Category: Frugal

Inexpensive Foods With a Long Shelf Life

 Inexpensive Foods With a Long Shelf Life Storing extra foods isn’t cheap. You want to get the best of your limited dollar. This means you need to stockpile inexpensive foods and ingredients that have a long shelf life. Just make sure that you know how to use these foods, that you rotate your stock and …

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DIY Wood Burning Sauna

DIY Wood Burning Sauna Sweating is good for you!  It’s how your body detoxifies itself. The sauna has been used for centuries in a number of different cultures as part of healing and spiritual health. It helps your body’s immune system and function efficiently. Now you too can partake of the sauna ritual at home …

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Six Survival Uses For Animal Bones

Six Survival Uses For Animal Bones As most of you know, I am a stanch advocate of using every bit of any creature you hunt. The animal’s life was taken for your benefit and that sacrifice should be honored. So whether it is bones from your hunt or bone that you happen upon in your …

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DIY Automatic Grey Water Recycler

DIY Automatic Grey Water Recycler This is one of the coolest DIY water systems I have ever seen. The idea is brilliant and is worthy of your time in today’s world where we are already experiencing water shortages and high-water costs. But post SHTF it will be invaluable for grey uses like watering the gardens …

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DIY a Forge from a Sink

DIY a Forge from a Sink A very simple forge to setup. Having at least some information and knowledge of blacksmithing could come in very handy during a long term SHTF event. It’s also just a cool skill to learn for today’s world. During a long term event, these skills would be excellent barter for …

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DIY Off Grid Power Supply

DIY Off Grid Power Supply Batteries are almost always a topic when we think about survival. But more often then not anymore it’s not about the regular retail batteries that we use in small devices like radios but rather the USB type batteries and other rechargeables that can power other items. The instructable linked below …

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Making Camp Bread in the Field

Making Camp Bread in the Field Baking over a campfire is a skill unto itself! I have a hard time imagining a world without bread. Most cultures eat it in one form or another. So why give it up while camping or bugging out? Don’t! Learn how to make camp bread from the video below …

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Tending your compost during the winter months

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Tending your compost during the winter months Winter months unless you have a greenhouse aren’t known for being wonderful months for gardening. But one thing that we can do for our gardens during the winter is plan for them and care for our compost. My family continues to collect …

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MIY Squirrel Country Sausage

MIY Squirrel Country Sausage Many people eat squirrel on the regular. Especially popular in some parts of the United States. But in many places and for many people it is something that they haven’t yet tried or haven’t considered eating unless there is a lack of their usual meat orientated livestock. I have tried it, …

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DIY deluxe barrel stove

DIY deluxe barrel stove Although this article is a golden oldie. Other than the prices in kit parts it is as appropriate today as it was when written. Perhaps even more so as the costs of heating have been steadily rising year after year. This barrel stove is a winner. Everyone should have a back …

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