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How to Have Soft Spreadable Butter With A Butter Bell Crock

If  like me you have sworn to never buy margarine again and now you use real butter at your house, you know how hard...

Organize Your Linen Closet Tips

Don't let your matching sheets get lost in the linen closet. Use this simple trick: Tuck the sheet set inside one of its pillowcases, and...

Ripe And Easy – A Guide To Produce Ripening

Did you ever get home from the store with produce that wasn't ripe yet?  Here you can learn how to ripen and store fresh...

Prepare Your Freezer For Power Outages

Favorite freezer foods tells us how to prepare our freezers for power outages. What to do when the power goes out to protect the food...

35 Reasons You Should Never Be Without Vinegar

Who knew this simple kitchen item had so many uses and was so versatile? Activist post shares 35 uses for using vinegar. I knew...

How to Make an Off Grid Washing Machine

Remake America website shares a five gallon bucket outdoor washing design that helpfully will relieve some of the back strain of this labor intensive...

The difference between cake flour, all purpose flour and bread flour. Which do you need, and why?

Nice article on the differences in types of flour and the purpose of each type. John and Lee tell you which to use for...

Seal Plastic Bags with Aluminum Foil and an Iron

Want to reseal a bag of food without buying ziplock bags and other types of resealable bags? If you would like to reaseal a...

How to Make a Thermal Cooker and How To Use One

Thermal cookers are a good thing. They cook with very little energy so save money. They will also keep food hot for a long time....

Under-bed Water Storage, Amazing what all is under that mattress

If you live in an apartment you may not have a lot of space for storing food and water and other supplies. Calamity Janet...

Homestead Series Wood Stoves

Homestead acres walks you through the different parts and what they are for on a wood stove. The EPA he talks about is the...

Wood Butter – A Recipe for Your Utensils!

If you have a lot of wooden bowls and utensils in your kitchen and they are looking dull Creative culinary has a recipe for...

80+ Items You Can Compost

Nice list of compostable items. I compost all the time and every so often I have something that I am just not sure of...

Modify your oven to bake great bread

This article form Backwoods home gives a how to on turning your home oven into an oven similar to a barkers over. With this modification...

The Ash and its uses!

Great article about ash and its uses.  The was sent to us a long while back and I found all the uses for ashes...

How to Sharpen Lawn Mower Blades

This Old House website shares 2 informative articles - " How to Sharpen Lawn Mower Blades " and  " How to Maintain Your Lawn...

Find the lowest price per gallon on gas in your area.

GasBuddy can help you find cheap gas prices near you. Seems like it is going to stay up. Mine ranges anywhere from 3.39 to 3.69...

4 Free PC Programs to keep your pc trouble free, These are the programs that I personally use.

Today I am going to share the programs I use to keep my pc running smoothly.I hear people all the time saying they have...

How to Detox Your Home Naturally, 7 Ways

Detox you home with helpful ideas from  BkCreative. She gives us over 5 ideas for ways to detox your enviroment. We keep our homes...

25 Alternative Uses For Olive Oil Around The House

Great article on the uses of olive oil. Faceless39 has put together a really nice list of uses from health and beauty to household...

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