New house design for 2009

My current most well thought out simplest house is a cave house. I've come to this conclusion for the following reasons:

1. We can! We are the only species on earth capable of making their own cave out of rock.
2. Our planet has been around for a long time, and that naturally gives our planet lots of mountain ranges that have formed over eons, so lots of places to make cave houses.
3. High supply, and low demand means mountainous terrain is CHEAP!
   
4. There is no need for air conditioning, AT ALL, EVER AGAIN, even if it's solid state and never needs repair, or energy to run.
5. Once you build it, this house will be there for eternity. Site: Cave paintings.
6. We have the tools necessary like homemade explosive charges and electric blast cord, and hammer and chisel and jackhammer, and generators to power it, and pick axe, and some rocks are easy to chisel out.
7. The only fire possible is from the contents of the house.
8. It's weather proof other than water leaking from fissures(just use silicone).
   
9. There is constant wind power right outside the door, because along the sides of cliffs and buildings there is a natural chimney effect(Bernoulli's principle) as air flows across the top of a cliff or building, air will travel up the sides from the bottom.
10. You'll have the biggest house around(mountain sized).
    

My last house design was "New technology in a futuristic cabin".

Phone, Internet, and TV: "wireless broadband mobile internet". If you can get cellphone reception where you are. Also see my free cable post. And have a Google android for house phone, if it can connect to the wifi of the mobile internet, and a go phone for emergencies.
Food: Be on a south facing part of the mountain, and grow food nearby, or collect from the forest. and have a road to a nearby town also.
Dishes: Make pottery from self separated clay, which you get from the way you make adobe, and fire them in a self made oven/kiln. Making adobe: First you dig a hole, then you fill it with water, then you fill the hole back in with dirt, and then mix it up. What you will end up with once the hole dries up in 1 day, is clay that has settled at the top and sand that has settled at the bottom of the hole. Now you just skim the clay off of the top, and mix it with sand in the proper portions to make adobe. This is useful for a structural and heat retentive component of a house. You can also include hay mixed in with it, acting as a binding material so it won't crack, for structural adobe. Adobe is also useful when making a rocket stove.
Lighting, Cooking, Heating, Fridge, Transportation: All electric and solid state.
Toilet, Shower,Clothes washing: Toilet is the outdoors (bury it for no smell, also test a post hole digger). Shower the same way as Alaskans, a rag and bucket of soapy water. Bucket of soapy water and plunger for clothes.
Electric: Wind power enough to fill the batteries. Or just solar power.
Income: A home business of some kind like as seen in my home business post, so that you won't have to commute to work.
Road access: Build your own dirt gravel road out of the chips left over from excavation.
Excavating: Use a pick axe for soft rock and osmocote and chemical fertilizer for hard rock. Video

This would be one of the most fun houses ever also because first of all you'd be living like the Flintstones and it would be just like when you used to build forts as a kid however precarious they were. Start out with just a cave and whenever you feel you're lacking anything, just add a new amenity to make yourself more comfortable, with all the spare time you have from not working 8 hours a day to pay a mortgage.

Good Enough Reason Theory

The theory is that if you have a good enough reason you can do anything. It could be that you'll get paid a million dollars for whatever it is(like movie stars to prepare for a role) or it could just be to feel good about yourself if that's a good enough reason for you.

• You can get superhuman strength to rescue yourself or family members from a crash.
• You can learn to not eat in order to lose weight like I'm doing and succeeding at right now because I have a good enough reason.
• You can quit smoking like lots of people do after having a bad smoking experience or thinking about it long and hard for a good reason.
  

Home Business

The perfect job is a home based business that requires little time and effort but is still profitable. The more of these businesses you have from home the more likely you will get a full income every month in the end.
Equation to remember is: Fun=Time/Money
So to have the most fun you need the most time and money possible.
Also another random idea is that if you had a family member or good friend living in each state then you could vacation at each others houses very cheaply, every year. But this might not be the most fun vacation.


