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Build Wealth as a Self-Sufficient Homeowner: DIY Investing From Real Estate to Stocks

Build Wealth as a Self-Sufficient Homeowner: DIY Investing From Real Estate to Stocks

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DIY investing empowers self-sufficient homeowners to build wealth through stocks, real estate, and smart financial choices. Image by Nattanan Kanchanaprat, Pixabay. Many people rely on financial advisors to guide their investment decisions. However, advisors often charge high fees and some may even have conflicts of interest. As a self-sufficient homeowner interested in investing, you can take control of your finances by becoming your own advisor. This is the DIY investing mindset. Learning investment basics requires time and effort upfront. However, it allows you to customize your strategy based on your specific financial goals, risk tolerance, and values. And you avoid paying unnecessary fees to advisors. Taking Control of Your Financial Future with DIY Investing Step 1: Define Goals: To get started, first clearly define your financial objectives. Do you want to save for retirement, a college fund, a home down payment, or something else? Identifying your goals will shape your DIY...

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How to Dry Decorative Gourds So They Last for Years – It’s So Easy!

Gourds are a staple when it comes to decorating for autumn. Along with pumpkins, chrysanthemums, and bejeweled ears of Indian corn, gourds are a sure sign of fall. But did you know you can easily dry them so they last for years rather than a single season? It’s quite easy to do, whether you buy them or grow them. In a world where we throw things away, you’re probably wondering what’s the point? After all, you can pitch your gourds in the compost at the end of the season and buy more next year. Well, it’s fun. You may stumble upon a new family tradition. Drying gourds makes them much lighter, so you can attach them to hanging decorations, such as wreaths. These gourds were turned into beautiful natural lanterns. You can also make functional vessels out of them, such as bowls, containers with lids, drinking bottles, birdhouses and more.…
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From Trash to Rain Barrel Bounty

Here in Michigan City, Ind., the city recently supplied residents with 96-gallon trash bins for use with the new power lifts the city installed on its trash trucks. This left many of us with a surplus of standard 32-gallon, round, plastic trash cans. I had four of these and didn’t know what to do with them.But hey, I’m a MOTHER EARTH NEWS reader?–?how about creating a rain barrel? Having recently re-plumbed our little house, I had a number of fittings and leftover pipe. With these, I made an overflow standpipe and a bottom drain valve, which go in holes drilled into the side of the trash can. I fashioned a debris screen for the trash can lid out of cedar boards (leftover from various garden projects) cut at a 45-degree angle and covered with some scrap screening. I then routed the downspout to the debris deflector and cut the end of the…
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Portable Cattle Feed Trough Design

Get some ideas for pasture water systems for livestock with this cattle feed trough design.If the drudgery of lugging feed to your livestock has you searching for a more convenient way to get that barnyard chore done, you might want to have a go at building one — or both — of MOTHER EARTH NEWS’ meal-bins-on-wheels.The two fodder wagons we created (the larger one is made from an everyday 55-gallon drum; the smaller from a less common 35-pound grease container) are similar in design but unequally sized, allowing the builder to match his or her cart to the dietary needs of the critters to be fed. A pair of rear wheels, a swiveling front caster and a pull handle make for manageable barn-to-yard journeys, and a swing-open lid keeps the feed dry and safe from rodents between fill-ups. Some cutting and welding are required to make the carts, but both…
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