Way of life 6

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.

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.

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.

Artificial Aquifer

An idea for a completely sterile cistern that is ten or so feet under ground where no bacteria can grow, that may collect rain water as it seeps through the ground and into a silicone bowl that was filled with sterilized stones(with room between the stones for water to fill) and which was then covered with sterile pebbles and sterile sand. But this is an untested theory. Even though it may work very well, and maybe even last forever and be effective forever, as long as bacteria or mold didn't get into the cistern somehow. The scenario being, if bacteria got through the 10 or so feet of sand filtering, or as backwash through the connected water collection plumbing.
The stones would be sterilized with chlorine and then left to dry, and the deeply dug sand would be dug in layers and each layer dug into separate sterile piles with a newly cleaned shovel for each pile for most predictable sterilization levels.
And the water would be collected from the underground cistern through a pipe or straw or some other better and easier to install technology. This cistern would be located right next to the house for ease of collection instead of going to the store for jugs of water.
This would essentially try to copy the exact same function as modern aquifers, which are everywhere in Florida already. For a do it yourself way of getting limitless fresh water anywhere except in the coldest regions.
This idea may never be able to be improved upon for the cause of infinite, free, fresh drinking water. If the theory is someday proven correct, probably by me if nobody else tests it.
Also see wiki for artesian aquifer.

Best Survival Bow And Arrow Design

Bow making:
Dry wood you can use right away as soon as the bow is made, wet wood needs to dry for a year.
Stick that is as long as the distance from fingertip to finger tip if you hold your arms out in opposite directions.
And a stick which has the least amounts of knots in it, that you can find.
Cut string knocks on each end (notches for string to fit in)
Use half hitches to secure the rope firmly to the bow.
Scrape off excess shavings from thick parts of bow in order for the bow to bend evenly called “floor tillering”




This is a first design at a homemade survival arrow, and it goes with a homemade survival bow (See this video clip). Using a bow and arrow you can fish (may have a string attached to one end of arrow, such as fishing line), and you can hunt small animals, and birds or reptiles. The above design still has to be tested. I will do an update to this once I have tested it.
Reinforcing the bow string platform on the back of the arrow with more string is called "whipping the arrow" so that it won't split the back of the arrow in 2 from the pressure created from a full draw. This can either be using a constrictor knot or any other way of tightly wrapping string around the back of the arrow. Also this is when you would add feathers for stabilization if the arrow didn't already fly true enough. But when fishing with a bow and arrow, you don't need to have extreme long distance accuracy.

Also see: Makeshift survival weapon, and also Complete wilderness survival supply list