Comic book business: Buy at 33% sell at 50%, and for early or key issues buy at 40-70% and sell at 60-100%. But only specialize in the best selling comics like silver age marvel. Which means you will only buy one at a time on ebay instead of in bulk, because in bulk means you'll get lots of other stuff that isn't silver age marvel. Also buy only the ones that are currently flooding the market to get the best price on those comics. (Currently it's spider man that has too many out there and is cheap).
Artist: Go to school and hone your skills to either become a freelance commercial artist or a self made artist. Then sell your stuff on ebay or at a fair.
Firewood selling cheaper than the competition: Just need an electric mauler and a large property.
Become a craftsman: If you can make something from scratch out of wood or clay or metal or anything then you can sell it on ebay one at a time from home. Either auction style or ebay store style. Examples: Fishing lures, pottery, furnishings, art, sculpture, fabrics, gadgets, trinkets.
Writer: Write editorials, or comic strips, or fiction, or real news over the internet.
Make your own food: A penny saved is mathematically the same as a penny earned. This may be a seasonal money saver though.

Inventions for the future

I plan on making these inventions soon but it requires a lot of materials searches which means time. These are all solid state and self powered. Inventions that use physical laws, effects and principles are the best inventions because they never fail.

But they are only theory until tested and proven.

Solar distiller: Has a cone shaped translucent top on top of a shallow pan that holds any distilled liquid, the undistilled or "dirty" liquid is inside of a cup in the middle of the cone enclosure. take cone off and use the liquid left in the pan. Utilizes: Condensation and the greenhouse effect.
Solar heater: Have a glass or acrylic box with a heat absorbent material inside of it like black rocks or cement chunk or whatever. Also have 2 small holes on either side of the enclosure one is the air intake side and one is the air output side. On the air output side you have a tube leading to the house with an on/ off nozzle inside of the house. And even further beyond that on the roof of the house you have a chimney which uses Bernoulli's principle to force air upwards providing the air flow needed to force the hot air inside. Utilizes: Greenhouse effect, heat retention, bernoulli's principle.
Later added: I now think that the better way to make a house now is in the ground or in a mountain as a cave house. This way you never need any air conditioning at all. So instead just use the following invention as a distilled water maker.
Free air conditioning and free distilled water as a biproduct: The simple version for AC only is to have a tube inside of a bucket with both ends leading out of the bucket, then fill the bucket with gravel and then fill with water(the water is a good conductor of heat). Then bury the open lid plastic bucket 10 feet underground. have a mesh cage on the outside end of the tube to keep bugs out, and have the other end of the tube inside the house with an adjustable on/off nozzle. And beyond that there would be a chimney in the roof that uses bernoulli's principle to create the air flow necessary for the underground cooled air to flow into the house.
Later added: I recently revised this invention to only be made of small tubing, which means that it is self draining because as air flows through the thin tube and creates condensation along the way, and the water droplets grow bigger, eventually the water droplets will get big enough to block the air flow in the tube, meaning that the water will be pushed all the way out of the tube by the air flow, and into whatever container you have at the other end.

However, this would always create condensation inside of the tube because of the temperature differential. So to take advantage of this you would have a small container in the bottom of the bucket with the air tube entering and exiting this small distilled water container. As the water collected in this container, being the low point, it would then go into one more tube leading out of the bottom of the distilled water container and up above ground and into another bucket that had an open top which also acted as a chimney, so that when the wind blew the bucket would have a lower air pressure, effectively you are now converting low air pressure into a water pump(like sucking a drink out of a straw). I call this aerodynamic pumping. To pump to greater heights you need a bigger chimney top and a thinner water tube.

