Three Frugal Things — Free Drawer Pulls, Now with a Bonus Arm Workout!
1) My youngest started a load of laundry at the house and I offered to fold when it came out of the dryer. (They got their hours cut at work, so anything I can do to help them hold onto their meager income is helpful.) The above sock caught my attention.
Luckily I have a bag of thrifted wool “tapestry yarn” that works perfectly for sock darning. Is my technique exactly what you’d find in a tutorial? Unlikely, but it works.
The finished product looks loose and would be unpleasant to have underfoot, but the wool will felt up in the dryer and become one with the sock.
2) I sold a vintage TV tray that a neighbor gave me awhile back to sell. I’d kind of forgotten about it and was confused when I woke up to see that I’d sold a Cabbage Patch Kid something-or-other. Not really the kind of thing I normally buy to resell, as I now have to configure a custom box for shipping — which takes exponentially more time than you’d expect!
Oh well, happy to earn a few bucks.
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3) I keep driving past this abandoned drawer and thinking “I should go back for the drawer pulls.” Because at night in the rain, I thought they matched the ones in my kitchen.
It’s good to have backups.
Unfashionable though they may be, I do like them, as they’re the proper era for my 1940s remodeled kitchen. I know this from a long gone neighbor who shared some history from our 1914 bungalow.
I walked over just now and learned that they’re not really the same design. That’s okay though, as I was supplied with both a screwdriver and an excess of gumption.
I got an arm workout.
They might look filthy, but I’m guessing that a quick scrub with Barkeeper’s Friend scouring powder will bring them back to life. I’ll now hold onto to them until my next trip to Hippo Hardware to see about trading them in for a couple bucks of store credit.
The wooden drawers might be doomed for the landfill, but the handles don’t have to be.
Now your turn, what frugal things have you been up to?
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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Reused some stick-in-the-ground low fence edging to keep the cat out of a giant pot of cactus that came in the house for the winter. This inexpensive wire fencing is only a bit over a foot tall and was last used to keep the puppy from tearing limbs off a newly-planted shrub.
Trimmed up the ragged hems on DH’s work jeans so that they look a little better. Dried a load of laundry on a rack placed on the back porch. Made a double batch of chocolate pudding as an inexpensive treat.
DH and I put on a team effort to clean up the yard: I raked leaves, twigs and dead grass into a long pile that stretched the length of the yard and he mulched it up with the lawn mower. Most of our yard is dead from drought, but the fine mulch will help hold moisture whenever we get rain.