Do it Yourself (DIY)
Build Wealth as a Self-Sufficient Homeowner: DIY Investing From Real Estate to Stocks
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...
Get Rid of Fruit Flies With These Easy Fruit Fly Trap DIY Ideas
A simple homemade fruit fly trap DIY solution can protect your fresh fruit from annoying and destructive pests. Image by Egor Kamelev, Pexels. Fruit flies are tiny tormentors that can turn any DIY fruit fly trap into a graveyard of pests. With their knack for rapid...
The Comprehensive Guide to Composting Toilets: Understanding, Benefits, and Installation
Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Embracing composting toilets is a pivotal step towards sustainable living in modern households. As the world becomes increasingly aware of our environmental impact, more households are seeking eco-friendly home improvements....
How to Start a Self-Sufficient Homestead
Image by Fareed Mindalano, DALL-E 3. Self-sufficient homesteading is the practice of living independently and sustainably on a piece of land, producing or providing for one’s own needs, and minimizing reliance on external resources and systems. Homesteading offers...
Remaking the Way We Make Things
An increasing number of engineers, architects, landscapers, chemists and various other professionals from every walk of life are beginning to see real solutions to our most pressing “environmental” problems (or what I like to call “massive life support system that...
8 Tips for Increasing Your Resilience
In my family we call being prepared for inevitable economic and environmental instability “resilience”. We’ve been inspired largely by the concept of Permaculture, which is a design system based on ecological principles for designing resilient, locally based,...
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