Low cost homemade projects, plans, and information for the do it yourselfer

Offering, unique, innovative solutions for do it yourselfer's; for home,  garden, and landscape improvement using low cost materials.  Each "How To" design should save time and save money making your home a more comfortable place to live.  These economical How To's are pictorial, well documented with procedures, plans, photos, and sketches, so the do it yourself and home improvement aficionado can complete the project quickly, and at very low cost.  Each design, or plan, leans toward an affordable functional solution more so than an aesthetic solution, using cheap low price materials.

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Pictorial "How To" designs and plans

Plans and designs for the do it yourself, home improvement fan.  While design sketches are supplied, many photographs of projects taken during construction are included with every "How To".  Materials lists are provided as well as cutting lengths tables.  Hints on purchasing materials and links to suppliers are included.  Where required, each How To has project maintenance and safety suggestions.  How To plans

Rip Off Prices

Please be careful of the price you pay for accessories to the products you buy.  These accessories can have ridiculous prices.

Only Good Reviews

Occasionally I'll write some good reviews.  On this site it will be rare that you see a bad review?

Organize!

I just realized that many of my "How To" projects around the house are really organization projects.  I've got some unique ideas I hope you will find useful. 

Health Topics

An attempt to present health topics from the patient's and customer's perspective.  Sort of "How To" live with or improve upon matters related to health.  Low  tension glaucoma, sinus congestion, health insurance rejection, strange hospital lab billing practices, and other topics.  My Canadian pharmacy story.  Health topics

Tips & Tricks Pages

Low cost materials, easy solutions to home and household problems, some strange, some simple.  Problems with your sliding screen door, or sliding glass door; some tips?  Problems with lawn mowing, grass on your sidewalk, grass on your driveway; some tips?  Believe it or not "screen BO" or screen door odor.  Tips Tricks  

Home Computing, Home Web sites, XP, X10

Home web sites is a major topic as well as Dynamic DNS a substitute for a costly Static IP address.  Windows XP IIS server and multiple web sites.  Web site at home

Sports and Hobbies

I'm an avid skier so you can guess what the bias of these pages is.  A discussion of boot cant and bowed legs.  Skiing steep terrain and handling precipices.  Looking good skiing or skiing with style!  Skiiing Fun

Landscaping

As we develop our property I'll document our landscaping projects pictorially and publish them here.  Hopefully there will be some new ideas and methods presented!  We just bought a new Kubota B7610 compact tractor with bucket and it's time to take on the Multi-Flora Rose and Hawthorne's that are taking over our meadow area.  Landscape design

Gardening

Last fall we added a homemade 12 x 24 greenhouse.  We also have seven 4 x 16 raised bed garden planters and I hope to finish the eighth this spring of 2004.  We've got lots of projects in mind!  Garden projects

Household

Any project around the house!  I try to document even the simplest maintenance task pictorially, lighting a wood stove, fixing a slow drain, repairing a sliding patio door, Tea Time Saver, and hopefully more.  Home repair

Anything to do with the Workshop 

I hope to document anything unique about the workshop.  Also suggest specific types of equipment and reasons for the choice.  Maybe one of my best purchases was an industrial material storage rack, wow, what an organizer!

Science, Physics, Astronomy

One of my hobbies is science!  Particularly physics and astronomy.  In college I started out as a physics major but soon discovered I really didn't want to spend 4 years learning how to play billiards, in infinite detail, so I switched to engineering and played pool!  Science neutrinos

Quality, Business ethics, caring

By documenting upsetting business practices I hope in the long run to have a positive impact upon businesses and there policies.  If I receive an advertisement I don't like I'll try to document who is ultimately responsible and maybe the message will "trickle up"!  Quality!

Fun - Fun Photos

Anything to do with fun and activities.  Unusual events that deserve a web page.  Use your computer as a strobe light? How bout a neat kaleidoscope screen saver.  FFuuunnnn

Pets

Pets are a lot of fun, and a lot of work.  I've come up with some fixes for our pet problems.  Feeding a cat and dog together can be difficult.  A simple solution that works well in many cases.

Home Utilities

Saving money and improving comfort goes hand in hand with maintaining and improving the utility services around your home and property.

Long Distance should only cost 5 cents!

Please don't pay your local phone company 10 cents a minute for long distance.  Have you heard of "local" long distance?  That's 10 cents a minute too!  There are several companies out there that will give you reliable long distance phone service for 5 cents a minute.  Our 5 cent phone service!

Revised: 06/13/2013

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College Entrance, easily!
I wouldn't have been admitted to Drexel Univ. had I not made this mistake; now it's a tip!

My Modular Home Quality 
Quality aspects of our modular home, both good and bad.

Moving tips
We moved ourselves, and have some moving tips I think are unique!

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