Billy Ray McCoy on the porch of the family cabin, beside shelves of canned jars

Save $6,000 a year the hillbilly way.

The old secrets to living without spending money. Heat, food, cleaning, bugs and repairs, written down by our family so anyone can do it.

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Billy Ray, Loretta Jean & Earl · Sassafras Holler, KY

What you'll be able to do with it

  • Open the January heating bill without your stomach dropping.
  • Keep eggs a year and food for months on a shelf, no fridge.
  • Clean the whole house with five jars from under the sink.
  • Run off mice and bugs without paying the bug man.
  • Stay warm and fed for two weeks when the power goes out.
  • Fix it and mend it yourself, instead of calling a man.
$6,000+Kept in your
pocket a year
3Books in the
collection
6Generations
of know-how

The honest math

Where your money goes every year.

Nobody adds up what the store takes. So here's one ordinary year.

The store way

  • Groceries, and food that spoils in the fridge $2,000
  • Heating and cooling rooms nobody sits in $1,100
  • Store vegetables, eggs and meat $900
  • A man for every small repair $700
  • A bottle for every room, and laundry soap $600
  • The bug man, 4 visits $480
  • The drugstore for little things $250
A year$6,000+

The hillbilly way

  • Beans, salt, jars and a cool shelf pennies
  • One warm room, a quilt over the door $0
  • A patch of dirt, saved seed, a few hens pennies
  • Your own two hands $0
  • Five jars under the sink $15
  • Steel wool and a little bait $6
  • Granny's shelf from the yard $0
A yearunder $200

Your numbers will be different. The point is the same: it pays for itself the first month.

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The Hillbilly Way collection: The Hillbilly Way, The No-Fridge Pantry and The Grid-Down Winter

The Hillbilly Way collection

Everything our family knows about living well on little: the house, the pantry and the winter. All three books cost less than one visit from the bug man.

What you get for $59:

  • The main book The Hillbilly Way … a warmer house, a full pantry, no bug man and a smaller bill every single month$27
  • The No-Fridge Pantry … food that keeps two years on a shelf, and a week of suppers from one pot of beans$27
  • The Grid-Down Winter … warm, fed and lit for two weeks with the power out, and a house burglars pass by$27
  • 🎁 The one-page checklist … every fix on one sheet, right on your fridge doorFree
  • 🎁 Every future edition … new tricks straight to your email, foreverFree
Total value$81$59
What it keeps in your pocket$6,000+ a year

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Written by the McCoy family · 6 generations

What's inside the collection

Every chapter is one bill you stop paying.

The Hillbilly Way

The main book · the McCoy family

Everything three generations of McCoys did so they never paid what the rest of the country pays every month.

  • 1 · The things a hillbilly house never buys $300 a year
  • 2 · A warm house in winter, a cool one in summer $650 a year
  • 3 · The pantry that needs no refrigerator $600 a year
  • 4 · Pests gone for pennies $480 a year
  • 5 · Granny's shelf: remedies from the yard $150 a year
  • 6 · A little garden that feeds you $400 a year
  • 7 · Hens, rabbits and the backyard dollar money in
  • 8 · Fix it, mend it, make it last $300 a year

A few things you'll find inside

  • The laundry soap that lasts a whole year out of one bucket
  • The one warm room Mamaw kept going all winter on half the wood
  • The $4 trick that pulls the damp out of a musty room
  • What to do, in order, the first 24 hours the lights go out

The No-Fridge Pantry

By Loretta Jean McCoy

The kitchen and the house, the way mountain women always ran them. A full pantry and a clean home, for pennies.

  • 1 · The pantry that keeps two years ✓
  • 2 · Meals for pennies ✓
  • 3 · Nothing goes in the trash ✓
  • 4 · Kitchen tricks Mamaw swore by ✓
  • 5 · The whole house clean for pennies ✓
  • 6 · A house in order ✓

A few things you'll find inside

  • Canning so plain you'll never be scared of a jar again
  • The pot of beans that feeds you a week, seven different ways
  • Soup cubes and survival bars that sit on a shelf for years

The Grid-Down Winter

By Earl Sizemore

Your house against the cold, the heat and trouble. For anyone who has sat through a long outage, or dreads the next one.

  • 1 · Heat the whole house ✓
  • 2 · The house that cools itself ✓
  • 3 · Fourteen days without power ✓
  • 4 · Water and power of your own ✓
  • 5 · Keep the house safe ✓
  • 6 · Signs and skills Earl lives by ✓

A few things you'll find inside

  • The list to make before the storm, while stores still have stock
  • One warm room for fourteen days with no power
  • What burglars look for, and the cheap things that send them elsewhere

Our honesty pact

Every trick gets a straight answer.

Works every timeWorks if you do it rightOld talk

We tried what we wrote. When something folks repeat doesn't work, we say so. And where a trick can hurt you, we tell you plainly.

You keep a year$6,000+
The collection costs$59, once
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Try it. If it isn't for you, write to us and every dollar comes back. No forms, no questions. You keep the books.

Questions

Before you order

Is it a paper book?

No. The books are digital, set in big print. They open on your phone about thirty seconds after you pay, and a button in your email opens them again any time. You can print them at home.

How big are the books?

The main book runs about 160 pages, with some 75 photos and drawings. You don't read it front to back. Start with whatever is bothering you most this week, and do what it says.

I'm not good with computers.

You don't need to be. One button and the book opens like a photograph. No account, no password. If it doesn't open, write to us and we'll walk you through it.

I live in town. Will it work for me?

Most folks reading it live in town, some in an apartment. Every chapter says what to do with a small yard, no yard, or a rented house.

Are the remedies safe?

They're what Granny kept on the shelf, written with a plain line on when to call the doctor instead. Nothing in the books replaces your doctor.

Will you charge me again?

No. One payment, one time. Nothing monthly.

What if I don't like it?

Write to us within 30 days and every dollar comes back. You keep the books.

Who we are

We've been where you are.

The McCoy family cabin at the end of the gravel in Sassafras Holler
Our cabin, at the end of the gravel in Sassafras Holler, Kentucky.

We're not rich folks, and we never were. Papaw Amos built the first room of this cabin with his own hands. Mamaw Pearl ran it on next to nothing.

There were winters the road closed for nine days. Nobody went cold, and nobody went hungry. They just knew how.

"Don't you let this go in the ground with me."
Papaw Amos, to Billy Ray, the winter before he passed

None of it was ever written down. So the three of us sat at the kitchen table and wrote every bit of it, for folks like you.

Billy Ray, Loretta Jean and Earl writing the books at the kitchen table
Billy Ray McCoy

Billy Ray McCoy

Learned it all from Papaw and Mamaw. Heat, the garden and the hens.

Loretta Jean McCoy

Loretta Jean McCoy

Runs the kitchen, the pantry and the house, on next to nothing.

Earl Sizemore

Cousin Earl Sizemore

A blacksmith’s son from Clinch Mountain. Fire, tools, and the winter the lights go out.

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