Category: Frugal

Prepper’s Guide to Safe Guarding Your Home

Prepper’s Guide to Safe Guarding Your Home I can’t speak about your community, but I will tell you that in my own community crime rates have shot up and out of sight. Before I purchased property here, I did the normal research, checked the school’s rating, checked the crime stats, the property tax rate, insured …

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MIY Hard Cider

Some posts may contain affiliate links. MIY Hard Cider Yes, you can indeed make your own tasty hard cider that is not only easy to make but puts the store-bought version to shame! Once you try it, I am told you will never be satisfied with the commercially brewed version again. It is touted to …

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Natural Relief for Mosquito Bites

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Natural Relief for Mosquito Bites If you live in an area where mosquitos are a problem you can probably relate to the gent pictured above! Mosquitos and other flying insects that bite seem to find me extremely tasty! I will be in a group of people where all of …

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Living in Your Car Successfully

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Living in Your Car Successfully Living in your car is not a situation that most of us ever expect and certainly don’t aspire to. No child that I have ever heard says “I can’t wait to grow up so I can live in my car!” It isn’t even comparable to those …

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Simple MIY House Slippers

Simple MIY House Slippers I of course can’t speak to anyone’s household other than my own and we go through a lot of house slippers! I hate having grass clippings left from the bagging mower, dirt, rainwater, etc… tracked through my home on my kid’s shoes. But especially in the spring, fall, and winter the …

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Herb Infused Honey

Herb Infused Honey Honey is one food that doesn’t spoil. So, it is an awesome storage item. Using it other than as a sweetener in baking and cooking is also an option! Here is one way to make yours unique and different! Makes 2 to 4 cups… 2 cups of honey (clover is good, has …

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Why & How to MIY Medicinal Pickled Garlic

Why & How to MIY Medicinal Pickled Garlic Garlic is well known for its incredible flavor when infused in your food and for its extraordinary healing powers and an antibiotic. It also does wonders for flus and colds. This makes it a very popular herb root to have on hand. One method of keeping viable and …

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MIY Compact Survival Kit

MIY Compact Survival Kit This little make it yourself kit is really kind of neat! Its base is a 5″x2″ empty red pepper flakes container. This is small enough to fit just about anywhere from, handbag, briefcase, to glove box yet versatile enough to hold 78 small items that could be of use in a number …

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Natural Allergy Relief

Natural Allergy Relief Millions of folks are plagued by allergies. Springtime and fall seem to be the most bothersome of the seasons, but any season can be an allergy season for the sufferer. Typically doctors treat the symptoms with pharmaceuticals and advise you avoid the cause of the allergy if known. However, these same drugs …

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Other Uses For Soap

Other Uses For Soap In almost any place in the world you can hand someone a bar of soap and they know without a single word or gesture what it is used for. However almost everything has at least a dual use! A single bar of soap actually has a multitude of uses other than …

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