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I love things that do double duty.  It’s both frugal and well just cool.  Take the lemon.  They are very refreshing in a cool drink, great in a hot cup of tea, a cleaner in the kitchen and bathroom and go in many of my homemade soaps and face cleaners.

Epsom salt is another favorite of mine.  What else can fertilize the roses, cure constipation and make you feel so good when you bath in it?  How does it do all that?  I’m sure a chemist could give me a great explanation, but to me, magic is the answer.

Baking soda is another good one.  I cook with it, use it to clean my glass top stove and bathtub an then put it in the bath water.  It makes my skin silky smooth and fixes my ph balance.

I keep one jar of coconut oil in the kitchen an another in the bathroom.  In the kitchen, I cook with it and again it goes in a lot of my bath products.  In the bathroom, I’ll put it straight in the tub or use it after as a moisturizer sometimes.

Let’s not forget vinegar.  I buy vinegar by the gallon.  It’s a cleaner, it’s deodorizer and how else do you make cucumber and tomato salad.

A lesser known one is cornmeal.  Cornbread is obvious, but did you know it kills ants?  Sprinkle some on or around the around the ant hill.  The ants eat the cornmeal and it kills them.

I could keep going, but you get the idea.  Things that do double duty are cool and a little bit magical.

Now it’s your turn, tell me some of your favorite double duty things.