Don't Need Much Money is exactly what it sounds like: a site about needing less, so you have more. More time. More freedom. More room to actually live. The idea is simple. The less money you need to survive, the more time you have to thrive. Lower your living costs, live a healthy lifestyle focused on longevity and mobility, stay out of debt, and build a little savings, and you buy yourself something far more valuable than money: time. Time to do what you actually love, spend with people you care about, and put toward things that matter. This site is my own real life running that experiment. Most of what you'll find here are recipes and day-to-day habits. They aren't filler posts, it's intentional. Cooking from scratch, buying smart, wasting less, eating well, and staying healhty, fit, and limber all without spending much are some of the most direct ways I practice this philosophy day to day. This blog doubles as my own recipe box and exercise notes, and I share it b...
I recently got a store-bought kombucha and decided I wanted keep and reuse the bottle. Unfortunately, the label was giant and completely wrapped the bottle. I took the steps to remove the label by boiling the bottle in water for 5 minutes. While hot but able to be handled, I grabbed the bottle and peeled the label off pretty easily. But what remained was a crazy amount of sticky glue residue.
Now I had the task of figuring out how to remove all that residue. At first I ran it under hot water with dish soap and a scour sponge, but all that seemed to happen was getting the green color of the scour stuck onto the glue. Then I tried vinegar which seems to work for lots of other things but it didn't work either. I realized I needed to do a quick YouTube search to see if anyone has figured this out, and sure enough someone had.
A Place To Nest video had a super simple recipe that worked for her project. I figured I'd give it a try for mine. The recipe was two ingredients - one part baking soda and one part coconut oil. That's it! I mixed it in a small dish and spread it on the glass like peanut butter. I then grabbed a paper towel and worked the mixture into the glue. At first it seemed slow to work, but as I kept working, sure enough the glue would come off. After about 3 applications of the spread, my bottle was free of the glue and ready for a final rinse to get squeaky clean.
Below are some pictures for reference. Be sure to give this a try next time you have some leftover residue to remove. Also, like I did, find a bottle that you may be throwing away that could be reused. Thanks to this, I now drink more water and liquids than I did before. And I don't need to feel bad if I happen to forget the bottle somewhere. I can just buy another kombucha and start the process over again.
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