Frugal Living Tip #1 - Home Remedies

Earache Relief: Pour one cup of white rice into a clean sock. Tie the sock to secure the rice within it. Place into the microwave for sixty seconds. Apply the heated rice-filled sock onto the ear. This creates a moist heat that will ease the pressure by helping the ear to drain the built up fluid. For best results reheat often keeping sock warm.


Grapefruit Soup: for cold'n'flu. Simmer 2 peeled grapefruit with enough water to cover and a pinch of cinnamon, salt & cayenne, until fruit collapses. Stir in 2T honey.

Nasal Spray: Mix one cup of lukewarm water, a half-teaspoon of salt and a pinch of baking soda. Using a bulb syringe, spritz the solution into your nose a few times, then blow your nose