I would never get a glass top stove. You can not can on them or spill a lil sugar while your cooking or it will be ruined forever. I had on years ago and I simply threw it away after about a year. Never again.
We have offered potted bulbs for sale with our veggie plants and eggs at the farmers market for years. I am one who loves to paint and I buy plastic terra cotta colored pots and paint them and offer them for sale and some are already planted with bulbs like miniature irises and other many bulb...
We have a water softener installed now and it is awesome but before we bought it this is what I did.
Laundry 1/2 tsp salt to each load right into the detergent despenser
dish rince water 1/4 tsp to a sink full of water
bath (use sea salt or espom) 1 tsp or 2 if you like a more bubbly feeling...
We had to have 35 trees cut down last year after the horses decided to eat the bark off of them. So DH said to me while driving back home from shopping today.
Hey I had a thought I want raised garden beds right?
Yeah.
We got all those downed trees and I was thinkin we don't need fire wood so...
We glue rocks into the plastic eggs and then glue the eggs shut. That way the eggs don't rattle and the hens don't catch on. The can turn the eggs and don't kick them out of the nest. Works for us!;)