Also translating the aerodynamic pumping invention into a way to automatically water plants is fairly straight forward. Once you have built up water pressure it's only deciding what to do with it(automatic sprinkler). Also have an artificially dug storm water retention pond to supply water into perpetuity.
Utilizes: Bernoulli's principle, condensation, stable year round underground temperatures, conduction, artificial pond, aerodynamic pumping

update on direction of your new life post

I added the good things about owning land, and how to
direction of your new life post

update on: final word on diet and exercise

I added some more scientific info and some weight training tips
final word on diet and exercise post.

update on free cable post

I just added a ton of new channels and internet show search engines to the list.
free cable post

New Life

If my stock is worth something by the end of the year then I will move onto a boat and live for free on the water for a year or 2 until the stock is worth even more by 2012. Because if it's real it's predicted that the company will have billions in revenue by 2012 even though it's a penny stock now.
This way I don't have to work and I also don't have any bills living on the water so my social security income should cover it all and maybe I'd even be saving up money. I was never good around people anyway, so I might as well have fun.
What you need to start a new life:

• google android phone for most of calls when within range of a wifi signal. And for road side emergency calls where there is no wifi have a go phone or pay as you go phone with prepaid phone card. this is so cheap that it's a practically free phone.
• Wifi reception LED indicator pen.
• Gps(for boat)
  
• Wireless weather forecaster(for boat).
• Mobile internet.
• Good TV with HDMI that hook up to computer for free cable.
• Find a good computer guy and have him show you how to use "the piratebay" or "watchtvsitcoms" or "film hill" without getting viruses and also have them show you how to make backup files of everything and how to use the reboot disc to get rid of future viruses yourself.
• Have an emergency fund of around 4,000$ just in case you need to buy a new car or something else.
• Have insurance on your boat in case it capsises in a storm somehow, so that you can buy a brand new boat someday and not have to worryabout how your boat home will be paid for under such an event.
  

Win / Win Situation

• Trees drop their seeds which the birds happily eat and distribute around in their dropping for the tree.
• Put an add on craigslist saying that you will pick pragnes from the yard of someone in the area for the oranges for yourself but they get free yardwork done for them. This is also good for charity if you were to give the oranges to a food bank.
• Bad idea: Scan 10 comics and make a listing on craigslist saying" I scanned 10 comics and will trade them for one scan of one of your comics" so effectively you will be getting them to scan for you for free and 1 scan times 100 people is 100 comics, but they're happy because they get 10 free scans for the price of one. So effectively it's a win/win situation. This also works for trading free downloads like games or music.
  
• Get free furniture from the side of the road or the news paper or craigslist or garage sales at the end of the day. They're happy to get rid of it, and you're happy to furnish your apartment cheaply. All the thriftstores get it for free, why can't you?
• Home grown strawberries are like a weed and practically grow themselves only requiring watering which can be automatically set up. But they're red all the way through and are 20 times more tasty than store bought strawberries that are manufactured for size not flavor. Also they are free to you when grown, but the store prices now are astronomical. And who eats more than a few pounds of them a few months anyway which is easy to grow in a very small area maybe on the railing on your back porch.
• Buy items at auction price and sell at retail price or any profitable price at a swap meet or at a antique store, or on ebay, or on craigslist at a set price or on ebay at a buy it now after buying it at auction price on craigslist or ebay. This may actually be just a get rich quick scheme like the one red paperclip idea, and not really a win/win situation. If you worked your way up to buying and selling "car like" items at a profit then you could easily get rich, or at least make a living. Maybe do collectible coins or another specialty like rare comics, for comics to sell at a buy it now it needs to be the best of the best for them to pay top dollar.
  

