Do-It-Yourself Clubs Save Money on Home Improvements

Ask around to see if such a club might already exist in your area. If you have a community association, talk to them about getting one started.

If there is no group, then figure out who you know with some skills that would be interested in working with you on home projects. Review your list of friends, family, co-workers and neighbors to come up with likely participants.

To recruit other members, put flyers at building supply stores, your church or club, and other places that have bulletin boards.

Once you get some people who are interested, then meet and work out the guidelines. Find out what skills people already have. Decide what kinds of projects the group can work on together and how often. Make some rules about participation, so that if someone is always absent it won't cause dissention in the group.

Make a list of the tools everyone has to use on the project and if they are willing to loan them to others in the group.


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You can pattern your group after an old-fashioned barn raising. Get all the supplies needed, set a date and the do-it-yourself club does the project. Someone in the group can watch the children. Someone else brings the food, or get everyone to bring something for a potluck meal. Another way would be for the homeowner whose project it is to provide the breakfast and lunch for the workers.

Everyone brings their tools and sets to work. The person with the most experience at that particular project would oversee the work and do quality checks.

Rotate the projects so that everyone in the group benefits from the work days. A group with four or five couples in it makes a manageable one. Plan out a project that each family wants and as a group decide what it's capable of doing.


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