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Wendell Brace ———— A handbook

The street methods that kept me alive for half of what you pay.

Cut $3,700–$6,500 a year off your heating, water, electric, food, and household bills — using the forty-three methods that homeless survival taught me. 162 pages. No filler. Every page earns its place. Most households earn the $37 back in the first month, just from sealing drafts and switching to zone heating.

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Not for becoming homeless. For keeping more of what you earn.

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The handbook

One book. Forty-three methods. Zero filler.

Heat, shelter, cooking, water, hygiene, cooling, first aid, money. Seven sections. Forty-three methods. 162 pages — because the methods don't need 700 pages of backstory to work. Each one has the materials, the current 2026 prices, the step-by-step, and what it will NOT do. Start this weekend with a tube of caulk and a $6 trip to the hardware store.

The Street-Smart Survival Handbook cover

Heat · Shelter · Cooking · Water · Hygiene · Cooling · First Aid

Illustrated ebook · 162 pages · No filler · First edition

Every method that matters. Nothing that doesn't.

$37$67Launch price — ends Sunday

What you get for $37:

The Street-Smart Survival Handbook — 162 pages, 43 methods, zero filler. Every chapter has the materials, the costs, and the honest note on what it will NOT do. No padding, no repetition, no fluff chapters written to hit a page count.$37
The First-Weekend Road Map — three specific fixes you do this Saturday that earn the $37 back by your next bill$19
The Savings Ledger — printable workbook to track exactly what each method returned in your house$19
Gerald's Rules — the five principles that every method in the book is built on, printed for your wall$9
Lifetime updates — every revision, every new edition, no extra charge$21
Total value$105

You pay today$37

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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 forty-three methods in the Handbook.

A typical household

Per year

Heating & cooling$2,400
Food (groceries + takeout)$6,600
Water & sewer$780
Electric (water heater, dryer)$800
Home repairs & maintenance$1,800
Cleaning & household supplies$380
Laundry (laundromat or machine)$400

Annual

$13,160

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

The same household, after the Handbook

Per year

Heating & cooling (zone heated, sealed, thermal mass)$1,100
Food (one-burner cooking, $2 meals, bulk buying)$3,400
Water & sewer (gym shower, 2-gallon method)$420
Electric (line dry, lower setpoint)$400
Home repairs (DIY sealing, weatherproofing)$600
Cleaning (vinegar, baking soda, 4 substances)$25
Laundry (bucket and plunger method)$40

Annual

~$5,985

Every number has a chapter in the Handbook with materials, costs, and steps

Net annual savings: $3,700–$6,500

III.

What's inside

Exactly what you get for $37.

Seven sections. Forty-three methods. Each one with the materials, the 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.

Heating — 11 chapters

Keeping a house warm without renting heat.

01The free material that stores heat for 14 hours
02The $0 wall insulation hiding behind every store in America
03How to stay warm in a vehicle without running the engine
04The $8 shelter setup that lasted six months straight
05The free insulation that warehouses throw away every week
06A $40 structure warmer than most city shelters
07The $6 window fix that cuts heating bills by 30%
08Which $25 heater actually heats a room — and which ones waste electricity
09The one decision that saves $800 a year on heating
10Why you're losing heat where you least expect it
11The emergency heat method everyone gets wrong

Shelter — 8 chapters

Sealing what leaks and insulating what conducts.

01How to insulate any metal structure for a fraction of contractor cost
02The $200 vehicle conversion that costs others $15,000
03Three cheap materials that stop every common leak
04Why rigid structures always beat flexible ones
05The $20 room upgrade most homeowners never think of
06Turning a freezing outbuilding into a usable space for $10
07Free building material behind every retail store — and the safety code you must check
08The math that proves smaller spaces cost almost nothing to heat

Cooking — 7 chapters

Eating well for under two dollars a meal.

01The $15 setup that replaces $1,600 in takeout per year
0215 complete meals under $2 with the real cost breakdown
03Cold meals that don't taste like you're cutting corners
04The $0 fuel cooking system that runs on what's lying on the ground
05The per-unit savings most people never calculate
06The appliance that cooks dinner for $0.15 in electricity
07How to make food last months without a refrigerator

Water & hygiene — 5 chapters

Staying clean for almost nothing.

01The $10/month membership that replaces your water bill
02The method that uses 90% less water and still gets you clean
03What a DIY filter actually removes — and the honest list of what it doesn't
04The $0 laundry system that replaces a $600/year habit
05The complete hygiene setup that fits in one bag for $15

Cooling — 4 chapters

Lowering the temperature without a power bill.

01Free cooling that only works during specific hours
02The $20 cooler that drops temperature 15 degrees — but only in certain climates
03The $40 fix that saves $250 every summer
04How to use physics to cool your house overnight

First aid — 5 chapters

What handles 90% of what goes wrong — and what does NOT.

