DIY brita water filter top & filter replacement calendar
This was a simple and fun project. The top of my Brita Water Filter has been missing the part that covers the opening in the lid.I got tired of using a piece of cardboard as a cover so I made one out of wood and added a dial calendar to keep track of the date the filter was changed. This is not a project that will get a lot of views as not many people have this problem and the few that do are probably not inclined to make a DIY solution. Nevertheless, it was a relaxing little project. I was going to add some artsy fartsy designs to the cover with my wood burner but I think it looks fine like it is. Little projects like this show how you can have DIY fun without a lot of tools and shop space. I hope nobody noticed my Panini Grill under my folding Keter Shop table. Contrary to YouTuber rumors I do not use the sawdust to flavor my cooking, I really do clean off any sawdust on the grill before cooking.
I have been making and editing at least one video a week for YouTube for 16 years. A viewer asked me how I make my videos and edit them so I thought that would be a good topic to briefly go over how I quickly make and edit my weekly videos and the software programs and editing equipment that I use.
I primarily use two programs. Both of them are ancient. One is Windows live movie maker from 2010 and the second one that I use occasionally is Sony Vegas movie studio platinum 10.
Both of them are dinosaurs. In fact, Windows no longer supports the version of Windows live movie maker that I use and it is difficult to find to download to your computer. However, it is still out there.
I don't recommend any person starting out to use these programs if they can afford a good editing computer. It would be better to get involved with the new artificial intelligence video editing programs or some of the traditional but newer editing programs that have so many more features that will make your videos much more interesting and competitive with other people on YouTube.
However, if you are interested in Windows live movie maker, there are many videos on YouTube about the old program and I have a few videos about it myself.
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Not many people know this but YouTube now allows viewers to leave a tip by using the thanks button below the videos on YouTube at least on some channels.
In addition, I have an Amazon affiliate link, and anything that people buy anywhere on Amazon after they enter Amazon via my link Jeff Bozos throws me a few pennies.
At least until he can get robots to start making YouTube videos and posting links for him. Don't laugh. The robot YouTube video content creators are just around the corner.
You better appreciate Robb's homemade life while you can.
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Robb Moffett
Robb's Homemade Life
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I don't have all the answers. I'm not saying what everybody should do. I barely know what to do myself.
I make sandwich toaster videos on YouTube. Do you want to take advice on how to live your life in 2023
from a man who makes sandwich toaster videos on YouTube?.
On the other hand, it's possible to learn something from anybody.
2023 is going to be wonderful.
I'm not saying it won't take a lot of work but why the heck not?
Even if 2023 turns out not to be wonderful for me I still intend to hang on and thrive and survive just like a weed growing on the sidewalk alongside the city traffic.
I'm not giving up. I intend to hang in there.
I will be focused on finding all the sweet spots, pleasant vistas, joyful surroundings, and shady resting places and blue horizons.
I expect there will be trouble and drama.
But it's still another year in the universe.
The amazing and incredible universe.
For a guy that makes sandwich toaster videos, that's pretty wonderful.
See you out there.
If you like my videos you can help me out by using the Amazon store link I added below. Bookmark my link below and anytime you visit Amazon in the future and buy anything Amazon will throw me a few cents and it helps me make more videos at no cost to you. Also, some viewers like to see the stuff I have bought and liked on Amazon in my Amazon store. My Amazon store https://www.amazon.com/shop/robbshomemadelife
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If you were not sure if I was a tightwad after watching my earlier video about cutting my hair with the vacuum cleaner, then may this video remove all doubt.
Most of us trade our time for money. If we can save money, we can save some of our time. I hope you go out and have some fun with yours.
See you out there.
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I add new videos every week. If you make DIY or outdoor or low cost living or prepper videos, I would be happy to check them out.
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Fridays food video is an experimental clam cake. I bought a case of clams after watching one of Chef bucks videos on a clam pizza and have been trying different experimental recipes. The clam cake recipe did not turn out as well as I had hoped but just like my fish cakes the clam cakes were very tasty snacks over the next two days eaten cold from the refrigerator.
The main difference between my clam cakes and traditional clam cakes is I did not use any crackers, bread crumbs, or flour. Also, I added unusual ingredients like chickpeas. One thing I forgot to mention in the video is it would not hurt to add more clams. I made 12 clam cakes in this recipe.
