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We have very, very few metal cans. Black olives. Tuna, salmon, and a few sardines- and if we move to the place in question, we'll try our hands at farming some fish, so hopefully we won't even have those anymore. Anyway, we have few enough metal cans that I could find a different place for...

Those vittle vaults are cool. It's nice that people known what I'm talking about when I mention gamma seal lids. I confuse people a lot. :lol: I was thinking that we might need some more 1 gallon glass jars for the regular kitchen, but other than that this would capitalize on stuff we...

Yes. I'm sorry, that was clumsy. Let me try again. If we build a freestanding root cellar, possibly with 3-4 rooms, and we store the following stuff in there, would it keep well? Gamma seals: oats, flour, sugar, wheat berries, rice, baking soda, dog food, cat food. Pressure canned mason...

Does anyone do this? I am thinking of home canned goods, and dry goods stored in gamma seal buckets*, in a freestanding underground root cellar in a Zone 3 climate. Basically like an outdoor pantry, as we are considering moving to a small place with no pantries. We have two pantries here...

Oh, yes! Sorry I missed this. You should do it with medical bills, too- specifically ask to pay the rate that the major medical insurance carriers pay. I had a private student loan that my mom cosigned on. It was before the term "predatory lending" had blown up, but that's what it was...

So another update. We decided against House B. It was too much house and not enough land. House A is supposedly returning to the market in the spring. We shall see. We aren't doing anything until the spring anyway, because DH is still recovering from surgery. I am still pondering the...

You can add me -and DH- to this philosophical pile as well. Between the two of us, I am more the apocolyptararian. But I think that is just because I worked at a bank and saw the crash coming, and because I read a bunch of peak oil books.

I can't speak for men in general, or SS men in particular, because I'm a woman :D but... DH is into all this stuff at *least* as much as I am. He just is completely unswayed by the siren song of a message board. I think this is less because he is male and more because he is not that into the...

Yeah, but you like televised sports, too, right? So you have that it common. I would literally rather go to the dentist than sit through a football game. Not just football, all of them bore me to tears. ( I don't mind baseball, live, or even on the radio -I played as a kid, so I actually...

Thanks lighthawk! That was very useful. :D

We have three kids and a net income of $2000/mo. It can be done. One, save $1000. Two, do the snowball method and pay off your ccs and medical stuff. Do you get a tax return? Put that in the bank and forget it's there. Just forget it. Magic bullet fixes never solve the debt problem...

Well, the reason that I specified "on your own land" is because a bunch of the negative stuff that I read when I Googled was griping about parks. And we are not looking at a trailer in a park, we are looking at one on 10 acres, so all the "tiny yard-weird rules-crazy neighbors" stuff doesn't...

If you live in one (or have lived in one) that is NOT in a park, but is on its own land: What year? Has it been a good value? Has it been hard to heat? Would you do it again?

As a single young adult, I never had a TV and didn't miss it. For awhile, I lived with a boyfriend who had a small TV hooked up to a PS2, which also played DVDs. His behavior with it drove me completely bonkers. We split up within six months of that thing showing up. (My previous serious...

Okay, I want a heated keyboard now. I thought for a second about getting my (spoiled) dog a dog bed heater, but then realized that she would be prone to sleeping there all night, rather than just napping on it, and I need her in bed with me this time of year. Keeps my feet toasty-oasty warm. :)

About ideas for where to store pantry items- Hang shelves that are 12" deep, or even 8" will accommodate Mason jars (even the half gallon size). To really cram stuff on there, put a stick of corner round on the edge of the shelf to form a lip so things don't fall off. Put clothesline under the...

$0.20 per kWh, highest in the state. Twelve miles to the west, they pay $0.12, twelve miles to the east, they pay $0.08. One of the many reasons we are moving.

You know, this is the second time that we have heard this bit about the agent needing to be paid if an asking price offer is made. Where would I look to find this out, do you know? Also, I don't know if this stuff makes a difference or not, but: A) she has pulled the house from the market...

My hair is bra strap length, and tremendously thick- I have actually had more than one hairstylist tell me I have the thickest hair they've ever seen. I made the switch a couple of years ago to shampoo bars, after fiddling with baking soda for a while, and while baking soda was not for me, the...

I use white vinegar with essential oils for fabric softener. I put cedarwood oil in to keep bugs out of our clothes. It works! I'm not sure how it would work with commercial detergent- I made the switch to homemade fabric softener at the same time that I made the switch to homemade laundry...