Five Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home
All of us will from time to time have to sell our home and move on, this can be a stressful experience and a costly one too. Hopefully by following these simple steps you’ll be able to alleviate some of the stress and save some money too. One of the key ways to help you [...]
Choose your housing wisely
Does our choice of housing hinder our desire to be and live a self-reliant lifestyle? For most Americans carrying the burden of a mortgage payment, I would venture to guess the answer is a resounding “yes”.
Home Improvement and You
Photo Credit: Eye of Einstein How many times have you needed something done to your home, but instead of considering the possibility of doing the work yourself, you decided to outsource the work? Consider how much we waste every year on paying labor and inflated prices for materials through a hired professional. I have remodeled [...]
The Self Reliant Woman vs The Plumber
It didn’t begin with the self reliant woman (me) VERSUS the plumber. He was a very amicable fellow, in a folksy way, and owner of the 5-employee local company. We chatted easily about this and that, and finally about the water heater. As we suspected, the leak was not just a loose nut, bolt, or [...]
Home Improvement – Hey Pinocchio, You’ve Got a Screw Loose!
A common home improvement task is maintenance of connections made with wood fasteners. Specifically, they tend to come loose on things that are frequently used. Whether it’s a door hinge, lock set, wall mounted banister, door stop, coat hook or just a screw-in nose – once they start to work themselves loose, they only get [...]
Join the conversation...