RECIPE
1 can clams 6.5 ounces ( I would ad more)
1 egg
1 can chickpeas
1 onion small
1 cup cornmeal mix
1/2 cup oats
1 tablespoon oil
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
black pepper
1/3 can corn
chopped olives
parsley
red pepper (I would leave out)
celery (I would leave out
garlic powder (I would leave out)
I used a Cuisinart Panini grill that is about 7 years old and gets used every week. https://amzn.to/2FKyKVl
My favorite recipe playlist of cooking videos by me and others I like
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67EA7FD1A269D211
Here is a link to my review video playlist.
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A few extraordinary people who appreciate my over 800 weekly helpful videos have saved the Amazon link I will provide below. This is my link to my Amazon page where you can see stuff I have bought and liked a lot over the years. You do not have to buy anything from the page, because just by using my link to enter Amazon anything you buy on Amazon will help me out at no cost to you. In addition, If you save and bookmark the link, you can use it to go to Amazon in the future. A few nice people have done that and it helps my channel out a lot. Didn't you want to buy an island or jet aircraft on Amazon today? Or at least see the stuff I have bought and liked on Amazon over the years?
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I want to thank you guys again for showing up and watching me trying to have a little fun or show you something that might help you out. I made YouTube videos for fun years before they paid a penny and I will continue to do so as long as it is fun and you guys keep showing up.
see ya out there.
Robb Moffett
Robb's Homemade life
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This video is to show you how to make DIY custom daily planner,
health tracker, log book & journal pages using Libre Office.
Libre office is a free program you can download on their website.
I hope you find this video useful. I am excited by the possibilities of making my own pages to create a health log book and a custom daily planner.
There are a lot of log books and planners for sale but you constantly have to buy new pages which are surprisingly expensive. Once you learn how to make your own custom pages your cost is very low.
I am even more excited about making a health journal for Afib.
I kept a rudimentary log book for yours and it helped me make decisions about my afib such as changes in my medication and my decision to finally have an ablation. I created a chart based on my Afib episodes and over time my duration of episodes were going down while my frequency of episodes was increasing.
it was difficult to choose to have the ablation, however, once the episodes began increasing in duration based on my observations I recorded daily I found it simple to decide to have the operation.
The same decision-making process regarding medication is simplified when you have enough data and with a log book, it is simple to capture the information you need.
I hope this video helps you guys. Please do not ask me any technical questions about the program or making the pages, I showed you pretty much all I know at the moment a sit is all I need to know. I am in the process of writing a small booklet on afib and plan on having information on making the health logbook included when it all comes together. I will keep you updated.
Robb Moffett
Robb's Homemade Life
Free Libre office
https://www.libreoffice.org/
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Robb's Homemade life
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Everywhere I go on Youtube is something about fidget spinners. I understand the fascination. As a child, I was always entertained by shiny spinning things.
I remember putting a penny in a balloon and blowing it up and twirling it around inside the balloon and loved the sound and motion it made.
A long time ago I bought a beautiful piece of a conch shell and one day placed it on a glass top table and was surprised to see the shell rock back and forth for up to three minutes. I never thought much about it until the spinning fad came along. Maybe I will start a new fad called rockers. I think rockers may have been around long before spinners.
Thanks for watching. by the way, the shell will rock longer on a hard smooth flat surface like glass which is why I used the glass framed photo. The person in the photo is one of my heroes, Neil Armstrong, the first human on the moon on July 20, 1969. What an amazing magical day that was. Go humans!
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Robb's Homemade life
music by the amazing Kevin Macleod at incompetech.com
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Several DIY You Tubers whose work I love have been making highly creative and goofy videos about mowing the lawn. I will link to them below. the videos looked like fun.I wanted to play too but do not have a lawn as I live in an apartment. This is my humble and trademarked lazy contribution to the Mowing the lawn videos.
Here are some of the mowing the lawn videos of other people I love to watch.
