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How To Make A Water Bottle Filter

Here’s a great little DIY project you can do tomorrow (or today) if you want. Make your own water bottle filter. Don’t mistake this for water purification. It’s just to filter out enough to make it drinkable. But you’d be

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How To Make A Greenhouse From Old Windows

Looking to make a greenhouse on the cheap? Why not make a greenhouse from old windows? It’s an awesome way to re-purpose windows that were otherwise destined for the landfill and you’re neighbors will think you’re the most creative person

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How To Make A Camp Hot Water Heater With Easy To Use Dispensing Feature

Whoever thought of this is brilliant. They figured out how to make a camp hot water heater with easy to use dispensing feature using a turkey fryer. All you need is some propane and a spigot and you can get

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How to Restore a Wood Burning Stove

So you want to make sure you have the ability to cook without power should you lose power during a SHTF type of situation,  or you just want to go off the grid. And you want to pick yourself up

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How To Make A Homemade Mosquito Trap

Here’s how to make a homemade mosquito trap that actually works. Items needed for your DIY mosquito trap: 1 cup of water 1/4 cup of brown sugar 1 gram of yeast 1 2-liter bottle Assembling your mosquito trap: 1. Cut

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Increase Your Wifi Range With A Tin Can Waveguide WiFi Antenna (How-To Video)

Got no dough for a commercial WiFi antenna? Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your wireless network? A tin can waveguide antenna, or Cantenna, may be just the ticket. This design can be built for under

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How to Build a Mortgage-Free Small House for $5,900

Just came across this awesome step-by-step tutorial showing exactly how one couple built their very own mortgage-free small house for $5,900 and how you might be able to do the same using reclaimed materials that are inexpensive and many times completely

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DIY BioFuel Briquettes

Just came across a great step by step tutorial on how to make your own bio fuel briquettes by compressing paper pulp and sawdust into fuel bricks. Not only is it an alternative source of energy, but it’s also a

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How To Convert An Electric Water Tank To An Outdoor Wood Heater

This is a little on the advanced side of the DIY scope, but why not convert an electric water tank into an outdoor wood heater? You have to come across an old water heater or save one that you’re planning

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How to Use a Busted Cell Phone to Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs

The cell phone has become our portal to the world and we pretty much have one with us at all times.  They come in a variety of shapes and sizes. And whether in a boat, on a plane, traveling through

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