Posted on 04/08/2013 1:31:19 PM PDT by Kartographer
1) When the value of the dollar tanks you can pay off your home mortgage with that 3-4 ounces of gold you have put back so that you don't end up homeless.
2) Some junk silver might server as decent money after a time (but have food put away first).
What is this mortgage of which you speak?
/johnny
It's an amount of money most people have to pay every month. I don't have one of those mortgage things, either.
Click here to see the little greenhouse I got today - wish you were here to put it together for me. Damn, I need a man sometimes to lift and put stuff together. I'd even give him some food once a week, that should do it. Hopefully, this little greenhouse will help me grow seeds. I can roll it around and that's a good thing.
I saw one of those at Lowes and looked at it. Not a bad thing to have.
I'll be building something similar this fall, to go with my cold frame.
/johnny
It's only $40. The box was waiting for me inside so I didn't think of seeing if there was one put together outside.
It says no tools are required to put it together. I'll start tomorrow inside to construct it until I have to move outside. Some people says they are so nice, they keep them in the house to put house plants on or put other things in them. Mine has to be outside in the sun. I've got seeds on the way. One customer said when all her seeds are grown and planted outside, she puts dirt in low pottery bowls, sit several in the greenhouse and plants lettuce seed, eats the lettuce and keeps planting more seed in the bowls through fall. Says that keeps bugs out of the lettuce so wash off the dirt and eat.
Sometimes that's code for "8 lb sledge hammer and arc welder required"... but having looked at one, you shouldn't have a problem with it. Think about securing it if you put it outside. Around here, it might just blow away.
/johnny
I did just the opposite.
Took out all the equity they would give me and borrowed fixed for 30 yrs at 3.6%.
I hope to pay it back with Baraqqi/Bernanke/Geithner minibucks.
I've thought of that and HURRICANE SEASON STARTS IN JUNE. If a hurricane was coming, I'd take out what's in it and roll the thing down a small ramp I have going from the upper deck to the lower deck that has a roof over it. Then I'd use some of my paracord to tie it down under the roof and one end of that lower deck backs up to a utility room which would shield it from most of the wind.
I also have that freaking liberal engineer husband of my sister-in-law and they should be coming here in the not distant future. I love both of them dearly except when they start the liberal crap. Anyway, he can fix anything and he will think of a way to strap that down on the upper deck so it won't move. He isn't happy unless he is making or fixing something. He comes in the door and asks, “What isn't working?” I started making a list before he gets here so I can just hand him the list of things to make/fix.
I'm not doing the debt thing again.
/johnny
I got burned by the bond market in the Carter years.
I think that colors my view of finance.
I have thought about the whole financial system failing or say, N, Korea manages to send a NEMP into the atmosphere and we have no power in certain regions of the country for a few years. No one could pay back anything as nothing would work. They also wouldn't get any money, either, as nothing would work.
That's why it's important to have water and food for as long as possible without relying on having money.
I plan to get some more cash soon.
Miss Marcella, I’d do alot of things, but one thing I would never do is laugh at you.
Can’t afford much but I did just purchase a Stove Tec Bio Mass Stove ... should get it Wednesday... I’m pumped.
Even my Lib buddy thinks it is cool
TT
My next project is a “Chicken Tractor” ... I used to have 28 Chickens (free range) then the Hawks discovered me, my 30 Ducks met the same fate (and the Ducks were so cool, they are just much harder to start (labor intensive) from ducklings)
5 or 6 Chickens at first and then work my way back up to ducks again... Chickens for Production and the Ducks were / are just moving landscape enhancement. (and I only had to mow my lawn about twice a year!)
TT
I'm so glad you wrote to me. You have the best tag line on this whole website. I saw that tag line a long time ago and copied it and stuck it in an email and saved it in “drafts”. I absolutely love it. I even sent it to a friend because I thought it was so swell. There is a great deal of wisdom in that tag line. You were/are a Marine and there's nothing better.
/johnny
***** “No roof over the chicken tractor? Or at least chickenwire?” ******
Back in the day I just let em run free around the Yard ... the Chicken Tractor is how I’m gonna keep the Hawks from getting to them (and keep the City from getting upset ...again)
TT
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