(Not Quite) Frugal Cakes and Yard Stories: A Festival and Carnival | I've Paid For This Twice Already... http://www.paidtwice.com/2007/09/26/not-quite-frugal-cakes-and-yard-stories-a-festival-and-carnival/#comment-2659 Mel Rimmer Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:33:42 +0000 http://www.paidtwice.com/2007/09/26/not-quite-frugal-cakes-and-yard-stories-a-festival-and-carnival/#comment-2659 I'm glad you liked my ginger beer plant post. You should make one - more frugal than soda, less boring than water. As for your yard, why not make it pay for itself? Keep a couple of chickens and you can have free eggs every day. Then plant some food crops, like tomatoes, runner beans, potatoes in a stack of tires. Also start a compost heap (put the chicken poop on it), and make wonderful plant compost out of poop, tea bags and vegetable peelings. It doesn't have to be time consuming unless you go crazy and plant too many things. The chickens are actually the least time consuming of the things I've mentioned. I'm serious. Chickens. Think about it. I’m glad you liked my ginger beer plant post. You should make one - more frugal than soda, less boring than water.

As for your yard, why not make it pay for itself? Keep a couple of chickens and you can have free eggs every day. Then plant some food crops, like tomatoes, runner beans, potatoes in a stack of tires. Also start a compost heap (put the chicken poop on it), and make wonderful plant compost out of poop, tea bags and vegetable peelings. It doesn’t have to be time consuming unless you go crazy and plant too many things. The chickens are actually the least time consuming of the things I’ve mentioned.

I’m serious. Chickens. Think about it.

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