Tightwaddery Hint
If your family has cats, here’s how to save money on both cat food and cat litter: keep hunting until you find a food they don’t like (but make sure it’s still nutritious). They’ll eat less, and thus...
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Christmas Presents: Ah! Somebody Knows Me Well
Perhaps too well. *heh* In the mail today, addressed to me: FM 21-76, Department of the Army Field Manual: Survival. Though it was addressed to me, I didn’t order it. I can only assume it to be a gift...
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Ahh! The Blessings of “Junk Builds”
My home office desk is a build consisting of -a 3’X6′ top I slapped together from (mostly) scrap about 17 years ago. -four legs made of (average) better than 10″ diameter sycamore logs from deadfalls...
View ArticleTightwaddery: Simply Clear Thinking
A few years ago, our central air conditioning unit began showing signs of eventual–more like near term–failure. Of course, we looked into replacement; who wants to live through sweltering summers? And...
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Fun Lil Micro-Mini Project
To make a short story longer… I have an area of our back yard* I’ve mentally designated for a future backyard* garden. Right now, I’m burning wood trash there, in a small pit I’ve dug–limbs, small...
View ArticleTightwad Confessions
Sometimes, tightwaddery results in… alternate “expenses”. Example: the two hours I spent getting a communications issue straightened out this afternoon/early evening. OK, the tightwad part: since I do...
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The Tightwad in Me LOVES This Site
Ecoprojecteer My paternal grandfather would feel right at home with this guy, too. (Short rabbit trail: Granddaddy could build anything, it seemed, with just hand tools, ingenuity and a little blood...
View ArticleTightwad Tip
Like those wet wipe cleaning cloths but dislike (relatively) expensive one-use throwaways? Try this: One part isopropyl alcohol one part white vinegar one part water a few drops of dish soap an...
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Small Pleasures
Took my Wonder Woman along with me on a jaunt to my favorite “fell off the back of a truck store,” in part to help me keep my expenditures down. Well, that worked well. *heh* Oh, don’t get me wrong,...
View ArticleTightwad Tip #12,826
Well, it would be #12,826–or higher–if I simply wrote down a daily log of tightwaddery @twc central. . . Anywho, since I’ve not gotten around to adding a hose bib for the back yard, yet (yeh, the place...
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Tightwaddery2
Ab out a year ago, I found a belt exactly like the one pictured here ($16) for a buck at a local “fell off the back of the truck store (closeouts, returns, salvage, etc.). I liked the fact that it was...
View ArticleModerate Tightwaddery
So, my design for lil kitchen project (transforming a moveable island with a 19”x 36”–with a dropleaf extension adding to that–top to a 44” x 50” top, with 1/2 as a dropleaf with folding legs) needed a...
View Article*smh* Too Much Stuff
A reminder that sometimes “too much stuff” can be “just enough stuff” hit me today. Really nice Asus router (just about all the features I want in a router, mid-range price, etc.) had one critical...
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