Diresta Mows the Lawn
https://youtu.be/R-JdQbQHAIU
Ramsey Mows The Lawn
https://youtu.be/zB0RAeSYMtw
Yet another Lawnmowing Video... - Und noch ein Rasenmäh-Video...
https://youtu.be/-oXrl1HZsAU
DIY - Drill powered electric lawn mower.
https://youtu.be/DFnYdSP-pBw
Tim sway mows the lawn
https://youtu.be/GRx3Vaeg-qc
Lawnmower of destruction
https://youtu.be/QL14Usumt-g
Picciuto Mows the Lawn
https://youtu.be/1be5EFUGnEo
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Thanks for watching my videos and don't forget to turn off the computer and go out and enjoy life more .
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Social Studies
song- " The Wapner"
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I thought the wonderful abstract style of the song fit the visual oddity and quirkiness of the video perfectly. Thanks for making and sharing.
Thumbnail photo courtesy
Tim Greenfield
Mowing the face
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If any of you guys are inspired to make a creative lawn mowing video send me the links and I will add them to my list on this video.
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This is my third attempt to make a video describing my experience with trying to live on a $12,000 a year budget here in south Florida.
First of all, I would like to apologize for the lighting quality. I am using a new camera and the sun kept going away making the video dark and I was so tired of failing at this video I did not make it over with better lighting. After making videos every week for 12 years I am embarrassed to post a video that looks like I filmed with a potato but I was just tired of making the video over. I also have to mention the target of $12,000 a year was based on the budget I started with in May. Over the months I discovered expenses I had not considered thanks to my accurate expense tracking and the new budget increased slightly to $1095.60 monthly so the video title should not really be about how to live on $12,000 a year but closer to $13,000, but I did start with a goal of $12,00 in mind and am still planning on making adjustments to meet the $12,000 number over time.
I hope viewers will keep an expense tracker and a simple budget. There is nothing that takes less time or money and gives as many benefits to your personal finance as a budget and expense tracker.
There are probably dozens of online, digital and even paper budgets and trackers available. I used a simple DOME Simplified Home Budget Book to keep the daily expenses accounted for. I quickly entered them in pencil as expenses occurred and then added all of my figures into a spreadsheet on my computer at the end of the month.
Currently, my planned monthly budget is $1095.60. My expenses for November were $1534.40, however, I did pay my yearly apartment tax of $429.17, so that was the main cause of the overbudget. The number adjusted for the tax over 12 months would be a November total of $1140.99 which is only $45.39 over budget. In a few months, some of my fixed expenses such as my maintenance fees will be reduced and I hope to get back to $1000 a month as planned.
If you guys have any questions about the budget or tracker or future videos let me know.
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A few very special people have saved the Amazon link I will provide below. This is my link to my Amazon store where you can see stuff I have bought and liked a lot over the years, not just in 2019. You do not have to buy anything from the store, just by using my link to enter Amazon anything you buy on Amazon will help me out at no cost to you. Didn't you want to buy an island or jet aircraft on Amazon today?
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I want to thank you guys again for showing up and watching me trying to have a little fun or show you something that might help you out. I made YouTube videos just for fun years before they p
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Just me trying to have a little fun messing around with my 94 Toyota Corolla. If you need a way to attach your Garmin GPS, here is how you can do it using just a couple of pipe cleaners and two cable ties and a pencil. I conjured this up myself, I did not see anybody else do this. The reason nobody else does this is because you can buy a plastic vent mount for your garmin for just a few dollars on amazon.
But it won't be as much fun.
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The BOBCATS " Big Noise From Winnetka " !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFBdViZHzk
Tom Waits- Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVo5mjK4eg
Sting - Englishman In New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
Stairway to Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g
Hotel California - The Eagles (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaoregV1Wak
A few very special people have saved the Amazon link I will provide below and use the link to enter Amazon and buy the stuff they normally buy on Amazon. This is my link to my Amazon store where you can see stuff I have bought and liked a lot over the years. You do not have to buy anything from the store, just by using my link to enter Amazon anything you buy on Amazon will help me out at no cost to you. Didn't you want to buy an island or jet aircraft on Amazon today?
https://www.amazon.com/shop/robbshomemadelife
I want to thank you guys again for showing up and watching me trying to have a little fun or show you something that might help you out. I made YouTube videos for fun years before they paid a penny and I will continue to do so as long as it is fun.
see ya out there.
Robb Moffett
Robb's Homemade life
https://www.youtube.com/user/mrhulot101
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd9tm989PJI