it's very low-budget but let me tell you it works great this is the bubble wrap
at my window this is the bathroom window which gets really cold air now a lot of
you would say oh my word that is just awful looking it is it's very really
really awful looking but when you put it behind the curtain nobody sees it so
this is what I've been doing for 9 years it makes a huge difference in your
energy cost no matter if you heat with wood or whatever you heat with but
putting bubble wrap makes a huge difference and let me show you
there you go when you put the curtain up you can't even tell there's bubble-wrap
they're amazing so this is the bathroom window now we got to go and finish
insulating the rest of the house and I'll show you how I do that so when we
bought this place this rickety old door was missing a piece down here I found
another storm door that was broken and I took a piece off of that door and put it
here as you can see it doesn't fit right but from the road you can't even tell so
what I'm going to do is we're going to put bubble wrap here so it actually
would insulate this door so much better and like I did in the bathroom you won't
even be able to tell that there's bubble wrap there I take packaging tape from
the Dollar Tree and that's what I use
now it's a little bit difficult to do this with one person but if you already
have your tape already out it makes so much easier so let me go put the bubble
wrap on this door another thing we're working on so every winter when it gets
icy it always makes the deck of our steps really slippy so we bought some of
this and we're going to put down this anti skid on the steps so I haven't
already pre-cut and now what we do is we put them down here
all right I think that's perfect now to do the rest of the steps all right we
insulated the cross spaces now we need to put bubble wrap on and this will keep
the rain and the snow from making the insulation wet I always use heavy bricks
and that always keeps it and placed the whole winter so now I have to do that to
all three of these crawl spaces so I found this little dresser and it was
sitting outside and I was gonna throw it out and then I decided I came up with an
idea so I took the drawers out of it and we're gonna turn this into a nesting
boxes for my chickens we'll see how they like it
and I'll show you how I put it all together so I added this I don't know if
they'll use it I bet they will but we'll put some shavings down and we'll see
what happens I thought they would like it it gives them something to roost if
they use it I'll put another board here where they can climb up
but we'll see what happens let's see what they think about it you're scoping
it out we'll see what happens putting two strips at the top as well
and it works looks great I'm really happy with it I also put them here I can
use a broom and it sweeps really well let's see how it holds up to when the
snow comes it's supposed to help melt the snow better as well wait a minute
wait a minute are we starting to see some Christmas yes yes I'm getting ready
for Christmas I don't do a whole lot for Christmas but there is a little plaque
that Ellen gave me which will be on Thursday's video so I'm starting to get
ready for Christmas my friend's christmas is just around the corner so
stay tuned right there is my box of Christmas items that's all I own is
right in this box and I can't wait to share with you how I decorate for
Christmas because I don't use a lot of store-bought items I use natural greens
that you can find outside but there is my treasure box and that is how I
decorate for my Christmas and you know what half of the items in here are
things that you have all made me through the years I can't wait to show it with
you it's my youtube very special Christmas coming soon oh wait what else
are we seeing yeah all the garden seeds are harvested and I put them in seed
packets and that is another video coming up and I'm also going to decorate this
little greenhouse for Christmas let's see if we can make something really cute
and charming with it no electricity here in this Christmas we're using solar
lights these solar lights are what make a beautiful looking Christmas trees at
night don't need to have any electricity the solar works just as good and it's
just as bright if you like the video on winterizing the homestead and I hope you
could take some tips from me you can do it for real cheap take care everyone
we'll see you guys tomorrow hey wait a minute everyone it's time for
Fanny's diary and we're on November the 27th my son Scott's birthday today he's
30 years old happy birthday Scott Fanny writes today was rainy we went to Mount
Ville for dinner in the afternoon I visited Martin not
happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Scotty happy
birthday to you and many more happy birthday Scott it's because of your
generosity and making sure that you're subscribed to me and making sure your
thumbs ups are sticking and making sure that you're sharing my channel it's
because of all of your generosity that is what's keeping me going and such
times like this you know conservative channels aren't very popular on this
kind of platform but I really want to thank you guys for everything you've
done because you guys were the voice and you guys made yourself known and heard
and I really want to thank you guys for that because you are the ones that are
making a difference in my life and in my channel take care everyone we'll see you
guys tomorrow hi everybody