Fabri-Tak is the best - found at Walmart it’s billed as the “sewing machine in a bottle”. I have saved many outfits and/or updated hand-me downs into something nice with this glue - it’s washable and everything! I’ve repaired hems and salvaged ruined clothes, for example: My son wears the knees on his jeans to shreds.

I cut them down into shorts, glue on some ribbon trim and it’s good as new. This also helps with homemade baby gifts. Plain white onesies get a lift with little bows glued on front - no sewing machine or skills needed!

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I clean virtually my entire home with just one cleaning solution. In a 32 oz. bottle I mix 15 oz of water with 15 oz of distilled vinegar and 2 Tablespoons of Earth Friendly Orange Concentrate Cleaner. Cleans everything!

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If there is a purchase I am pondering, but it is something I am not sure I need (or even how much I’ll appreciate it after I buy it), I usually walk away and think about it. If after a few days or weeks I still even remember what I was considering (usually I’ve completely forgotten about it!), then I consider it more, but usually that’s enough to make me realize that I didn’t really want the item all that much in the first place.

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My favorite tip is to stop right before you go through the check-out line. Look at everything in your cart. Now is the time to purge those impulse buys that you put in your cart.

You also get some more exercise walking around the store putting them back ;)

[Kacie posted this tip to the Readers' Tips box. It originally appeared as a comment in The Complete Tightwad Gazette giveaway.]