Welcome to the Free Resources Zone

Enjoy these tools and come back often!

The Offers and Needs Market

An Offers and Needs Market is a way to discover what kinds of support you can provide to others and what help you might get within a specific community. Each exchange builds a connection, more connections create meaningful relationships, and the collective relationships strengthen communities – and maybe even create new ones.

Click here to discover what you can do to help and get helped right now.

Spreadsheet Spotlights

Note: You may not have access to Microsoft Excel or care for it as much as I do. So you can also view the downloadable Excel .xlsx format spreadsheets in Google Drive (instructions here), with a program like WPS Office, or other alternatives like LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice.

Mastering Home and Auto Maintenance Tracking

This bad boy exists because I didn't want (or need) to pay for fancy software to track and remind me about my core home and auto maintenance tasks. It will let you take control of scheduling, reminding, doing, and tracking maintenance on whatever place you live in and any car you drive.

Click here to read the original article that explains why it's helpful, how to use it, and more.

Baby Names (or Dog, Cat, Horse, Car, and Plants)

Need to choose a baby name with enough science to avoid the emotionally charged “war-o'-the-name” game and leave enough room for creativity or outside input? This fun and nerdy spreadsheet might be your best way to name a little dude or dudette.

Click here to read the original article that explains why it's helpful, how to use it, and more.

Home Energy Audit and Simple Tracking

I enjoy feeling like I'm saving the world. So when I needed to set a baseline of how much energy my household was consuming to compare against some energy upgrades – both the hardware and habit kind – I turned to a spreadsheet.

I tried online calculators and smartphone apps too, but nothing was better than this humble spreadsheet. Click here to read the original article that explains why it's helpful, how to use it, and more.