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saved money doing it myself

April 21st, 2005 at 05:28 am

Since I have been having to stay home from work with my middle daughter, I have managed to get a few projects done around the house. Most of them were jobs that I was going to hire someone to do. I added it up, and spent around $175 on supplies. I already had estimates at around $500. I closed in the carport on the east side-that only leaves the south side open, as the north and west sides are part of the house. I would love to make it into a garage, but I drive a large SUV that is extended, and it wouldnt fit. It would work if I drove a compact car-but I cant do that as we go camping a lot and a compact can't pull a travel trailer. The wall that we built (a friend helped me) I put up some pegboard and hooks, and the plywood part I put up lots of hooks. The tools that don't go into the shed, now all have a place to hang. I am keeping some things there that I use a lot, or items that it makes more sense to keep near the truck, such as the snow shovels, battery charger, air pump...

I also did some "spot painting" The paint job on the house is ok, except for a few problem areas-so I just scraped and painted those areas. Funny why one board will always reject paint and those around it don't... I also fixed a dripping faucet (should save some water there). It just started dripping recently. I also rescreened a couple of windows. I still have 2 windows I need to reglaze. I also still need to spot paint inside the house-to cover up the work of small artist-including where one daughter was writing a for sale ad to sell off one of her sisters....

I had a wooden door that had a chunk of wood out of it. Today I mixed up some wood putty and filled it. Instead of adding all water, I added less water and some of the house paint. The putty is a perfect match to the door now. Tomorrow I will sand it down and I think I will probably have to paint over it, but hopefully it wont take several coats like wood putty normally does.

I cleaned out a cabinet and found some more seeds-from last year. I planted them-will see what happens. I also cleaned out the sunroom and bug bombed it. Why is it the bug bomb wont kill the bugs in the sun room?? Instead, they all have to crawl under the door, and come into my kitchen to die. But, that kept the cat entertained.

I also got laundry washed and hung to dry.

Tomorrow I will read the electric meater if I remember. I am trying to see if I can get a breakdown of my usage. For the last 2 weeks, I have had the heatpumps off--no heat or AC. The kids are getting better about turning lights off, and as bulbs have burned out, I have been replacing them with the energy saver ones. My electric company sells the energy saver bulbs cheaper than walmart does. I have 1 left, then need to get some more.

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