Sharing showers with your lawn

The 1900s-era Ohio house my father grew up in had a rain-collecting cistern in the back yard with a lever on it that could switch the flow from the laundry room to the lawn.

This is not nearly as elegant, but it's cheap! $9 worth of plastic from the hardware store can help you empty your shower onto your lawn.


A $9 gravity-fed greywater system - More DIY How To Projects

The Best of Both Bathrooms

Want a low-flow toilet? Want to keep or install a lovely vintage commode? You can have the best ob both worlds if you install a Dual-Flush Conversion Kit!

Found on www.retrorennovation.com - but it's in the UK, alas!

A Cheap (and non-toxic) way to polish your tea service

Here's a non-toxic tip for polishing lots of silver at once from chanteuse Sara Klotz de Aguilar:

Get a very large aluminum foil roasting pan. Arrange the silver on the bottom of it so no two pieces are touching. Sprinkle heavily with baking soda. Gently pour BOILING water on it...! This acts as an electroplate machine, and takes all the tarnish off the silver and deposits it to the pan.

It works! Then you just have to do a light buffing with the polish to shine it, but all the gunk is off already!

Or just rent a silver service for $20 a day...

Tips on How to Enjoy the Upcoming Depression

by Gabe Soria and Arthur Remnant in ArthurMag. Great advice! Especially the Secret Society part...