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Growing my own tobacco -I've had it with these prices! (A journal)
6-21-5
| RandallFlagg
Posted on 06/21/2005 8:25:15 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
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To: RandallFlagg
Take the same amount of time flipping burgers at McDonalds and use the money so you can have your cigs harvested, rolled, packaged and ready to use.
Explain again how one saves money by taking hours and hours to grow their own?
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:35:51 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Bonafide
Interestingly, I make the malt for Coors. Germination is part of the job. We germinate the grain for five days in our 48 beds.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:36:30 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Smokin' Joe
I was aware of the careful handling of the tomatoes after smoking. In fact I was just reading something about that yesterday, soemthing in the cigarette tobacco actually promotes the virus, IIRC.
I can understand your grandfather's reasoning about the tomatoes since the Tobacco was the cash crop.
I'm keeping my fingers tightly crossed that we don't have as wet a summer as we did last year - most of my tomatoes drowned, and I had 65 plants.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:38:29 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(My give-a-damn is busted.)
To: RandallFlagg
Yes, I went to the stuffyourown.com link SheLion has been posting.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:41:03 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Calpernia
I'm still trying to master the stuffing without destroying ^-^
Pack the ends of the chamber and leave it slightly loose in the center. Don't even try to stuff wet tobacco. It'll squeeze juice into the mechanism and you'll have to clean it with alcohol to prevent the thing from sticking to the tube's paper. I've also found that canned air used for cleaning keyboards works great for cleaning the springs and such inside the machine. Mine's been going strong since Christmas without a break, wear or malfunction -stuffing for two smokers.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:42:02 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: RandallFlagg
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:44:49 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Raycpa
Explain again how one saves money by taking hours and hours to grow their own? The same way one saves money growing any type of crop for personal consumption. And there is also the personal satisfaction of having produced ones own.
Only someone that does much gardening understand the satisfaction of it. By the time my garden is fully worked I will have close to 200 tomatoe, 150 pepper, 300 square feet of beans, and several hundred assorted other plants - not including corn and possibly tobacco.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:46:20 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(My give-a-damn is busted.)
To: Gabz
108
posted on
06/22/2005 6:47:22 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: TXBSAFH
In a related note, there is a bill in congress that would allow you to distill your own spirits for personal use. No kidding? Now that would be fantastic.
To: Raycpa
Take the same amount of time flipping burgers at McDonalds and use the money so you can have your cigs harvested, rolled, packaged and ready to use.
A -I'll never smoke those nasty things again. They burn too fast and are diluted with crap.
B -Moved on from McDonald's decades ago to bigger and better: BEER.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:51:00 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: RandallFlagg
I could handle that kind of job :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
111
posted on
06/22/2005 6:52:28 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(My give-a-damn is busted.)
To: RandallFlagg
It's an absolute no brainer to me when it comes to growing many types of things.
I don't do flowers as a rule, I've got some, but they were already part of the landscaping when we bought this place. To me the satisfaction of having fresh vegetables on the table, or homemade jelly or hot sauce is worth the hours of labor in the garden.
and speaking of the garden, I need to start thinking of getting my butt out of this chair and getting to work :) But I still have laundry going so I have a little bit longer before I get out there.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:55:51 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(My give-a-damn is busted.)
To: Gabz
Pays great, but I'm a whiskey man.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:55:52 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: RandallFlagg
Where did you get the seeds?
114
posted on
06/22/2005 6:56:32 AM PDT
by
tiki
To: Gabz
I understand the satisfaction part but it doesn't translate to savings. Justify the endeavor because its nice to achieve something and possibly get a better fresher tobacco, but don't kid yourself its cheaper.
Take the same labor hours and multiply it by the persons potential income from another activity and it cannot translate to savings.
In addition to labor, there are hidden costs. Water, electric, pots, fertilizer, pest control, the cost of a shed for drying plus property taxes on it. All of these are costs.
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:57:26 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Gabz
Heh! Like I was yesterday morning:
"Last post. Gotta get to bed."
"Seriesly. Last post."
etc, etc....
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posted on
06/22/2005 6:58:22 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: tiki
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posted on
06/22/2005 7:00:09 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: hlmencken3
Tobacco used to be widely grown in home gardens, Tobacco was grown in the streets of Jamestown in colonial America, and commonly used in lieu of hard money.
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posted on
06/22/2005 7:02:49 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I am NOT a *legal entity* ......... Nor am I a 'person' as created by law!)
To: RandallFlagg
LOL!!!
I'm a beer girl myself - and love ice cold Coors draft!!!!
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posted on
06/22/2005 7:04:51 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(My give-a-damn is busted.)
To: Raycpa
Not to butt in here, but, isn't this the same logic that tells us to buy vegetables from Mexico?
I grow tobacco because I like doing so. I get a superior and clean product, that is probably worth about $30.00 a pack. Since it is not for sale, it is all mine.
Imagine, me, a poor farmer, siting back and enjoying a $5.00 cigarette with a glass of home made (easily worth $100.00 a glass) Blackberry wine.
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