Posts belonging to Category 'make it yourself'
August 22, 2010 | Posted by Annie Jean
Walk into the soap section of your local store and brace yourself. The price of everything–including liquid soap–is going up. To make your money go farther you can make your own liquid soap for pennies instead of shelling out several dollars at the store. With a minimum of ingredients you can make your next batch [...]
Categories: frugal living, make it yourself | 
Tags: frugality, how to, liquid soap, save money, self reliance | 
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June 21, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
Sometimes you need a gasket and there isn’t one available. Perhaps it’s a special application, the part isn’t available anymore, or the cost of the seal is just too much. In these cases, you can simply make your own. Auto parts houses have several types of material and sealing compounds that can be used. Here [...]
Categories: make it yourself | Tags: do it yourself, gasket, how to, make a gasket, self reliance | 1 Comment »
January 19, 2010 | Posted by Mark Z
Over the weekend, we hiked to the blow down to retrieve rounds of firewood we’d cut from the fallen trees there. To do this, we donned our snowshoes, and strapped on the pulk. Our pulk is a Pelican hauling sled that we’ve rigged with lines, poles, and carabiners to haul heavy loads over snow. With [...]
Categories: make it yourself | Tags: moving heavy loads over snow, pulk hauling sled, self reliance | 3 Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by Kristen
Though the holidays are usually a time when people loosen their belts, the current economy is making more and more of us think about scaling back at Christmas time. It feels grinchy, I know, to cut back on spending at Christmas time, but I really do think that you can do that without making your [...]
Categories: make it yourself | Tags: frugal homemade Christmas gifts, homemade Christmas gifts, self reliance | No Comments »
November 27, 2009 | Posted by Mark Z
I’ve been quietly rooting for my fellow SRE contributors’ debt free Christmases. I wanted to write about homemade gifts, but didn’t want to reveal any secrets. Then I realized I could share a past homemade Christmas success story: I’ve made homemade gifts all my life. Some years this happened by decree. It’s never meant that [...]
Categories: make it yourself | Tags: homemade Christmas gift, homemade model trebuchet, self reliance | 2 Comments »
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