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An Almanac · No. I
Amos Stoltzfus
An Almanac

The old methods that kept my family off the bill cycle.

Cut $4,000–$6,000 a year off your heating, water, electric, and home-repair bills — using the ninety-three household methods the Amish have run for generations. Now in a 700+ page Second Edition. Most households earn the $47 back in the first month, just from sealing drafts and turning down the water heater.

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I.

The Manual

One book. Ninety-three methods. Six thousand dollars a year.

Heat, water, electric, home repair, pantry, garden, cleaning, kitchen, remedies, structure, land. Thirteen sections. Ninety-three methods. Each one with the materials, the current 2026 prices, and the step-by-step. Start this weekend with a tube of caulk and a $14 trip to the hardware store.

Illustrated ebook · 700+ pages · Second Edition

The complete blueprint to save $6,000 a year on your home.

Sealed drafts. Insulated attic. Window quilts. A rain barrel. The clothesline. Storm windows. Lye soap from rendered lard. The sand oven. The root cellar. Lime wash for outbuildings. The oil-pulling habit. Depression-era savings habits. Ninety-three methods the Amish and the old plain people have used for generations — with the exact materials, current 2026 prices, and step-by-step builds. Most households earn the $47 back inside the first month.

$47 $77 Launch price — ends Sunday

What you get for $47:

  • The Amish Home Savings Manual — 700+ page illustrated ebook, 93 numbered methods, materials lists, 2026 prices, step-by-step builds $47
  • The First-Weekend Road Map — three specific fixes you do this Saturday that earn the $47 back by your next bill $19
  • The 25-System Savings Ledger — printable workbook to track exactly what each fix returned in your house $19
  • The Materials Sourcing Sheet — where to buy every material on the list at the lowest price (no Amazon links, real stores) $14
  • Lifetime updates — every revision, every new edition, no extra charge $21
  • Total value $120
  • You pay today $47
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II.

The Math

Where your money actually goes. And what you can stop paying.

Pull up your last 12 months of bills. These are the numbers most households quietly tolerate. The right-hand column is the same household after applying the ninety-three methods in the Manual.

A typical household Per year

  • Heating & cooling$2,400
  • Water & sewer$780
  • Electric water heater$540
  • Dryer electricity$260
  • Home upkeep & small repairs$1,800
  • Cleaning supplies$380
Annual $6,160

U.S. Energy Information Administration · BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey averages

The same household, after the Manual Per year

  • Heating & cooling (sealed, insulated, mass)$980
  • Water & sewer (rain catch, leaks fixed)$420
  • Water heater (lower setpoint, wrap)$260
  • Drying (clothesline, summer kitchen)$40
  • Home upkeep (monthly check, storm windows)$300
  • Cleaning (four-substance pantry)$25
Annual ~$2,025

Every number has a chapter in the Manual with materials, sources, and steps

Net annual savings: $4,000–$6,000 — depending on your starting bills, climate, and how many of the ninety-three methods you actually put in.

III.

What's Inside

Exactly what you get for $47.

Ninety-three numbered methods across thirteen sections. Each one: a few pages of summary and walked-through how-to, materials with current 2026 prices, and an honest note on what it does and doesn’t do. Pick the methods that fit your house and your budget — you do not have to do all of them.

Heat — 9 chapters

Keeping a house warm without renting heat.

  • Heat a living room without gas or electricity
  • The wood-stove trick that makes free electricity
  • Seal the drafts, blanket the attic
  • Window quilts, foot warmers, heat mass
  • The solar window that heats itself
  • Surviving a bitter winter with no furnace
Cooling — 10 chapters

Lowering the indoor temperature without a power bill.

  • The $4 fix for a deadly hot house
  • The $2 powder that replaces an AC
  • Shade trees as a long game
  • The summer kitchen, the bucket cooler
  • The attic fan, the earth tube, the painted roof
Water — 8 chapters

Catching and moving what falls from the sky.

