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Health Savings Accounts require you to also carry a high deductible insurance policy. The IRS decides how high the deductible needs to be. We do not qualify for an HSA because our health insurance covers too much, basically. HSAs, unlike FSAs, allow you to keep and grow the balance from one...

Yeah, the seller of House A is really all over the place. It went up for sale last May at $94,000, quickly got reduced to $82,000. I did a little digging, and found out that she bought in 2007 for $85,000. Based on my calculations, she is cutting it really close at $82,000- after she pays her...

Right now, we live in town. We thought, when we bought this place, that we'd sell it when the time came to move to the country. Now, with the market the way it is, we are planning on keeping it as a rental. The more we've pondered this, the more of blessing in disguise it seems. DH works at...

I know I'm going out a limb here, but as long as the animal is raised in conditions that are a) kind and species appropriate; b) sustainable and environmentally sound, and c) slaughtered in a quick, clean, humane, and disease minimizing way, I don't care if people eat Golden Retrievers for food...

I am anti-authoritarian, pro-homeschool, very much am concerned about the erosion of parental rights (as I am ALL personal freedoms) but I was pretty unimpressed with the movie. IIf you Google the names of the talking heads featured in the movie, they are primarily involved in far right and/or...

I don't think a high degree of SS is achievable on the road. That said, we have put a lot of thought into buying a park model RV and placing it on land. I don't think that's what you have in mind, though. ;) Here is a site about a family that has converted several RVs to run on waste veggie...

LOL! That sounds like the parenting forum I used to belong to... wait, no, that sounds like all parenting forums.

I have been handwashing more and doing indoor line drying a lot more since the last time I posted in this thread. I am not ready to give up my washer and dryer quite yet, but I have come to the conclusion that the fastest way to do laundry, provided that you have a good method of getting the...

I have the wide mouth jar attachment for the Food Saver, and I really like it. Just used it this morning, in fact. I got free from Amazon, using Swagbucks, so it has certainly paid for itself already. :lol: I haven't used it for salad, or anything that needs to be refrigerated. I use it for...

We have wide mouth and regular mason jars. So we have Tattler lids and rubber rings in regular, disposable metal lids in metal (for the vac sealer), plastic storage caps in both sizes, and plastic caps for 2L mason style canisters. Plus rings. I also have cheese molds and some other caps that...

I know some guys- Otter and Junebug and Jughead, only the state knows their real names, I guess- who live in the woods most of the year. Like, deep within no-car-access land on the border of the Hiawatha national forest. They take provisions, but since they have to cart in their tools (they...

Okay, so DH and I have decided to put up gutters along the north side of our house. Our ridgeline runs east-west, and we get most of our wet weather from the north. Plus, we actually have room over there for some type of barrel/cistern. :lol: As luck would have it, our laundry area is along...

I hate Cool Whip. Bleh. Heavy cream forever! They make spreadable butter by whipping room temp butter- like, in a Kitchen Aid or similar large appliance, not a hand mixer- and adding a small amount of hot water and dissolved Knox gelatin. I'll see if I can find the exact proportions. I...

I bought a Misto with Swagbucks! Great minds think alike. ;)

Hrm. This is a very good question. I can't see why it wouldn't be food grade, but it's not actually food. Well, not people food, anyway. All wax is a fat that is unable to be metabolized by the human gut.

I used to do this! I used a pen cap, or a bobby pin. My very good friend, her sister is audiologist, and she caught me at it one time. This very sweet woman went Medieval on my @$$. She very aggressively told me that I was being reckless and dangerous. Then she recommended the bamboo ear...

+1 for everything in these last two posts. Well said.

These are the ear cleaners. They are excellent at cleaning the pinna. I tend to have very dry earwax, so, for me, they work better in the ear canal than a QTip. I need something with scraping action. My kids clean their own ears with these, and they do NOT have dry earwax. You obviously...

I think we all know about big things that save money in the long run- solar panels, home insulation, fuel efficient cars, etc. But there are many little things I've found that are cheap to moderately priced, pay for themselves very quickly, and save a lot of money in the long run. I am always...

Ooh, this looks good! Thanks Paul! We listen to lots of podcasts here. Mostly from the Heritage Radio Network. DH drives his assistants nuts, they are all college kids who want to have bake shop dance party and he listens to boring talking all day! (He does let them control the iPod certain...