Never Pour These Down the Drain (The Plumber's Bill Isn't Worth It)

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ There's probably a bottle of drain cleaner under your kitchen sink right now, and a plumber's bill for two hundred and fifty dollars in a drawer somewhere. Almost every clogged drain in this country was poured there, by habit, by the person who lives in the house. I've lived with old pipes my whole life and called a plumber for a clog exactly once. Our grandmothers kept a coffee can by the stove, and that's most of the secret. In this one I'll walk you through 10 things that should never go down your drain, what they do down there, and what I do with them instead: ☕ Coffee grounds, eggshells, and flour, which turns into actual paste 🍝 Rice and pasta, leftover paint, and old medicine 🚽 Anything labeled "flushable", and hair (plus the four-dollar fix) 🥓 Grease, the big one, and why hot water and dish soap only move the clog further down …and number one, the thing most of you pour down there on purpose trying to help, plus the free way to clear a slow drain yourself. Nobody makes a dime off a three-dollar strainer and a coffee can. Set one by the stove tonight and keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a house that runs right sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's the worst thing you ever pulled out of a drain? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #plumbing #homemaintenance #diyhome #cloggeddrain #kitchentips #homemaking #householdtips