Pearl Edwards
As a young girl, my dream was to read every book ever written. Once, when I was still too small to even speak, a book spoke for me and saved my life. Everything I've done in this life has been to pay for my reading habit, or to keep my body alive long enough that I will live to read the next one. Maybe someday I really will read them all.
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My IRS Breakup CallHell hath no fury like a jilted tax collection agency.
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Screw You for Flying Alaska AirlinesA passenger tells why she will never fly with Alaska Airlines again. Ever.
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Product Review : the EEE PC Netbook/Mini-laptop by AsusAn experienced PC user takes stock of the EEE PC by Asus after owning it and using it heavily for a full year. Learn the ups and downs of mini-computing with the Asus EEE PC Netbook. -
Three Easy Ways to Dry Healthy, Freshly Harvested Garden VegetablesMake this year's harvest last until next year by using this three tried and true food preservation methods. Learn the basics of food dehydration. -
Four Cheap and Easy Ways to Get REAL Free Range Chicken and REAL Free Range EggsHere's how to find honestly free range chicken and eggs, without all the expense and deception that comes along with most mass produced "free-range" poultry available at your nearby big box corporate chain store. -
The Simplest, Cheapest and Best Seed Saving System EVERThese are the companion illustrations to my Associated Content article "The Fine Art of Home-Made Seed Packets - A Great Filing System for Saving Garden Seed". Enjoy! -
Four Ways to Find Free or Cheap Salvaged Construction MaterialsAre you thinking about purchasing lumber, concrete block, brick, stone block or metal roofing? Save yourself a whole lot of cash by getting some or all of your materials for FREE. Here's how. -
Five Cool, Eco Friendly School Supplies for This Year's Back-to-School SeasonSend your kids back to school in style this year, with eco-friendly school supplies. Saving the planet has never been so cool.
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The Fine Art of Home-Made Seed Packets - a Great Filing System for Saving Garden SeedThis garden seed saving system is easy to start and maintain, inexpensive, and expandable. There are no special parts to buy. You can get everything you need to start organizing your saved seeds for a few dollars at almost any grocery store! -
Garden Guide: How to Start Seeds with the Direct Planting MethodHere's another way to cut down excess garden work, without sacrificing the quantity or quality of produce yields.
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How to Build a Fly Trap for Free Out of Common Household ItemsEliminate flies and gnats from your home without all the hassle of swatters, sticky paper, traps or poisons. Learn how to make this DIY fly trap out of common, free household items. -
How to Skin and Butcher a Rabbit at HomeA detailed. step by step, how to guide to butchering and preparing rabbit meat in your own home. -
Garden Guide : Invasive Garden PlantsFive invasive plants to avoid planting in your garden or on your farm this growing season. -
How to Run a Soundboard: Common System-wide Controls on a MixerLearn about the common system-wide controls on a soundboard. -
Garden Guide: Heirloom Sweet CornIt's almost sweet corn planting time. Here are seven non-hybrid, open pollinated, non-GMO, heirloom varieties to try in this year's garden!
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How to Build a DIY Hummingbird FeederThis is the simplest type of hummingbird feeder to build, clean and maintain. -
Gardening Guide to Red, White and Blue Tomatoes: The All-American Salsa GardenPlant a patriotic themed garden, and make All-American salsa with red, white and blue tomatoes. A great gardening project for the kids! -
Garden Guide: How to Make a Space Saving DIY Tiered Planter, Perfect for Container GardeningPlanning on trying container gardening this year? Plant your greens and herbs in this tiered garden container, and make better use out of a small space!
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How to Run a Soundboard: Control Rows on a MixerJust starting out as a sound tech? Learn how to use all those buttons, knobs and sliders on your mixer.
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How to Clean and Prepare Fresh Fish for EatingLearn how to clean a freshwater fish for the table. (Simple, step by step illustrations included.)
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How to Gut and Clean a Fish, Image SlideshowThese are the images to accompany my Associated Content article, How to Clean and Prepare Fresh Fish for Eating
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A Life with Chickens (Based on a True Story)This is the true story of the way a city girl who was scared to death of livestock learned to face her (silly) fear when necessity called.
