Am I Honest Enough.....

[ShadyStump]

I'm probably too close to "city" to use that option

"Rural" is defined rather loosely. I know my parents used it to buy our home back in Beaver Creek, OH, in '92 I think it was. Not far outside Dayton.
My sister used it to buy her current home here, also a very in-town place.

There's nothing in the rules about what "rural" means, and only slight restrictions on what sort of property, and on how you can or should use the property. Example, it must be a single family stand alone home that you intend to occupy as your primary residence, and "modest" in nature, meaning not a McMansion, and preexisting swimming pools are a no-go, and you can't use the property for commercial gain. So no remodeling the place into a sweatshop. Producing ancillary/secondary income- your pots for example- is not considered commercial usage.

 

[ShadyStump]

You have nothing to lose researching it a few hours, maybe making a few calls.

I'm pushing because, being in similar situations for many years, I sympathize, and can think of no better options at the moment.

 

[HorseloverFat]

@sorce what is your trade, or do you have any official licenses or certifications? Schooling, degrees etc.

I am trade certified, and Edu-ma-cated, too..

But I respectfully believe this is the LEAST important question asked here...

Seems like an intentional, conversational “left hook”... was this your FIRST post on this thread?

 

[MrWunderful]

I am trade certified, and Edu-ma-cated, too..

But I respectfully believe this is the LEAST important question asked here...

Seems like an intentional, conversational “left hook”... was this your FIRST post on this thread?

What trade? Did you attend an apprenticeship? That’s the type of question I was asking. He said he works on cars, does he have ASE certification?Did he get a bartender certificate?

A lot of higher education is worthless, maybe he has a degree in underwater basket weaving? I don’t know.

My union will hire guys off the street as material handler’s for $30 an hour with nothing but the drive to work hard.

Finding steady reliable work is much more likely been getting 235 people over the Internet to loan you $1000. I’ve known sorce via this site for a few years and buought multiple things off of him, so I don’t think he would take my questions offensively.

I was just curious if he had any marketable skill.

 

[HorseloverFat]

What trade? Did you attend an apprenticeship? That’s the type of question I was asking. He said he works on cars, does he have ASE certification?Did he get a bartender certificate?

A lot of higher education is worthless, maybe he has a degree in underwater basket weaving? I don’t know.

My union will hire guys off the street as material handler’s for $30 an hour with nothing but the drive to work hard.

Finding steady reliable work is much more likely been getting 235 people over the Internet to loan you $1000. I’ve known sorce via this site for a few years and buought multiple things off of him, so I don’t think he would take my questions offensively.

I was just curious if he had any marketable skill.

I gotcha, sir. It WAS helpful...

I mistook your intent.

.....aaand I’m protective of Sorce!

 

[Nybonsai12]

Apply at Costco. There certainly has to be one near you and they have great feedback from employees About what it’s like to work there. Plus $5 rotisserie chickens all day.

 

[Hartinez]

Apply at Costco. There certainly has to be one near you and they have great feedback from employees About what it’s like to work there. Plus $5 rotisserie chickens all day.

I’ve heard Costco employment and benefits is top notch.

 

[just.wing.it]

Go buy Sorce Pots!
Can't wait for mine to come!

 

[just.wing.it]

I’ve heard Costco employment and benefits is top notch.

 

[Paradox]

@sorce
I was in a store this morning and saw a sign that says so much about this past year+, but also made me think about your situation

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is all you have left"

Be strong and do the right thing for your family

 

[sorce]

I don't wish to argue. I guess I am thinking and feeling this way because there is an assumption that I am not doing the right thing for my family.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is all you have left"

That sounds more like propaganda than good advice, or a wise saying, or whatever it's supposed to be.

What do regular people do with that strength in the end? Strongly die of disease and starvation?

When everyone else is left with only strength, I'll have the ability to continue to feed and shelter my family, with the ability to live off the land as we are intended to. Strength will never be the only thing I....we, will ever have left.

In what situation is that true? When is strength the only thing we actually have left?

I think of someone being tortured. That is almost the only time strength will be the last thing someone has. Almost....because usually they still have the ability to "snitch", which means the last thing ANYONE ever has, and will always have, is CHOICE.

Of course, that's the very thing that propaganda is trying to make us forget we have.

They're stripping us of all of our freedoms, trying to tell us when it's all gone..."at least you're strong".

No thanks!

We need to find out how strong we are way before that.

I am fully aware of my strength.

Much more importantly, I am aware of my weaknesses.

Sorce

 

[hinmo24t]

That sounds more like propaganda than good advice, or a wise saying, or whatever it's supposed to be.

What do regular people do with that strength in the end? Strongly die of disease and starvation?

we can look ourselves in the mirror and die with a smile

dignity

 

[sorce]

mirror

I don't imagine a mirror present at this time of "the end".

Vanity.

Sorce

 

[HorseloverFat]

I don't imagine a mirror present at this time of "the end".

Vanity.

Sorce

There’ll always be puddles!

Where we ALL look brown!

 

[hinmo24t]

I don't imagine a mirror present at this time of "the end".

Vanity.

Sorce

the only thing we really leave behind or obtain in life is reputation and dignity

 

[sorce]

only thing we really leave behind or obtain in life is reputation and

For as long as there are humans to remember these reputations, there will be differences in opinion that hold reputations in different regards.

Even if the 2 most righteous people are left to repopulate Earth, evolution is such that we will again and always fall back into these differing opinions.

So as much as I believe it is good to leave a "good" reputation behind, I think it is more important to remember that it doesn't matter, to live a higher quality of the life we are presently living.

It's hard to not lie to ourselves in these most difficult situations, but when we do, we can actually begin to live meaningful lives.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Where we ALL look brown!

Lol! Evolution says it'll be grey. With big eyes and telepathy.

For me...this idiocy of Critical Race Theory is completely destroyed in The Knowledge that we can mix.

And mix we will, until grey.

Sorce

 

[Paradox]

@sorce, well I guess all I can say then is I hope you figure it out and get to where you want to be.

 

[sorce]

@sorce, well I guess all I can say then is I hope you figure it out and get to where you want to be.

Why is that all?

If I got to where I want to be, I would be spear hunting wild boar from the roof of my half in-ground cabin.

She's not having that, so I guess this is a sacrifice?

Sorce

 

[Adair M]

Sorce, why are you sitting around on your ass and bullshitting on BonsaiNut?

Don’t you need to be doing something to support the family? Maybe YOU want to be homeless… does your wife want to be homeless? Do your kids deserve to be homeless?

Here you are begging fir money when you are able bodied, but unwilling to go to work for someone else.

Sitting around and posting on BonsaiNut isn’t paying your bills.

Geez…