A detailed look at Clear Home Water and the water filter I made thanks to them.

Hey guys, since I did the first column here on my blog about Clear Home Water and their guide on how to make your own water filters at home, I've gotten quite a few e-mails asking for more detail about just how easy the steps are to follow and what kind of materials you need to make these things so here is to you guys' out there who sent me the questions. Here is a detailed look into Clear Home Water.

Well, where to start? Okay, the picture you see beside this text is the water filter I made at home. Obviously I used a large bucket mainly for my design that I got for free from work. It was actually quite simple to assemble, although I can't get too in depth as I don't want to step on the Clear Home Water owner's toes but the main parts I needed was the bucket, a spicket, basic home tools to cut the holes and such to connect the spicket to the bucket, and a few other parts I cannot name for said reasons.

Altogether this filter costed me I think it was a little under $7 to make in total and lasts for six months (as suggested by the CHW guide). This was just one design choice of thousands of different kinds of water filters you can make with the help of the Clear Home Water guys which again you can visit by clicking this link. Which design choice you decide on I guess depends on your situation, what kind of materials you have on hand, and what kind of filter you want. Wheter it's a whole house, faucet, under the sink, or quasi-picture, like the one I made.

But the bottom line is homemade water filters are cheap and believe it or not, fun to make. Like I said, I spent $7 on the one I made for parts and such while my replacement filters for my Brita picture would have cost me over $30 for a six month supply, and I actually feel safer that what I'm drinking is actually clean because I made the filter and think the water tastes better.

So once again, for those still in doubt, yes the homemade water filter guide is legit and yes it is cheap to make your own filters and no it doesn't take long at all to do really and even if it did it probably wouldn't seem like it because the process is actually fun and rewarding, especially if you're into do it yourself projects. So go ahead guys, check out the link above and come back and tell me how satisfied with Clear Home Water's product. :-)

Seized and repossessed car auctions are a more affordable and enjoyable way of buying cars and now there are websites with full car listings!

I'm sure all of you at one point in your lives have had to deal with the pressures and the hassels of car lots and their annoying, sleazy salesmen who are looking to milk every dollar out of you that they can to pad their commission checks.

You usually wind up paying not hundreds, but thousands more than what they gave for the vehicle even after you chew them down a few hundred bucks. The question I'm going to ask you is why are we throwing our money away and basically handing it to these undeserving dealers and salesmen that just want to take not you, but your wallet for a ride when we can buy the vehicle we want, at the same places they do, and save ourselves not only a ton of money but a ton of headaches as well?

The places I speak of are car auctions. These are where around 75% of the vehicles you see on car lots across the country come from. Up for bid in these auctions are seized and repossessed vehicles taken by law enforcement agencies, banks, and lenders across the country and the world for whatever reason. And unlike what your local dealership would like for you to believe, there is nothing wrong with the autos up for bid at these things. For the most part they're clean, well taken care of late model vehicles that are worth ALOT more than what they usually go for because either not many people know about these auctions and when and where they take place, or they're just believeing the myths put out there by car dealers.

Thankfully for you there are now a ton of websites out there that have full auto auction listings from not only across the country, but across the world as well, including online auctions. These websites give detailed information of when and where auctions take place in your local town and instant access to the aforementioned online auctions where you can bid on your dream car immediately. Below is my list of the top 3 from my personal experiences:

1. Seized Cars - Seized Cars is by far the best car auction listings site out there today. They have hundreds of thousands of cars listed from just internet auctions and they're growing day by day. If you're in the market to purchase a new ride and want to sign up for just one of these auction sites, I reccommend this one. Hands down.

2. Government Auctions - Government Auctions is the original when it comes to these sites. They were the first ones out but have since been bypassed in quality and number of auctions and cars listed by "Seized Cars". But that's not to say this site is not still quality, because it is and is still worth every penny paid for membership.

3. Car Auction - If you're looking for the cheap option, membership to Car Auction's website is by far the cheapest. It isn't the best option by any stretch of the imagination. But cheap? Yes.

Which ever option you decide to go for in the end, it's going to be a bargain for the price of membership once you save more money than you could even imagine on a car that you and the family can be proud of. Car auctions are slowly growing in popularity, and rightfully so. The last car I purchased was from an auction. I got a 2006 Ford Mustang. A couple of weeks later I saw a similar Mustang at my local used car dealership so I figured, "What the heck, let's take a look and see how much they want for that baby." Well come to find out that car was the same model year as mine and had 10,000 more miles on it. The price? Almost FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE than what I paid for mine! Food for thought.

Well I hope you enjoyed this review and check out what these sites have to offer you. Until next time, take care.

Looking to save money on bottled water or overpriced water faucet filters? We may have your answer.

Water is the world's most abundant resource. And the most consumed. But are most of you aware of just how dirty the tap water that runs out of your kitchen faucet really is? Let me explain.

Did you know that more than 1 in 5 Americans unknowingly drink tap water polluted with feces, radiation or other contaminants? Or how about the fact that several cities such as Albuquerque, Boston, Fresno, and San Francisco have water that is sufficiently contaminated so as to pose potential health risks? Or that we are relying on pipes that are, on average, a century old? The water systems in many cities including Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, D.C. were built toward the end of the 19th century.

Well, I know I didn't know that. I drink tap water right from my faucet daily. Well, did. Before I ran across the Clear Home Water website which has all of the information I just gave to you right on their front page. Scary, huh? Pretty gross at the same time, too.

So there's a few simple solutions to the problem of tap water being borderline deathly. There is, of course, the option to just buy bottled water. "But buying bottled water can get extremely expensive, Jon!", is what you're saying, right? And that's a good point. Another good point is that 30% of bottled water is contaminated as well, either biologically or chemically. I bet you didn't know that, either. And there's really no way to tell which brand of water is or isn't contaminated so here you are, spending ridiculous amounts of money for water in a bottle, and you don't even know if it's clean! Water, the most abundant resource in the world, and you're paying over a dollar a bottle and it may not even be safe to drink.

Then there's water filters. You can buy them at pretty much any retailer you can think of these days, Wal-Mart probably has hundreds of different ones to choose from I'm sure. But as we all know, that can get extremely expensive, as well. But here's where this site comes in. I purchased the Clear Home Water guide for a little under 50 bucks. The same price as a PUR 3 stage faucet filter that you can find at Wal-Mart but thing is here that CH Water's guide showed me how to make my own, 100% reliable military grade water filter, and my filter that I made myself lasts 4 times as long as PUR's product.

The guide is extremely well written, it's easy to understand, and I made a filter in under an hour. Note it was my first time making one, so the next time I have to make another it shouldn't take me more than 30 minutes. So in just an hour, I've saved my family, what, $200 for the year on water filters? Pretty good, if you ask me.

So if you're interested in not only protecting you and your family's health, but saving some cash at the same time (and who doesn't want to do that nowadays?), go ahead and check out the Clear Home Water site. And if you decide to give their guide a shot, let me know how pleased you are with it. Until next time, take care, guys.

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