Episode-168- Don’t Bet On Social Security

  Social insecurity begins with a tax scheme designed to talk earners out of their wages with a vague promise of rewards far in the future. Sounds like a suckers game to me and I have playing it for a long time. Social security is a “Money or your life!” tax that is designed to have the working pay for those less fortunate or retired. It's a tall order in these times of high inflation...

Episode-166- Water And Fertilize The Lawn The Quick, Easy And Money Saving Way

      This is the Best Way To Fertilize And Water The Lawn. With Ringer Lawn Restore and a Gilmour Large Lawn sprinkler I am able to bring my old beat up lawn back to life. My lawn is not so large but odd shaped and the $20 Gilmour impulse sprinkler is perfect to putting water right where it is needed without waste. the Ringer Lawn Restore is a natural fertilizer that is not so easy to...

Episode-154- How To Get In Shape And Stay That Way

At todolisthome.com we're all about honey bees, gardens and preparedness. One tenant of preparedness is wealth and we build wealth through good health. Good health is a result of eating right, getting enough sleep and exercise. So far for most of my life I have been practicing at least 2 of the three. I grew up in a funeral home and know that I'll sleep enough when I'm dead. The trick is to not...

Episode-146- How To A Fix Bike The Hard Way

I don't know why I had to wait until I was in my forties to figure out how to do the things I do to make my life better. I mean I've had a lot of adventure and I've done a lot of things I never knew could be done but most weren't the kinds of things that actually involved putting food on the table or keeping a roof over our heads. I garden and raise honey bees and pride myself in beginning and...

Episode-135- Waste Disposal Not Cash Disposal

This is a lesson for how to save money on trash. The first thing to do before, during and after you move to a new neighborhood is to ring some doorbells and say ”Hi". Not only will you get a feel for the place but you will begin what could be long term relationships. It could also save you money. I wish I had followed that advice because it could have saved me some serous cash. I just cut my...

Episode-132- Care For Lawn The Easy Way

     I want a nice lawn in fact I even followed a lawn care program for a couple of weeks once. But lawn care is a drag on my passion for growing produce. Growing things I can actually get out of my efforts and that taste delicious are more fun. Cutting grass is a drag becauseits something I do so the neighbors don’t get angry at me for not doing it. Lawns aren’t natural and typical...

Episode-131- Get Refund From Microsoft And Live Better With Libre

The moral is don't use Microsoft when it can be avoided and don't get taken alive. This is my experience dealing with a Microsoft Office download that went bad. It's something I never should have done. Spending money in these times needs to be scrutinized and even more so when dealing with Microsoft. Listen to how much trouble I had trying to install Microsoft Office and the triumph I...

Episode-127- Refinance My Mortgage To Save Money

I need to refinance my mortgage. Interest rates are artificially kept low by the Federal Reserve with the belief that cheap loans will result in more loans being made and more loans means more of everything. This is what caused the housing bubble in the first place. Now that the Fed is going to buy $40 billion in mortgage backed securities each and every month from banks who issue them you can...