Frugal (Stingy) Man

Frugal is an admirable quality , but when

you impose your frugal on someone else , it is

known as being cheap.

george

Wash and re-use aluminum foil.

Wash and re-use plastic baggies.

Buy the rolls of paper towels that have those skinny sheets, you use a lot less.

Goodwill gives you a frequent buyers card with special discounts if you spend enough time there.

Dumpster diving is legal and a delightfull past time the whole family can enjoy.

Become friends with the guys at the local dump.

Adjust your color preferences to match the specially discounted "wrong color" cans of paint. If you need enough to paint a whole room, buy several and mix them all together.

Food that has gone bad often becomes edible after intense microwaving. It may not taste good though

Duct the drier in the winter into the basement. Saves on the heating bill. Use the special lint trap made for this and you don't even have a mess.

Bugs can be delicious, and filling too. But not worms.

Many foods are tasty when raw, saving on cooking fuel.

Hookers are usually cheaper then wives.

DO NOT DO THIS WITH A GAS DRYER!!!!LOCAL IDIOT TRIED THIS A FEW YRS BACK AND ALMOST KILLED FAMILY.Most folks have some common sense but ya never know!

A range operates in a slightly starved air environment, with the flame in direct contact with the metal of the pot or pan, and the metal grate holding it. This results in incomplete combustion. A gas oven has the same problem, with the flame usually contacting the top of heat shielding. Again, incomplete combustion results. Additionally, both are capable of excessive gas, resulting in the yellow flame even when not in contact with a surface. Again, incomplete combustion.

Monitoring the emissions from a gas range and oven gives readings of several hundred to several thousand ppm of CO. FAR worse than a gas drier. This is why manufacturers of home CO monitors warn the buyer that such units must not be used in a kitchen. Placing one in a kitchen will result in the alarm going off.

Now Buckanddeer, care to back up your claim about the emissions of gas driers being worse than gas ranges with some documentation of some sort?...

In a gas burner (lp or natural) that uses air that is only about 21 percent oxygen, , 78 percent is nitrogen and about 1 percent is miscellaneous gases. Only oxygen contributes to combustion. The remainder does not
contribute, but does absorb heat as it passes through the burn area. Thus, excessive amounts of air (nitrogen) will carry away heat energy . On the other hand, insufficient combustion air in the air/fuel mixture results in the generation of carbon monoxide as a byproduct of the combustion process. (you can�t have that under any circumstance or people will die, even worse the company gets sued), little joke there. All open lp or natural flames used by consumers are going to have excessive air (that means cooling nitrogen also). You basically have no choice in the matter because you are stuck with a burning flame in an abundance of air. As opposed to a contained burner environment (like in a industrial boiler). In a controlled and contained burner environment you will have a high velocity, aggressive mixing of air and fuel (read that as a loud flame) and very hot temperatures (2800 F and above). I�m talking about melt your pots, make steel soft, ignite cooking oil temperatures, but very efficient combustion/heat transfer. It would be imposable for you to cook, manage the flame or the temperatures in a house hold environment. So the blue (excess air, therefore cooled) flame is safer, more gentile and cleanest available to the consumer. The presence of the blue/white and only blue/white color insures that all fuel available has been consumed. But definitely not the hottest. If you look at a boiler flame and its blue, its running cool because a lot of the heat value is going up the smoke stack. Boiler flames will be red and yellow with just a trace of blue before the flame ends in the combustion chamber. Let me be clear on this, a household gas burner of almost any type has to burn blue to be safe. If you see yellow in the flame of a low velocity burner, it�s a good chance that that part of the flame is making carbon which will coat your cooker/pans and also your red blood cells. Its too late into the night for me to judge if any of this is coherent. Hope I�ve covered it ok, without confusing anyone. Anyway I think T-bone may be the expert in this field.

Both types emit Co and needs make-up air or VENTING and "neither" appliance has a "100% burn rate" and will produce Co.

On new homes where designs promotes a air tight enviroment, it's very improtant to vent ALL carbon based fuel appliances as ther is no such thing as 100% burn on a carbon based fuel.

T_Bone

Soundguy

It also seems to work well getting latex paint out of brushes.

If everything is paid for then food is your number one cost.

Try growing your own food and you'll get a eye opening!

T_Bone

Junk days, once a year the city collects people's junk stuff for free, people set out their unwanted stuff and I go look for what's out there. I shoot for lawnmowers, and small engine stuff. If they are in good shape repair and re-sell them, if not they are used for parts.