I dont have very many thrifty ideas but I do one thing religiously when my mom goes shopping...

as soon as she gets dryer sheets, I cut all of them in half, works just the same! I take the liquid detergent and split it into 3 bottles and add water to each. We have 6 people doing laundry and every one using full strength laundry detergent and full sheets is crazy so I do my little part to help split it up.

Mom and Dad get 1 load of their clothes + a few towels
Johnathan and his friend that lives here get their own load + a few towels
Mike and I get our own load + a few towels

and we make sure we put as much as we can in our single load so we dont have to run lots of litle loads, when we could do fewer larger loads.

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We also have a chiminea so instead of taking gross old wood that cant be used from dads construction projects, we burn it in the chiminea and use the ashes at fertilizer...its AMAZING, theres people who have had volcanic ash on their lawns from an eruption, watered it and had 3 foot grass in 2 days! so the ash from our chiminea falls into a bucket and dad uses it on his tomatoes which he has THOUSANDS of.

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We use the sun for EVERYthing in my house, we keep our shades open as long as possible for heat and light and we only use the inside lights onces its too dark to see with sunlight. my dad is really concidering getting solar panels for the house not only for electricity but to heat our water.


hope that helped!