Creative Ways To Extend The Dollar…The Tipping Point Of Innovation!

I know we do it at work and at home, but there’s a rebirth on a version of “multi-tasking” before the term was ever coined.

The newspaper column that I discovered this past week is running in several newspapers across the US.

The column is called PANTRY POWERHOUSES.

And it ain’t about the home-makers who can cook those family dinners in 20 minutes from scratch.

Nope. It’s the new Middle Class American 2010 version of the “Hints From Heloise.”

Here’s the PANTRY POWERHOUSES elevator set-up…

“Some plain, unassuming household objects have hidden superpowers. And most of these items cost less than a couple of bucks..”

That’s the Middle Class American angle…

The 2010 version is captured in…

“These double-duty ideas will help you go green while you save some green.”

Here are some of the examples…

• Keeping brown sugar soft by adding a few marshmallows to the bag before closing it

• Preventing piano keys from turning yellow by cleaning them regularly with mayonnaise

• Removing bumper stickers by rubbing mayonnaise over the entire sticker

• Getting rid of the chlorine green hair with a ketchup shampoo

• Treating poison ivy with instant oatmeal mix


While many of the “Young Pioneers” of the American Middle Class may not fully identify with the term “Pantry”… I would bet that they, along with several of the other American Middle Class groups, have many more ideas to add to the list.

Just think about it.

Many in the business world believe that it’s the upper income folks that are the trendsetters and innovators.

I beg to differ.

More times than not, innovation is fueled by the need to get by and get ahead.

Therein may be what they term as the "hidden superpowers!"

So go Google “PANTRY POWERHOUSES” and check out the amazing things you can do with all that stuff stored in the kitchen and utility room cabinets.

And then come journey with us as we go down to the nearest coffee houses, pubs and lunch cafés and listen to what the folks are talking about doing!

That’s the hotbed of the innovation right now.

Really!