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Post by graynomad on Jan 11, 2015 7:56:20 GMT 10
...The main reason it attracted me was it could be grown indoors without detection... Yeah me too.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 11, 2015 7:52:02 GMT 10
I'm suffering from stove envy
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Post by graynomad on Jan 11, 2015 7:46:41 GMT 10
Nice, been there a couple of times but not see it in the rain yet.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 10, 2015 13:00:29 GMT 10
I also like the idea of aquaponics. Is it possible to do it indoors, say with UV lights? I ask because I really don't want any growing to be obvious form the outside.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 10, 2015 7:43:27 GMT 10
No surprise though, it ain't going to get any better. If you live/work in a city better have eyes in the back of your head.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 10, 2015 7:32:26 GMT 10
Thanks everyone, a bloke has to have a project eh?
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Post by graynomad on Jan 9, 2015 7:54:35 GMT 10
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Post by graynomad on Jan 9, 2015 6:38:36 GMT 10
Good one, thanks.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 8, 2015 21:13:05 GMT 10
That's why you have to get it right
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Post by graynomad on Jan 8, 2015 20:21:33 GMT 10
My card has a $24k limit, that's a lot of ammo, but I had better be right about the SHTF call
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Post by graynomad on Jan 8, 2015 6:53:34 GMT 10
Yeah maybe a few things that don't quite gell for my situation, but pretty good. I would add Max out your credit card, they ain't ever going to collect
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Post by graynomad on Jan 7, 2015 14:02:17 GMT 10
Some nice units there, and good prices it seems. Make me wonder if I should be building my own. No matter, too late now.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 6, 2015 8:31:51 GMT 10
Or as we used to say, a man who said little...and knew even less
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Post by graynomad on Jan 6, 2015 8:30:49 GMT 10
and I'm not too keen now I'm moving to WA chasing mining jobs since I've found out how nasty their firearm laws are, meaning I would effectively have to sell them off before I move there ? It seems that WA is the worst in most regards, is that a fair comment? The only thing I know that's better there is that you can buy pepper spray.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 6, 2015 2:37:41 GMT 10
I for one have no intentions of bugging out, I already live in a great spot that, in theory at least, would allow me to live sustainably. That's not to say one shouldn't have a plan B that does require a BOV. As to where you go and for how long that's another story and it depends on the bug out trigger.
For example a bush fire, if we had one come through our land we could bug out in the truck and live quite comfortably (not sustainably though, just as grey nomads) for years, as indeed we have done since 2001. But that of course is a totally different thing to bugging out if we have a real SHTF/WROL situation. In that case I seriously doubt there are more than a handful of people in Oz that could live off the land. I think it would be possible further north with some training. That said, we could easily live below the radar in the bush for say 3 months until things died down, 6 months if we put our mind to it, if indeed that's how it goes. That's 6 months on any patch of dirt in the outback...with one important caveat, there must be water available. If no water is available then we could still live quite happily for 2 months with the water in the truck, 3 months if we're real careful. Heck we do it now for 6+ weeks without even trying.
Personally I prefer to think of myself as a "homesteader", one who is preparing for what I see as the most likely scenario, ie ever decreasing income, initially from inflation eating my savings and then the age pension. I do not really think that Oz will descend into Mad Max, there will probably be a recession or even a depression, even now I would hardly notice but given another year or so to get better squared away I doubt I'll notice at all unless I watch the news.
Truth is, since we dropped out 14 years ago, on paper our "standard of living" is abysmal compared to most people, however in practice we live very well on bugger all. It's all a matter of how you want to conduct your life, I have friends who earn a fortune, and yet they have less spare cash and certainly a lot less freedom than us.
As would I, they must be around although I confess I've not looked. I think the key word is "homesteading", there are certainly a lot of blogs, dunno if I have seen any forums but they must be around.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 4, 2015 9:58:38 GMT 10
All good advice Matilda, most of which I've been living since 2000, not because I was a forward-thinking prepper, but because we sold everything and hit the road and that lifestyle forces much of what you describe on you. It's not rocket science, just requires the will to do it followed by some discipline.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 4, 2015 9:46:32 GMT 10
Most things can be run on a small solar system, however large tools might be a problem. Of the things you mentioned the compressor will be the worst offender, they take a lot of power to start up and a large one may not be practical off an inverter unless you get a really big one. I have a small compressor (can't remember the size off hand, probably 1hp or so) and a 3300w inverter, it works but struggles.
Re mains-connected solar, is it possible to get an inverter that will switch to off-grid mode? If not you are up for a new inverter if you decide to swap over.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 4, 2015 9:19:28 GMT 10
Yeah, a lot of spruking of his book and that's a turn off for me. That said it confirms my beliefs, namely - Put as much money as you can into hard assets, things that you need first, then things that others will need.
- If you have money left over after that put it into precious metals (PMs), real metal, not some piece of paper that says you own metal.
Now he is talking about people with investment portfolios etc, personally I don't have enough money to worry much about that, and anyway I just don't trust the stock markets. I'd rather spend $10k on water tanks instead of buying $10k of shares in a water company. Yes, as he says the water company will be safe compared to other companies, but only "compared to", it's still air money IMO. So having bought everything you need to sustain yourself (if that's even possible) and maybe for bartering with others, what do you do with all that money left over. Buy PMs I guess, probably silver as I think that's not reportable to the gov. Buy real metal and put it under the mattress, nothing in a bank is safe IMO, and that includes physical stuff in a safe deposit box. I know someone who had virtual PMs in the form of certificates or whatever. He flew to Europe and redeemed all of it to real metal, it's now "safe" in various locations. Last I heard there was about 10x the gold in certificates than there is in real metal. That means 9 out of 10 people are in danger of getting screwed when the music stops. As for recession/depression, it will happen I'm sure and frankly if that's all that does happen I won't even notice. Full on TEOTWAWKI/SHTF/WROL/etc is a different story and much harder to prepare for, I'm not even sure I can 100% prepare for that.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 4, 2015 8:39:25 GMT 10
Just remembered something, with many of these videos if you try to close the window it will ask if you really want to leave, click "yes" and you get a text version of the interview. Now you can read that with no huge data usage.
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Post by graynomad on Jan 4, 2015 8:37:26 GMT 10
I started to watch but there's not way to see the length, it could be 3 hours long for all I can see, and on my data plan that's not on.
But I did watch a fair bit though, pretty much just confirms that we are heading towards cliff I think.
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