Wednesday, February 13, 2019

homesteading for morons


HOMESTEADING FOR MORONS
I’ve said it before-homesteading is as easy as camping.  I’m now repeating it and hoping like hell I’m not repeating myself too soon ( I’m sure it has been years-but hopefully more like five years than one or two ).  That would be embarrassing.  And I’m not even repeating it because I have no other idea what to write about.  This is actually a good week with several ideas waiting in line ( some weeks I listlessly troll other similarly themed sites hoping for a spark of inspiration ).  No, I just ran across this discussion and it stuck in my head.
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Viking Preparedness Dude was talking about a comment he had gotten to the effect that the good pastor had an unfair advantage in his situation and few could duplicate that.  His reply was that all one needed was the proper motivation and they could start homesteading right away, and catch up quickly.  Which is true, but he offered few details.  One imagines the complaint was based on his having a pension so that there was no need to find work.  There might have been a pay-off of the land while working towards retirement, but I don’t know.
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No one is saying that homesteading is easy in comparison to finding an apartment and a job in the city, but it sure as hell ain’t as hard as Mother Earth, Backwood’s Home and Rawles make it out to be.  Their problem is that they are pimping advice for Yuppie Scum.  And that was almost okay because most folks were middle class and had professions rather than jobs and most folks-those that wanted to buy the message and pay the messenger- had the means to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the country.  That worked well twenty-five years ago.
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Do you know why our elite and all the 9% Kool-Aid drinking obsequious toadies licking their rectums so hate Russia and Putin?  We had Color Revolution’ed Russia fair and square and were taking our just desserts in the form of colonial plunder ( remember how cheap oil was in the 90’s? ), and those bastards were audacious enough to insist on taking back their own resources and asserting their sovereignty!  How cheeky!  And I’m not being funny-this is exactly how our Supreme Overlords think.  The spoils of war, even if the cold War was mostly at our behest.
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And I’m not complaining per se.  I enjoyed the pirate booty as much as everyone else, even if I didn’t squander mine on a soccer mom SUV with pimping chrome spinners.  I did the sensible pirate thing and got silver ( and brass ) and the land to bury it on.  We didn’t have wealth because we earned it ( what does the US produce that the rest of the world simply must have? ) but because we stole it.  I’m jiggy wid dat.  But it is time to realize our ship has been hulled.  Don’t go down with it.
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For all those still hanging on to the American Dream, a hearty Good On You.  You don’t need this advice.  For those barely hanging on to a job in an industry soon to be outsourced to Diversity Hires or Ornamentals, and want to go get a homestead to be safe from all the Worse Crap dogpiling us all the time, but don’t see how they can possibly do it, I hope this helps somewhat.  But both of you, well off AND struggling, beware homesteading is time sensitive.  As soon as we see another implosion, it will get a LOT harder.
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The general trend has been, for at least a century if not a bit more, folks moving to urban areas for jobs.  That hasn’t stopped. Even in Turd World countries where everyone knows there aren’t enough jobs in the cities, they still move there anyway.  At least here there is the option of the suburbs, supporting an automobile and the colonizing of other countries to force the PetroDollar on them so we can have $2 gasoline to affordably ( if not very cheaply ) get to a job in the city.  But we still go to the city, if only for half the day.
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Once we reach a tipping point in employment, and that could be either actual unemployment or just Diversity Hire employment theft, all that country land ( not suburbia but actual rural property ) will swiftly disappear because us White boys we just LOVE the idea of homesteading.  There is plenty of expensive property out there.  Hell, go a hundred miles from any water source in California and I’m sure you can still find rather expensive land ( if you comply with mandatory permiting and such ).  But cheap land?
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That is in limited supply.  So if you want to get your ass homesteading, you need to panic early and avoid the rush.  Even if you don’t move, at least buy the land now while you can, affordably.  I know, you have AR’s and FLIR scopes to buy, so a piece of land selling for $3,000 is just too insanely extravagant to contemplate!  Make payments, Jesus.  Do I have to think of everything? ( every damn day at the end of the article is my info dump.  Begging for donations, links to others like Wally wheat.  And the link to junk land-as low as $600 ).
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Only a tiny fraction of those facing doom will know about and want to move out on a piece of raw land.  That will quadruple prices if not worse.  The supply will be too low for even limited increased demand.  Not that you should JUST buy.  You should actually move out there and practice homesteading.  But if nothing else, scrape up $100 a month and make payments from afar.  That is better than being stuck in the new Detroit or Newark.  Not that there aren’t great buying opportunities in Detroit.  You can practice Bosnian warfare as you garden.
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I believe my example of homesteading will be helpful, as I had no advantages when I undertook the move.  I did so with limited savings, no job, child support due in three weeks and with a wife that was of absolutely no help.  I don’t know how else to prove how simple and moron proof homesteading is, with so little money required it is embarrassing.  It really does only take willpower.  Sweat equity rather than money.  Well, and the proper attitude.  You must lower expectations along with your available resources.  But still, butt simple.  I’ll continue tomorrow.
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note: a few months ago I read that paper products might be going up in price.  I can't remember why-perhaps a wood pulp shortage.  The other night, the brother in law reported the change was going into effect ( he works at a big toilet paper/hand towel manufacture ).   I know it isn't the biggest deal we must face, but every time you can save even a few percentage it is a win.  I just bought ten 12-packs from Family Dollar ( cheaper than Wally, cost per square foot ) and the hall closet is jam packed.
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  2. Minion advice for mental programming self. One must be able to adapt and adjust from a former empire citizen, suburbanite, corporate climber, etc. On downward to a hand to mouth exister. If one is not toughened up to privatations and environmental (weather, living conditions, new challenges) adversities they will fail the homesteader and post collapse testing. Remus posted old timey photos of depression era conditions and people. It was very informative to get phsyched up. Washing dishes in a bucket, no hot showering, cooking like a hobo wil rock too many peoples world. Expect a lot of suicides all about the roadsides by non hackers.

