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eng by nik skip to main skip to sidebar sunday april 5 2009 change in course i have a million little ideas about how to make a difference in one s pocket book relationships environment i have chided myself too often for using this blog to talk about things other than crafts so i have decided to set up a second blog for all things not craft related i really don t think i have enough interesting things to say to fill up one blog much less two but the second one is called why it makes a difference and can be found at whythedifference blogspot com so this blog area is now reserved for all things crafting and hawking my wares and the other one is going to be devoted to the wonderfully strange things i discover the first entry in the new blog is going to be a hoot in the finest sense it s going to be all about how i bought 6 bottles of wine for 7 97 cheers nik posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 12 30 pm no comments friday april 3 2009 what would you do for a klondike bar the average wage earner in the u s should start seeing an extra 13 per week in their paycheck in the next few weeks why the stimulus plan spearheaded by the obama administration in february 2009 made a provision to give money to wage earners called it pays to work so i don t care about the politics of that what i want to address is how are you going to spend 13 you can breathe easy again this isn t a test i m on a crusade to figure out what people can do with their 13 and how spending this money in this manner benefits the overall economy and the greater good this week i m going to dive deeply into some self promotion i make coffee cup sleeves and sell them on etsy engbynik etsy com you know what a coffee cup sleeve is right it s that cardboard thing they hand you at the coffee shop to go around your cup to keep you from burning your hands the barristas i ve spoken with said they hand out about 200 300 on an average day some website said that each coffee drinker is responsible for 6 10 pounds of wasted paper from the coffee cup sleeve okay so now we have a problem the environment and a solution my coffee cup sleeves they are made out of cotton in high end designer fabrics with flannel in between the layers to insulate the cup a bit how am i going to re direct your 13 i have a sale going right now choose any three cup sleeves in the store and send me 13 the sleeves normally 4 75 each will cost you a grand total of 13 for all three and that even includes shipping in the u s sorry to the rest of the world president obama only gave us 13 so you re going to have to pony up for your own shipping you will be getting a coffee cup sleeve treat for you and possibly two great environmentally friendly gifts for other people you will be easing pollution because less energy will go into making cardboard coffee cup sleeves if less people use them and there will be fewer items thrown into the landfill by carrying around a spiffy coffee cup sleeve you will encourage the people who see you to adopt your new coffee cup sleeve custom so they don t miss out on looking as stylish as you just think of the positive environmental impact you will have just by putting your coffee cup into a stylish sleeve without the coffee shop s logo all over it they money you send to me admittedly will not go to orphans in thailand however i buy most of my gifts and supplies through local sellers or sellers on etsy i promise to keep the money in the system helping other people out maybe even by going out to dinner at a local restaurant and i promise to not save the money under my mattress for the better days ahead so this is how you can spend 13 this week i m cooking up more ideas for this topic but if you have an etsy shop and would like to have a 13 sale too let me know and i ll plug it here if you are interested in offering a service for 13 i can also plug that here but hear me now those services must all be above board weeding raking laundry grocery shopping mother s helper not mommy s little helper get back to me with your ideas and i ll get it into the blog nik posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 10 35 pm no comments thursday april 2 2009 the power of niceness politeness mixed with genuine friendliness at the cash register is now saving me 70 a month here s the deal because i m the family caregiver in all matters medical i am a frequent flyer at the pharmacy they know me by name it s creepy to be known by name at the pharmacy as a regular when i brought up my shame at being a regular the pharmacists laughed at me and told me that i m well within the sane range still i m not drooling on them or the register and i m not high so they regard me as one of the regulars they can talk to i m always incredibly polite to people in service oriented positions whatever the job from waitress to doctor and all throughout the spectrum dealing with the public is sometimes a miserable task it s also my experience that your politeness niceness is directly proportional to how polite nice the person on the other end treats you in return so here is how this is saving me big bucks this month the pharmacists noticed that my family has some regular prescriptions that are expensive even after insurance kicks in in fact one member of the family s prescriptions are so expensive that without insurance they would cost about 1200 per month the pharmacists let me in on a little tip any of your name brand drugs typically have a website associated with them where you can print off coupons they gave me this little tip because i never rush them i m always cordial and they feel as though they have a good relationship with me i m not sure they would have shared this with me if i had been a jerk each time i had gone in so now you know if you want to save money on your prescriptions go out to their website and see if there is a coupon or a rebate another tip is to take the coupon or rebate to the pharmacy when you take in the prescription or when you ask for a refill these coupons typically require the pharmacy to call an outside provider on the spot like they do for your insurance so the routine is they call your insurance and adjust how much you owe them based on your insurance then they have to call in the coupon and adjust how much you owe if you present the coupon when you go to pay for the prescription this might make the pharmacist cranky and it will definitely take an extra 5 10 minutes to get your prescription so here s what we re all going to do from now on check for coupons for our name brand prescriptions get that coupon to the pharmacy when you take in the prescription or when you request a refill save money i hope this saves somebody else money too i promise my next entry will be about crafting something i ll probably even solicit people to come out to 1st thursday next month to visit my booth posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 12 08 am no comments sunday march 29 2009 money making opportunity i dated a guy a long time ago who told