HOW TO MAKE AND INSTALL YOUR OWN INSULATION...FOR 5? OR LESS A SQUARE FOOT!

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BUT WHAT IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MOVE INTO ONE OF THOSE NEW ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOMES?

"Well, that's all very nice," a number of you have recently told us, "and we certainly thank MOTHER for bringing these new breakthroughs in energyefficient housing to our attention. But we can't afford a place like that just now. We're going to have to stay where we are for a while. And we aren't even sure we can afford that! What can we do right now to cut the amount of energy we'll have to use to keep our current home warm this winter? And don't tell us to have insulation installed ... because we can't afford a bill for $300 or $400 or more for that either and, besides, most of the contractors who install insulation have a backlog of orders as it is."

YOU CAN MAKE AND INSTALL YOUR OWN INSULATION!

But who says you have to pay today's outrageous prices for insulation? (One contractor we know hiked his prices three times in the month of August alone!) And who says you have to put your name in the pot and then patiently wait days or even weeks until an insulating firm can get to you?

Nobody, that's who! Not when you can quickly, safely, and easily manufacture one of the best insulations ever devised. Not when you can make that insulation to equal or far exceed the specifications (fireproofing, vermin- proofing, etc.) of any manufacturer in the field. And not when you can do it all by yourself in your spare time and for just one-fifth or less of the out-of-pocket cost of what a probably inferior insulation would set you back if you hired a contra ctor to install it for you.

Yeah, sure. This all sounds too good to be true. But that's only because you've spent your whole life being brainwashed into The Perfect Little Consumer. And that's not your fault. Nowadays, even the mechanics and shop magazines (which, 30 years ago, would have given you exactly the sort of information that MOTHER is now gonna lay on you) maintain the polite-and, for you, expensive!—fiction that insulation somehow isn't actually insulation unless it comes in a trademarked bag and a "real" contractor installs it for you.

TAIN'T TRUE

Well, folks, that particular myth just ain't true. There may well be a bewildering selection of insulations on the current market. And some of them definitely are more fireproof ... or more vermin-proof ... or more water resistant ... or easier to install in new construction ... or easier to blow into old walls ... or more this or less that than any of the others. But when it comes to downright cost effectiveness (even at contractor's prices), allaround availability, ease of installation under almost any conditions, minimum toxicity, and absolute minimum use of the planet's resources in a highly "natural" way ... the all-time winner and champion always has, still is, and probably always will be ... plain ole cellulose fiber.

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