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Good Permie Cars...

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personal care

How to tie up hair?

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Help with name policy

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Deviled eggs for lunch?

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how to safely heat with green/wet wood in your wood stove when you are desperate

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cooking

Multiple items in a crock pot?

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JOMO - Joy of Missing Out

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Do you have a house hippo?

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Help, my canvas has a hole

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Know a good hair cutting scissor brand?

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New planting zones for canada 2025

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cooking

French press

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Goofy weather swings

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Last-Minute free PEP event - March 24 - 30, 2026

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gear

Upgrading tractor hydraulics

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cooking

What’s That One Indian Dish You Can Eat Daily Without Getting Bored?

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meaningless drivel

Vintage Chevrolet Trucks

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textile techniques

Making a net

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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Welcome New Gardeners!!

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biochar

Why don't more people make biochar?

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tiny house

Skiddable Work Shack

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Goofy experiment -- right now, what is straight up?

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Post in Parenting and unable to crosspost

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Avoiding ai Scraping

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natural building

Most cost effective small building technique

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music

Natural strings for musical instruments

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This is my morning so far

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gamcod

Not GAMCOD on Skye plot - Year Two

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music

How a guitar is made

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rocket mass heaters

Shorty sidewinder, 200 mm (approx. 8") system, lots of mass

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low tech

Solar chimney thoughts

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bugs

Before I do this... Mosquito dunks

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food preservation

Eggs: How do you preserve them?

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upcycling

For what would you use these jars?

15 replies 1 3

rocket mass heaters

Cheap(ish) prefab mass heater with Shorty core

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Crazy kitchen mistakes - what are yours?

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Meanwhile in Montana

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art

Oil paint drying time tests

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homestead

Permaculture Smackdown: Keeping Yourself Motivated as a Homesteader

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plumbing

My plumber just earned £2280/hour... not sure whether to be pleased or not

18 replies 1 9

personal challenges

Having a very hard time with this

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art

The perfect drawing pencil?

6 replies

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February promotions!

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tinkering with this site

clicking on last post of a thread often sends me to first post

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homestead

How to wean off Air Conditioning? (AC)

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gear

How do you use clothespins, beyond pinning clothes?

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