Time-Saving Strategy #1

The Barter System.  If you find a chore inconvenient, distasteful, or unmanageable, consider bartering. It can be a one-shot or systemic arrangement.
One Shot.  Need help moving your serviceable and attractive bedroom furniture to the spare room so the furniture company can deliver and set-up your new bedroom furniture?  Enlist the muscle-bound neighbor for help in exchange for [...]

Frugal Gardening Tip of the Day

Use the cooled water leftover from preparing vegatables to water house and outdoor plants, or, pour onto the compost pile.  Nutrients that have leeched from the vegatables live on, benefitting your landscape, plus the water is recycled by using it twice.  Simple and effortless. 

Stained Glass Your Way

                                      
Tweaking or totally revamping the color scheme affects the ultimate presentation of a glass panel just as much as changing the color of the walls in your house.  Working with glass, an additional dimension to consider is the opacity of the glass that is chosen. 
The clear texture used for the border of the panel on the left works because [...]