Direction of your new life

If you have 10,000$ you can start a hole new life for yourself leaving all liabilities and obligations behind and live your life the way you've always wanted to.
You can either buy a camper van for $10,000, or a boat or a piece of land in alaska or somewhere else.
Here's my Boating lifestyle link.
Here's my RVing lifestyle link.
If you bought a piece of land in Alaska then you could build a house for free from logs and then grow or pick food for free and fish and hunt for free and store food for the winter in the natural outside refrigerator, and smoke them in the summer. But there are almost no rules in Alaska and the land is cheap, and you can go on all the nature walks you want, and you get paid to own the land each year by the permanent distribution fund. The only problem with owning property is that you have to pay taxes and you may have to pay a mortgage for 30 years if you're stupid enough to get that big of a loan which you'll never pay off. Also it may get very boring after a while of staying on the same property forever and not going to work or doing anything for fun outside of your property.
The positive side of buying a peice of land and living on it is that it is the correct financial decision. Lets say you were to buy it for 10,000$ and live in a mobile home or a van or even a car for a year. You would be saving 500$ a month on rent payments which at the end of the year is 60% return on investment of 10,000$, assuming you have a job. If I buy a 10,000$ piece of land in Florida the first thing I would do after buying it would be to install free water, free food, and free electricity. After that you could live indefinitely.
Free water: Dig a storm water retention pond the same way they do at every walmart. all it is is a topological low point that had been dug out of the earth and which water naturally flows into being the lowest point around. The nice added benefit of this is that somehow fish appear after a short period of time in these places. Don't ask me how(maybe birds bring them). These manmade ponds are filled with water year round which is interesting why the utilities don't use this principle when supplying the water to the city. Why is there always a drought supposedly when this is easy enough to do? Are they really smart or really stupid? Maybe I missed something.
Free food: Most plants grow themselves, so just capitalize on this fact. Have tomatoes hanging from a fence so there is no weeding needed but need watering. Onions grow like grass. strawberries also grow like weeds but need watering. potatoe plants are easy once they're started just cut into pieces with the eyes facing upward in the ground. And to water these plants have a drip irrigation system with water pressure supplied by water pumped from the man made pond. (I have a new invention with no moving parts that uses aerodynamic pumping using the chimney effect)
Free elec: Solar panels payed by the money saved on not paying rent.
But if you want to get rich, another of my plans was to become rich by becoming an electrician and then moving to Alaska and buying all the land I wanted and doing with that land whatever I wanted, and having plenty of money left over every month to live the good life. That's only as long as you have no kids and no huge mortgage though. The best land to buy would be an island because it's not landlocked(you can get to it on boat, and therefor not in the middle of nowhere). For more on this go to the how to make your own country post.
It's always good to live outside the system and not under other peoples rules or competing with others that are all doing the same thing. Namely all the throngs that go to school, work for most of their waking lives, buy a house and have kids, and live in the city, and pay taxes and are generally poor and c average education.

Way of life 2

Way of life 2

Go RVing

Or how to go on camper trips. I myself would buy a nice traveling van for $10,000, and sleep in Walmart parking lots at night(See:Freeparkingovernight.com), or at truck stops(See:Truckstopinfoplus.com), or rest stops, or at campsites on other nights. So 15$/night is 450$/month in lodging(go to priceline.com). You can take showers at campsites or hotels, or truck stops, and wash clothes at a laundromat at truck stops or in town, or with a plunger and bucket filled with either reusable alcohol(redistill it) or soapy water. When it's cold just turn on the car heater, or travel south for the winter like the birds do. And when you're bored just turn on a your wireless mobile broadband internet card connected laptop, or show up at an internet hotspot like subway for free wifi access(See AT&T wifi hotspots in yellowpages.com), or have an Iphone or android phone with wifi internet, which probably have a built in wifi reception indicator. For any mail you may need a P.O.Box. and pay bills over the internet. Also I want to get a storage shed for toys that will use once in a while like a bike or a kayak, or anything else that you want to bring along for a trip. But when move to another state just put all of your stuff in a new storage shed. But it would be better if all that stuff was with you all the time and you had a full sized RV.
All you need is enough money per month to pay for the following:

• Food
• Lodging
• Gas
• Maintenance
• And tickets to events that you want to go to.

• Food: $300/mo or less
  
• Camping fees: $300/mo
• Gas/insurance: $300$/mo or less
• Maintenance: $300/mo or less
• Medicine: free
• Emergency money: $1000 in the bank
• Storage shed: $15/mo
• Long distance towing: Paragon $100/year
  

Total: $1,200/mo or less. But it would be even less if you shared the cost between more than one person.

Go to you pick farms for cheap food, go restaurantouring, go to casinos if you have tons of money to blow, go to concert tours, go to national parks, go to tourist attractions, go to all of the amusement parks and try every ride in the nation, go to car shows, go to fancy locations like NY or LA or Vegas, go hiking around the country, go fishing and catch salmon during spawning season, go on bike rides on all the different bike trails around the US. Find a piece of land or apartment for cheap in the friendliest town in the US(Anchorage?) and finally settle down and build a home out of stone or wood and garden there, building net worth off of sweat equity alone.

