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Oh I can't wait to start seeing my plants outside but that's at least another month away before I can start shoveling the snow off them. The biggest sign of spring around here is when I can open the door to the deck, put up the gate to the stairs and let the dogs come in and out of the house...

We learned the hard way about credit cards and are slowly being able to pay more than minimum on them. For the longest time they (we have 2) were in the freezer so we couldn't use them at all. But with this job I put all my gas on a credit card and then go home at night or in the morning if I...

If you can be like my hubby, make a "frankinblower". :) Our snowblower is made from an old sear's craftsman and a mdt (I think). It works which is all that matters up here. lol This was the first full year of using it (last year things kept breaking on it - pins and such) and it did...

I'm not worried as such, I may get to that point but right now I'm being careful. I'm about to quit my job. Thought it would be a great opportunity but turned out that once I made 6 sales they took me off hourly to commission - and I haven't sold since they did which is now straining our...

If your talking about the foods like at Honest Kitchen has, you'll see that it's a natural product, there are no chemicals or preservatives. If your talking about trying to dehydrate a can of food, I wouldn't do it. I do make my own mixture and dehydrate it for my own dogs and clients. I...

Alot of dogs have the same type of allergy issues you were seeing. The biggest allergy ingredient in commercial foods is grains. Many dogs are allergic to them and there is only one or two on the market today that have no grains at all - I am feeding one right now to my old boy who has colon...

LOL I LOVE to gross out the neighbours from $#%#. :) The dog run is on that side of our property and I love to bring home sheep heads from the processor in the summer and giving it to the dogs to eat outside. Well one day they were having alot of company over, they had just given us a visit...

When I raised rabbits, I would kill and once on the cold side (no body heat) I would feed. When I sold to other raw feeders, I had to clean them as I have found "city" folks don't like to be reminded that their meat grocery store or farm bought came from an animal. I also feed newborn...

Miss_thenorth, what soap are you using in it? I have not been able to find Fels Naptha around here and wondering what other Ontarians substitute with.

Ann's book is good and I give it out to everyone who is open minded to question their feeding program. You can't help a closed mind learn. :) Even after 9+ years I'm still learning and adding/subtracting things from the Crew's diet. Like for me veggies have taken a back seat, I feed more red...

If you go to the chicken plant and get their "ribs" you will have to usually supplement with more meat. Around here what you are getting is the chicken fram with almost no meat so it's mostly bone, I use them still but I make sure to feed a meatier meal for the next meal. I started out...

We went with Vonage as soon as we got high speed here. To get around the outage problem, we decided to save up and get a generator ($500) and ran it's own plug outlets throughout the house for the necessities - fridge, water heater, furnace (which cause they are all in the same room can be...

We have very few friends and those that we do are not SS or have a clue what it even means. Mainly cause we prefer not to go out for dinners or go on vacations, replace my vehicle every 2 yrs, etc. I have one friend who believes that my idea of getting on some acreage and raising my own is...

My job right now demands I dress well and being bigger I rarely find stuff at the Sal, Goodwill or Value Village in my size. I've been loosing weight so I try to make the clothes last as long as possible with safety pins to help hold up my pants when I have to. But if I had the choice I'd be...

Like it has been said, it's hard to tell/make suggestions to how to not spend money without knowing how you do spend it. I feed a family of 5 (DH, kids are 17, 11,10 yrs and myself). My bill every week is between $100-150. Can be more when things are on sale but then lower for weeks after...

We have to take baby steps in order to get to SS but being debt free for us will pretty much be the end result. Hubby grew up with very little money, mac n cheese 6 days a week for dinner, etc. so he is always wanting to give the kids everything he never got to have but he will get physically...

We have a new tv, it was hubby's birthday gift two years ago, plus he just won one at work (now he's working on setting up a rec room for it (I wanted to sell it). We have it hooked up to a FTA (free-to-air) system. I personally could do without the tv, I use the satellite radio side of it...

We went through 6 days during a bad snow storm that knocked out hydro and our road never got plowed so we were literally snowed in and we made it. We were not prepared for it as such. Everything that can be on natural gas is - stove, heat, dryer, bbq, hot water, fireplace. Our house is a...

I use eBay to buy and sell seeds, violets, dog treats/toys, clothes - things that are easy and fairly cheap to ship. The bigger stuff I put on Kijiji, I don't use craigslist personally just cause things never last long on Kijiji. You can also see if there is a buy and sell or super shopper in...

Take a pair of panty hose that have runs in them, or use a new pair.., cut them up and with elastics or sew up one end, add your little bars till you have as many as you want in it and then sew up/elastic the other end and use it up that way in the shower. I learned that one a long time ago...