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Misc.

Let’s wrap up this first section and include a few last items. There are many more, limited to your imagination, but since this isn’t an encyclopedia we’ll conclude with four more items. Wool carding, livestock, antenna and kitchen tools. Wool carding and spinning is taking hair and wool and creating your own yarn for crocheting. Livestock are yummy dead animals to barbeque ( or much more practical, their daily protein substitutes ), that don’t require huge pasture space of specialty feed. A television antenna is that bizarre tool almost unknown today that allows you to stop paying money to the cable or satellite company and yet still watch the boob tube. And kitchen specialty tools allow you to bypass commercially prepared foods or cut back on your costs. Making your own yarn gives you zero cost clothing items. Raising some livestock reduces your meat costs. No cable bill is a large monthly savings and a few simple kitchen tools allow you to cook cheaper.

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I don’t pretend to remember much about how my mother carded and spun wool. I remember having to set up her big ass loom for weaving, a huge pain in the butt if there ever was one, and her using a lot of homemade fibers for churning out foo-foo craft fair items. If I’m recalling right, you have that wood paddle with a huge patch of the pokey metal teeth and the long wood shaft with a base on it and that should be about the only two tools you need besides one to shear the animals. Just search "card and spin wool" along with "animal hairs for spinning" or similar. Since a book could be written separately for nearly every item in this first section, I’ve purposely left out most details. You just need to identify the needed tools from here, then you are on your own researching.

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The best meat to raise is still chickens, as they take very little in the way of feed and provide most of their own calories in bugs and other food items. But better than that, they provide protein every day without dying. Eggs ( and in the case of goats, milk ) are the daily perpetual protein source. The meat is a one time only item. Livestock should only be those animals that mostly feed themselves on non-human food, or deliver protein nearly daily. Nothing else makes economic sense ( pigs are great garbage/waste converters, but only make sense of a farm that provides enough of that-they are useless for the suburbs or a backyard. Even guinea pigs will probably be competing with your food, which just proves further God hated the New World compared to the Old ).

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I am totally confused as to why people pay for cable or satellite service. If you want to watch commercials, why pay for them? If you love a series, why pay for all the other shows you don’t like? A complete years series on DVD is much less than one months bill for cable. Why pay for a bunch of crap movies when you can pick and choose from RedBox and NetFlix? Or, even buy $5 discs from Wal-Mart. A La Carte makes more sense. Get a rooftop TV antenna for a one time only fee, then watch free broadcast TV ( twenty channels, a lot of locations ). Buy movies if cheap, rent if not.

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The kitchen is where a lot of savings happens, as well as a place to improve your health. Just make sure to buy your tools, rather than their luxury fads. A quality set of knives is great, a plastic push and chop machine is stupid. Cast iron or quality stainless steel is a "forever" pan or pot or skillet. A fermentation crock gives you fresh sauerkraut year round ( although mostly a winter staple ) from cheap cabbage ( and who cooks cabbage? BLECH!! ). A pasta and ravioli machine takes 35 cent flour and replaces $1 a pound store pasta. Usually, if it is new and handy, it is a fad. Time tested, century old tools are a one time investment, and practical.

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