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    Using Shredded Paper for Coop Litter - As Good As Wood Chips?

    ⚠️ Shredding Super Heavy Cardboard - Can Do? :idunno Recently I got a new BBQ grill. The shipping cardboard box was made out of double thickness heavy cardboard. My main shredder is rated for 9 sheets, so the question was could I even shred that super heavy cardboard? The only way I can shred...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :yesss: Big Tool Upgrade Score at Home Depot! I was in town today running errands and, as usual, I stopped by Home Depot to check out any good deals and clearance items. I found a cart with some brand-new Ryobi HP tools that had been display models. So, the tools were never used but came with...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :clap Good news! I found a brand-new All-in-One Inkjet printer in the closet of our guest bedroom. Looks like I bought it back prior to COVID-19 when we still had our local Office Depot in town. Probably one of those Black Friday specials. I unboxed the printer last night and got it all set up...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I think it has been 2 or 3 years since I visited the landfill transfer station. However, I am currently preparing a load for the trip out there. I gathered up three dead computer printers and a couple of 5-gallon buckets of miscellaneous metals and non-burnable items to dump at the site. I don't...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Thanks. My ~20-year-old B&W laser printer is still working fine. If I get another laser printer, it would have to be color. Yep. The color laser printers I have been looking at are about 2X the price of bulk ink printers. The initial cost is higher, but for someone like me who does not print...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    Over the past few years, I have loaded up lots of "normal" pallets. I have more than I need. So, for the past year, I mainly just look for the special pallets for either long boards and/or special hardware that I can salvage. I save almost all the pallet wood nails, but I have only really made...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :yesss: Salvaging Good Hardware Off Pallets This afternoon, I disassembled those long pallets I picked up from the Bobcat dealership last weekend. The main reason I picked up that load was because the pallets were made from good quality 6-foot-long 2X4's. However, as a bonus, a couple of the...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :he Update on Inkjet Printer Repair :hit I was so excited that I was able to clean up and get my old Brother inkjet printer working again. Everything looked like it was coming up roses. The print quality was fantastic, and I had 4 new ink cartridges loaded up. I thought I was set. :tongue The...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :clap Congratulations. Hope you make the best of your retirement years.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I had some errands to run in town today, so I stopped by our library to see what their printing fees were per page. As I suspected, if you only need a few sheets printed out on the very rare occasion, your strategy of going to the library for printing makes a lot of sense. No need to buy an...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I suppose it depends on the book. I buy a number of foreign language books and textbooks. They were maybe $25 new and I got them for around $5 each. But I always check prices against Amazon to see if the used price is a deal or not.
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    Survived a 50-foot-tall Widow Maker!

    My tow straps are 20 feet long each. I only needed two tow straps to pull down my trees. FWIW, I think I got my tow straps for free from Harbor Freight on one of their weekend sales where Inside Track Members (ITC) can get the item for free with any purchase. I always have a short list of stuff...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :clap I think that makes a lot of sense. The total cost of owning a computer printer that you don't use very much can be really expensive per printed page. Our print shop (Office Depot) went out of business. So, that is no longer an option. I had not thought about going to the library for...
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    Survived a 50-foot-tall Widow Maker!

    Yeah, that looks bad. I have a few ideas and thoughts... Bucket truck rentals are not cheap where I live. But is a great way to keep yourself safer. If you cannot do it safely yourself, then it's worth the money to hire someone else to take the risk. But I do have a few suggestions from...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :old I take a hard pass on printers that are basically free but then you have to sign up for a subscription service for the ink - which costs more than the printer itself. Maybe it's just my age, or that I tend to think of myself as a frugal person, but I resist signing up for any subscription...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :old I am in my retirement years. Building stuff out of pallet wood is my current hobby. Other than some time and effort, my pallet wood projects don't cost me much. And, if I really screw up, the wood can be reused for something else - no tears. I rarely get something right the first time. But...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :thumbsup I personally love the look of wood furniture. It's hard to look at those pictures and think the wood came from pallets. You really have some talent making furniture like that. I have been building up my tools and supplies to get to the point where I could do some kind of panel glue-up...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ...to shut down the printer if you don't buy their ink. :caf How expensive is ink compared to something like $3.00 per gallon for gasoline? *********************** Inkjet printer ink can cost between $1,500 and $9,600 per gallon—making it hundreds of times more expensive than gasoline at...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :hit I still feel bad about having to junk my old Ford Explorer after the brakes went out. That was my primary pallet pickup vehicle for the past few years. I have really slowed down on picking up pallets since losing that vehicle, but life goes on. I had to run an errand in town yesterday, so...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    ⚠️ Update on Cooking Old Layers Well, not much to do about pallets, but Dear Wife cooked up those two old layers I butcher last weekend. She used some of the chicken in a soup, letting it simmer for hours, and that came out pretty good. The chicken was a little chewy, but not bad at all...
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