Reading Time: 7 minutes Used Electric Rototiller Setup A used electric rototiller setup can be essential to its longevity. I recently decided to purchase a used electric rototiller. With this purchase came the missing knowledge of its maintenance. You just don’t know the condition of a used piece of equipment. Oh yes, you can get a lot of information… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weld Plastic Using Household Plastics Weld plastic using household plastics begins with determining what kind of plastic you will be welding. But I’m getting ahead of myself. First thing you need to know about welding is that welding requires additional material to combine two pieces together. In the normal welding of steel, you have a… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Watch Batteries What happens when you need watch batteries. This happened to me recently. It all started out so simply. Watch batteries My wife brought me one of her watches and tasked me with getting it a new battery. I naively said “Sure, a piece of cake”. I’ll take it apart and get the number… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes  Why Choose Steel Rain Gutter So why choose steel rain gutter. Choosing a rain gutter was a decision I needed to make recently.  My old gutter had deteriorated to the point that it had more holes per running foot that I could justify keeping it working. I have time on my hands and less… Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes DIY Custom Pet Food Containers I needed some custom DIY pet food containers for a limited space recently. We have a bookcase cabinet in our laundry room that we use to store our soaps and such. But the lowest shelf of the cabinet did not get much use. At the same time our dog and… Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutes Green Cheap Raised Garden Beds You can build green cheap raised garden beds. You can call this a green project because most of the lumber used on this project will be recycled and it’s on the cheap because its available for free. Your only expenses will be the nails, staples, screws and the 2″x2″ lumber. Also if… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes How To Repair LED Bulbs In order to save some money, you may need to know how to repair LED bulbs. It’s a dirty little secret of LED lamps. Something only spoken in hushed tones in the dark corners of the internet. LED bulbs do not last as long as advertised. When LED life is… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes  A No Lawnmower Maintenance Life I confess I believe in a no lawnmower maintenance life. My lawnmower has a hard life and it’s all on me. I think it goes back to my youth when I worked in a rental yard. Let me explain. We would rent new mowers at the start of the season… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reverse Osmosis Add a membrane flush kit Add a membrane flush kit and extend the life of your RO membrane. The purpose of the flush kit is to help prevent scaling or fouling of the reverse osmosis membrane. By removing the contaminants(thru flushing) from the membrane it extends it’s life. Membrane fouling is a process whereby… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Repairing a Leaking Hose Bib Repairing a leaking hose bib shot to the top of the list recently. I experienced an over usage fee on my water bill. I didn’t know that it was leaking at the time but when the bill came I started searching for a leak. In my backyard I had extended… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cracking Lowe’s Discount Codes Cracking Lowe’s discount codes was something I stumbled across recently. Let me explain. I was looking at upgrading my shelving system for my shed. It currently does not have enough shelves to store all the stuff I have. I had recently found a pair of loppers(they had been missing for six months) under… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Create Before and After Photos With Paint How to create before and after photos with paint has been on my to-do list for quite awhile. I finally had the time to put it all together. I had a problem a few months past where I needed to combine a couple of photos for a before… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes CPAP Health Cleaning The tube My CPAP health cleaning the tube to be specific came to the surface recently. It all started when I noticed these commercials dealing a machine that guaranteed the mask, hose and everything in the system would be cleaned of bacteria. It looked so simple just drop the mask in the… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes How to clean headlights How to clean headlights was something I needed to learn recently. I had to venture out on an errand in the evening. It was after sunset when I was on my way home that I noticed my headlights being dim. The bulbs had recently been replaced so I knew that it… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Frugal living: Buying by the piece I was grocery shopping and lettuce was on my list. I was doing what I normally do. Grabbing a head of lettuce and mentally weighing it in my hand. Accepting only the heaviest head and discarding the others. Putting the candidate head aside as I went thru the process… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Get the most for the least from eBay If you’re like me and you see an item on eBay you’ll ask yourself how do I get the most for the least from eBay? We don’t always know the value of items that we may want to own. So how do you know if your next… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes How not to bid on eBay How not to bid on eBay, is it the right winning strategy for you? Are you new to eBay? Are the items you want slipping thru your digital fingers? Do you want a winning strategy? If you answered yes then you’ve arrived at the right place. We’ve all had… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Deck construction how to straighten bowed boards I recently needed to know how to straighten bowed boards. I was rebuilding my deck and of course, I wanted to rebuild it with as much of the old deck materials as possible. The largest problem was that most of the deck boards were bowed. The boards that… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Deck Construction DIY Spacers I recently had to rebuild a small deck. DIY spacers would be needed to provide drainage gaps between the finished deck boards. These spacers would be used to provide the gap then moved to the next row after securing the deck board. After determining my spacer size I needed to use a… Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutes Frugal Honolulu Waikiki Vacation A Frugal Honolulu Waikiki vacation, is it possible? Here’s how and where to cut the price of that dream vacation. Get two people there on one airline ticket. Just landed at the airport now get to your hotel/condo with no car rental or cab expense. Stay at a timeshare instead of… Read More »