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JOHN FISHER HOLMES COUNTY  ·  2026

You just watched the video. Here is the book.

The old methods that save our family $7,000 in bills every year.

Heating oil is up. Electric is up. Groceries are up almost a fifth since 2023. And every Amish house on our road is running on the same money it did in 2019. This book is how they do it. Ninety-three methods. Fourteen sections. 722 pages. Second Edition. Most households earn the $47 back in the first month, just from sealing three drafts and turning down the water heater.
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I.
THE MANUAL

One book. Ninety-three methods.
Five to seven thousand a year.

Heat, cooling, water, power, pantry, kitchen, garden, pests, household, cleaning, remedies, structure, land, money. Fourteen 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.
The Amish Home Repair Manual — cover
ILLUSTRATED EBOOK  ·  722 PAGES  ·  SECOND EDITION

The complete blueprint to save $5,000 to $7,000 a year on your home.

Sealed drafts. The Amish draft door. A heat shelf. Rain barrels that last twenty years. The two hundred dollar solar setup. Lye soap from rendered lard. The sand oven. The dirt-pantry root cellar. Lime wash for outbuildings. The oil-pulling habit. Depression-era savings ledgers. 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 — LAST HOURS
WHAT YOU GET FOR $47:
  • The Amish Home Repair Manual — 722-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 93-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$520
  • Dryer & small appliances$260
  • Home upkeep & small repairs$1,600
  • Groceries the pantry replaces$1,200
  • Cleaning & pest control$460
ANNUAL $7,220

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

The same household, after the Manual PER YEAR
  • Heating & cooling (sealed, heat shelf, storm windows)$820
  • Water & sewer (rain barrel, leaks fixed)$320
  • Water heater (lower setpoint, wrap)$220
  • Drying (clothesline, summer cookhouse)$40
  • Home upkeep (monthly check, linseed oil finish)$240
  • Groceries (pantry, garden, root cellar)$420
  • Cleaning & pests (vinegar, borax, diatomaceous)$60
ANNUAL ~$2,120

Every number has a chapter in the Manual with materials, sources, and step-by-step.

Net annual savings: $5,000–$7,000

Depending on your starting bills, your climate, and how many of the ninety-three methods you actually put in.

SOURCES & REFERENCE DATA
  • U.S. Energy Information Administration  ·  Residential Energy Consumption Survey, 2024
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  ·  WaterSense Household Water Use Report, 2024
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  ·  Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2024
  • American Housing Survey  ·  Home Maintenance & Repair Costs, 2023
III.
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.

“
$234 SAVED IN
AUGUST
★★★★★ 5.0/5
Opened the August bill and thought the meter was broken. $178. Last August was $412. My son Kevin drove down from Nashville with $14 in rope caulk and weatherstripping and helped me seal every draft. Two weekends later we dug the “ground tube” from Chapter 18. Book paid for itself the first week.
MARGARET ROBINSON, 71 Retired librarian  ·  Chattanooga, TN Verified customer  ·  September 2025
“
2 WEEKS BOOK PAID
BACK
★★★★★ 5.0/5
Was skeptical when I bought it. Built the “two hundred dollar solar setup” one Saturday, wrapped the water heater the next. My knees paid for it Monday. Electric bill down ninety a month. Wife rolled her eyes both weekends, then asked me to build another for the shed. Plain English, no internet nonsense.
DANIEL KOWALSKI, 68 Retired electrician  ·  Spokane, WA Verified customer  ·  April 2026
“
$6,400 SAVED YEAR
ONE
★★★★★ 5.0/5
Bought this for our daughter, not us. Figured we would get two ideas. Ended up doing fourteen fixes in six months. Storm windows cut oil burner runtime almost in half. The “foundation moisture” fix caught a basement leak — a $4,500 repair if we had waited. Ledger says $6,400 less went out the door year one.
TOM & MARIA FOSTER, 74 & 72 Retired farmers  ·  Burlington, VT Verified customer  ·  May 2025
IV.
HOW YOU EARN THE $47 BACK

Three fixes. One Saturday. Roughly $14 in materials.

Every reader gets the same starting road map. These three chapters can be done in one afternoon by anyone who owns a screwdriver. The next utility bill returns the $47, before you touch any other method in the book.

