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  1. Gypsi

    I'm back.

    Apparently in 2014 I forgot everything. My GSD/Border collie died of cancer in January 2013, my Rottie got cancer in August 2014, I went off researching foods, food additives and all things cancer, discovered turmeric paste, rottie lived almost 3 years fairly comfortably without chemo, then he...
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    local currency and social change...

    Perfect for a self sufficient forum: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/money-print-your-own/beyond-greed-and-scarcity
  3. Gypsi

    Meat chicken how-to?

    I can't find the search box on here. I have non-laying production reds. One is so heavily molting I could probably pluck her in 2 minutes completely clean. It is winter. I have a couple of choices, I can make her a sweater, Or I can make chicken soup, and freeze the rest. I do not have a killing...
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    Heat and food safe glue?

    I need to put the mount for a handle back on a pan lid. I'm thinking super glue. Food safe it probably is, but when heated, does it give off fumes? Or does anyone have a better suggestion. My biggest frugality - fixing things instead of buying new. And when I buy, it's usually a garage sale...
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    I need an outdoor oven. DIY idea

    My kitchen is too small. The oven heats the house up too much most of the year, most years. I have shopped camping ovens today via the internet, and they run $150 and up. Outdoor ovens, $2000 and up. What if I took an old gas oven that didn't work, and retrofitted it with grill burners the...
  6. Gypsi

    There was no plan, but here I am

    And I am not fully self-sufficient, but I am making progress. I was a single mom with a struggling small business in the post 9-11 economy when I bought an all-electric house in October 2001. What I learned about solar was: It will not support energy-hog appliances. So instead of starting at...
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    Newbie - from Fort Worth, Texas

    I have been on byc.com since early 2010, and never saw a link for ss - until someone pointed it out today. Woohoo - I can tell I am going to LOVE this forum. I've been doing all of this stuff on my own, trial and error, and a lot of it has worked. But getting off the grid, that's going to be...
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