Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Contents -- Bicycles -- Why I ride -- Bed frame bike trailer -- Bed frame sidehack -- Shopping basket bike basket -- Bicycle repair stand -- Nikolas's homemade generator bicycle -- Front wheel drive recumbent bicycle -- How to convert to a single speed -- Converting to fixed gear -- Winter biking -- Make a neck sock -- Improvised rim strips -- Home & Garage -- Buying a house -- Bed frame shelf -- Live mouse trap -- Bucket mouse trap -- Building with salvaged materials -- Organizing small parts -- Quick release bench mounted tools -- Gardening -- Grow your own food -- Where to put your garden -- Raised beds -- Soil -- Composting -- Worm composting -- Build a worm bin bench -- Companion planting -- Intensive planting -- Companion plants -- Pest control chart -- Seed germination test -- Making vertical space -- Build a plant ladder -- Garbage can potatoes -- Deciding what to grow -- Seed saving -- Why to save seeds -- How to save seeds -- Make your own seed packets -- Seed starting -- Newspaper pots -- Harvesting rain (and keeping the basement dry) -- Installing vinyl gutters -- Installing metal gutters -- Making a rain barrel -- Connecting barrels -- Make a bung remover -- Build a greenhouse -- Educating Your Children -- Education -- Socialization -- Learning styles -- Homeschooling laws -- Getting started -- Curriculum -- Natural unschooling & Charlotte Mason -- Costs of "homeschooling," -- Book list -- Musical Instruments -- Introduction -- Build a canjolele -- How to use a chisel -- Fret layout -- Ukulele chords -- Build a cigar box guitar -- Installing fret wire -- Make a piazzo pickup -- Wind a guitar pickup -- Build a mountain/appalachan style banjo -- Tuning a banjo -- Bike spoke kalimba -- Rake tine kalimba -- Everything Else -- Convertible cart/table -- Above as a kid's trailer.

Folding camp chair -- Fabric book covers -- Watch repair -- Stencil making -- Making CD sleeves -- Wooden ear plug -- Bike tube bungee cords -- Soda pop can solar panel -- Pallet bed loft -- Dumpster shopping.