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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :lau And I only had to wait a full year before it showed up at the Thrift Shop! More seriously, I have some wish lists of nice things to have, someday, that I am willing to wait out to see if it passes through the Thrift Shop at a good price. If you are willing to wait, sometimes you can get...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :old I'm so old, that I remember when Amazon was an online bookstore that lost money every year! I don't have any personal feeling towards Jeff Bezos, one way or another, but Amazon certainly has changed the way I shop. I would prefer to buy stuff locally and support our brick-and-mortar...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :thumbsup Thrift Store Treasure Find! I have had The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds (Eastern edition) on my Amazon wish list for some time. I just did not want to pay full retail for the guide to look up the occasional new bird that might visit Dear Wife's bird feeders...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :idunno That's what I was talking about. Although it might be better to recycle and reuse that plastic, I'm not convinced that paying extra for new plastic to subsidize recycling plastic is the answer. Better if we can just find alternatives to plastic in the first place. Too bad that reuse...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I have often thought about the title of this thread, frugal and sustainable tips. Most of my posts here have been on saving money, the frugal part of the topic. I would love to hear more sustainable ideas on this thread, too. But it's only as good as members who want to post their sustainability...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Yeah, that cuts both ways, though. On one hand, I don't want to spend a lot of money on something that will certainly outlast me by 20 years if I can find something less expensive that will do fine for me for 5 years, or maybe more. I'd rather save that money for something else. On the other...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ Frugal lifestyle changes as we get older? :idunno I tend to buy a lot of things on the cheap if it is something that I won't need for a long time. that usually works out well for me. When I buy tools that I use all the time, on the other hand, I have paid more for higher quality and...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I like to buy things that will last. Like I said, I have not yet been into town to check out that Solar LED Light, so I don't even know if it has any warranty at all. In any case, my idea was to mount the light inside the shed/garage where it would not need to be waterproof. The solar panel...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Reviving this topic from a number of weeks ago... I just got a Menards ad with the latest sales for the week and noticed this little gem, a 1000 lumens Solar Motion LED Flood Light, that some people here might find interesting based on the previous posts. It's both an LED motion flood light...
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    Butchering Supplies for Harvesting Chickens

    Will do. Thanks. Well, I would welcome the help, but it looks like it's just myself for this job. I have butchered 50 meat chickens years ago, but I had lots of helpers. We did it all in one day, but 50 chickens was a lot of work. I think it will be better for me now that I have a turkey fryer...
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    Butchering Supplies for Harvesting Chickens

    They did not have of these fryers in stock, so I don't know exactly how wide the pot is. It's a 30qt pot. It sounds big enough to me. But I don't know how wide it is. In any case, I don't have any pots at home that are 13" dia X 13" deep. If the pot that comes with the fryer is not big enough...
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    Butchering Supplies for Harvesting Chickens

    The turkey fryer I order comes with a 12 inch thermometer. I think that is a bit too high of a temperature for scalding. I looked online and found this... My hens are 3-4 years old, but I think I will start at 130F and see how it goes before I raise the temperature any higher. I plan on...
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    Butchering Supplies for Harvesting Chickens

    I currently have 16 chickens. 8 of those chickens are from this spring and have just started to lay eggs about 4 weeks ago. I need to harvest my older chickens that are now about 4 years old that no longer lay eggs. I want to get down to 10 or less chickens before winter. I won't be buying an...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    I would love to hear how well a car jack works for you for pallet breakdowns. From the video, it looked like most boards were splitting and cracking at the ends using that car jack. That's the same problem I have with using my pallet buster bar on most pallets. :idunno I had high hopes for my...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    Thanks for the post. I'm not much into the Arts and Crafts scene, but I do see lots of listings online for stuff like that. Dear Wife wants me to make a pallet wood Wishing Well as was posted a while back on this thread. Maybe this winter...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    ⚠️ Future (Unnecessary?) Pallet Breakdown Tool :old As I get older, I look more and more to specialty tools that allow me to continue to enjoy my hobbies for a few years longer. A number of years ago, I watched a YouTube video on some guy who designed a homemade nail puller that was powered by...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :old I don't print very much anymore. I had three ink jet printers over the past 7 years that the heads dried up and clogged and would not print. Turns out, once the ink clogs the print head, you might never get it working 100% again. I should have known better about not using the ink jet...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ Using ChatGPT.com AI to save money! I have an older Samsung laser printer. It has been having challenges feeding the paper into the machine. I checked out YouTube and found out that one common problem could be that the rubber uptake roller inside the machine is either dirty and/or old and...
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    Pullets refuse to stay in coop at night.

    That is a very nice-looking little coop. I think you can make it work. The first thing that came to my mind was getting rid of the roost in the chicken run. They don't need it, and if they prefer to roost outside instead of going into the coop, it's working against you. Chickens naturally seek...
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    What should scratch contain or not contain?

    Over the years, I give less and less chicken scratch to the girls. They just don't need it. But we are good at saving our kitchen scraps and unwanted leftovers in a bucket on the kitchen counter for the chickens. They like our kitchen scraps. It's probably a healthier treat for them when you...
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