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Great comments & discussion everyone!!! :thumbsup I think you all have good points regarding the vast diversity of topics here that make any single datapoint very hard to ask for all members. I think @perchie.girl had a great idea to ask people about their living situation, for example, maybe...

This new system we're on has a lot of great features. One of them allows us to create a new field that is required for members to fill out during signup / registration. We can then display this field in their "postbit" (the area to the left of every post with the avatar, location, etc.). For...

Great to have you here! How'd you find out about our little community? That would be quite the adventure to really be completely off the grid! I wonder how my wife would do in that situation. I'm sure it would be quite the learning experience! I wonder which aspects would be the biggest pain...

Wow! Oh how I wish I could draw!! :thumbsup

Great pics everyone!!! :thumbsup

Wow, thanks for pointing that out, that's definitely something we missed when creating the new site. It's now been fixed, thanks again!! :thumbsup

Do you think the metal cutting blade on a box of Saran Wrap / plastic wrap, or aluminum foil could be stripped off and used?

I love this kind of stuff! I have a drawer full of various tapes, but I don't know that I use any of them enough to create a jig for them. With that said, I'm VERY curious if a hacksaw blade (even a new one) would slice tape well enough?

I promise, my spelling is probably worse than yours! In fact, I have so many words that I misspell on a regular basis (that I haven't been able to retrain myself to spell correctly) that I installed a program that automatically fixes my bad spelling as I type!

Here ya go:

That's a great resolution! Regarding spell-check: These days most web-browsers have built in spell-check, so the interweb applications are abandoning having their own installed. With that said, if there is enough interest, we'll evaluate adding it.

I just love this pic!

Hi Denise, thanks for the feedback! I'll try to respond as efficiently as possible (I'm a HUGE fan of bulleted / numbered lists!) No problem, you're welcome to keep the gray question mark. Yup, if anyone is uncomfortable sharing a personal pic, the definitely shouldn't do it. I do disagree...

Great points and replies!!!

Most of us have a lot of reasons why we want to be more self-sufficient, but the order of "biggest reason" to "smallest reason" may be very different. Here's a poll to find out what your top 2 reasons! NOTE: the poll will let you select more than two items, but please limit your votes so we...

Excellent video! I was actually thinking of kinda doing something similar, but to use the hot water to circulate the heat from our stove throughout the house. Basically a combo of his design with some radiant hot water heaters / vents in other rooms.

Well, I just noticed the link in the announcement message was broken! UGH! I've now fixed it, so hopefully we'll start seeing some more submissions!!!

It should be Eastern Standard Time (server is on the East Coast), but it looks like it's 3 hours ahead of even that... interesting.

Thanks for the reminder! I need to add those links, and it's definitely on the todo list!

We're lucky to have an amazing community here at SufficientSelf! Recently we made a huge change and updated our forum software. The new features and tools are proving to be worth the effort! Well, I recently realized that even thought things look a bit different, the "feeling" of community is...