Starlight
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Hi --
I read this thread hoping to find ideas FOR MYSELF !!
One thing I know I'm going to do is buy (or make) a sun shade for my van. I figure it will tie on to stakes on one side, and come over to create an awning on the other side. It will be garden cloth perhaps... we'll see.
I'm also going to make a homemade air conditioner.
and a composting toilet, using sawdust, this one uses wood ashes
a clay pot heater,
or something like this
I've seen set ups where a board with a stove pipe was shaped to fit into a half-opened window to give exhaust to a small stove
I have found several ideas that I'm considering as my own way of making extra money. Here's a few.
crisco emergency candles in canning jars (the wick needs to be reinforced with a wire that hangs from the side, down, then up the wick)
(I'd go smaller)
grow bags of any size (small ones for herbs)
you place these in a container of shallow water, to water from the bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DvudVnGsTE
olla pots made from clay flower pots
I like the smaller ones for small pots or grow bags
the grow bags are good to keep roots from balling up, "natural pruning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQFAZair15E
and if worse comes to worse -- I'll make myself a tool from a stick and a nail and walk around cleaning beer cans from sides of roads with it
Ha... maybe I'll find an old screen door to recycle for real bucks !!
Good luck.
I read this thread hoping to find ideas FOR MYSELF !!
One thing I know I'm going to do is buy (or make) a sun shade for my van. I figure it will tie on to stakes on one side, and come over to create an awning on the other side. It will be garden cloth perhaps... we'll see.
I'm also going to make a homemade air conditioner.
and a composting toilet, using sawdust, this one uses wood ashes
a clay pot heater,
or something like this
I've seen set ups where a board with a stove pipe was shaped to fit into a half-opened window to give exhaust to a small stove
I have found several ideas that I'm considering as my own way of making extra money. Here's a few.
crisco emergency candles in canning jars (the wick needs to be reinforced with a wire that hangs from the side, down, then up the wick)
(I'd go smaller)
grow bags of any size (small ones for herbs)
you place these in a container of shallow water, to water from the bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DvudVnGsTE
olla pots made from clay flower pots
I like the smaller ones for small pots or grow bags
the grow bags are good to keep roots from balling up, "natural pruning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQFAZair15E
and if worse comes to worse -- I'll make myself a tool from a stick and a nail and walk around cleaning beer cans from sides of roads with it
Ha... maybe I'll find an old screen door to recycle for real bucks !!
Good luck.