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Did you ever get your answer about Excel? If you email me I will send you or anyone else a blank copy of my Excel expenditure tracking document. It's like a compilation of all the layouts I've studied/checked out. All you need to make it work is to keep every receipt you get. It really isn't...

Food Saver has a "top" that is used for this. I think you have to order it from them, and there are probably two sizes. Wide mouth and regular. I haven't researched it that far yet. You simply put the "top" over the ball jar with a lid with a loose ring on it, hook up the hose to the "top", and...

Wow! This is an old one! Anyway, I've been reading a lot lately about vacuum canning dry goods with a Food Saver machine or similar machine or device. It seems tremendously easier than canning cooked beans for convenience. Put the beans in the jar, put the lid on, loosely screw the ring on...

TanksHill, Thanks for the grandaughter compliment and you are correct! Getting the little ones involved assures their gardening success later on in life, I think. They'll be comfortable with knowing about it, and it won't be something brand new to them. They remember more about it than we give...

I had seen a video on YouTube about those solar path lights. It said that the batteries in them are really cheap and don't last long. The trick to use them in an emergency is to replace the battery it comes with with a new more powerful rechargeable lithium battery. That way if you use them for...

I just did a blog post about "Modified Intensive Gardening Combined With Succession Planting of Our Pole Beans" that you might find interesting. By changing the method of planting I increased the potential output of my green beans two and a half times of what it was last year in the same space...

I rented out property before, and I would never do it again in my life. Have you considered using the tax returns for buying the land you want first, then work on paying off the house? It might be a good time to buy land. If you used the tax returns for outright buying the land with no payments...

My Mom sent me a particular booklet since I was born in 1950. It's called Rember When, and it was put out by Seek Publishing. I thought it was pretty interesting so I thought I would share some info from it with you on what life cost in 1950. Living New House...

I agree with you wholeheartedly on the raised bed issue. It would be great for wet areas so the seed wouldn't rot, otherwise it does take a lot of water to keep it up. There are so many gimmick methods of doing things that we are lured into using. I think most of them are flashy just to sell a...

If you can your home-grown vegetables, you have taken back a portion of the control of your food supply from the corporations. They make millions of dollars from all the additives and preservatives they put in food and then expect us to be willing to eat it. I canned 159 jars of vegetables last...

I agree with old fashioned. I just can't figure out how couponers do it unless they buy things they don't normally get. I can hardly find anything on sale of the things we usually buy at the grocery store. Also, where do they get the coupons? Magazines or what?

I have a one-year-old blog about in-city back yard organic gardening in which one post is dedicated entirely to my composting area. You might find it very interesting. The address is: http://backyardorganicvegetables.blogspot.com/2011/02/evolution-of-my-composting-area.html I am a committed...

ORchick, that's the kind of experience information I'm looking for. If they stayed good in that length of time, that's what I want to do. Maybe not that long, but that's certainly in the range I'm looking for. I don't want to dehydrate a bushel of fruit and then in six months have to have eaten...

My brother told me about the Glad Bags Pump. It's an inexpensive suction pump that you use with their special bags that have an outlet so the pump can suck all the air out of the bag, thus having no oxygen for mold to grow with. Haven't tried it myself, but you might want to check it out. I...

She was arrested because they knew she was lyeing... Now she's all washed up.

I would like to seriously begin dehydrating some fruit this year. I did a couple loads of apples in my son's dehydrator last year for 7 hours at around 165 degrees. (It had no temperature control, so I measured the discharge air with an AC thermometer probe.) After they sat a few minutes, I put...

I live in a large metropolitan area. I know many people that plan to evacuate when the local officials tell them it's time to go due to hurricane or other cause. There is a hurricane evacuation route to get you away from this area when a hurricane strike is eminent. I wonder how many people...

Thanks! This is a great site! There's so much information here, and I really enjoy seeing that so many people are trying to live life the right way. It's great!

I spend 26% for groceries, fast food, pocket money, and garden supplies. I allocate each portion of each receipt to the appropriate category on my Excel spreadsheets. The Excel program let me build the spreadsheets so they automatically total each category on a summary sheet for monthly and...