Category: Frugality
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Old Garden Tools Are The Best
Here’s another quick tip for gardeners: you can get awesome garden tools for next to nothing by buying second hand! You can find garden tools going cheap at garage sales, online at places like Facebook or Craigslist, and at tip shops. I like to go for the older tools. They don’t look as ‘nice’ as…
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Hand Tool Storage In The Garden
Don’t you hate not having the garden tools you need when you need them? You just came out to water and spot a nice lettuce, but you don’t have a knife on you to cut it. Or you want to clip off a broccoli head but don’t have your garden shears. So you try to…
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Mandarin Glut!
What do you do with a treeful of mandarins or other citrus?
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Blackberry Pie
If there’s anything better than a bucket full of free blackberries, it can only be blackberry pie!
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Hovabator Incubator Fridgemate Hack
A cheap incubator can be turned into something much more accurate and reliable with a simple $50 digital temperature controller.
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Sourcing Project Materials On eBay
See some of my recent scores from eBay, along with tips on how to find the good stuff.
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Eureka! Hillbilly Hot Tub
They say Archimedes had his breakthrough “Eureka” moment while sitting in a bathtub. Mine took a little longer, since I didn’t have a bathtub.
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Rooster Processing Day
I processed four surplus roosters last weekend. Having an organised workflow makes the whole thing a lot faster and easier! There are no graphic photos in this post.
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Roadside Finds – Chicken Tractor
A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you recover discarded treasures from the side of the road!