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CUT DOWN ON FUEL EXPENSE
   If you don't have a GPS, use www.MapQuest.com or another free mapping service to select the shortest route to the places you go on a regular basis such as work, church, school, etc.  You might be surprised to find that there's a simple shorter way to get there! And if you reduce your driving distance by as little as 2 miles each way per day (based on 5 days a week), you'll save 3 tanks of gas per year in the average vehicle.

 MORE WAYS TO SAVE ON GASOLINE
    Here are some simple ways to cut back on fuel consumption: (1) Watch your RPM gauge, or tachometer. The higher the RPMs, the more fuel your car is burning. You can reduce the RPMs by not floor-boarding it when the light changes to green and by not accelerating unnecessarily. (2) Keep your tires properly aligned, balanced, and aired. (3) Gas is, well, a gas! Therefore, it evaporates easily. Make sure your gas cap is securely tightened. (4) Don't sweat it! Air-conditioning can reduce your mileage by around 4MPG, but the wind drag caused by rolled-down windows at highway speeds amounts to about the same reduction. Save that open window driving for lower speed roadways.

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 BROCCOLI CORNBREAD

  This stuff is fabulous as is, but if you want to turn it into a main dish, stir a pound of ground beef (seasoned to your taste, fully cooked and well-drained) into these ingredients:

DUST GIVE IT A TRY!

   Instead of wasting money on costly disposable dustcloths or doing double duty with a cloth and furniture spray, save those old cotton socks and washcloths, etc. as dust rags. Turn them into dust magnets by soaking them in lemon oil.  Simply pour about 1/2 cup of lemon oil into a glass or plastic jar (that you don't plan to re-use for anything else), drop in one or two of your new dust rags and shake thoroughly.  Remove them and let them thoroughly dry.  Slip the sock over your hand and you can dust and detail with ease, and as you dust, the absorbed lemon oil will attract dust like crazy without leaving any oily film on your furniture.  Wash your dust rags by themselves as needed (so as not to get the lemon oil scent on other items) and repeat the shake-'em-in-the-jar and drying steps. (Slather your hands in lotion and slip on a pair of latex gloves before putting the sock on your hand; you'll have gorgeous hands by the time you finish your dusting!)

 WEIGHT A MINUTE!

    Just because a bag of potatoes says it weighs 10 pounds doesn't mean it weighs 10 pounds.  A 3-lb. bag of apples doesn't necessarily weigh 3 lbs.  Bagged produce contains the approximate amount it takes to come up to the stated weight; in actuality, some of the bags are lighter and some are heavier.  Select a few bags and put them on the store's scales and weigh them; then choose the one that gives you the most for your money.

   “Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye."  You may or may not be familiar with this old childhood vow, but this was usually spoken when a child promised never to divulge the information that was being shared with him by his playmate.  How the "...stick a needle..." part got added, I don't know, except that it made a good rhyme of it; but the "cross my heart and hope to die..." is believed to have developed from the Catholic practice of making the sign of the cross.  In other words, when a child swore this oath, it was a most serious matter.

   Can we bring "cross my heart..." up to adulthood and let me ask: How faithful are you to your word?  Are your promises upheld?  Are your commitments followed through?  Psalm 76:11 declares: "Make vows to the Lord your God..."  But do you know the rest of the verse?  "...and fulfill them" (NIV).  You know, making a promise is easy, but keeping it isn't always so simple.  Never make a commitment you don't intend to keep, and never make any promise to the Lord that you aren't willing to carry through.  We, His children, are to be like our Father.

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