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We save a lot of money by eating low on the food chain. If it has a picture of itself on the box, we generally don't get it. We usually buy ingredients instead of food. Mayonnaise is really cheap to make and tastes a lot better than that old processed stuff from the store. Bread is easy...

Yup, small stores generally can order in special things and they are usually real nice about it, at least in my area. The local - well, I can't really call it a feed store since they only sell alfalfa hay and cubes, and now they also sell propane and they also repair saddles, but whoever they...

Can you list the time share for sale or for rent in the Craig's List area that the time share is in? Maybe you could sell it yourself or rent it out.

Liver is yummy, although for some reason I like it sliced in a sandwich with loads of mustard. Or rolled in wheat germ and fried medium rare, again slathered in mustard. Liver is good stuff. Hey, thinking of livers and liver sausage and such, did you know the difference between braunscwiger...

Where online to get inexpensive carders? I've not even been able to find the wire replacement pads for anything inexpensive. Oh, a drop spindle made of a CD may not weigh enough to spin thicker yarns, you could try it but it might be frustrating. If you have a big hole saw type drillbit...

Yeah, I've torn this wretched box apart and put it back together several times and still no sound. I think it's something on the motherboard. The next 'puter will probably have sound, but most times even when the sound works I keep it turned off. At the moment, most of my spare time is taken...

There is a specific fabric they make for feather pillows, it is a tight woven cotton, that should probably work. The pillow ticking is a heavier fabric and tighter weave than most pillow case fabric.

Thanks! That looks like a great recipe! I wonder if it would work with mashed sweet potatoes? I'll be digging them up later this week and will have a lot more of them than Irish potatoes and we can't (well, "won't") afford potato flakes. We are at the tail end of the summer pineapples so we...

No need to wait for TEOTWAWKI, you can barter and trade now. My DH is constantly swapping things around. Yesterday he may have traded a lawn mower for an old hit or miss engine, he's waiting to see if the fellow wants to go through with it. Something about if the hit or miss engine is even...

I do not pay retail if I can help it, but if I must, then I try to at least know the person I'm buying it from. That pretty much lets out Wallyworld! I sit in the car and read a book if my DH wants to shop in there, I don't go inside. Too much plastic. We have this great little third...

If we had them, we'd probably shop at them. We don't have any dollar stores at all that I know of. Probably the ground rent and shipping in of the sales goods is too expensive for them to work here. It's all good, though, we have yard sales year round so there's always good stuff available...

We have some neighbors who keep a Guernsey (hmm, it might be a brown Swiss) anyway, they keep one diary cow and a half dozen Nubian goats. No billy goat, just does. The Nubian goat milk is much closer to "store bought" milk flavor and texture than the raw cow's milk. It is almost exactly the...

You may want to look into "cold frames" for growing winter vegetables. They were usually heated by composting fresh manure under the vegetable beds. If there is a horse stable or cow barn somewhere near you can get fresh manure from, it should work. Can you find a renter for your mom's house...

Before I got married, it was just me and I always kept three to six months operating expenses tucked away since I was a sole proprietor business person and hadn't a clue when the next invoice would get paid. After we got married, the whole budgeting system changed. For awhile we were having...

My friends who have a "picker" call it a "breaker" so perhaps the implement goes by different names in different places? It's a gnarly beast, no doubt but it does break up the fleece nicely. They have a drum carder, too, so between the pair they can process wool pretty quickly. I like the...

Did he use yeast in his recipe? It sounds almost like a cracker recipe instead of a bread type dough recipe. We usually use a basic French bread recipe to make pizza dough but add in things like rosemary or basil to the crust. Hmm, if I were making a pizza at this time, there'd be a bit of...

Buying yeast in small packets and making bread doesn't go well together. See if you can find the one to three pound bags of yeast, that saves tons of money if you bake a lot. There is usually a choice between "red" and "gold" yeast. The red is similar to what you usually get in the small...

You could look in the refrigerator section of your grocery store to see if they have casings, not all stores carry them. If you know anyone butchering a hog this year, they might give you some casings. Basically, it's just scraped intestines. You might be able to use the turkey or rabbit...