W henever you break a raw egg for cooking, try to crack just one small portion of the end of the shell. Then rinse out the shell. While the shell is still wet, poke a small drain hole in the bottom end. Collect several and use them as pots for starting vegetable seedlings. When you transplant the seedlings, crush the shells so that the roots can get out.
Eggshells add lime to the soil.
M any times money is thrown away needlessly because people assume batteries are completely dead merely because they have rust build-up on them. Using sandpaper, a nail file, or an emery board, just sand both ends of the battery. K eep a large plastic trash bag under your car seat as an emergency raincoat. U se a hubcap as a shovel if your vehicle gets stuck in sand, mud or snow. M ake portable salt and pepper shakers by cutting straws, filling with salt and pepper, and twisting the ends up.