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Below are more valuable tips:
- Save huge $$ on the cost of a home—no mortgage needed. Own a practically indestructible home from pennies to under $10 per square foot, not $100-300 p.s.f. Some of these homes are very quick to build, and can withstand earthquakes, fire, floods and wind. These homes can last for centuries, and can be beautiful, too. (http://www.greenhomebuilding.com, http://www.calearth.org.
- Buy cheap land, or get it free (www.BillyLand.com, http://govlandauction.com/#finance1, http://www.dirtcheaplots.net/interlachen.htm. http://www.treas.gov/auctions/treasury/rp/ealprop.shtml These people offer low down & low
monthly payments.
Buy a big parcel of land amongst several investors & split the costs of development (backhoe,
dozer & well-drilling equipment, etc, or pre-sell lots and use that money for development costs.
Note: Cheapest land for sale usually doesn’t have water available. Buy a well-drilling rig, drill your own well, then rent it out (the rig) for $650 per day. You can buy a used or new rig for under $3,000 http://www.hydratek2000.com, www.deeprock.com, or drill manually for about $400 total supplies & equipment cost. A well driller might charge you more than $8,000 to drill for you, and when you’re done you just have a hole in the ground and, hopefully, some water. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to drill a well drillers would like you to think so, so you won’t compete with them. If you buy the rig, you also have it when you are through and can make great money renting it to others.
Composting toilets can turn refuse into useable dirt/compost.
http://enn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet.com.
Turn your garbage and yard waste into compost: http://www.mastercomposter.com
- Get off the grid by using solar, wind, etc.: http://www.earth4energy.com, http://www.homeenergyreviews.com,
- Heat your whole through your floors from (that’s right) your compost pile: http://www.mail-archive.com/sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg28441.html,
- Once you have built your ‘dirt-cheap’ home on a large rural tract of land, teach dirt-cheap house-building classes on your property & charge your students from $500-1,500+each. Your classes can range from 6 to 20 students each, so your gross profits for one class could range from $3,000 to $45,000.
- Every class you hold will build another building on your property as part of their curriculum. When they are finished, hold another class and repeat the scenario. Start renting out these buildings as storage space, resort lodging, month-to-month rentals, or whatever. If you are afraid of the code, move to a third-world country where they are too poor to establish and enforce all the laws, statues and codes that restrict your freedoms to earn a living, as in
America
- Grow your own food in water 2-3x faster than in the ground, even if space is limited. Aquaculture & aquaponics: www.cropking.com, www.S&Saquafarms,com, University of the Virgin Islands has a yearly 7-day aquaponics course (
St. Thomas
- Superfoods: In my book. Raw broccoli is goitrogenic, along with raw cabbage, cauliflower & Brussels sprouts. Yes, soy is very goitrogenic. This means they can actually make you fat if you eat too much, since they knock out the thyroid in many susceptible individuals. www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=47, www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/crucifers.html,
Blackstrap molasses (very, very rich in B vitamins and a shovelful of minerals, including generous amounts of calcium and magnesium . Blackstrap is great for helping suppress the appetite, cleansing the liver, and building the blood. According to the website http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/molasses.html, It seems to be one of the best home remedies in use according to a long list of recommendations to their site: “…cancerous tumors, fibroid tumors, anxiety, constipation, edema, heart palpitations, anemia, arthritic pain, joint pain, and acne, just to name a few. It has also been reported that molasses turns gray hair back to its original color and is a wonderful skin softener.”
Royal Jelly is terrific brain food (can help boost memory power, hand-eye speed & coordination, and artistry) and helps rebuild exhausted adrenals—making you much more resistant to stress. It is loaded with B vitamins for the brain, nerves & hair, and a heavy, balanced dose of crucial hormones to help keep us young looking and feeling. The queen bee, who is fed royal jelly, grows to be much larger and lives 5-6, while the worker bees only live 35-40 eays. http://www.draperbee.com/info/royaljelly.htm
Studies indicate the effectiveness of royal jelly for exhaustion, insomnia, anxiety, asthma, etc.
