How to Save Money - Page 29

ILG · #**281** 10-26-2008, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

ILG, I still think you are part Injun! Have you ever constructed teepees?

Only for fun. And I don't have any buffalo in my freezer.

Us French Canadian people look just like me.

ILG · #**282** 10-26-2008, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

A distant cousin just opened another such store here called "HOOVERS". That makes about five bulk food joints within 20 miles of here.

Lucky you.

Margies3 · #**283** 10-26-2008, 07:12 PM

At our Ladies Tea in December, we also have a Christmas Market to sell handmade items. The money goes for missions. I think I might make up some of these mixes by layering the dry ingredients in a jar and then telling them how to add the rest of the ingredients for the finished product. Thanks!

Hoovie · #**284** 10-26-2008, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

At our Ladies Tea in December, we also have a Christmas Market to sell handmade items. The money goes for missions. I think I might make up some of these mixes by layering the dry ingredients in a jar and then telling them how to add the rest of the ingredients for the finished product. Thanks!

You do have my address don't you?

Margies3 · #**285** 10-26-2008, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

You do have my address don't you?

hehehe. Yes, I do. And I assume that means that you will be supporting out missions project when I send you my finished product? I'll let you know the price so you can send the check.

ILG · #**286** 10-26-2008, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

At our Ladies Tea in December, we also have a Christmas Market to sell handmade items. The money goes for missions. I think I might make up some of these mixes by layering the dry ingredients in a jar and then telling them how to add the rest of the ingredients for the finished product. Thanks!

Sure! Try them first to make sure you like the outcome. Homemade is not always the same as store bought and some people don't like the end result as much. But if you like it and you think it would work for this, great!

I remember one year when my husband and I were in Home Missions. My husband was managing a convenience store. They got rid of tons of bulk candy and were going to throw it out! We bagged it all up and sold it for .50 a bag. Wow! That was a great fundraiser! We made a lot of money (I don't remember how much) but we always wished we could have repeated that! We did buy bulk candy after that and sold it but of course never made as much as that first year!

Margies3 · #**287** 10-26-2008, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ILG

Sure! Try them first to make sure you like the outcome. Homemade is not always the same as store bought and some people don't like the end result as much. But if you like it and you think it would work for this, great!

I remember one year when my husband and I were in Home Missions. My husband was managing a convenience store. They got rid of tons of bulk candy and were going to throw it out! We bagged it all up and sold it for .50 a bag. Wow! That was a great fundraiser! We made a lot of money (I don't remember how much) but we always wished we could have repeated that! We did buy bulk candy after that and sold it but of course never made as much as that first year!

The Apostolic church that I used to go to here used to make molded chocolate Easter candies every year. They would sell them in front of the local grocery store for several Saturdays in a row and also take orders for them. They always made several thousand dollars each year with that project.

ILG · #**288** 10-26-2008, 07:20 PM

Sweetened Condensed Milk

People act like some of this stuff cannot be made at home and they charge and arm and a leg for the canned stuff. Sweetened Condensed Milk is one such thing.

Ingredients
1 cup non-fat powdered milk
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup hot water
2 tablespoons melted butter

Place sugar and butter in the water and heat until butter is melted and the sugar is dissolved. Let this mixture cool. Put all ingredients into a blender and process until smooth.

Another one if you don't like the first:

3/4 cup boiling water
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup white sugar
2 2/3 cups nonfat dry milk powder

Combine water, butter, sugar and milk powder in a blender and blend until thickened, 2 minutes. Store in refrigerator.

Hoovie · #**289** 10-26-2008, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ILG

Sure! Try them first to make sure you like the outcome. Homemade is not always the same as store bought and some people don't like the end result as much. But if you like it and you think it would work for this, great!

I remember one year when my husband and I were in Home Missions. My husband was managing a convenience store. They got rid of tons of bulk candy and were going to throw it out! We bagged it all up and sold it for .50 a bag. Wow! That was a great fundraiser! We made a lot of money (I don't remember how much) but we always wished we could have repeated that! We did buy bulk candy after that and sold it but of course never made as much as that first year!

Oh Lordy... never thought I would confess this in public.... Before I was married we (brother and I) got an entire pickup truckload of Pepper Ridge Farms soft baked cookies (outdated by a few days)

Hoovie · #**290** 10-26-2008, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

The Apostolic church that I used to go to here used to make molded chocolate Easter candies every year. They would sell them in front of the local grocery store for several Saturdays in a row and also take orders for them. They always made several thousand dollars each year with that project.

I have a chocolate mold in the shape of a sweep I would like to try sometime.