out yard sale. The first order of business is to get pen and paper and travel through each room in your house. Evaluate everything you have and don’t get sentimental. Make an inventory of “Must go”, “Takes Up Too Much Room”, or “Can’t Part With It”. Remember that the more clutter you get rid of the bigger your yard sale profit will be. How you organize your merchandise is important. Items should not be heaped in a mess, but organized and accessible. There shouldn’t be too many things over $10.00. The junk you really want to get rid of should be priced to sell at under $2.00. Expensive things such as antiques, big household appliances, etc. are better off advertised in the newspaper or taken to a second hand store because people don’t want to pay a lot at a yard sale. Put your yard sale ad in the local newspaper and remember, that yard salers get up at the crack of dawn and often show up an hour before your starting time. Keep at least $20.00 worth of bills and change in a pouch worn around your waist so that you have your money ready for your customers and nobody steals your profits. With any luck the weather will be good and you will make some $$!

Have you been Stung?

A nasty bee sting can be swollen and painful. After getting the stigner out put some Preparation H on the sting to take the swelling down and ease the pain. If your throat starts closing off go to the Emergency Department right away!

Cheapskate Birdfeeder

No feeders for the birds? Take a milk jug and cut an oval opening. Hang up and put bird seed in it. Another idea is to take a pine cone and spread on some peanut butter. Next roll in bird seed and hang on a tree for your feathered friends to enjoy.

Easy Compost Bin

Buy four wooden pallets that companies often sell as cheap as $5.00 each and wire the corners together to make a box. In five minutes you will have an instant compost bin that is big enough for a sizable garden. You can leave one side unwired for the door if you like. Things that can be put in the compost include grass clippings, coffee grounds, tea bags,leaves, vegetable scraps, and fruit. Always mix with soil and turn from time to time. Never put things like meat or cooked products in the compost. I've had a compost for the last 20 years and it never has attracted any rodents, skunks, or racoons.

Computer Waste

Every computer always spits out extra paper that usually goes to waste. To make your own note pads fold the wasted paper in half and then in half again. Tear along the folds and you have four pieces of note paper for phone message or grocery lists. Extra computer paper can also be used to make cat litter.

Birds Stealing Your Berries?

Birds love to steal berries, especially when they are nice and ripe. To avoid this annoyance string some old CDs on a sturdy piece of twine and string it accross your garden. In my garden I also put up a plastic owl and had a scarecrow, since I had problems with the crows. This season it seems to have worked and my raspberries and strawberries were safe from the bird population.

Cheapskate Christmas Ideas

Can't afford Christmas wrapping paper after you have paid for all those Christmas presents? Take the cartoon section out of the newspaper and wrap presents up in that. It makes novel and amusing wrapping paper. I buy my Christmas presents in July and August at Yard Sales and the Salvation Army Thrift Store, so by December I can sit back and feel smug while other people have to stand in line ups.