Storing collectible cans

If you keep those empty aluminum cans with the thought they might one day have a resale value, you know you have to keep them without any dents. One big help in this regard is to keep those cylinders you get potato chips in-the single stack of chips type.
This cardboard container can be washed out with soap and water, and used to put the empty cans in. Most sizes only fit one to a empty chip container, but I bet we can find something else to put in the empty part.

Oldy but Reddy

You can save a bit towards getting that bigcatnip by doubling the amount of dish detergent when you pour half of a new container of detergent into the empty old container. Fill each with water. You will notice NO dimunition of quality.

A good catfood gone bad

My reference here is to Sheba. It was always expensive, but in the past year has lost more than it's standards. Not lost is the cost===they increased the cost, while they reduced the size (from 3.5 ounces to 2.8 ounces), improved the container, deteriorated the quality, and lost me as a customer. I would have put up with most of that crap, but--- the quality is missing now too. No reason to buy it at all, even if, as I would, spring for the increased price if it would allow my cat an adored treat. But now they do not have the quality that once made it a hit at my house. And if some industry execs should read this, I will say that they improved the container. They always understood the pet parent wants a can which is easy to open, no utensils needed. Then when they reduced the quantity in the can, they at least did improve the can--now there is no sharp edge, as there was not before, but the lid is resealable in a clever manner. Before the resealable lid left a gap, now the lid reseals if you are careful so that the air cannot reach the partially used contents. However, what does it matter, since we are certainly not purchasing a product which not only increased the cost, reduced the size (standard ploys of course in the pet food industry) but then reducing the quality of the cat food. Good bye, even littler, Sheba.

Storage materials

Those metallic sealant circles that come like in peanut cans are nice to use as insulating, packing layers for various breakable items. Stick such an item between saucers for example to help protect them.
Of course you have to wash them off, but they, being part metallic (but not as crumple bent as tin foil) are easy to wash, and store in stacks.

Enriching your cats through shrewd collecting

A tip for those acquiring collectibles as a means to pay for that expensive Belizean catnip, the plant that jaguars have to roll in to make it the expensive treat that it can be. If something is advertised as a "collectible," it ain't, and don't waste your money.

Preventing them from licking the can

Honestly, I have never known of a cat or dog cut while licking the can, but how could that not be a danger???? So when I do not plan to take the garbage out immediately, and may not have an empty nut can to store the cat food tins, then what I do is fill the emptied container with water and leave it in the sink til it can be safely removed from the realm of cat control.

The World's best hot chocolate

so nice to sip when you have a cat on your lap. Well this treat does not have to be expensive, here is how to make the richest kind, on a budget, so that you can save your money for that expensive catnip.
Take an ordinary size mug and empty two packets of hot cocoa mix into it. Then add hot water to the mid point of the mug. Stir it up completely so no dry crumbs adhere anywhere in the mug. Then add two smidgeons of margarine (one smidgeon is the smallest visible but unmeasureable amount of margarine possible) and, also add at this point: half a capful of imation rum flavoring.
Told you this would be cheap.
Now fill the mug to almost the rim with hot water.
See if this doesn't taste like it cost a million dollars.

Pet proof trash

Now you may have huge tins or compacters to store garbage, but for those with less trash to dispose of, here is a graceful and energy saving idea: use a plastic bag from the grocery store and slip it over the kitchen door handle. Use this to put trash in. Now the trick is that you have also placed an empty hanging basket on the same door handle. This means the weight in the bag is not an issue. You save on not using the big plastic garbage bags so less petroleum products used. The weight of the garbage begins the plastic decomposition process before the usefulness of the bag is exhausted.

Disposing of metal catfood cans

Perhaps you have a feline who has prehensile paws and delights in opening food bags, searching the garbage for tidbits, and generally pushing the envelope on acceptable cat behavior. Yes if this is familiar the culprit is probably black because this kind of problem solving is typical of Siamese mixes. It was to resolve this problem that I came up with a fine way to seal off and store emptied cat food cans in the trash awaiting removal to the bin. Save your empty nut cans--the 11 to 13 ounce size that you get peanuts in is the kind I mean. You can fit two cat food cans (6 ounce size) in one empty nut can, and you have the plastic lid to seal off the new contents of the nut can. It has worked so far, -- though, since we are talking about a cat who can open a can of Sheba cat food, I am keeping my fingers crossed.