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    1. Family members forced to downsize paycheck and sell the house/buy an RV were offered free land squat. They refused, acting butt hurt they should ever consider hauling water from town. Good Christ, the battery powered 12v pump delivered grid-like water delivery once inside. But they wouldn't be caught dead being seen hauling water. And yes, they got upset just on my suggestion it was a huge emotional blow-out. The sheeple probably all view similarly.

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    2. Got a 5gal "camp shower" as a christmas gift and when it warms up I'm gonna learn it. I'll fill it with faucet water at first and hang it on a tree branch first thing in the morning. I'll use the "no touch" thermometer to monitor it's heating in the sun. The bag is black plastic and that will help but it will still take time. Maybe I could put it in a solar cooker? Anyway, it has a small twist valve so you turn it on and get an area wet and then turn it off and soap up. Then rinse, then do another area. I can't imagine 5 gals being enough the first time. Maybe do the top half on day 1 and then the bottom half on day 2? Learning curve.

      We have a digital gauge on our water softener and a 10 min shower uses about 30 gallons. No, the shower head doesn't have the factory limiter in it. The limiter seemed to inject air into the stream and I had to run it twice as long to get the same amount of rinsing factor. So I yanked it. It was a white plastic plug with hundreds of tiny air inducing holes in it.

      Round 2 with the camp shower will be raw pond water run through my self made 5 gallon bucket filtration system.

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    3. A very wet whores bath for me is less than half a gallon ( dripping large washcloth ). To stretch out your shower, enter with an already soaked cloth and use that with the shower dribble to quickly wet and rinse. Better than just standing under and vainly trying to wet all parts, or having enough pressure ( might need a scrubber/cloth on a stick for your back ). Use a VERY thick washcloth or smaller bath towel. Thin cloth sucks. I'd be cautious about it being too hot in a solar cooker.

