Thanks Lisa. Some great tips. When I was a child (a very long time ago) appliances were not very reliable and many times we found ourselves with a refrigerator that stopped working. Back then a milk man delivered milk to our back step and we had a metal milk box with a lid. Many times we kept food in that box (during the winter of course). We had a bread man too. We would love when the bread man came to deliver because he also had boxed donuts in the truck too and we would beg our mother to buy a box of those donuts. Generally she would refuse. But we kept trying. Oh how I long for the days of old.
I am in my sixties, and remembe my mother paying for delivered milk once in silver dollars. I suspect that time will return, and in the not too distant future. I get it that people maybe can't afford gold; however, some pre-1965 US coins (so called "junk" silver) would be good to have on hand for times of crises. A little over 20 bucks an ounce right now. Canada minted one year later.
I take two clay flower pots and bolt them together so the smaller one doesn’t contact the floor and the using washers, close the hole in the top, (formerly bottom) Using a work lamp and an incandescent bulb, it gets set in the middle of 4 pieces of brick with the bulb facing up. I have a big tile it all sits on. The flower pots get turned upside down over the light and turns into a mini mass heater, just for the cost of a lamp as opposed to a space heater.
I have an idea I have been saving for when my kids are old enough to enter the science fair. I might just try it out this year. The excuse to be a nerd. I'll try a video to share it.
To cool things, check out "zeer" pots. Cheap, simple, works using just two clay garden pots and some sand. Do a web search for zeer pots. And for the sake of all that is holy and good, if any of the readers here in the comment section are using google, SHAME on you. You are just feeding the crocodile that in planning to eat you for his (her? zirh?) next meal. Instead use Brave browser with its search engine, or engines Yandex, Swisscows, Presearch, Freespoke. And no, they aren't perfect, we all get it But a darn sight better that using '"First do ONLY evil" Google
Thanks Lisa. Some great tips. When I was a child (a very long time ago) appliances were not very reliable and many times we found ourselves with a refrigerator that stopped working. Back then a milk man delivered milk to our back step and we had a metal milk box with a lid. Many times we kept food in that box (during the winter of course). We had a bread man too. We would love when the bread man came to deliver because he also had boxed donuts in the truck too and we would beg our mother to buy a box of those donuts. Generally she would refuse. But we kept trying. Oh how I long for the days of old.
My goodness! I love the milk man stories! Not pasteurized either.
I am in my sixties, and remembe my mother paying for delivered milk once in silver dollars. I suspect that time will return, and in the not too distant future. I get it that people maybe can't afford gold; however, some pre-1965 US coins (so called "junk" silver) would be good to have on hand for times of crises. A little over 20 bucks an ounce right now. Canada minted one year later.
Excellent ideas!
Thanks John!
I take two clay flower pots and bolt them together so the smaller one doesn’t contact the floor and the using washers, close the hole in the top, (formerly bottom) Using a work lamp and an incandescent bulb, it gets set in the middle of 4 pieces of brick with the bulb facing up. I have a big tile it all sits on. The flower pots get turned upside down over the light and turns into a mini mass heater, just for the cost of a lamp as opposed to a space heater.
Brilliant really
Look up rocket stove mass heaters .
Here American's thought they had the claim to Ingenuity!!
Thanks, for some good ideas.
I have an idea I have been saving for when my kids are old enough to enter the science fair. I might just try it out this year. The excuse to be a nerd. I'll try a video to share it.
Looking forward to seeing it!
To cool things, check out "zeer" pots. Cheap, simple, works using just two clay garden pots and some sand. Do a web search for zeer pots. And for the sake of all that is holy and good, if any of the readers here in the comment section are using google, SHAME on you. You are just feeding the crocodile that in planning to eat you for his (her? zirh?) next meal. Instead use Brave browser with its search engine, or engines Yandex, Swisscows, Presearch, Freespoke. And no, they aren't perfect, we all get it But a darn sight better that using '"First do ONLY evil" Google
They got Brave. I still use it and Yandex. They are the man who ate of the Earth and drank of the Sea incessantly.