  • Harvest water from the air with a $12 setup
  • Water the yard automatically and for free
  • The rain barrel, the hand pump revival
  • Find leaks before they find you
  • The pipe trick that cuts the water bill
Power — 2 chapters

Lights, fans, and a working phone when the grid goes down.

  • The $300 Amish solar setup
  • The easy modern all-in-one solar
Pantry — 7 chapters

Putting food up so the freezer is not the last line.

  • Preserve meat without refrigeration
  • The crock of sauerkraut, the root cellar
  • Rendering lard, drying the garden, the vinegar mother
  • Eleven bulk staples to keep on hand
  • The single flame cold box
Kitchen — 2 chapters

Cooking from scratch on whatever burns.

  • The sand oven that cooks all day on one flame
  • Kitchen tricks every cook should know
Garden — 7 chapters

Growing enough that the grocery aisle becomes optional.

  • Grow 100 lb of potatoes in 4 square feet
  • The three sisters, saved seeds, sheet mulching
  • The cold frame, the chicken tractor
  • The weed the Amish grow on purpose
  • Amish uses for Epsom salt in the garden
Pests — 10 chapters

Clearing what crawls without the quarterly contract.

  • The ancient powder that kills any bug (DE primer)
  • Ants for $1, roaches, rats for $2
  • Mosquitoes, ticks, yellowjackets, wasps — bee-safe
  • Vinegar, borax, peroxide recipes for pests
  • Five DIY fire ant killers tested
Household — 9 chapters

The substances and small habits that replace a hundred bottles.

  • The $6 laundry detergent that lasts a year
  • The $2 powder that removes any bathroom stain
  • Hydrogen peroxide: 27 uses across the home
  • Lye soap from rendered lard, beeswax candles
  • Petroleum jelly, dish soap, kitchen tricks
Cleaning — 5 chapters

Plain chemistry, no spray bottles with skulls on the label.

  • White vinegar uses (volumes one and two)
  • Baking soda, alone and with vinegar (safely)
  • Fifteen uses for a single box of borax
  • The detergent + salt cleaning trick
Remedies — 4 chapters

What the old folks kept above the washbasin.

  • Topical uses for castor oil
  • Apple cider vinegar around the kitchen and chicken yard
  • Coconut oil for skin, hair, and household
  • Oil pulling for the mouth and gums
Structure — 6 chapters

Repair before replace. The old finishes that last.

  • The $20 solution that protects wood 50 years
  • The $3 trick that makes any metal rust-proof
  • Linseed oil, lime wash, storm windows
  • Foundation moisture — the free fix
Land — 4 chapters

Buying ground that does not bury you.

  • Spot bad land in 60 seconds before you buy
  • Five mistakes people make buying off-grid land
  • How to go off-grid in 30 days for under $25,000
  • Twenty wilderness tricks from the pioneers
Money — 1 chapter

The Depression-era habits that quietly settle a household.

  • Twenty Depression-era habits worth keeping
IV.

Reader Results

What people did with the Manual in the first month.

Three buyers, three different houses, three different climates. Each one cut a real bill with a specific fix in the book.

★★★★★

Sealed every draft in one Saturday with a $14 caulk gun and a roll of weatherstripping from the hardware store. Added the attic blanket the next weekend. Our heating bill dropped from $312 in November to $174 in December for the same temperature. The book paid for itself in three weeks.

— David L., Akron, OH
★★★★★

I put up a rain barrel for the garden in April and fixed two slow leaks I didn't even know I had using the "find leaks before they find you" method. Combined with the clothesline, my water bill is roughly two-thirds what it was last summer. The ledger workbook in the back is what made me actually believe the savings.

— Margaret S., Topeka, KS
★★★★★

Went in skeptical. The monthly home check caught a roof flashing problem early — would have been a $4,000 repair if I'd waited. Storm windows on the north side dropped our oil burner runtime almost in half. Plain-English, no internet nonsense, with the materials and the dollar amounts written down.

V. About the Authors

Amos & Esther Stoltzfus.

