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Issue # 60 - November/December 1979
 
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Thenin an effort to help expand my new enterpriseI invested a portion of those first earnings. Six dollars bought me three discarded washing machine motors... all that I neededin addition to my scrap lumberto put together a drill press, a jigsaw, and a disc sander. Another $3.00 purchased an ad in a local shopping guide, which brought in calls from several trash haulers who offered more free wood than my small work area could hold. (In fact, I was left with enough surplus timber to heat both my house and my workshop/garage... the latter of which is equipped with a barrel stove, constructed years ago from plans in MOTHER NO. 22, page 70.)

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These days, I sell my handicraftsas well as copies of my power toolsat local flea markets (and I mail drawings that explain the construction of my woodworking appliances in return for $2.00 and a self-addressed, stamped envelope). I calculate that my business expenses total about $13 per week... and I average approximately $100 in earnings in that time. But my enterprise is not merely a source of income for me: As a 68-year-old retiree, I've come to value my new endeavor as a method of meeting new people and making friends, as well... and more important stillfor the first time in my life I'm finding that work and recreation can be one and the same!

George Carlson Box 74 Laingsburg, Mich. 48848

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