Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000, page 4


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reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 06:40 PM by kettlebellysmith
reply to post by Toveri


Sas but true. My father built the house I grew up in. He hired a retired carpenter to help him. Nice, 3 bedroom. Cost $5000 in 1959. Can someone tell me what the hell happened? I wouldn't even know where to start on something like that. And wouldn't understand the answers if I knew who to ask. It's not that I'm stupid. It's just that I learned science intstead of practicality.



reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 06:55 PM by Ex_MislTech
Originally posted by kettlebellysmith
reply to
post by Toveri


Sas but true. My father built the house I grew up in. He hired a retired carpenter to help him. Nice, 3 bedroom. Cost $5000 in 1959. Can someone tell me what the hell happened? I wouldn't even know where to start on something like that. And wouldn't understand the answers if I knew who to ask. It's not that I'm stupid. It's just that I learned science intstead of practicality.


It is called inflation.

The federal reserve has made a dollar worth about 2 - 3 cents compared
to its 1913 relative worth.

When they created the federal reserve they knew what they were
doing was wrong and were scared so much that they sneaked to
an island to plan its creation.

Like Thieves in the night - planning the Federal Reserve

I do not know that things would be much better thou as we'd all
be making pennies an hour instead of dollars, but it does devalue
and savings you manage to save which is obviously a bad idea.


reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 07:40 PM by eyeforalie
reply to post by Rollinster



Im in the Mid-west. When are you thinking about doing this? How much land are you talking? are there any more takers? I know alot of you have talked about a "community", and what would be a better place to start...if your down. Keep me posted. This would need planning. I cannot just pack up and move away on a whim but with a proper agenda its possible.



[edit on 4-12-2008 by eyeforalie]


reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 08:21 PM by TheRealDonPedros
reply to post by TheRandom1



Also there waste would not resemble the average US citizens blend of pureed fast foods. I'm assuming they are vegans and eat a lot of what they grow themselves.


Gross but true,
Peace.


reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 08:44 PM by Symbiote
reply to post by kettlebellysmith



Find someone who is building a house and volunteer to help them for free in your spare time.

Then shut your mouth, listen, and do as you are told.

If you make it through a whole house as a helper you will have the very basics.



reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 09:33 PM by TheRandom1
Originally posted by TheRealDonPedros
reply to
post by TheRandom1



Also there waste would not resemble the average US citizens blend of pureed fast foods. I'm assuming they are vegans and eat a lot of what they grow themselves.


Gross but true,
Peace.



I believe a vegans waste is safe to use in a garden for fertilizer seeing how it has no meat in it, it would be like cow fertilizer I believe. Using S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) waste as fertilizer is very dangerous though, not too far from a town I lived in, in Texas, they tried using human waste as fertilizer, it killed a lot of people in that town (this was a long, long, time ago, back in the cowboy days), needless to say that town became a ghost town.

I would'nt think that vegan waste would be harmful if used as fertilizer though, another reason to become vegan lol, put your poop to good use lol.

-Lahara


reply posted on 4-12-2008 @ 09:35 PM by TheRandom1
Originally posted by TheRealDonPedros
reply to
post by TheRandom1



Also there waste would not resemble the average US citizens blend of pureed fast foods. I'm assuming they are vegans and eat a lot of what they grow themselves.


Gross but true,
Peace.



I believe a vegans waste is safe to use in a garden for fertilizer seeing how it has no meat in it, it would be like cow fertilizer I believe. Using S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) waste as fertilizer is very dangerous though, not too far from a town I lived in, in Texas, they tried using human waste as fertilizer, it killed a lot of people in that town (this was a long, long, time ago, back in the cowboy days), needless to say that town became a ghost town.

I would'nt think that vegan waste would be harmful if used as fertilizer though, another reason to become vegan lol, put your poop to good use lol.

-Lahara


reply posted on 5-12-2008 @ 09:15 AM by Jkd Up
reply to post by grover



Great find! Dunno how permiting it will go, but it looks like a great way to not have a morgage!


reply posted on 5-12-2008 @ 10:54 AM by Rollinster
reply to post by eyeforalie



I was going to start looking after the first of the year for a house with enough property to grow my own food. Even hoping to get it in an area where the zoning would permit chickens and such.

Now, with this I will focus on land only and should be able to locate something where I can have the above zoning on a couple acres. This is Cali so that alone would cost me a couple hundred grand.

My location is actually perfect. Whatever you have pictured in your mind right now, unless you've been here, is probably incorrect. Then again...

I am 45 minutes from the beach (Newport, Huntington), 45 minutes from LA, right up against Mt. Wilson. You can see it in the background from this picture taken at California Speedway.


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