Thank you for the invitation to hang out and share with y’all — I think it may be strange, for a while at least, to talk of things like this and not get the odd - pitying - looks.... ;~)
” rather large box of nuts and bolts that I have collected, “
If, as is eminently possible, we end up in some form of barter economy, you possess wealth in your boxes of odds ‘n ends.... ;~)
Tobacco is a great bartering commodity. Just because you(collective you) don't smoke doesn't mean other people don't. You might be surprised what someone would barter for a cigarette.
If, as is eminently possible, we end up in some form of barter economy, you possess wealth in your boxes of odds ‘n ends.... ;~)<<<
I should send you post to my sister and brother, it is mainly the sister, who does not see the value of my lifetime store of junk.
But she is the baby, was not born in Texas on a farm, but in a nice hospital in San Diego.
So has never lived with the little out house, a bucket dipped in the tank for water, etc.
They will inherit, and they can get rid of it, after I am gone.
She came this week, let me be clear, she is a fine woman, who came out of love and to help with the many things that I cannot do for myself.....
She really cannot understand all the odd things that I own, as she works and gardens and keeps a lovely home, I helped to raise her, most of her youth, so it is partly my fault.
You should have seen her, when I explained that the wool carding machine had cash value, as does the spinning wheel.
I should sell or trade them for something that i do need, as it is beyond me to use them now.
I traded my cream separator and a black powder rifle for the computer that got me on the internet, might not have been the best trade dollar wise, but I love the Freepers that I have talked to all these years.
It is a lifesaver today, and I am sure what keeps me going.
So God pulls the strings and we go the path he points to.
Ohh, yes do join in, some of the Freepers have known for a long time that I heard different music than they do and have been after me for years to start this thread.
The time was never quiet right, and all of a sudden, it feels like now is the right time.
If I seem dis jointed, I have the police scanner on for San Diego, the swat team or some team is arresting guys in a house, the bad guys have guns.
AND, an officer looked in a window and found a baby was laying on the bed, so now they are attempting to do a snatch and grab on the baby and get it to safety, before they enter the house for the bad guys.
I wasn’t paying attention, until the beeper started that says an officer is in danger, a stolen car maybe.
Darn it, they switched channels and I lost them.