by Texas Homesteader ~
I store lots of dehydrated food in my pantry. Chalkboard labels would make it easier to read the contents of jars on the shelves. I didn’t want to buy them, and luckily I didn’t have to. You’re not gonna believe how easy this is to make chalkboard labels for canning jars yourself for CHEAP. #UseWhatchaGot!
by Texas Homesteader ~
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It seems everyone wants to tread a little lighter on the earth – I love that! Are you searching for environmentally-friendly gifts for your friends? Handmade items are all the rage this year.
Below are sustainable gift ideas for your green-minded friends and family.
by Texas Homesteader ~
Paper napkins in my paperless kitchen?? Oh yeah, it’s still easily possible y’all. And it’s FREE! Come check out this handy Homestead Hack.
by Texas Homesteader ~
In order to both live as well as work here on our beloved homestead, RancherMan & I have to be very careful with our money. Oh sure we could just give up on our dream & go back to the corporate world. Then we’d have as much money rolling in as we used to! But that’s not our life and it’s not our dream. And the beautiful thing is that it’s not even a sacrifice to us to be mindful of where our money goes if it means we get to live a life that’s true to our hearts!
I know many of you are also mindful of your finances and my hope is this post about 5 frugal things this week gives you some encouragement. Let’s dive in!
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As much as I hate it, plastic is EVERYWHERE! Replacing plastic with an eco-friendly option doesn’t have to be expensive or difficult. Come see 7 easy ways I’ve been able to reduce plastic in our kitchen, mostly for FREE!
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I repurposed an empty coffee can to make a cute flour canister to store bulk flour. And a reusable chalkboard label makes it look nice in my kitchen too. I love the way it turned out – score another one for zero-waste repurposing!
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Sometimes I need a can of cherry pie filling for a recipe. But DANG have you priced that little can of filling? And there’s often lots of filling but precious little actual cherry in those cans.
But it’s simple to make your own gluten-free pie filling using canned or frozen cherries.
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Cleaning – we’ve all gotta do it #amiright??!! My favorite cleaner is much simplified from my younger days.
Back then I’d prance down the highly-scented cleaning aisle picking up whichever cleaner spray had the most eye-catching label.
But I recently wrote about how cleaning has become complicated. So my cleaner of choice these days is a repurposed spray bottle with soap & water.
But sometimes when I’m using that cleaning spray and I’m closer to the bottom of the mixture I have a hard time getting it to spray.
I mean, when you tilt that bottle and the spray nozzle attachment doesn’t reach all the way into the cleaner, whaddya do?
Oh I’m so glad you asked. Check out this homestead hack, y’all.