We grew up around people who never had a monthly bill they couldn’t pay. They sealed their own drafts. Built their own pantries. Caught their own rain. They did not talk about saving money. They just refused to spend it on things they could do themselves.

Amos runs the household and structural side — heat, water, power, structure, off-grid land, pests. Esther runs the kitchen and cleaning side — pantry, recipes, household substances, remedies, the everyday small habits that compound over a year. We teach those methods on our YouTube channels (over 280,000 subscribers across them) and tens of thousands of households have used them to cut utility bills, fix their houses without a contractor, and stop renting things they could own outright.

This Second Edition is the channel content, organized. Ninety-three methods across thirteen sections, in the order you should do them, with the materials and the dollar amounts written down. Over 700 pages. Illustrated throughout. Read it once, work through the fixes, keep the savings forever.

It is not an instruction set for becoming Amish. It is an instruction set for keeping more of what you earn.
VI.

Order the Manual

$47 once. No subscription. Yours forever.

Instant access — in your inbox within 60 seconds of payment. Read on any phone, tablet, or computer. Print at the kitchen table if you want. 7-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked — if it’s not for you, email and the $47 comes back the same day.

Illustrated ebook · 700+ pages · Second Edition

The Amish Home Savings Manual

Ninety-three household methods for heat, water, power, pantry, garden, kitchen, cleaning, remedies, structure, and land — with materials lists, current 2026 prices, and the step-by-step. Pick the ones that fit your house. Skip the ones that don’t.

$47 $77 Launch price — ends Sunday

What you get for $47:

  • The Amish Home Savings Manual — 700+ page illustrated ebook, Second Edition $47
  • The First-Weekend Road Map — three fixes to earn the $47 back fast $19
  • The 25-System Savings Ledger — printable tracker for every fix $19
  • The Materials Sourcing Sheet — lowest-cost source for every item $14
  • Lifetime updates — every future revision, free $21
  • Total value $120
  • You pay today $47
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VII.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask before they click.

Will these methods work in my climate?

Yes. The ninety-three methods are written for ordinary North American homes — cold winters, hot summers, dry plains, humid coasts. Each chapter notes which fixes belong first depending on whether your biggest bill is winter heat, summer cooling, or year-round water. The cheap fixes work the same in every climate; the larger projects include the adjustments that matter.

I'm not handy. Is this still useful for me?

Most of the highest-return chapters need no construction at all — sealing drafts with a tube of caulk, hanging window quilts, lowering the water-heater setpoint, hanging a clothesline, doing the monthly home check, keeping the savings ledger. The larger projects include a "hire only the heavy part" path so you don't have to swing a hammer.

How long until I see savings?

The draft-sealing and the water-heater setpoint changes show up on the very next bill. The clothesline pays back in the first sunny week. The leak audit usually pays for the book in the first month. Larger projects — storm windows, attic insulation, the rain barrel — pay back inside one season.

I rent. Can I still use this?

Yes — over half the methods work in rentals without modification or landlord approval. Window quilts, draft sealing, the rain barrel, the leak audit, the clothesline, the cleaning swaps, the monthly home check, and the ledger workbook all apply whether you own or rent.

What format is the Manual?

Instant access — emailed to you within 60 seconds. Read on any phone, tablet, computer, or print on plain paper. The Second Edition is a 700+ page illustrated PDF with photos throughout. No DRM, no app, no subscription. Yours forever.

Are there more books coming?

This Second Edition already covers heat, water, power, pantry, garden, household, cleaning, remedies, kitchen, pests, structure, land, and money — thirteen sections, ninety-three methods. Future volumes will go deeper into specialty areas (workshop, animals, faith, family). Buyers of the current edition get every revision and every future volume notification first, with a discount.

What if it's not for me?

Seven days, no questions asked. Send an email and you get a full refund. The Manual stays yours.

Last call

Stop paying $6,000 a year you don't have to.

$47 once. Instant access. 7-day money-back guarantee. Most households earn the $47 back in the first month. Second Edition, 700+ pages, lifetime updates.

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