Frugal Fridays – Stop Wasting Steel Wool Pads

You know what irritates me?

(Aside from corn, FPIES, fructose malabsorption, and IgE allergies?)

When I have one tough pot to clean that requires a steel wool pad, but then the barely used pad sits on my sink and rusts until I throw it away.

Irritating!

It’s such a little thing, but it’s wasteful.

Irritating.

A box of steel wool pads isn’t expensive, but it’s also not cheap. So using a whole pad for one pot has always struck me as a waste: a waste of an item, and a waste of my money.

So WHY it took me so long to come up with this idea, I just don’t know…but the solution is incredibly simple!

Cut up your steel wool pads as soon as you get the box home.

I cut each pad in half, then each piece in half for cute little quarter sized steel wool pads.

Each tiny pad is just right for a single use (sometimes a double use if the mess wasn’t too bad to start with) and I have no problems tossing it when I’m done! After all, I still have 3/4ths of the original pad still ready to use!

Simple. Slightly frugal. FAR less wasteful!

Remember…

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

This tip might not save a ton of money, but it absolutely fits in the “use it up” category of my motto!

Hope that helps!

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Tell me a ‘little’ thing that irritates you!