DIY nation

As recession rolls on, many see savings in own elbow grease

By Don Aucoin / The Bulletin
May 30, 2009

Given her druthers, Margery Stegman would have preferred to spend a recent sunny Saturday shooting hoops with her teenage son. Here is how she spent the day instead: clearing out dead grass, branches, leaves and twigs from her large, heavily wooded backyard in Lexington, Mass., then hauling it....

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