Tips: 6

This is a new idea: a persistent post for your tips only.

We get a lot of emailed tips, and we blog as many as we can, but some get left on the cutting room floor. So, in addition to sending us emails, we're going to experiment with taking tips right here (you can still email us).

We'll be pulling the best tips to posts on the front page, but this will insure that the all tips are shared immediately.

Got a tip?

Know of a great store, product or website? Let us know right here (no questions please).

Comments (9)

Saw Angela Adams bedding (quilts, pillows, sheets) for half off at the local Macys, but I think it's only at stores that used to be Marshall Fields - couldn't find the bedding on the Macys website, anyway.

posted by elchan on May 21st 2007 at 2:30pm
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3R Living on 5th Ave. in Park Slope collects "non-recyclable" goods and recycles them for you. I've seen a number or posts where people are wondering where to get rid of their extra jewel cases, etc. From their website: "Our In-Store Recycling Center accepts:
Batteries, Cell phones, Ink cartridges, CDs and their cases, Hand-held electronics, and Crayons."

http://www.3rliving.com/category_s/16.htm

posted by amirrorcrackd on May 22nd 2007 at 6:12pm
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Tiny tip: save the little plastic things that hold the bread wrapper together (not twist ties, but the flat kind) and use them as scrapers to get gunk off the floor or whereever.

posted by Pixie on May 23rd 2007 at 5:29am
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wonder if they could be used as guitar picks too.

posted by gekko on May 23rd 2007 at 5:47am
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on the heels of that fabulous glowing adirondack chair...
zomigod, 25 gallons of free industrial flourescent pigment!
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/zip/336465922.html
curtis?
can you help me floures every park bench in Prospect Park?

posted by guido on May 23rd 2007 at 6:12am
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Pixie:

I use used gift cards as plastic scrapers/spackle knives. They're the perfect size and reliably smooth. The rounded corner is perfect for smoothing caulk or spackle in corners, too.

posted by deoxy on May 24th 2007 at 6:01am
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Not real giftcards - don't you cash them in?
That would be a good way to use some plastic cards that come in the mail - like time-limited store discount cards. Thanks for the tip.

posted by Pixie on May 24th 2007 at 6:33am
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I used up my gift cards (Barnes & Noble, Circuit City, iTunes) online, so I never had to turn them in. I think most stores would let you keep them after you use them up--they just throw them away otherwise.

posted by deoxy on May 24th 2007 at 8:17am
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thanks for the laugh, gekko. I'm now wondering if gift cards could be used as guitar picks

posted by JonathanB on May 25th 2007 at 4:58am
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