What are you tired of replacing in your home?

[puppypal]

Re: What are you tired of replacing in your home?

LOL
Ima saver, If ya remember one of my 1st posts, HHHHHMMMMMM I still ten to one will be able to NOT buy TP until the sale is the best it can be! LOL
I reckon' it would be socks!
No sock monster here though, Just teenage boys!!!!!!!!!
Since we live deep in the country on a graval type hill they tend to wear there socks outside, So between Bleach & sewing and them.......not mentioning losing several over here & over there.
I reckon' Socks are bought with the normal staples at my home!

[Ima saver]

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We seem to spend a fortune on our yard, seed, fertilizer, stuff to get rid of moles. My neighbor has never spent a dime and her yard looks better than ours.

[JanH]

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Oh yeah, light bulbs. I am the light bulb killer according to my family. I blow tons a year just turning on lights. And it seems to be just me. I even blew one out in my MIL house in a basement bathroom that hadn't been changed in 25 years! They were shocked! I struck again.

[puppypal]

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JanH I bought three of them supposed to be longer lasting blah blah blah and doing an experiment on them. I am trying to see actually how long it takes them to go out! They are supposed to last five years! If they do and my figures are right, they are way cheaper than the normal blub. I put them in my son's room. Of course since his leaves his like on forgetful teen, I thought it would get daily use. HAHAH So far, the two I bought for his room has lasted three years!

[creditcardfree]

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Groceries!!

Does that count? It seems never ending going to the grocery store, picking out the food, taking it out of the cart, putting in shopping bags, loading in car, unloading and putting away!

I'll agree with the TP and lightbulbs, too.

[Gruntina]

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Cleaning supplies for the sink/toliet and kitchen and floor. My adorable and sometimes darn cat is the messiest cat I ever encoutered with. Food is all over the floor after each eating and splattered water since he just HAS to play with his water before drinking it. He also plays with his cat litter as well. He just turned 2 years old and now officially an adult cat. I really was wishing he outgrown this behavior by now.

[JanH]

Re: What are you tired of replacing in your home?

Cleaning supplies for the sink/toliet and kitchen and floor. My adorable and sometimes darn cat is the messiest cat I ever encoutered with. Food is all over the floor after each eating and splattered water since he just HAS to play with his water before drinking it. He also plays with his cat litter as well. He just turned 2 years old and now officially an adult cat. I really was wishing he outgrown this behavior by now.

We had to put our kitty's water bowl in a shallow plastic tub in order to keep the water corralled. She plays in water, too! We ended up getting a really tall sided litter box cos litter was everywhere. Now she can fling to her hearts content.

[PrincessPerky]

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Mops: I use a clorox wet jet thing, I refill the bottle with vinegar water, and I reuse rags for the 'pad' does the trick and I can't see needing to replace it for a time, but if I do, I stilll use my swiffer in the bathroom again rags..spray floor before I begin.

Lightbulbs: we use the energy savers..havn't had to replace any of them yet, though we are still switching over..some of the lights use different bulbs, you can't use the energy savers..so we just don't use those lights.

Lawn: the nicer it is the more animals and insects want it...I ignore mine, in 5 years there is steady improvement..though I wouldn't sell it this way..but then I can't afford to sell it .

Now the one thing I am tired of buy...chocolate! I need osme, we have been out all week! that is like ages! ok umm4 days...I am going crazy, I think I am in withdrawal.....I need some chocolate!!!!!!!

atually the one thing I really hate buying is bug killer, while the lawn is boring the bugs in NC are killer, pest control is a huge buisness, we could pay 150 or more a year for someone to come out and do it, or we could pay 20 every three months, I don't mind the cost so much as the constant time..you ahve to go spray,a nd then spray again...black widows, so you can't ignore em, or blame it on my hosekeeping...

[LuxLiving]

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PrincessPerky - my doc says that chocolate cravings are generally a magnesium deficiency. Try taking some. But then you must watch to get calcium/magnesium balanced. I do it, but it isn't near as satisfying as eating Dove's Dark Chocolates!

[PrincessPerky]

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err, thanks..but choclate sounds like more fun... seriously though I will look into magneseum

Scissors, I forgot to mention I have two pair, one from cutco, bout 10 years old, never replaced (though if I needed to, it would only cost the shipping, lifetime warenty)

and my other pair is my grandmothers from when she sewed (now passed away) heh I wonder if my mother knows I have them...anyway, for sticky stuff I avoid scissors use..stab packing with a pen and rip, usually works, for cloth I sue a cutte wheel thing..it can be sharpened easiy. for paper and anything hard I sue the cutco..dunno what gmas are for, cept sentimental . THough if I did use the cutco for sticky they are dishwasher safe . (well worth the investmetn IMO)

[fultron]

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batteries. I have 2 little girls and it seems every toy they get as a gift needs batteries. Most I don't bother replacing because they are just as much fun without them, but some of their favorite toys do get their batteries replaced at a ridiculous rate.

[LuxLiving]

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So, if I'm reading this thread correctly, for our families this year at Christmas if we want to give them the perfect gift, it'll be a basket of toilet paper, chocolate, batteries, fluoro bulbs and scissors! Got it! All kinds of weird looks will be given, but oh they'll thank us later, eh?!?

[JanH]

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At least the gift will cut down on visits to the store! We'll get it all at one time.

[Ima saver]

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Sounds like a nice gift to me, lux!

[naturalwoman]

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toilet paper