Category: Frugal

4 Wild Teas Preppers Should Know

4 Wild Teas Preppers Should Know These wild teas are a fantastic source of nutrients and can really help keep morale up if you find yourself stuck in the wilderness especially in the cooler nights. If you’re not sure about all this plant eating and foraging, don’t let a few bad plants scare you away …

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Introducing New Chickens to Your Flock

Introducing New Chickens to Your Flock Introducing new adult birds or chicks to an existing flock can be a dangerous adventure for the birds. Many flocks will attack the new bird or birds and actually kill them. No method is a 100% fool proof but the author of the following article has good success with her …

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DIY Hand Pump For Wells Or Barrels

DIY Hand Pump For Wells Or Barrels Don’t spend your hard-earned cash on a hand pump for a well when you can make a better one at home for half the price! This is easy and cheap as heck to do. If you have a rain barrel or a shallow well or even want to …

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20 Foods You May Not of Thought Were Freezer Safe

20 Foods You May Not of Thought Were Freezer Safe I so wish I had, had this list when I began freezing groceries! I had some real hits and misses. I love the idea of making my own quick easy freezer meals like French toast for breakfast in the toaster oven without the store-bought costs …

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DIY Solar Generator From Old Solar Lights

DIY Solar Generator From Old Solar Lights

DIY Solar Generator From Old Solar Lights Don’t throw away another old garden solar light ever again! Use them and make powerful solar panels to charge your batteries. Have you got old solar lights from the garden laying around? Well, did you know with a little thinking and a little solder here and there, you can …

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How to Keep Spiders Away

How to Keep Spiders Away

How to Keep Spiders Away I despise spiders. Yes, I do know they are supposedly more afraid of me then I am of them. But I don’t buy it! . I’ve seen some horrible damage done to others by bites and just the idea of them crawling across my skin makes my skin creep. I …

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Fruit Trees in Containers

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Fruit Trees in Containers I actually have done this with a small orange tree. It did (while indoors) produce fruit but be warned it was like fruit on steroids! The taste was very intense and very tart. Wonderful for making extracts. You must either keep them very small to remain in a container …

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DIY Inexpensive Acrylic Fire Piston

DIY Inexpensive Acrylic Fire Piston Make this fire piston for about dollar a bit more if you have to buy the plastic but still very cheap to make. This piston is made our of acrylic and works every time, the bonus about this type of fire starter is you can see the ignition… very cool. A fire …

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Locating the Cheapest Gas

Locating the Cheapest Gas The price of gas is on the rise again.  More people are using mass transit and ride sharing than ever before. But world events are controlling prices more than our demand these days. However, if station owners determine that a lower price point will bring in more consumers and raise their …

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Top SHTF Barter Items

Top SHTF Barter Items If the economy should collapse items and skills will immediately take the place of cash and credit. Trade will continue. No one has everything they could possibly ever need nor the skills and materials to make them themselves.  Preplanning to barter in some cases (with inflation as it is today)  could have a better return rate even if …

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