Tips to save money at home II

Part II

Saving tips to use at home, stay tooned for other articles "How to save at home"

Clean Microwaves without cleanning products

To clean your microwave, place inside a glass with a lemon juice and water and turn it on maximum power for a minute. Then just run a dry cloth and all the grease has disappeared.

Home-made Pickles, cheap and even more delicious

* Baby carrots
* Cabbage flower
* Broccoli
* Small onions (or cut into large pieces)
* Stripes of chilli or piri-piri
* Stripes of green peppers
Small whole green tomatoes *

The quantity of vegetables depends on the size and number of bottles to be done.

For each bottle:

* 3 bay leafs
* 3 garlic cloves,
* 6 grains of allspice
* 1 spoon (soup) salt
* Vinegar
* Olive oil

1 sterilized glass bottle (also sterilize the lid).

Wash the vegetables still raw and wrap them in the bottle and distribute them randomly, add the bay leaf from the teeth of garlic, grains of pepper, salt and ginger powder and fill the bottle with vinegar until almost up, end to fill with oil. Cap the bottle tightly and store it. After 1 week is ready to eat. Keep in refrigerator.

Third on the island, this kind of home-made pickles are known as "tanning."

Save water at home, first Tip!

You are going to take a shower, the first 10 litres of water are cold, so don't waste them, save them to water the plants or clean the balcony, it's good water!

Energy saving Tips

Kitchen

* Turn off the pilot flame of the heater when not used. In summer, lower the temperature of the water heater or boiler.
* When cooking with pots and pans covered with lid, the expense of electricity or gas will be less. Turn off the burner before the food is cooked because the heat will be enough to finish cooking. The same applies to the furnace.
* Make the most of sun and wind, extending to a clothes hanger, and avoiding the drying machine. As for washing machines and dishwashers, avoid programs with high temperatures.
* Keep the refrigerator and freezer with the door closed, as this prevents the accumulation of ice and heat input. The refrigerator temperature should be between 3 and 5 C and the freezer between -18 and -24 º C.
* Choose a device (such as refrigerators or washing machines) with an energy label class A. Consumption is lower in 70% of electricity than a model of class D.

Bathroom

* Remove the tooth-brush and electric shaver from the plug, after being loaded.
* You can spend less gas and save 80 thousand litres of water per year if you take shower instead of bath of immersion.
* The low-flow faucets can halve the water flow and consumption. Close the tap while shaving or washing your teeth, you can save water and energy by 50 percent.

Living Room

* Face to incandescent lamps, energy saver light bullbs will save more than 80% of energy. Although more expensive, last much longer, which compensates the cost of acquisition. Turn off lights in rooms not being used or in areas of transition, such as corridors. This may mean a reduction in 25% of annual energy consumption.
* Turn off the television, DVD player and stereo directly in the appliance, and remove the plug from the socket of the computer and peripherals.
* In winter, set the temperature of radiators or heating to 20 ° C. Lower the temperature or turn off the heat at night during periods of absence. If you have a programmable thermostat, regulation may be automatic. For central heating, the economic choices are the boilers with natural gas or air conditioning plant. The air conditioning is preferable to traditional electric radiators.

Room

* The outdoor air conditioning units must be installed in a place where there is movement of air, without being exposed to the sun Close the doors of the room where the air conditioning is working, for no energy loss. In summer, keep blinds closed as possible during the hours of greatest heat, so that the air conditioning work in effort. Unplug appliances when no one is in the room and clean the filter 15 in 15 days.
* After charging the phone, remove the charger from the wall.
* Prefer windows with double glazing, which isolate the cold and noise. The boxing in wood is better than the traditional aluminum. If you choose this, the boxing should be cutting. In winter, heavy curtains or rugs to help keep the heat inside the house.

If you want to remove the excess of humidity inside your house , you do not need to buy any special equipment.

You can easily make your own dehumidifiers.

To do this, place a few pieces of charcoal into a container that allows the entry of air. For example, put the charcoal in a can and make some holes around.

Apart from absorbing the moisture, coal removes some odors.

Make several of these dehumidifiers craft and put them in the more humid areas of your home.
Replace the charcoal, 3 in 3 months or so did not notice that it is working.