Homemade doesn’t have to be hard! Here are 10 ideas for homemade items that can be made by just combining a couple things.
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Energy Bites Make Ahead Mix
Make your own energy bites mix using this simple recipe. This DIY mix will make four batches of energy bites and can be customized in 3 different flavors.
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No Melt Suet Cakes For Birds
Make your own suet cakes for the birds using this No Melt recipe that creates a suet cake dough that should not melt in typical summer or warm winter weather.
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How to Clean and Descale A Shower Head the Natural Way
Give your shower head a natural cleaning with vinegar to remove limescale, calcium, and other build up of mineral deposits. It will look like new again when you’re done!
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2 Ingredient Cream Cheese Salsa Dip
This delicious dip is always a crowd pleaser and goes together quickly with just two simple ingredients.
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How To Clean Stubborn Marks Off A Whiteboard
When you need to clean a whiteboard with marks and stains that won’t erase, try these simple DIY remedies and your whiteboard will be clean once again.
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Easy Beans & Rice For Two
This simple small batch beans and rice strategy is a great way to not only eat frugally, but healthfully too.
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Can You Make Your Own Magic Erasers?
This DIY hack is a great money saving strategy for homemade magic erasers. Learn how using a melamine sponge will work just like a magic eraser!
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Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
One of my favorite recipes for a soft and tasty cookie that blends the rich flavors of oats, brown sugar, and flaked coconut.
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DIY Oil Soap Soft Scrub
Several years ago I learned that making your own soft scrub was a super easy thing to do. Basically you just mix baking soda and dish soap, although if I’m feeling fancier I love to make my homemade lemon soft scrub too. I’ve grown accustomed to always keeping a batch of my money-saving homemade soft …
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3 Ways to Jazz Up Plain Rice
Rice is a staple in most households that are trying to save a buck or two. You can usually buy a good size bag for a little over a dollar. But then what? Do we just have to face that pile of plain rice with our meals if we want to save money? Thankfully I’ve …
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Make Your Own Pudding Mix
One of the things I love about homemade mixes is their versatility. Once you have the basic formula, you can keep streamlining, tweaking, or adapting as you find what you find works the best for you. The homemade pudding mix recipe that I’m sharing today is a good example of this too. It can be …
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Homemade Taco Seasoning Blend
Maybe you’ve heard it said before that the one thing you can count on in life is change. The older I get the more I find that to be so very true. Things just don’t stay the same . . . and that can even be true for making your own taco seasoning! My original …
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DIY Cloth Napkins from Upcycled Fabric
Note from Bev: This is a guest post from Helen at HelloSewing.com She’s sharing her tutorial for 10-minute cloth napkins from upcycled fabric which is a frugal and simple way you can make your own napkins and reduce waste too. Enjoy! Isn’t it great when you can repurpose something you don’t need anymore and turn …
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6 Easy Homemade Cleaning Sprays
In a previous post I shared how I made a set of color coded glass spray bottles for my homemade cleaning sprays. The spray bottles I bought came in a set of six and guess what? I basically have six favorite types of DIY natural cleaning sprays that I use so it all came together …
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DIY Color Coded Glass Spray Bottles
Most of the time I’m happy to be resourceful and get by with whatever I have around to use instead of buying something new. This had definitely been the case with the spray bottles for all my homemade cleaners. I was always just grabbing whatever cheap spray bottle I already had in my stash. And …
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Updated Raisin Quick Bread
Quick breads may be a rather old fashioned treat, but it’s a treat I still very much enjoy and make all the time. One of my favorite recipes was my grandmother’s – the classic raisin brown bread that every good homemaker made back in the day. Once before I’ve written about this recipe and even …
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Anti-Static Fabric Softener Dryer Spray
When it comes to homemade recipes, I love to find simple ones that are just a matter of mixing a couple of things together. In fact every summer I celebrate some of these recipes with my annual DIY For Dummies List of things you can make with just 2 ingredients. And when one of those …
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