Best prices I have found are from Glory Bee in Eugene , Oregon
www.glorybeefoods.com. Beware of that sold in health food stores which seems to be a good price. They have loaded it up with honey, making it impossible to eat as much as you should. In my opinion, royal jelly and honey don’t taste good together.
My favorite way of eating royal jelly is to add it to a berry juice (such as blueberries, raspberries and cranberries by Ocean Spray—yum.) It seems to make the juice even more delicious. Otherwise, I am not fond of the taste of royal jelly by itself or mixed with other foods. If you are sensitive to niacin, start off with just a little bit of royal jelly, since it is loaded with niacin. Build up slowly.
Dessicated & powdered raw liver is loaded with B-12, which is a crucial component of energy production and weight loss and is almost completely lacking in a vegetarian diet. It is full of the B vitamins of which the Standard American diet (S.A.D.) is devoid. The B vitamins in most supplements can upset the stomach and are difficult to assimilate. Dessicated liver is much more assimilable. It builds muscle in people, even if they aren’t trying to build muscle. Liver also gives us a high level of sustained energy. Years ago a lab test showed rats not fed raw liver died after minutes of swimming, while those fed raw liver were able to swim for hours. www.mikebrownsolutions.com/liver.htm,
Organic cold-pressed rice-bran oil is loaded with over 100 different antioxidants and the most superior form of Vitamin E (tocotrienols, not tocopherols). Megadoses of natural vitamin E taken with natural vitamin A eliminate the worry of vitamin A overdose, www.SwansonVitamins.com
Shark liver oil is loaded with omega-3s and vitamin A. Vitamin A can clear up acne, greatly improve eyesight and rejuvenate the skin, boost the immune system, help certain skin conditions and help fight certain cancers. http://www.cancerchoices.com
According to Wikipedia, Shark liver has been reported useful for healing wounds, sores, irritations of the respiratory tract and the alimentary canal and for lymph node swelling & hemorrhoid creams.
Coconut Oil received a bad rap during the 80’s when the producers of soil and canola oil wanted to launch their products. We have come full circle, and coconut oil is regaining its rightful place as a very healthy oil. Yes, it has saturated fatty acids, but of a kind that are actually good for us. As a matter of fact, coconut oil is a good oil for frying, since it can stand high temperatures without smoking, and it imparts a delicious flavor to foods, contrary to the off flavor of canola. In addition, coconut oil feeds the thyroid gland, and, consequently is an important addition to the diet of anyone wanting to lose weight, since most Americans have under-functioning thyroids: http://products.mercola.com/coconut-oil
Raw Milk has all its enzymes intact. Still has butterfat which is very important in assimilating all the vitamins and minerals from milk. Skimmed milk, without the butterfat, doesn’t make these vital nutrients available. IRaw milk also contains conjugated linoleic acid, which is very helpful in burning fat. Both my mother and I lost 15+ pounds weight while on a raw-milk regimen for a couple of weeks. The CLA may have had a lot to do with our easy weight loss. http://articles.mercola.com
Seaweed is a skin miracle. It grew back about 60 patches of skin on my back that were burned away by multiple x-rays. The Asians claim it is what makes their skin so thick, supple and wrinkle resistant. After a two-week binge on seaweed my forehead skin tripled in thickness. Seaweed embodies a great deal of the sun’s energy, which it passes onto those who eat it. Seaweed is the fastest-growing plant on planet earth. http://www.modifilan-seaweed-extract.com. http://www.naturalnews.com/022278.html, http://www.truthquest2.com/oceanplasma.htm, Http://www.oceanplasma.org
Alfalfa sprouts and chlorophyll counteract body odor and bad breath. They also help to alkalize the body. An alkaline body is very resistant to diseases of all kinds, and makes the body better able to maintain a lean weight due to its increased oxygenation. For every point rise in pH (potential of hydrogen), our cells take up 100x more oxygen. (That means that if your blood pH increases from 6.3 to 6.4, your cellular oxygenation increases 100 fold. A big part of the weight-loss equation is in getting the body to utilize oxygen better, since oxygen is necessary to burn fat.) Good for kidney problems, relieving fluid retention and swelling. Auto-immune disorders, stroke prevention, arthritis, etc. http://www.homeremediesweb.com/alfalfa_health_benefits.php
