Swagbucks and Bing Rewards

If you are searching anything online and not getting rewarded, you are seriously missing out. Swagbucks was the first rewards search site I signed up for years ago. Since signing up I have gotten lots of great rewards, Macys gift cards, Amazon gift cards and even cash via PayPal. You literally get something for nothing. When put like that, not signing up seems pretty silly, doesn't it? It's free to join, so there's nothing to lose.

Bing Rewards is the second rewards search site I belong to. I have to admit, I use this one more often now. I feel like the actual search results are better. If you ever use Bing's search engine and you're not a member, it's like losing money! There are lots of different rewards, I always redeem my points for Amazon gift cards though. Like Swagbucks, Bing Rewards is free to join.
Google better step their game up...

Insta-Cold Beverage!

Ok, so It's not instantaneous, but it is a relatively fast way to get your drink cold.

When I buy beverages, I have a shelf where I store all of the ones that are not going immediately into the refrigerator. I just don't have room in the fridge to keep them all cold all the time. Now I do this all the time, I take the last cold drink of mine out of the fridge and forget to replace it with a few more of the same kind. Usually it's energy drinks for me, since I'm a total caffeine addict and don't really love coffee. So when I wake up in the morning, I go straight for a Mountain Dew Orange Kickstart or a Sugar Free, Zero Calorie Xyience Frostberry Blast Xenergy. So with that aforementioned caffeine addiction fully kicking in the morning, I'm fairly devastated if I don't have any cold energy drinks.
Somewhere along the way I learned a trick to quickly make a warm beverage cold. I take 2 pieces of paper towel and fold them at the tear line making 1 double thick sheet. Then I run them under cold water, ringing out any serious dripping, while still leaving them really damp. I fold the paper towel so when I wrap it around the can it's totally covered without a lot of overhang. Then, I place the wet paper towel wrapped can in the freezer for about 10-15 minutes and ShaZam! Nice cold energy drink! It can be done with any kind of drink, just make sure you don't forget about it and have it explode!

Best Stain Fighter $1 Can Buy

I came across this tip on Pinterest, of course the holy grail of household pointers. I think we all know though that some things just don't work as well in practice as the pins claim. This one though, was a huge success.
I'm talking about Fels Naptha. I found a bar for about a dollar on Amazon and it shipped free. I looked on Amazon today though and their prices seem to have gone up. I've heard that Walmart carries it for around $1 too, but I've never seen it at my local Target. This little bar is seriously a stain fighting miracle. After I opened the bar and started using it I realized that my grandma used to use it too! This bar has saved so many clothes in my house. I had a new white shirt of my daughters, the first time I washed it, it came out of the dryer with a pink stain. Something had bled on it in the washer! Now usually after the dryer has baked in a stain like this, it's all over. The shirt is junk. I decided to try and treat it with Fels Naptha, just in case. I mean it was brand new, I really hated to just throw it away! I rubbed the Fels Naptha on the stain and rewashed the top. When I pulled it out of the wash I could not believe my eyes! The stain was gone! 100% completely gone! I was sold. It hasn't let me down since. I've gotten out grass stains, oil and grease stains, food stains, mud stains and probably just about any other stain you can imagine. Even stains that I missed the first time around that came through the dryer! I have yet to find a stain this little bar can't tackle.

Save $$ on Utility Bills

A friend recommended this to me a while back but I never really considered trying it until recently. I have to say, I'm totally impressed with how well it works! If you put a dry towel in your dryer with your wet load, you can practically cut drying time in half! I hate when I'm doing laundry and it takes twice as long to run a load through the dryer as it takes to run one through the washer. It just makes for poor time management! With the dry towel added to the dryer my timing is almost perfect! Try it out next time you're doing your laundry! It really does work!!