Recycling – Articles Revisited
Recycling involves more than simply hauling things to the recycling center or dropping them off into large containers for reprocessing. It often involves creating a new purpose for an item that would otherwise be discarded as waste. Today, let’s look at how some of us deal with waste. The more we start to shy away [...]
Home Canning – Articles Revisited
Home canning is a great way to preserve our harvest. With our gardens cranking away, we’ll want to be prepared to can our bounty so we can enjoy it later on when the harvest season has ended. It’s a great way to be more self-sufficient and better prepared for emergencies when food might not be [...]
Planning our Lives – Articles Revisited
Planning our lives can seem like an odd task, especially when our lives get swept up in so many things. Nevertheless, it’s important to engage in life planning because if we don’t, we might end up going in an unknown direction. That’s not always bad, but I think most of the self-reliant among us would [...]
Hints and Tips – Articles Revisited
Quite often we’re throwing hints and tips at you in various categories like driving, raising chickens, pole vaulting, you name it. Occasionally, we have a great trick, tip or hint that doesn’t fit within our 203 hierarchical categories. In such cases, we slip it into our category called Miscellaneous How-to, Hints and Tips. It’s a [...]
Frugal Plant Profile: Crocus
With spring on the way, you can bet you’ll be seeing crocuses, tons of them all over and that is why we’ll be adding it to our frugal plant profile. They multiply by the hundreds! Just plant a handful in your garden and a few years later you’ll triple your investment. What could be better [...]
Growing Vegetables – Articles Revisited
Growing vegetables is something that nearly everyone can do. It’s easy, enjoyable, frugal, and it’s a great way to gain a bit of control over our food supply. Let’s spend this Friday looking at articles from our archive that help remind us of the joys of vegetable gardening. I know it’s early in the season, [...]
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