Here’s how to convert a tiny garage into a tiny house. My fascination with tiny dwellings persists! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
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Make your own paracord belt with carabiner buckle, but that’s not all. The carabiner is removable and supports 3,000 lbs. The ‘D’ ring supports 2,500 lbs. The webbing supports around 7,000 lbs., and the whole thing comes apart by undoing one knot, giving you a little over 100 feet of paracord. Survival here we come! [...]
How to wrap up your extension cord like a contractor. It’s called The Contractor’s Wrap. Say that around the union hall and they’ll know you’re OOTT (One Of The Tribe, if you don’t know). TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
Stretch your shampoo and make your own hair gel, or just make a gel to apply directly to your hair. Either way, it’s easy and saves money. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
How to use one paper towel to dry your hands and save over 571 million pounds of paper per year if we all just did a very simple thing. Watch the above video by Joe Smith at TEDx to see how it’s done. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
You might not want to live this way all the time (the subject of this post doesn’t), but this article has some good ideas for saving a ton of money on food so you can eat healthy on a buck per day. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
Here’s imagination at work in a way I’d never thought of, upcycle a glove that’s lost its partner to make a stuffed chipmunk toy. Now that I’ve got the concept I’m thinking about using a leather glove to make a chipmunk with in-your-face street-smart macho attitude. Recycling, yes! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
When I was a kid we had a 6-foot square ice fishing shack made out of the same insulation board that was used as sheathing on new houses in those days. We left the shack out on the frozen river all winter long. Sawdust covered the ice as a floor. There was a little oil-burning [...]
For a couple of years now I’ve fooled around with adding heat to cold frames to extend the growing season in both spring and fall. In a recent DIY project I made a low-wattage electrical heater that heats the soil rather than the air above the soil. In the spring, I might use this unit [...]
Notice: Since the end of the world may occur tomorrow, you might want to hold off starting this project until Saturday, if there is a Saturday. If there is no Saturday, it’s been nice knowing you. Do you remember those big old heat registers at Grandma’s house? They were vertical against the wall and the [...]
