Stone House/Wood Roof : There you go!
It's as simple as that. It's not that complicated.
If you want a house for free that requires almost no skill to make and will last forever and won't even burn down. Then this is for all of the slaves out there that are working for their CEO, who need to be their own boss for a change. This could be the start of a new life.
The Ancient Inca Empire never even had mortar or cement, all they had was adobe to put between the stones, and their structures are still standing!
Stone house: Just have a quarry and a hammer and chisel and break off some rock and build a structure. With home made adobe in between or spend a couple of bucks on some mortar. Build in a fire place or a window and you'll have everything needed to live in. Also make it an A-shaped house for the roof. Anywhere you live if you dig deep enough you will find bedrock.
Adobe: Make your own adobe out of a mud pit where you mix a slurry of dirt and let it dry up for a day and the sand will be at the bottom and the clay will be at the top. Then mix in the 33/66 ration of adobe. You now have your own mortar
Wood Roof: All you need for a roof is something water proof and wind proof. You could have it even made of grass. If the grass was thick enough no water would penetrate. But if you want modern technology just shingle some polyethylene/polypropylene/just any plastic sheets and nail the edges to a roof made of wood poles. Or if you're handy you can even melt the plastic sheets together with plastic weld found at any auto parts store.
Amenities: Add any amenities you want like an air conditioner in the window and a gas powered electric generator, or solar panels for low wattage applications. You can also build an out house that's just a hole in the ground. And as long as you cover it up with dirt it won't stink.
Also every one needs a car, so get one and make sure it keeps running. And have a snow mobile if you are in Alaska.
Cooking: Is a very good skill to have if your self reliant. Even just trial and error works and if you cook enough you'll finally learn to do it well. Catch fish with a fishing boat, or hunt animals or birds with a gun. And grow your own fruits and vegetables.
Free time: Go on all of the vacations you want, with all of the newly acquired free time on your hands. Also just think of how big of a house you could build working 8 hours a day like at any other job. You could get into the business of building log/stone cabins in Alaska and then selling them to snow birds who are retired or want a second home or just rent it out for a vacation as a lease with option to buy.
Forget cable and internet. Why do you need those? Anyways all cable programs are reruns, and I know because I got rid of cable a year ago and still see the same exact shows on my dad's tv and thousands of channels with nothing on. As for internet have you noticed all of the commercials on youtube now and ads everywhere on the internet. It's only a matter of time until every site is a pay site plus the ads. The internet soon won't even be worth going on anymore.
Financial reasons: If you bought all of this stuff from home depot you'd never be able to pay for it all. Which is why houses cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or a rent of 500$/mo and up. I'd rather save all of that money and start a farm and make money off of fresh produce that is better quality and better prices than the stores. And sell it all at a fruit stand on the side of the road. Even if it's seasonal and just a summer job, it would probably pay better than the 800$/mo job at Walmart. If you factored in money saved on rent then you'd only have to make 300$/mo to break even. Oh yeah and don't worry about the benefits like insurance, or being full time because all businesses are getting rid of all of that very soon, and some already have.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Electricity Is Overrated
I googled "electricity is overrated" and found the worst blog post ever and it even had a comment saying how good it was. Well I hope to supercede them in the search results with a better post on the same subject.
In modern society we can't even conceive of having no electricity. But in reality it's not that necessary. Wall plugs do not occur naturally in nature.
I think of Tahiti where some islands around that area still have people that speak traditional Tahitian and carry on the old ways of doing things without electricity. This is so called "Paradise" but has no electricity. The Corona beer commercials have made money off of the notion of having nothing but beer and a beach and a chair.
In parts of Alaska there is no way to get electricity except through gas powered generators. So people in self made cabins often go without electricity, and instead use oil lamps and fire for heat, and fire to cook, and rag and soapy water for shower, and wash clothes in a bucket with a plunger. One person "Dick Proenneke" enjoyed this life so much that he lived this way in Alaska for 30 years until he couldn't live there any longer due to health issues. Although almost being blown up by a bearing in the military and then deciding that living in the city wasn't worth it, probably had a part to play in his decision to move to Alaska. Also batteries don't work in Alaska because the electrolyte freezes. Therefore cars don't work and instead they use snow mobiles with a manual ignition instead of an electrical ignition.
Electricity is fun but it only serves to power electronics and appliances, and lights. But how much do we pay for this modern gift of electricity. If you think about it why is it that gas prices are going down but electricity prices are going up? Why not just buy a gas powered generator instead of paying ever increasing utilities? Money could be made here. I myself could live with buying batteries every month for a headlamp instead of paying $75/mo or more for an energy bill.
Phantom loads on your energy bill have to be considered. All modern electronics have standby mode and I'm uncertain as to how much energy they consume. What I do know is that TV's never used to need a standby mode, and DVD players without a clock should never need a standby mode either. This could be considered a conspiracy theory of why we have to pay for this extra energy without us even realizing it. But to solve this problem all you need to do is plug in these devices like the TV and DVD player to any standard surge protector and then turn of the surge protector every night. Even if it's a hassle from the so called "modern convenience" of these phantom load devices.
