{Note: This here is the seventh to-do of ten completed last weekend at John’s family’s place. We’ll be posting these gradually throughout the week, as they happened. We’ll be posting the rest of them up today! (We took too long posting them up last week). For the sake of naming things, we’re calling this weekend Laura & John’s Ultimate Thrifty To-Do Marathon}

Thrift Tip #7: Using John’s dad’s expensive equipment to make a bolt that would otherwise cost 17 cents at the hardware store is not exactly thrifty. Crafty, but not thrifty. Oh well.