me once he throws away all of his change what you mean all of the stuff a cashier hands back to you yes and all of the stuff that comes out of machines pennies nickels dimes quarters all of it now i m not good with money in fact i bought sirius radio stock recently because i thought it was cute that it was only 15 cents per share but throwing away change i was changing out purses over christmas and did a fast change over to get me out the door a few days later i went back to the old purse to clean it out more thoroughly i recovered the usual stuff and a couple of dollars in change just swimming at the bottom of the purse i became slightly fascinated and went through some of my other old purses and came up with a few dollars more this caused me to become super fascinated how much change do we collect on a regular basis and then toss aside because it s just 15 cents so i bought one of those coin collector counter things for super cheap at an after christmas sale and started my data collection i started adding to it on january 1 2009 i did take out change for parking meters which is what would have happened to the change i had around anyway i figured that parking meters and sodas would make the whole thing a wash i haven t done anything special like hunt for pennies on the street or recycled cardboard for more change i continued tipping when it seemed appropriate in drive thrus and continued to ignore dumping my change into jars for random causes pony up write a check and get the tax rebate reason why is your employer might have a matching program and you should check because it benefits the program more if you take the time to go home and write a check after using the change collector for 87 days the grand total is 28 07 i have collected 28 07 just from not misplacing where the change goes when it gets handed to me over a year that s 112 28 in loose change that was kind of just getting lost in pockets old purses and under the seat of my car and then in the belly of the car wash vacuum if you re looking for some quick money you could probably try the local landfill or my old boyfriend s garbage and see what it has to offer i m sure both of those suggestions are illegal so you might want to weigh the cost of bail with how much you expect to recover i m sure the car wash guys are onto this one already come on they are onto this one right posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 9 40 pm no comments sunday march 15 2009 shards martha recommends you take all of your pots empty the soil and put them away in the potting shed at the first sign of frost i don t do that in fact i leave them out all winter with the sincere hope they will crack and break with the frost heaves that come with winter my plan i m using pot shards sharp side down of course to make a path over some weed block if i lived near the ocean i would use seashells but i don t so here i am using shards from pots so if you accidentally left out a pot that cracked and fell apart over the winter send it my way the more colorful the better it s like a mosaic only better it s not really a walking path so i m not worried about anybody walking on it it s just an area between a fence and a raised bed that should get no traffic it s my attempt to make it slightly more interesting than just a weed free patch of area posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 4 22 pm no comments saturday february 28 2009 a little glassy eyed i have a new personal mission in life to answer the new must use shrill and whiny voice question what can i possibly do with 13 extra dollar so now i m on a crusade to list all of the ways i can think of to spend your 13 the first way you can spend your 13 is by visiting colorfusionart com either on the web or in person you can either buy something extraordinary or save up your 13 for a few weeks and take a class and make some things on your own jessica lewis the proprietor is big on two things safety and creativity once you take a class that introduces you to the basics the world is your oyster yes there are some serious safety considerations like these safety glasses but during the basics class you will do more than learn the rules like cut glass and complete a project you cut and create and then jess puts your project in the kiln for a nice long bake it goes through the fusion process and then if you choose to have your object made into a dish or another shape once it has cooled it goes back into the kiln over a mold to be slumped the end result is a bowl a plate a dish etc once it has gone through all of these processes the glass is remarkably sturdy and completely out of the ordinary glass fusion is fun i m even going to come straight with funner to describe the process in this strangled economy how can you not love taking a piece of glass and breaking the crap out of it and then putting things together in a cohesive way to make art i listed some of my projects in my etsy shop but if you re local to boise you should go into the shop and take a look at some of the ready made items available for purchase the stuff in the shop is extraordinary and is way beyond those melted wine bottles we ve been subjected to at craft fairs posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 11 32 pm no comments making cents i ve always been cheap but i m using the economy as my excuse to clip coupons without feeling like a nerd hauling around my mass of coupons i m no novice at this coupon thing either before i shop i go out to coupon sites and grab all of the coupons i can use i know where fred meyer keeps their extra coupons and then an extra extra flyer i even weigh the benefits of buying a second sunday paper for extra savings so what s my beef this week i ve been hauling my coupons around in an old envelope in my purse the envelope split open and i ve been losing coupons for weeks enough already so i needed something to contain the coupons but the project needed to use scraps needed minimal time to complete and needed to be replicable just in case i like to call it the cache stash i made mine out of 2 10 x 15 scraps with double fusible inferfacing between the whole thing was ironed together and then folded together as an envelope and ironed again as a no sew option i could have just stapled the sides together but i decided to sew the sides together and then finish the edges with a top stitch the same could be constructed with a number of materials including cardboard with holes punched and then sewn together with yarn old school style this should contain the mess of coupons for another day and i will no longer whip this thing out in shame at the store posted by ecosmart girl to the rescue at 10 18 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2009 9 april 3 change in course what would you do for a klondike bar the power of niceness march 2 february 4 2008 20 december 1 november 2 october 2 july 4 june 4 may 7 search custom search my etsy shop handmade pledge www etsy com upromise my favorite non etsy 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