buddy and welcome to homestead Tessy I hope you enjoy the video I think
everyone and welcome to my world welcome to what I woke up to this morning
here in eastern Pennsylvania we have a major snow we had over six inches of
snow overnight and it is beautiful this is the kind of snow that I love the snow
that makes everything into a winter wonderland so what are we working on
today well today is thrifty Thursday hope you guys enjoyed all this snow that
we got overnight oh it's such a beautiful winter wonderland and I love
it when it snows so this is thrifty Thursday and last week I did go to the
thrift store I only got two items but I have a table full of things and I
thought I would show with you what I got so the first thing I got with 50
Thursday was all of their books were half off and I got two books didn't want
to pay full price for it but I waited long enough and I got it for one dollar
so I thought it was had some unique recipes in it some of the recipes I
won't use but there's a lot that I will so we'll work on that then that I am
really excited for this one for a dollar 25 this is the Old Farmer's on an AK and
this is their cookbook I don't know if a lot of you get the Old Farmer's
automatic but it always has cooking it's very old school old world so I love this
it's $4 25 can you imagine 1995 was the original price that I did really well
miss what now I have a whole table full of stuff and I got it free and I got it
free because one of you was getting rid of some items and I think this is really
unique because everyone's throughout somebody will send me things because
they're going through their house and they want to donate some things and they
think hey maybe I can use it so I'm going to share with you what I got in a
box and when I started to do is whatever I can't use I give it to my daughters
they go through it my granddaughter's go through it and we have so much fun so
it's like Christmas are you useful I
so this all came in a box for me and she was going through it and she was going
to donate it and thought she thought I would enjoy it well let me show you what
it's all kinds of stuff so we got a cookbook the meal plan or cookbook so
candleholders which my one daughter thinks she's gonna spray-paint she even
got me these rubber gloves I bet a lot of you thinking well what would I need
these for well this is going to be great when I'm working with my lye soap
because I don't have any gloves so that would go out in my canning garage she
got some kids cards that she had just all kinds of stuff and then over here
this is very vintage but I'm gonna see if it works and it is a battery charger
well you all know I was talking about battery chargers and a thing that to
make tea in a cookbook look at this cookbook how cool is that once a month
cooking family favorites and then this I thought was so unique look at this
Precious Moments but they're iron-on transfers well you know what I'm gonna
be doing with this I'm learning to sew this month but I'm gonna use this to
make all kinds of tea towels and bull covers I'm gonna use this on some really
old vintage material I just thought that was adorable and I could put this out on
my deck this summer it's peace and hope wow this looks like a lot of stuff I'm
going to take what I want and I'm gonna pass it on to my daughters I know this
is beautiful so this is my color so I'll be using this as well and look at these
so these are things she had in her home and this was amazing I opened it up this
was truffle sea salt I mean it smells amazing
and then this I was like what in the world is this well it is so unique their
little dropper bottles take a look at that little dropper bottles well you
know I'll make some kind of with that my granddaughter's are gonna
love the cards Wow so thank you so much and what I don't use and my daughter's
don't use I think that's pretty much we'll use everything but I always donate
it a couple people asked me on my Christmas one my son was saying about
throwing stuff away he didn't mean it literally throwing it away we donate it
to the same thrift store where I like to shop so I hope you enjoy all these
things and now I gotta get outside because I got to work on a project and I
want you to come along with me it's just another way of using something that
would be throw it away so right now I've got to go through this I'm gonna take
about 75% of it put the others in a box and let my daughters go through it I
think here precious how precious is that so let's get working on today's chores
as you see behind me some upcoming videos on pressure canning today I'm
dehydrating I have a lot of work to do but I want to get it all done today
I'm gonna do is I'm going to use a box to insulate insulate the chicken house
so this was my idea
now you see surprised how warm cardboard boxes are that's why a lot of the
homeless they find cardboard boxes to dip in it does help keep the heat in and
I got this box for free yesterday so we are going to see what I can do with this
box to help insulate the chicken house
it does not get wet under here at all
that now I need to get some tape and tape it so it's really good and solid so
I have a layer of insulation behind it
and we're just gonna do this this is one way of using something that you would
throw away and this really will help a lot of people ask me about my chickens
now my chickens are bred to be in the cold they love it cold so they don't get
cold like some other animals would but we always put straw in their chicken
house so we give good layer straw and they really do keep warm all winter long
and so but we like to do things little things to help to make things a little
better for them but they don't mind the cold now every once in a while we'll get
down to the minus ten and 20 degrees every once in a while we've only had
that happen one year since I have chickens if it gets that low then we
will put a heat lamp in for them if it gets to that point but really in general
it's great so this works out perfect so this is great I'm gonna get some duct
tape some a stick and we're going to make sure
that we have it all set very good and sturdy all right project everyone is
done
you
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