Tipnut’s Hit List – February 2010 – Popular Tips

If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here is a list of popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order.

The next set has a thank you and introduction to a few bloggers that shared Tipnut with their readers, I think you’ll like them too.

Tipnut’s Popular Tips – February 2010

1. 50 Household Uses For Baking Soda: We all know baking soda is an important ingredient in many recipes, but here are 50 ways you can use it to make the job easier and save time when cleaning and freshening around the home.
2. Tender Ways With Less-Tender Cuts Of Meat: Take advantage of less expensive cuts of meat to cut down on your grocery bill.
3. Paper Crafts Saturday: Freebie Printables (List 4): Here’s a fun mix of goodies I’ve bookmarked just waiting to be shared, enjoy!
4. Roast Beef Cooking Times: {Timetable & Tips}: Here’s a handy kitchen chart outlining how long to cook roast beef. Oven temperature and cooking times can fluctuate depending on the cut and size of the beef so it’s nice to have a quick guide to refer to. Don’t miss the tips underneath the chart!
5. Cooking A Ham: {Timetable & Tips}: Handy cooking chart for ham plus tips and basic ham glaze recipes.
6. Peonies Question & Answer Sheet: Helpful tips for common questions about growing peonies.
7. Do You Grow Dishcloths?: The dishcloth gourd, Luffa acutangula, is easily grown from seed, and produces a very satisfactory, sanitary dishcloth. Most seed catalogs list it. (Re-published from October, 2009.
8. 12 Egg Salad Recipes To Try: Egg salad is delicious and an all-time classic that’s a favorite in sandwiches, wraps, pitas and on top of salad greens too, but who knew you could make it in so many different ways?
9. Free Vintage Valentines: {Printables For 2010}: Here is a new batch of vintage valentines from my collection of ephemera for Valentine’s Day, I believe these are from the 1940s and 1950s. You’re free to download them and print them off to use in scrapbooking, as gift tags or whatever else you like.
10. Growing Strawberries: {Tip Sheet}: Strawberries generally produce fruit for two or three years so you can enjoy them again and again. Here’s how to grow them.

Thank You! Blogger Appreciation

Each month I randomly select three different blogs to thank for sharing Tipnut with their readers, I truly appreciate everyone who’s done so! Here are three bloggers who mentioned Tipnut in February, thanks a bunch!

• DIY Life
• Zoey Farms
• A Single Mom’s Adventure into Urban Homesteading

If you’d like to see what was popular each month, here’s the section that you can browse through: Tipnut’s Monthly Hits (this section was started about a year after Tipnut launched). For the hottest of the hot, you’ll find them here: Tipnut’s Most Popular.

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• Tipnut’s Hit List – January 2010 – Popular Tips
• Tipnut’s Hit List – July 2010 – Popular Tips
• Tipnut’s Hit List – April 2010 – Popular Tips