Fix 1
CH. 04  ·  HEAT

The Twelve Dollar Window Seal

  • MaterialsFoam rope + weatherstripping
  • Store cost~$12
  • Time90 minutes
  • Bill drop$18–$34 / month
Fix 2
CH. 24  ·  WATER

Find Every Leak In One Hour

  • MaterialsFood dye, paper towel
  • Store cost~$2
  • Time60 minutes
  • Bill drop$9–$22 / month
Fix 3
CH. 88  ·  MONEY

The Three Weekend Fixes Road Map

  • MaterialsWater heater dial
  • Store cost$0
  • Time5 minutes
  • Bill drop$14–$28 / month
Total first-month bill reduction$41–$84
The book cost you $47. The first month pays it back at the low end. Every month after that, the ninety other methods compound the savings.
V.
WHAT'S INSIDE

Exactly what you get for $47.

Ninety-three numbered methods across fourteen 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  ·  10 CHAPTERS

Keeping a house warm without renting heat.

  1. 01Cut your heating bill in half with one stone wall fix
  2. 02Heat a bedroom all night on one log
  3. 03The Amish draft door, the $12 window seal
  4. 04The heat shelf, the old coal trick, the south wall
  5. 05Wood fires burn twice as hot on half the wood
  6. 06Cellar door heat, surviving January with no furnace
COOLING  ·  9 CHAPTERS

Lowering the indoor temperature without a power bill.

  1. 01The $3 roof fix that drops the upstairs 10 degrees
  2. 02Cool any room with the wet sheet method
  3. 03The charcoal powder, the clay pot cooler
  4. 04Shade planning, the summer cookhouse
  5. 05The attic vent, the ground tube, painting the roof
WATER  ·  8 CHAPTERS

Catching and moving what falls from the sky.

  1. 01Catch water from the air for $12
  2. 02The downspout garden that waters itself
  3. 03The rain barrel, the hand pump
  4. 04Find every water leak in one hour
  5. 05The sand filter, the greywater loop, the pipe fix
POWER  ·  2 CHAPTERS

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

  1. 01The $200 solar setup any family can build
  2. 02The one-day battery bank that keeps the lights on
PANTRY  ·  7 CHAPTERS

Putting food up so the freezer isn't the last line.

  1. 01Keep meat without a refrigerator all summer
  2. 02The crock sauerkraut, the $300 dirt pantry cellar
  3. 03Rendering lard, drying the garden, the vinegar mother
  4. 04Twelve bulk staples that feed a family through winter
KITCHEN  ·  3 CHAPTERS

Cooking from scratch on whatever burns.

  1. 01The sand oven that cooks a full meal on one fire
  2. 02Kitchen tricks that cut your grocery bill by a third
  3. 03The cold box that keeps food fresh without power
GARDEN  ·  8 CHAPTERS

Growing enough that the grocery aisle stops mattering.

  1. 01Grow 100 lb of potatoes in 4 square feet
  2. 02The three sisters, saved seed, sheet mulching
  3. 03The mobile chicken coop, the cold frame
  4. 04Epsom salt uses the garden center charges for
  5. 05The weed Holmes County farmers grow on purpose
PESTS  ·  10 CHAPTERS

Clearing what crawls without the quarterly contract.

  1. 01The ancient powder that kills any bug (DE primer)
  2. 02Ants for $1, roaches, rats for $2
  3. 03Mosquitoes, ticks, wasps, fire ants, all bee-safe
  4. 04Baking soda for thirty household pests
  5. 05The vinegar, borax, and peroxide pest recipes
HOUSEHOLD  ·  9 CHAPTERS

The substances and small habits that replace a hundred bottles.

  1. 01The $6 laundry soap that lasts a family a year
  2. 02The $2 powder that removes any bathroom stain
  3. 03Hydrogen peroxide: 27 uses the cleaning aisle charges for
  4. 04Lye soap, beeswax candles, petroleum jelly
  5. 05Old habits for running a clean home on almost nothing
CLEANING  ·  5 CHAPTERS

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

  1. 01White vinegar in the home, volumes one and two
  2. 02Baking soda: every use worth knowing
  3. 03Baking soda and vinegar together (what actually works)
  4. 04Borax: what the expensive cleaners cannot do
REMEDIES  ·  4 CHAPTERS

What the old folks kept above the washbasin.

  1. 01Topical uses for castor oil
  2. 02Apple cider vinegar in the kitchen, garden, and chicken yard
  3. 03Coconut oil: uses worth keeping, claims worth ignoring
  4. 04Oil pulling for the mouth and gums
STRUCTURE  ·  6 CHAPTERS

Repair before replace. The old finishes that last.

