Treat Your Hair to a Conditioner-Shampoo

If your hair is dry or tends to frizz, try washing your hair with only conditioner every other time you normally shampoo. The conditioner will clean your hair well enough, and won't strip it of oils. This will help protect it from the elements as well as assist in "frizz" control.

Good to the Last Drop

When times are tough, people find new and inventive ways to use up products they buy so that they are not wasting anything. For instance, adding water to the last bit of shampoo is not a new idea, but many people don't do it because they don't like the way it squirts out of the bottle when it's too diluted. What to do? Use these last drops to clean the shower enclosure, toilet, or vanity top. Or, take it down to the kitchen and run under the tap as you're filling the sink full of water to do dishes. Alternately, dilute some more, add a bit of white vinegar, and you've got a cheap disinfecting cleaner, already in a squirt bottle, to clean your counter tops!

Give Your Hair and Scalp a Break

If you wash your hair everyday not because it's dirty, but because it looks crappy, here's something to try in between shampoos. Wet your wash cloth in the shower and add a couple of drops of shampoo. Rub the cloth gently over your hair; rinse the cloth, and repeat. This takes the dust and other contaminants off of your hair's surface, and also dampens it just enough so you can now style it. It also gives your scalp and roots a break from having all the natural oils stripped off on a daily basis.

I have very thick, wavy hair and this has been a real times-saver for me. If you have dry hair and get some flakiness in the winter, this should abate that problem. Also, just think of the shampoo, water and conditioner you'll be saving!