Saturday Roundup: Austin edition
We're not usually big travelers, but this weekend finds us out of town for a family wedding. There's nothing frugal about traveling in a 15 passenger van when gas is $4/gallon so we'll skim over that subject and get right to readers' hacks.
Here's how readers are saving money this week:
- Colin at Daily Debt is paying off debts. One way: walking to work instead of using public transportation. The savings will buy a lot of cheese pasties. What's a cheese pasty? I don't know but somebody should ask, because Colin is saving enough to buy 1756 of them. Maybe he'll share.
- Theresa says: Don’t you just love that new car small? Well my little van is not new but I do try to take care of it and like it to look nice. Unfortunately being exposed to the elements has taken its toll and the black vinyl especially the back bumper which was looking very chalky and gray. I tried several products, such as Armor All, (which my van drank up like a parched man drinks water) but none of them took away the gray. My van was really beginning to look old and tired.
I went online to do a product search with the intent to find a magic (and probably expensive) potion or spray to make my car look new again...an automotive fountain of youth if you will. What I found was one of those Yahoo answer pages where peanut butter was recommended. Peanut butter!?! Well, I am a mom, I have peanut butter! It took me a few days to warm up to the idea mostly because I didn’t want to look like the crazy neighbor that tried to turn her car into a food group! You know the ones that show up on the eleven o'clock news
So on Saturday morning early, (before the neighbors got up) I went out to the driveway with a large blob of super food, a roll of paper towels and I slathered peanut butter on the bumper of my van, I rubbed it in, buffed off the excess and tada, it looks great and cost practically nothing! And now I have that new car smell…and that smell is peanut butter 
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8 Responses to “Saturday Roundup: Austin edition”
July 19th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Hi, Kim! I actually did a series this week on extreme frugality, but Mr. Linky is not showing up. Hope you have a good trip!
July 19th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Hello Kim-
I hope you have a great trip. I have a roundup of free homeschool curriculum sites. Mr. Linky does not appear to be working, so here it is…
http://happytobeathome.net/homeschooling-for-freehomeschooling-for-free/
July 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Whoops, I posted an incorrect link, here is the correct link…
http://happytobeathome.net/homeschooling-for-free/
Sorry about that
July 19th, 2008 at 7:36 am
I have a reader’s edition of Freebie Friday this week: http://thriftyjinxy.blogspot.com/2008/07/freebie-friday-user-edition.html
July 19th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Jeana,
Thanks for the reminder. I forgot to activate Mr. Linky after I published the post.
He should be working now.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:36 am
We discovered that peanut butter works on CD scratches, too. Unless the scratch is too deep or extensive, the peanut butter makes it play good as new. In fact, it worked when the commercial stuff didn’t!
July 20th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I have a round up of blogger giveaways!
http://bargainbriana.com/2008/07/blog-giveaways/
July 21st, 2008 at 9:51 am
Thanks for the great idea. We have jars of peanut butter at home. I’m going to try this one on my car.
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