  1. 01The $20 mix that protects any wood for 50 years
  2. 02The $3 powder that stops rust on any iron tool
  3. 03Linseed oil, lime wash, the $15 storm window
  4. 04Foundation moisture: the free fix that saves a basement
LAND  ·  4 CHAPTERS

Buying ground that doesn't bury you.

  1. 01Read bad land before you sign the paper
  2. 02Five mistakes first-time off-grid buyers make
  3. 03Off-grid in 30 days for under $25,000
  4. 04Twenty wilderness skills worth keeping anywhere
MONEY  ·  8 CHAPTERS

The Depression-era habits that quietly settle a household.

  1. 01Twenty Depression-era money habits worth keeping
  2. 02The savings ledger, the three weekend fixes
  3. 03Negotiate any repair bill by half
  4. 04Bulk buying, barter skills, emergency fund
  5. 05The financial habits of families who never carry debt
READ ONE

The opening of Chapter 4.

This is a straight lift from the book. Same words. Same order. Same voice. Every one of the ninety-three chapters is written this way.

A real page from Chapter 4 of the book, showing the window-sealing steps and a photograph of a frosty farmhouse window at dawn.
Real page 44  ·  your copy
— Chapter 4 continues with the full materials list at Home Depot, Lowe's, and Amazon with current 2026 prices, the V-seal and rope caulk install steps, the two failure modes to spot, and the exact monthly bill drop most readers see by the end of the first cold month. Ninety-two more chapters after that.
VI.
John Fisher, Holmes County
ABOUT THE AUTHORS

John & Hannah Fisher.

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.

John runs the household and structural side — heat, water, power, structure, off-grid land, pests. Hannah 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 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 fourteen sections, in the order you should do them, with the materials and the dollar amounts written down. Over 700 pages, 191,000 words. 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.
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VII.
HONEST GATE

Who this book is for. And who should skip it.

We would rather send back a $47 refund than take money from a household this book will not help. Read both columns before you buy.

✓ BUY THIS IF
  • You own or rent a home and pay the utility bills.
  • Your heating, water, or grocery line is bigger than you want it to be.
  • You can follow a numbered list and use a screwdriver.
  • You would rather do the work once than pay the bill every month.
  • You want the exact materials, current prices, and honest failure notes, not vague tips.
✕ SKIP IT IF
  • You want a book about becoming Amish or the theology behind it. That is not what this is.
  • You expect a single trick to cut every bill in one week. This is 93 methods, not a magic switch.
  • You will not read a page of instructions before starting.
VIII.
ORDER THE MANUAL

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The Amish Home Repair Manual — cover
ILLUSTRATED EBOOK  ·  722 PAGES  ·  SECOND EDITION

The complete blueprint to save $5,000 to $7,000 a year on your home.

Sealed drafts. The Amish draft door. A heat shelf. Rain barrels that last twenty years. The two hundred dollar solar setup. Lye soap from rendered lard. The sand oven. The dirt-pantry root cellar. Lime wash for outbuildings. The oil-pulling habit. Depression-era savings ledgers. 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 — LAST HOURS
WHAT YOU GET FOR $47:
  • The Amish Home Repair Manual — 722-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 93-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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— John & Hannah Fisher
IX.
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 methods require no tools and no skills beyond reading and following a list. The ones that do say so plainly before you start, with a clear note on when to call a professional instead.
How long until I see savings?
Most readers earn the $47 back in the first month from two fixes  —  the water heater setpoint and sealing three drafts. Both take one Saturday and about $14 in materials.
Is this a one-time payment? Will you charge me again?
One payment of $47. That is it. No subscription, no monthly fee, no automatic renewal. Gumroad processes the charge one time. You will never see another charge from us on your card or your bank statement.
What format is the Manual? Do I need a printer?
A PDF that arrives in your inbox. Read it on your phone, your tablet, your laptop, or any computer with a screen. No printer required, no app to install. If you prefer paper, you can print any chapter at the kitchen table when you need it.
What if I don't receive the email?
Check your spam folder first, that is where it usually lands. If it isn't there within five minutes, forward your Gumroad receipt to [email protected] and we will send the PDF directly. Every buyer gets it. Nobody is left waiting.
I rent. Can I still use this?
Yes. Roughly a third of the methods apply to renters with no modifications  —  cleaning, pantry, pest, household, and remedy chapters especially.
What if it's not for me?
Email within 7 days. The $47 comes back the same day. No forms, no questions asked.
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