Wheat grass, like other greens, helps alkalize the body. Alkalinity. The more alkaline, the better one fights off diseases, even cancer. Wheat grass has been used with great success in natural cancer-fighting protocols. It is an extremely high-energy food and most people feel an energy ‘kick’ soon after drinking wheat grass juice. This is not to be confused with the pick up people feel from cocaine, sugar, or coffee, which merely whip up the nerves and adrenals to squeeze out their last ounce of energy, but exhausting the adrenals at the same time. Wheat grass feeds the adrenals and your whole body so you feel a healthy high, not an artificial one where you ‘crash’ afterwards. Great for natural anti-cancer therapies, rejuvenation, restoring fertility, killing odors, curing chronic sinusitis, varicose veins, healing leg ulcers, and more: http://www.shirleys-wellness.cafe,
Energy: In the end, we all die from a lack of energy. Magnets are a cheap and effective
way to pull energy into and move it around your body.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Magnetic_Therapy,
- An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure: These websites give a wealth ofInformation on how to get well and stay well, naturally: http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com, www.curezone.com, www.curezone.org, www.sambizer.com, www.drclark.net, www.healingtools.tripod.com, www.drmercola.com
10. Save on water bills by drilling your own well.
http://www.hydratek2000.com, http://www.fdungan.com/well.htm,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbGUV7GQpMM,
http://www.dando.co.uk/2007/06/25/buffalo-3000/?gclid-CMyIquWthZgQjagodwTRJtg
11. Save and/or make money on electricity and sell the excess to the utility
12. Move to another country where prices for land are much cheaper, and where building codes
allow you to get creative and save big dollars.
- Start your own sustainable community and choose your neighbors who have skills they can contribute to everyone’s good—animal husbandry, gardening, sewing, etc., to keep from having to depend on outside, centralized sources that could dry up at any time.
- Convert shipping containers into a safe and sturdy home that doesn’t require building code compliance because they aren’t permanently affixed to the land. 20-40’ containers are readily available and cost as little as $1-2,000 each. (Shipping containers www.shipping-container-housing.com or 888-777-8118), http://www.iport.com/sales.htm, or www.govliquidation.com/list/c7541,
- Houseboats—build a pond and float your house (some houseboats can float in as little as 6” of water). A houseboat doesn’t need to pass code because it isn’t permanently affixed to the land. (You probably don’t need to float it, either, to satisfy the permit process.) However, floats can be made very cheaply out of used poly barrels that are free or reasonably priced. cheap. Or, used reinforced, light-weight concrete. Just be sure that it isn’t too light weight, or your house may turn over in the water due to being top heavy. If you want the houseboat to be more mobile, use pontoons: Houseboat floats can be much cheaper than digging and pouring a concrete foundation.
- Start an organic food co-op and buy your groceries wholesale. Recruit members, and wholesale distributors. Arrange for a drop-off once a week or month at a school or church parking lot and have your members come at that time to pick up their parcels, so you don’t have to pay for storage.
If you can’t utilize any of the information in this little flier, you may know somebody who can. Please pass it on.
Note: This work was produced and copyrighted 12/6/09. You have the author’s permission to copy it and pass it along to others, as long as you make no alterations and include the author’s credit—Greta Petrich/ sunnymeadows00@yahoo.com, www.everyonebenefits.com/gpetrich, or http://bit.ly/yboB; www.deliveringonthepromise/gpetrich, or http://bit.ly/kpJG
253-507-9517.
Here are some great tips from Yahoo Finance: All of these are do-able for the average person or family. They could save you more than $2,000 per year.
· Buy a breadmaker
· Get a credit card with a great sign-up bonus, then cancel after your first purchase
· Take out a library card & stop buying books
· Replace your premium cable package with a Netflix subscriptions & a $100 set-top box
· Grow your own herbs in your window box or garden
· Switch to a pre-paid cell phone, then do the rest of your calling over the internet
· Make your own coffee & carry it with you in a thermos
Go to Yahoo Finance for all the glorious details. Write to author brett.arends@wsj.com
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