You'll also find that lots of the energy that the energy companies pump out is wasted energy. Because when it is not consumed it doesn't get stored anywhere and is just lost. So this makes modern energy grids inefficient.
In the end you will always have to pay for energy until we have self made energy sources like "Mr. Fusion" from back to the future. Even if the government is successful with creating a fusion reactor with the "National ignition facility", we will still always have to pay for that free energy. Even though our tax dollars payed for them to build it, we will still have to pay an energy bill on top of that even though the energy is essentially free except for maintenance. This will go on indefinitely, and even your childrens children will still be paying energy bills. All until someday we have personal energy systems, or just choose to live somewhere without electricity.
Plumbing on the other hand I don't want to give up so readily.
In modern society we can't even conceive of having no electricity. But in reality it's not that necessary. Wall plugs do not occur naturally in nature.
I think of Tahiti where some islands around that area still have people that speak traditional Tahitian and carry on the old ways of doing things without electricity. This is so called "Paradise" but has no electricity. The Corona beer commercials have made money off of the notion of having nothing but beer and a beach and a chair.
In parts of Alaska there is no way to get electricity except through gas powered generators. So people in self made cabins often go without electricity, and instead use oil lamps and fire for heat, and fire to cook, and rag and soapy water for shower, and wash clothes in a bucket with a plunger. One person "Dick Proenneke" enjoyed this life so much that he lived this way in Alaska for 30 years until he couldn't live there any longer due to health issues. Although almost being blown up by a bearing in the military and then deciding that living in the city wasn't worth it, probably had a part to play in his decision to move to Alaska. Also batteries don't work in Alaska because the electrolyte freezes. Therefore cars don't work and instead they use snow mobiles with a manual ignition instead of an electrical ignition.
Electricity is fun but it only serves to power electronics and appliances, and lights. But how much do we pay for this modern gift of electricity. If you think about it why is it that gas prices are going down but electricity prices are going up? Why not just buy a gas powered generator instead of paying ever increasing utilities? Money could be made here. I myself could live with buying batteries every month for a headlamp instead of paying $75/mo or more for an energy bill.
Phantom loads on your energy bill have to be considered. All modern electronics have standby mode and I'm uncertain as to how much energy they consume. What I do know is that TV's never used to need a standby mode, and DVD players without a clock should never need a standby mode either. This could be considered a conspiracy theory of why we have to pay for this extra energy without us even realizing it. But to solve this problem all you need to do is plug in these devices like the TV and DVD player to any standard surge protector and then turn of the surge protector every night. Even if it's a hassle from the so called "modern convenience" of these phantom load devices.
You'll also find that lots of the energy that the energy companies pump out is wasted energy. Because when it is not consumed it doesn't get stored anywhere and is just lost. So this makes modern energy grids inefficient.
In the end you will always have to pay for energy until we have self made energy sources like "Mr. Fusion" from back to the future. Even if the government is successful with creating a fusion reactor with the "National ignition facility", we will still always have to pay for that free energy. Even though our tax dollars payed for them to build it, we will still have to pay an energy bill on top of that even though the energy is essentially free except for maintenance. This will go on indefinitely, and even your childrens children will still be paying energy bills. All until someday we have personal energy systems, or just choose to live somewhere without electricity.
Plumbing on the other hand I don't want to give up so readily.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Phantom Bills
I've realized now that living in the city is hurting everyone I know. From the rich people to the poor people, everyone.
My dad, and my step mom have nothing saved up at all over all these years and no retirement to look forward to. It's the same with my step brothers and my real brother. Pensions and social security are far from a sure thing now, even if you live that long. Also my step sister has a house and a good paying job but at the cost of it being a horrible job and her house being worth half as much. Also her friend who is having her rental house foreclosed even when she is a regional manager of some company. And might even file bankruptcy.
I was thinking today about why this is, and I think that not having land is a big factor in why when we live in the city it's a loosing proposition. I notice that almost every house has 1/6th of an acre in the city or less if it's an apartment. But because of people not having land, people never have resources to make their own stuff and have to resort to buying stuff from retailers. The problem is that all stores buy at wholesale price and then sell at retail price, but if we made our own stuff we wouldn't have to pay for shipping or overhead or the cost of the retail price mark ups. Except for highly specialized products that require companies.
Reasons that land is needed by everyone:
Other than general retail monopolies, there are also other contributing factors to why everyone loses in the city.
Divorces are expensive and I'm sure mortgage companies know that most couples that buy a house eventually divorce and lose their house.
Also every loan out their including credit cards is just like a tax. They're taking money without producing anything. So that money just disappears from your pocket and the economy as a whole.
Not to mention taxes which are ever increasing and only damage the economy.
Also everyone I know with a college education doesn't have a job in that field. So even becoming educated is extremely risky if their are no jobs in that field, or the jobs get shipped over seas, or your company goes out of business. Not to mention the extreme divotion of time and money for unknown pay off. I know a friend of the family that went to school to become a police officer but right after he was done with school the sheriff of pasco county Bob White announced that there will never be another police officer job opening in pasco county for the foreseeable future.
And in an apartment all of your rent is money just going down the drain. The landlords are not contributing any product to the economy.
