cheap ideas under ten dollars

Rbarnes55 asked about making a list of cheap supplies. I will start the list with stuff I know is under ten bucks and where I get them. Everyone, PLEASE add your cheaper items and lets keep it simple, and CHEAP.

Dollar store, dried beans, rice, canned beef, chilli, soups, ramen soup mix, dry milk, toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizers, personal cleaning items. Tea, coffee, sweetner. Coffee filters for water filters only. Bleach, laundry supplies. Plastic totes, lidded garbage cans, for water storage, you MUST keep water in dark and cool.

I did buy each for person in the home, three towels, three wash rags, and three hand towels, three changes of tough clothes, work clothes like, 12 pairs of socks, 12 underwear and one extra pair of boots.

Sav a lot, canned veggies, spam, dry beans, rice, BIG bags of beans 50 LB, they have big bags flour, meal, rice also. Salt cured ham, keeps a year with no fridge.

Walmart, awful place but, solar lights, coleman fuel, coleman parts, small arms ammo, shotgun, 22 rifle ammo. They too high on 30 caliber stuff.

northern tools, Solar lights, sealed ammo cans, they are $12 but worth it for food storage. Duct tape, tarps, wheat grinder, corn grinder, hand water pump, tools. Look em on net.

Harbor freight, Solar lights, 12 volt jump start units, solar chargers and more of the same, and look em up also.

Local coop, or tractor supply company, white salt blocks, fifty LB for $3.50 Rubber water troughs to catch rain water.

Please everyone, add your ideas and place to get them. We are a scattered group, few of us seem to be close to another member. Our shopping places will vary.

Zoe, I expect a question from you on the three towels, but you from the South so you may know the answer.

Well, I just thought of what you might be alluding to.

Personal hygiene...as in toilet functions?

I wonder if I am the only person on this site, that knows from personal experience.
Everybody has to use lime at the outhouse, it all stinks.

Dollar Tree (everything is 1.00) I found alot of over the counter meds, all generic brands, but have the same ingredients as: Tylenol, Motrin (both adults and kids liquid), Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Pepto Bismal, Loratadine 5ct., lots of vitamins 30ct. multi, C, echinachia (sp?), garlic, many others, muscle rub, cortizone cream, alcohol 1.00/2, peroxide 1.00/2, sunscreen, latex medical gloves 10ct, plastic gloves 100ct, duct tape, 4ct. batteries AA, AAA, C, D, 9v (9v is only 2ct). hand sanitizer, anti bacterial hand wipes 40ct. they had face masks but they were the wood shop type 10ct.

Dollar General: generic Benadryl 1.50, anti-diarhea pills 30ct. 3.00, $5.00-15lb cat food & dog food, cheap toilet paper 6pk 1.00 and papertowels 3pk 1.25. Also have choldrens vitamins 60ct 2.00 and One A Day for adults 3.00 several types, 1.00 baby wipes, canisters of drink mix 1.50.

Don't but matches, buy a zippo, some flints and fluid, matches are trouble.

Hey Steve, I didn't steal your ramen idea, I been eating them since you was just a twinkle in your grandpappy's eyes.

I have begun making my own body wash toweletts according to a helpful
post a while ago. It involves cutting a paper towel roll in half (a messy job,
anything better to do this with than a large serated knife?) This process
leaves lots of small pieces of paper that come off the cut edges.

Then I soak the towels in a cup of water, baby oil and shampoo. Store them
in an airtight container.

I was wondering if there was anything I could add (alcohol, hyd. peroxide,
antibacterial liquid soap, bleach?) to make these wipes into antibcterial
wipes, rather than just cleanup body wipes.

Thanks. Rocky

dollar store..lemon juice 2 for a dollar....

1st post;

Careful buying stuff at Dollar General, sav-alot etc. Much of their stuff is cheap because it is close to expiration date (got lightly burned myself before I learned to check experation dates and/or "born on dates"). This is particularly important with things like meds and BATTERIES. Only just found this site so if this has been mentioned before, pardon my ignorance.

Rocky, I bought a cheap electric knife At Wal-mart to cut my Bounty rolls in half.  It works very easy and lasted a very long time.

Here's what I have written down in my notes for Bounty bleach wipes but I think the water amount is too much, I'd start with a cup and 1/2 and let it set for a while, then if you needed more you can add more.   I make these occassionally and plan to start using them again but I clean now mainly w/vinegar and water:

CLOROX clean-ups

 

1 roll of BOUNTY paper towels (Must be Bounty)

3 cups water

3/4 teaspoon bleach

 

Boil (or use very hot water) and pour over paper towels.  Can transfer some to plastic baggie for travel. 

 

Also, for those of you with an Aldi's in range...they are cheap, food is of good quality, and the expiration dates are lengthy.

 

Scooter -- I store oatmeal either in glass jars with bay leaves or in airtight buckets with oxygen absorbers. If you store it in glass jars, freeze it first (for a few days) to kill any bugs that might be in it. -- Libby