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If TSHTF today... even without electricity, we could last a good while. I imagine we'd walk down to the Wilderness store and get (buy? loot?) a gun, same for the rental/sales place for a small generator to keep the freezer cold. I'd make sure I got my neighbor and our close friend from nearby...

I'm getting somewhat stressed about this. DH is four square against getting dial up, but satellite sounds like a lot of money for not much. DH wisely suggested that we check to see if that house is on the school's WiMax network, but nope. I really don't want to have to drive to check my email.

Pandora is music streaming. You tell it a song/artist you like, and it builds a station around that. You can have as many stations as you want. You give thumbs down to songs that you dislike, or just music that you don't want on that station. (Like today, I gave a song I love, "What's Goin'...

The building codes/inspectors are all-frickin'-over the place. If you are from Chicago, have tons of money, and want to build a camp that you visit twice a year, you buy yourself a remote cabin variance and you are in business! If you are of modest means and you want to build a year round...

A Mason jar with a clean marble in it is what we used when I was a kid. :P

I called one place (though there are a dozen around here) earlier this week, and it was $1.87 per gallon, including tax. No charge for delivery over 100 gallons, which I thought was cool. :cool:

Right now, we live in town, and we have dry loop DSL through AT&T. It is $19.95/mo, no taxes, no surcharges. It is very, very fast. We ask a lot out of it- we have an internet TV streaming device called a Roku and our home phone runs over VOIP with a device called a NetTalk. The NetTalk...

Hrm. We are in town, so I know that we wouldn't have a county tax assessor, in this case it would be city. When we purchased in '08, it appraised at $57K, and this is what the guy at the city said they were going off of in determining the SEV (which is supposed to be 50% of market value). We...

Our property taxes are in excess of 2% of our appraised value. Our market value is way below our appraised value, and the state equalized value is supposed to be half of market value... so by rights, we should be paying half of what we actually are. It's frustrating, because the bank that...

I want to do this, too! The easy set ups are usually tilapia because using hybridization you can have all male fish and control reproduction, but DH and I both detest tilapia, so we also want to go with perch. I got the idea from gardenpool.org, which is awesome in the literal sense of the...

Can't get a satellite? What the what?

Yeah, DH usually gives out homemade jam or fruit butters at work, and this year when he took some in, he mentioned that his output was down because our water canner died (we still have a pressure canner). So a coworker dropped off two water canners and some sundries yesterday when he was on his...

What state are you in, beerman? They have been talking about an internet tax here for a couple of years. The taxes here on landline phones are out of control- they are like $15 per month, it's crazy. But our internet service isn't taxed at all. As soon as we had the option, we signed up...

Marianne- A pig is slang for a big propane tank- not like a tank you buy at a gas station, but a big, stationary tank that gets filled with propane when they deliver it by truck. Some people get by without a pig- we looked at another place about 10 miles away that was all electric, with wood...

Hypothetical scenario: I own 20 acres of land with a house and barn on it. It is mortgaged. I want to sell ten acres of raw land to my brother. The zoning board approves. What do I have to do to make this right with the mortgage company? Do I need to get the house and barn appraised as if...

Okay, I have spent way, way too much time reading about heat pump dryers, condenser dryers, drying rooms, drying cabinets, drying porches, etc. The upshot is this: nothing will be as cost effective for us as a gas dryer would. I can line dry 100% of our laundry for about 6 months out of the...

This weekend, people have given us: -a ribeye -several pounds of lake trout and coho -two bushels of ziploced, frozen concord grapes, which we are going to turn into wine, save seeds from (since they are local), and perhaps make jam out of... if any last that long! Man, are frozen grapes...

Hrm. I know 100% SS is impossible, so I would just shoot for a solid majority of being able to produce our own: -food -toiletries and health treatments -energy/fuel Being able to produce clothing- not just sew it, but produce the fiber and everything- would be amazing, but I think I'd have to...

Since we seem to beginning another Interminable March Toward the White House, there's lots of talk of taxes of late. I understand that the president/al candidates cannot and do not control local taxation issues, but all the tax talk makes me think that property taxes are really overlooked...

Efficiency is not the same thing as cost effectiveness. Gas is more efficient at making heat than electricity is because there is less energy transfer.