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Attracting Bats to Your Bat House Or Bat BoxBats can consume massive quantities of biting, stinging insect pests in a single night. Learn how to attract bats to your property.
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How to Raise Earthworms for Organic Gardens and Compost PilesLearn to raise earthworms in your own back yard. Become a vermiculturalist and watch as your garden explodes with the biggest and best produce you've ever seen!
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Money Saving Tips: The Cheap Way to Clean a Coffee MachineDon't use expensive and potentially toxic products to clean your coffee machine. Try this safe and inexpensive method instead.
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Example Slideshow for the DIY Tiered PlanterHere are the photographic images for building the DIY Tiered Planter described in my Associated Content article.
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Money Saving Tips for Parents: A Cheaper, Healthier Way to Pop Popcorn for Snack TimeLearn to make popcorn the old fashioned way to save money and eat healthier. No special equipment is required!
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You Are the One Who is DreamingOnce, there was a dream from which the dreamer could not wake...
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Coloring Book: Clowns on Parade!This collection of hand drawn clown pictures was made into a short coloring book and sold to benefit a local church's clown ministry group. Now your children can color some zany clowns, too. :)
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Are They INSANE?!Is the government INSANE? Try doing your own taxes. Following the instructions they give you will be like trying to solve a sudoku puzzle designed by a drunken, senile marmoset.
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5 Great North American Hardwood Trees to Plant for Earth Day, or Any DayHere are five varieties of North American hardwood trees to plant this spring.
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5 Great North American Fruit Trees to Plant This Arbor Day, or Any DayCelebrate Arbor Day in the most delicious way possible. Plant fruit trees and let Mother Nature reward you for taking care of her!
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How to Run a Soundboard: Sound Checks on a MixerA beginner's guide to running soundboards / mixers. Learn how to do an effective sound check.
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Preventing Cyberbullies 101Five ways to protect your kids from cyberbullying, cyberabuse and online stalkers.
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How to Plant a Free Tree for Earth DayA step by step guide to planting all those free trees you can get on Earth Day.
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The Quest for the Perfect Lover : Are You Too Aggressive?Take a 10 question, true or false quiz. Do your chronic relationship woes stem from too much aggression?
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The Quest for the Perfect Lover: Finding the Common Factor in Chronic Breakups & Relationship WoesHave you suffered from the same kinds of relationship problems, over and over? Do you tell yourself that THIS time will be different, but then, it never is?
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Five Ways to Go Green when You CleanFive ways to make your house cleaner, safer, and more environmentally friendly, without breaking the bank!
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How to Run a Soundboard: Powering Up a MixerBasic instructions for powering up a soundboard / mixer, geared for the total beginner.
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Gardening Guide: Red Heirloom TomatoesWhat could be better than a bright red tomato, fresh from the garden? Try one of these varieties this year.
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Garden Guide: Rare and Novelty Heirloom TomatoesDo you love to grow tomatoes? Are you ready to try something really different? Try these rare and unique tomato varieties!
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Treating a Cat's Upper Respiratory Infection and/or Feline Leukemia at HomeWhen the veterinarian has given up on your cat...
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How Vampires Tried to Save My Life: Based on a True StoryAs a young woman, April dreamed repeatedly that she was attacked by vampires. These nightmares, it turned out, were more than just scary dreams.
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Declawing Your Cat: An Inexpensive, Non-Surgical MethodDon't declaw your cat! Try this inexpensive, non-surgical method, instead.
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Building an Emergency Survival Water Filter: DIY Step by Step How-to GuideWhen disaster strikes, and there's suddenly no clean water to drink, you can be the hero by putting together this simple to build water filtration system!
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Build Beautiful, Rustic Terraces in Your Own Back YardStep by step, DIY how to construct small, inexpensive garden terraces in your own back (or front) yard.
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Inspirational Quotes for GraduationHere are 10 quotes to inspire us new heights of success, creativity and originality!
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LeavesThis is a short poem I wrote for Earth Day.
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Can You Trust Your Jeweler? Signs of DishonestyHow to tell who you can trust when you're shopping for your next piece of jewelry.
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Corporate Jewelry Stores And The Bargain BamboozleWhy that $199 pendant you saw advertised on TV may not be such a good deal after all.