Even rich people are loosing because there monthly expenses rise just as much as their monthly salaries and they never save up either. Who would ever think that banks would go under. And big companies too. These people are smart and try to have the least risk possible.
The moral of the story or the lesson to be learned is: The sooner you get out of the city the better. Also time and money equal fun. So have fun. Cities are boring and monotonous. Just ask anyone that moved out of the city, and into the country.
Don't let it become too late and get stuck in the city like everyone else, with no way out, as one of the working poor. Or a manager with no life at all outside of work.
My dad, and my step mom have nothing saved up at all over all these years and no retirement to look forward to. It's the same with my step brothers and my real brother. Pensions and social security are far from a sure thing now, even if you live that long. Also my step sister has a house and a good paying job but at the cost of it being a horrible job and her house being worth half as much. Also her friend who is having her rental house foreclosed even when she is a regional manager of some company. And might even file bankruptcy.
I was thinking today about why this is, and I think that not having land is a big factor in why when we live in the city it's a loosing proposition. I notice that almost every house has 1/6th of an acre in the city or less if it's an apartment. But because of people not having land, people never have resources to make their own stuff and have to resort to buying stuff from retailers. The problem is that all stores buy at wholesale price and then sell at retail price, but if we made our own stuff we wouldn't have to pay for shipping or overhead or the cost of the retail price mark ups. Except for highly specialized products that require companies.
Reasons that land is needed by everyone:
- Grow and cook your own food to be healthy and have something to do and save on bills
- Build your own shed out of wood instead of paying retail for it from the store.
- Smokers should grow their own tobacco for infinite supply without paying $7/pack
- We have nothing to do in the cities because everything is done for us and we just pay for it.
- In the country there's opportunity to build and grow which isn't found in the city.
Other than general retail monopolies, there are also other contributing factors to why everyone loses in the city.
Divorces are expensive and I'm sure mortgage companies know that most couples that buy a house eventually divorce and lose their house.
Also every loan out their including credit cards is just like a tax. They're taking money without producing anything. So that money just disappears from your pocket and the economy as a whole.
Not to mention taxes which are ever increasing and only damage the economy.
Also everyone I know with a college education doesn't have a job in that field. So even becoming educated is extremely risky if their are no jobs in that field, or the jobs get shipped over seas, or your company goes out of business. Not to mention the extreme divotion of time and money for unknown pay off. I know a friend of the family that went to school to become a police officer but right after he was done with school the sheriff of pasco county Bob White announced that there will never be another police officer job opening in pasco county for the foreseeable future.
And in an apartment all of your rent is money just going down the drain. The landlords are not contributing any product to the economy.
Even rich people are loosing because there monthly expenses rise just as much as their monthly salaries and they never save up either. Who would ever think that banks would go under. And big companies too. These people are smart and try to have the least risk possible.
The moral of the story or the lesson to be learned is: The sooner you get out of the city the better. Also time and money equal fun. So have fun. Cities are boring and monotonous. Just ask anyone that moved out of the city, and into the country.
Don't let it become too late and get stuck in the city like everyone else, with no way out, as one of the working poor. Or a manager with no life at all outside of work.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Reasons to buy a house
- Rent it out for 100$ less than the mortgage payment and in a year you can raise it as it appreciates. But the 100$/mo you pay out of pocket will be worth any built up equity.
- There is always demand for rental property, and if you are 100$ less/mo than the competition, then they will always come to you first and you can choose who you rent to.
- Fix it up to flip it if you have left over monthly income you can fix it up while living in it. Mostly you just want a house that could just use a good updating and TLC and is in a up and coming good neighborhood, next to a hospital or something. And if you can't sell the house to flip it then just rent it out and wait.
- If you buy a house in your 20's and somehow never miss a payment over 20 years because you have a secure income, then the appreciation from when you first bought it to 20 years later will be huge. Also rich neighborhoods only turn into richer neighborhoods over time if you're lucky enough to get there before they're a rich neighborhood. Buy multiple houses with the equity from the first, all in different neighborhoods then rent them out, and one is bound to be in a rich neighborhood sooner or later.
- May just live in the house in the end anyway.
- Best to start early in the rental business because you will have more profit on the rental price ever year as rental rates go up but your monthly mortgage payment stays the same.
- $500 per month on a $50,000 house is 12% per year return on investment.
- I like money more than people now anyway. Think up any evil thing and people have done it, but money buys stuff that can make you happy.
- They're monetizing the debt which means that it is an absolute certainty that house prices will rise. And as inflation sets in, your mortgage will stay the same price which means you can rent it out cheaply in a year and still make a profit. And because of leverage you will have more equity on money you never spent. Gold has no leverage, so it's not as good of a hedge against inflation.
- Hidden structural flaws that you find out about after buying the house, when you open up the walls.
- Won't be able to sell the house in this economy(just rent it out)
- Will be foreclosed upon if you loose your job.
- Perpetually have to buy stuff for the house.
- Tenants ruin the house and you can't get the money out of them for repairs.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Direction of your new life
If you have 10,000$ 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.
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:
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.
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
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.
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