01The $12 kit and the three situations where it's useless
02The body part that fails first and how to prevent it
03The rewarming mistake that causes more damage than the cold
04The infection timeline — when to treat and when to go to the ER
05The one symptom difference between manageable and life-threatening

The quiet money — 3 chapters

The savings math that makes the rest permanent.

01Every method mapped to an annual dollar amount
02The products you stop buying and what replaces them
03What saving $300/month looks like after 5 years

IV.

Reader results

What people did with the Handbook in the first month.

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

Sealed every window in one Saturday with $6 of rope caulk and shrink film. Zone heated the bedroom and living room only. Our heating bill dropped from $287 to $161 the next month. The book paid for itself in three weeks.

— Michael R., Toledo, OH

The $2 meal list alone changed everything. I was spending $14 a day on lunch at work. Started packing overnight oats and wraps. That's $60 a week back in my pocket. The slow cooker chapter handles dinner. I spend less in a month than I used to spend in a week.

— Karen D., Buffalo, NY

Finished it Sunday afternoon. Started sealing windows Monday. Most guides this size would have been three chapters of content buried in 400 pages of stories. This one gives you the fix and moves on. Every chapter is a weekend project with a dollar amount attached. No fluff. The book respects your time.

— James T., Grand Rapids, MI

About the author

Wendell Brace.

Thirty-one years as a pipefitter with Local 120 in Cleveland, Ohio. Boiler rooms, hospitals, refineries — every building that needed heat pushed through walls and floors. Then the layoff came, and he learned all of it over again from the other side of the wall.

Four winters on the street. Gerald, the man who kept him alive that first November, taught him that survival isn't about gear or money. It's about knowing what works and doing it before you need to. Wendell took those methods — the ones nobody writes down because the people who know them don't write books — and put them in order for people who have a roof but want to keep more of their money under it.

This Handbook is the channel content organized. Forty-three methods across seven sections, in the order you should do them, with the materials and the dollar amounts written down. 162 pages because Wendell doesn't believe in writing 600 pages of philosophy around a fix that takes one paragraph to explain. Read it in a weekend, work through the methods, keep the savings forever.

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

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VI.

Order the handbook

$37 once. No subscription. Yours forever.

Instant access — in your inbox within 60 seconds of payment. Read on any device. If it isn't what you hoped, reply to your receipt email within seven days and every dollar comes back. No questions, no forms. The Handbook stays on your shelf either way.

Heat · Shelter · Cooking · Water · Hygiene · Cooling · First Aid

Illustrated ebook · 162 pages · No filler · First edition

Every method that matters. Nothing that doesn't.

$37$67Launch price — ends Sunday

What you get for $37:

The Street-Smart Survival Handbook — 162 pages, 43 methods, zero filler. Every chapter has the materials, the costs, and the honest note on what it will NOT do. No padding, no repetition, no fluff chapters written to hit a page count.$37
The First-Weekend Road Map — three specific fixes you do this Saturday that earn the $37 back by your next bill$19
The Savings Ledger — printable workbook to track exactly what each method returned in your house$19
Gerald's Rules — the five principles that every method in the book is built on, printed for your wall$9
Lifetime updates — every revision, every new edition, no extra charge$21
Total value$105

You pay today$37

Get the handbook · $37 →

Instant access · Pay once · Yours forever

🔒 Secure checkout · Visa · Mastercard · PayPal · Apple Pay · 7-day refund

Secure checkout · Visa · Mastercard · PayPal · Apple Pay · 7-day refund

VII.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask before they click.

Yes. The forty-three methods are written for ordinary North American homes — cold winters, hot summers, dry plains, humid coasts. Each chapter notes which methods work in which climates. The heating section is strongest for cold-climate states. The cooling section is honest about what doesn't work in humidity. Every chapter tells you what it will NOT do.

Most methods require no tools at all. Sealing windows uses a material you press in with your finger. Zone heating means closing doors. The $2 meal list requires one pot. The advanced projects are there for people who want them. The cheap fixes work for everyone.

The first weekend. Window sealing, zone heating, and switching to home-cooked meals produce measurable savings within the first billing cycle. Most households earn the $37 back within the first month from heating changes alone.

Because the methods don't need more. Other guides in this space run 700-900 pages by wrapping each technique in ten pages of history, philosophy, and filler. This Handbook gives you the method, the materials, the cost, and what it will NOT do. One method per chapter, nothing between you and the fix. Most readers finish it in a weekend and start saving the following Monday. The book is short because the work starts when you put it down.

Over half the methods work in rentals without any modification. Window film peels off. Draft stoppers sit on the floor. Cooking methods, hygiene, and the money chapters apply regardless of whether you own or rent.

PDF. Instant download. Works on any phone, tablet, computer, or e-reader. 162 pages illustrated with diagrams throughout.

This is Volume I. Future editions and volumes are planned. If you own this edition, every future update to Volume I is free — included with your purchase.

Reply to your receipt email within seven days. Every dollar comes back. No forms, no questions. The Handbook stays yours either way. Checkout and refunds both run through Gumroad.

Last call

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