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    4. I have tried using the solar camp shower and had issues with it. It's rather hard to lift 5 gallons of water over myself and tie it up in the field. Better to have a ladder or RV roof to place it. Water pressure is 1 psi for every foot of drop. It feels like holding a 40 pound infant that gives you a golden shower.
      However I have found a solution. Lord Bison of the great hair linked years ago to a fellow who used a garden pump sprayer with a kitchen pull out spray faucet. I made one and use it on family backpack trips. It has 7 feet of hose so I don't have to lift it off the ground. One gallon works for me but
      two gallons is a day spa treatment in the field.I bought a Kelly kettle for heating water. Put cold water in first tank and top it off with hot. It runs about 5 minutes per gallon and requires a 2nd pumping halfway through. I also made additional attachments to this system. I can connect my Sawyer filter to the line and filter drinking water with ease. With the tank sprayer dry I have another attachment for inflating air mattresses or swim toys. Can also be used as bellows for stoking campfires. Lake Erie Pirate

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    5. I had forgotten all about that. Yeah, the fine spray as comes with sucks, so the modification eliminates the mist that always seems colder than it should.

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  3. I think mindset or having a fervent biblical level of motivation is all that would be necessary to overcome those initial physical and transitional hurdles. I conduct myself accordingly on deer hunting trips or vacationing excursions off roadwise into the bush. Treat it as an adventure with childish enthusiasm and just play the bat shit crazy uncle role and all those little nuanced adversities is just minor details along the way of a journey. Envision one's self as that stoic animal that stands in the pouring rain undeterred in it's own quest for life and survival. (Homesteading?....child's play)

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    1. I think the problem even with a lot of motivation is we create our own obstacles. Perhaps viewing it as butt simple makes our imposed roadblocks look silly to us.

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  4. Homesteading? You mean like Wednesday at Wal-Mart?

    So I called you out directly on one of my memes in the trench warfare post. It reminded me of you when I found it.

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  5. There is homesteading and theres HOMESTEADING. The latter is using the land to feed and warm your bodies 100% where you live off the land. Anything you can learn now to get to that place is good practice, because the upcoming test, there will be no extra credit or do-overs.

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    1. A noble goal, never attainable but always a great journey. Hell, some chickens and a few square foot gardening patches and you are ahead of almost anyone.

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  6. “A very wet whores bath for me is less than half a gallon”


    That’s been my experience as well. Back when I was still employed, but underemployed, I would occasionally crash at work to save on motel costs (I didn’t live close to work, and the boss didn’t know that I did this). The bathrooms at work didn’t have showers, so I hopped in an empty trash can to prevent from getting water all over the place. I would take one of those plastic gallon water jugs, pour a little over my head around my pits, lather up, rinse, and finish with about half of the jug left. On a really hot day, you could optionally pour the remainder over yourself to wash away excess perspiration, but figure a gallon tops, even in this scenario. And really, the plastic gallon water jugs work just fine; you really don’t need one of those solar shower deals.

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    1. I think the best part of a solar shower is just introducing yourself to passive solar cheaply. It is a gateway drug, so beware :)

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    2. Up here in the Great lakes we have plenty of water but not so much sun. 3 days out of 5 are cloudy- no sun to see. Depression is common among the people and the treatment for most is booze, tobacco and money. Casinos and pot are now legal. But you can't buy or sell pot yet, however you can give it away and grow 6 plants for each adult over 21. Most local towns are not allowing sales of pot near me but I live near the Ohio border. Guess I better prepare for the onslaught of people looking to score from my 36 acre homestead. The libertarian anti government in me kind of wants to grow some to thumb my nose but I don't want ghetto rats coming from Toledo all 15 miles away. White people problems I know. Still they will come, how pissed they will be if they don't get some. Hair is still awesome! Lake Erie Pirate

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    3. I can't imagine living with little sun. Raised in California, stationed in Hawaii ( talk about White People Problems ), lived in OK, TX and FL. Now the desert. I know CA is the land of fruits and nuts, but I wonder, if you excluded that state, how many serial killers and mass murderers were in cloudy locations.

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    4. They saw the victims always meet them halfway. LEP

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