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Post by themotherhen on Mar 18, 2021 19:41:03 GMT
This is a very small savings but I save the deadheads from the marigold plants and replant those seeds the next year. Yesterday I planted seeds from just one dead marigold, it is probably too early but I am hopeful 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 20:22:02 GMT
themotherhen, I guess that is another frugal thing I do. I am a huge seed saver. I've actually saved way too many seeds, but then again, can you ever have too many?
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 18, 2021 23:46:56 GMT
@farmchix, No, you can't have too many seeds, having saved them they've cost you nothing, but might just save your lives.
A few years ago we did an experiment making corn silage. Bought a small shredder, and harvested the dent corn we'd planted in about 1/4 acre. Adding some molasses powder to the mix, that 1/4 acre yielded 9 55 gallon barrels of silage that the sheep absolutely loved and fed them through the entire winter besides hay. Last year we bought 10 pounds of dent corn seed and saved it in the fridge, just in case we ever needed to do it again. Probably the cheapest seed we've ever bought.
Oh, by the end of the feeding season the silage smelled suspiciously like whiskey, and I did notice the sheep a little wobbly, but healthy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 0:01:32 GMT
Ozarks Tom, maybe you were just marinated the lamb before cooking.....LOL Now you have me craving. For Easter I usually make lamb and red wine risotto...with some asparagus on the side.
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Post by gayle on Mar 19, 2021 1:41:21 GMT
Sounds like the way they make corn liquor. I tried making it once from a recipe given to me by a bootlegger in Georgia. It smelled so bad I dumped it out in the yard. Then my mother told me that's how it was supposed to smell!
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Post by themotherhen on Mar 19, 2021 3:42:26 GMT
Sounds like the way they make corn liquor. I tried making it once from a recipe given to me by a bootlegger in Georgia. It smelled so bad I dumped it out in the yard. Then my mother told me that's how it was supposed to smell! Yeah, corn liquors have a very distinctive smell, not surprised that you threw it out!
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Post by joebill on Mar 20, 2021 2:13:22 GMT
You can make some REALLY ugly smelling things with a still.....plumb brandy being one of the worst....Joe
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 0:03:46 GMT
Check your mail. Particularly the stamps. I get a lot of stamps that haven’t been cancelled. I carefully peal them off and reuse by utilizing a glue stick to put them on a new envelop. With postage continuing to increase, every stamp equals savings even though I may only use 2-3 per month.
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Post by Tim Horton on Jun 8, 2021 17:01:29 GMT
Oh, by the end of the feeding season the silage smelled suspiciously like whiskey, and I did notice the sheep a little wobbly,
+ + + Supposedly before mechanical silo loaders and unloaders.. When it was pitched out by hand... The old times would bury several crockery jugs with a loose fitting corn cob stopper in the bottom of the silo...
When thy got back to the bottom, the jugs would be full of natural condensed moon shine.. Said to be VERY powerful stuff..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 20:45:45 GMT
I'm probably the last one to the party on this one - have you ever saved an old toothbrush to use them to scrub things and found that the bristles are just too loose and don't do a good job? If you trim them down a bit, it makes them stiffer and gives you more of the scrubby power you need.
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Post by DEKE on Jun 17, 2021 0:03:43 GMT
Like you, we have another source of heat, a propane central heat/air unit, I don't know if this works country wide, but I buy a year's worth of propane in May or June and pay at least 33% less than the prices in the fall and winter.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jun 17, 2021 1:22:36 GMT
Like you, we have another source of heat, a propane central heat/air unit, I don't know if this works country wide, but I buy a year's worth of propane in May or June and pay at least 33% less than the prices in the fall and winter.
Same in this area, we topped off our tank last month, $1.76/gallon
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Jun 17, 2021 1:42:32 GMT
We used to fill our oil tanks (for the Monitor stove) every summer to get a good discount. Two tanks would pretty much get us through the winter. Then DH gave his brother, who had more money than he knew what to do with, one of the tanks. After that we always had to refill the one tank around January when prices were at their highest.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Jun 17, 2021 1:45:58 GMT
Speaking of fuel savings, my one tank is down to fumes. Normally I’d be refilling about now but since I’m hopefully selling soon, I’m going to let it stay empty. I already have a couple cords of wood I’ll be leaving here., not filling the oil tank as well..
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Post by DEKE on Jun 17, 2021 1:54:34 GMT
Speaking of fuel savings, my one tank is down to fumes. Normally I’d be refilling about now but since I’m hopefully selling soon, I’m going to let it stay empty. I already have a couple cords of wood I’ll be leaving here., not filling the oil tank as well..
When I bought my current home, part of the closing costs were to read the propane meter and I had to buy the propane left in the tank. I don't know if they do that everywhere. You should ask your realtor. It might remove the risk of filing the tank while the price is low.
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