Way of life 1

way of life 1

Living on a Boat to Limit Liabilities, and Obligations

You can buy a good used cabin cruiser for under $5,000 on craigslist.com. It's good to buy a boat that is broken in and cheaper and has add on's because it's used.
I may buy one when I save up that much and live for free on the water instead of living the high liability lifestyle of the city of owning a house and having kids. Besides, when you have a big mortgage and taxes and kids and a car then no matter how good a job you have, you'll never again have time or money. And therefor you'll never again have fun.
If you can save $500 a month while still living this lifestyle, then you are pretty much retired and can become rich by just saving up money, while still being a vagabond.

Here are some reasons for you to mull over about owning a boat.

• In general insurance for a boat is half that of a car's insurance. (half of 60$)
  
• A house on the water has no property tax like land based houses do.
• In international waters there are no laws such as open alcohol containers or fire arms or sales/income/property taxes.
  
• It's free to anchor on a public island and stay as long as you want, also there are innumerable flood prone islands that are uninhabitable during parts of the year or during storms, these you can inhabit whenever they are not flooded and there are no storms forecasted.
• In the Bahamas there is a 100 square mile area of water that is just as deep as a backyard swimming pool, and it's warm in the summer!
  
• Free fish, and crab in Florida and Alaska!
  
• Free coconuts, on certain Florida keys and the rest of the Bahamas.
• Wind can be used instead of gas and is a backup plan in case your engine dies. And can also be used most of the time in order to not pay for gas.
  
• You can have GPS and a satellite weather forecaster to avoid storms when they aproach and to find islands. Actual cruise ship captains use this trick to change course to have fun at a different port that is not currently having a storm.
  
• You can always go to port to shop once a week to get necessities.
  
• You can just go to the bathroom over the side of the boat.
• The silence is pleasant
• No utility bills, other than gas
  
• The only thing requiring maintenance is the motor
• You can bury treasure
• It beats living outside of a car. You can't park anywhere but you can anchor anywhere.
• You can build forts in remote places
  

Things to research on youtube: How to call mayday in case of emergency. How to clean your boat. How to get gas for the boat. How to take a shower on a boat. How to clean clothes on a boat. How to get electricity on a boat. Call a local marina that caters to live aboard's, and is protected from boat wakes, and ask what moorage costs are and what to do for trash and sewage and other rules.
In the heat you don't want to burn gas for air conditioning so instead just enjoy the weather and also in the rain and cold just go inside the cabin. Get at least a 32 ft. boat. But smaller boat require less gas. insurance from "boat US" or "state farm". clean the bottom of boat once a year in salt water. get a parking space for driving to work. Good marinas are full service and can work on your engine and paint and clean. maintenance costs should be 10% of the value of the boat per year.

Initial costs:

• Down payment
  
• Tax
• Survey
• Registration
  
• Delivery
• Repairs and upgrades

Monthly costs:

• Boat payment
• Insurance
• Slip fees
  
• Municipal taxes
• Utilities
• Water
• Cellphone
• Internet: Find free wifi
  
• Satellite comm. systems
• TV: Use internet
  
• Parking
  
• Storage
• Other

Seasonal costs:

• Annual registration fees
• licensing/ use fees
• property excise tax
• routine maintenance
• Commissioning expenses
• Decommissioning expense
• hauls/wash/ launch
• bottom painting
• winter shrink wrapping: For wooden boat
• live aboard fee: many marinas now charge.
  
• emergency service fee
  
• other

Operating costs:

• fuel
  
• transient fees. Going elsewhere also
  
• water taxi fees
• ice cubes

Should be 600$/month without fuel costs.

The above info gotten from living aboard a boat on youtube.

When starting out I might just have a boat dock and slowly separate myself from the comforts of the city. First find out how to dock at ports that you've not been to before, and also how to dock for free to go grocery shopping.
This idea, and my cave house fort idea, are my favorite ideas right now.