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It's really hard to do with one income. If you had a wife making even half of what you did her income could cover the mortgage and you could both live on your income pretty easily. It's the way society is set up these days. People buying a house as a single person in a metropolitan area are...

Looks like I was wrong about the 25 foot thing. You can get them 16, 25, 50, or 75 feet long as long as you order them that way.

Did you use the MRCOOL DIY model? My understanding is that it's intended to be installed yourself. The downside is that you can only have 25 foot runs to your room units because everything is pre-connected.

My brother designed his own house and even though he had an architect draw it up, there are things that turned out just weird. For example the downstairs bedrooms are huge, which seems nice, but WTF are you going to do in there? They have a recliner next to the bed like you're going to hang...

Needs more green, or possibly more brown.

I think the local KFC has literally mentally disabled people working there, maybe exclusively. I was pretty stoked when the combination A&W/KFC came to town because we didn't have a fast food chicken place in town. I've had nothing but bad service, wrong orders, etc. at this place but the last...

The foam shortage is also why it's impossible to get motorcycles or ATVs right now. No foam for seats.

Anyone have experience with mini-split air conditioners? My house doesn't have forced air ducts and I don't want to put them in but I would like something better than window AC units that plug up the windows all summer. These MRCOOL DIY units seem to get good reviews and can be installed by...

Just eat bacon for breakfast every morning and your pan will be pre-greased for whatever you decide to have for dinner that night!

Hmm, I just took out the double vanity in my bathroom and replaced it with a single. Do people actually use them? Do husbands and wives really stand next to each other brushing their teeth every morning? When I'm in the bathroom I want the place to myself and I would happily go the the...

Fermented pickles have to be refrigerated or they will keep fermenting and get super sour. Quick pickles aren't fully pickled so they will rot/mold if not refrigerated. Vinegar pickles can be kept outside the fridge indefinitely if they are sealed and they won't change much and pretty damn...

All pickles are good. Don't be shitting on pickles. I like the fermented ones a lot, but vinegar ones are also great. Downside of fermented ones is you have to keep them in the fridge. All hail pickles.

I visited a friend's house a few years ago and wound up using the kid's bathroom. It was kind of disgusting.

If you want to spend $300 for whatever the fuck that ignition system is, then that's probably an option. Personally I'd buy a regular kettle and a chimney starter for $200 total.

Honda small engines deserve their reputation but we have a lot of small engines around the place, some Honda and some Briggs and Stratton and the B&S are just as reliable as the Hondas. We have a generator with a B&S engine and we use it about every other year and it sits out in a dirty...

So the transfer case in our 2013 F350 had a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" as Elon Musk would say, at 70mph yesterday. I was going downhill, no trailer, no load and all of a sudden it lost power and started fishtailing. I pulled over thinking I blew a tire and put it in park and to my...

I bet that's a similar markup to the other furniture in the store. Floor space in a store staffed by sales people, delivery guys, janitors, etc isn't cheap. You can always sell it yourself and keep all the money.

I agree with this 100%. Yuppie sushi snobs are always talking about how it's all about the fish but you certainly taste the rice more. On top of that most people put so much soy sauce and wasabi on it that you couldn't taste the fish if you tried.

I agree. It's very good but I don't think I would recommend it to people just because it's such a bummer.

Don't trust the marks on the miter saw. Use a speed square or similar and set it to exactly 45° yourself. Same for 90°. Then, as Captain Suave said, cut it so you leave your line on the board and sand or hand plane to fit. People who build "perfect" furniture do it very slowly and spend far...

This is total bullshit you know. Fish is frozen on the ship these days and it makes no difference how far you are from the ocean. All sushi fish is required to be frozen even on the coasts to kill parasites.

Seems like it should have some sort of steel reinforcement. Unreinforced concrete buildings seem to collapse during earthquakes. I know they said they were building the community in a "seismic zone" but that seems a little dicey to me. I'd guess most people would just frame traditional sheet...

i know quite a few people who live in them and they aren't what they used to be, basically glorified trailers. You can get them built more or less like a stick built house and like you said, way more convenient than building. Some people say that the perceived stigma of being a "manufactured...

Electricians don't use the quick connects. They always wrap the wire around the screws. Source: My brother is an electrician.

My drill press and horizontal/vertical band saw are Shop Fox, which is the same company that makes Grizzly and in some cases the machines are identical except for the paint and stickers. Shop Fox is painted to look like Jet tools, but if you compare them, everything about the Jet is better...

I was right with you. If he was dead I might have quit watching the show with only one episode left. That would have been so cheesy.

Could be that the tester is just a POS. I usually test the GFI outlets for our cattle water tank heaters by plugging an extension cord into them and then dipping the other end in the tank. Works like a charm.

Hard to believe you could just straight up murder someone in the suburbs in broad daylight while being recorded by multiple cameras and get away with it. It makes me think that if you just decided to murder a completely random person, far from your home, with no motive whatsoever, you could...

It doesn't have to be money. You can do it with your own time too, if you have a lot of spare time and don't mind living in a construction site for the next 10 years. It would be very satisfying to fix up a place like that, especially if you can say you did it yourself, but you should...

I think people get carried away treating their houses as an investment. It is, but I would never landscape my yard or remodel with resale value in mind. It's the house you live in every day and who knows if you will even actually get a better price down the road for living with something you...

They need to put some familiar object on those things for scale. I never have any idea how big they are.

I heard a pretty funny interview with Steve Young talking about Tebow once. I guess he broke down some film with him once and he was blown away by how bad his mechanics were and the fact that he could complete passes at all throwing like that. He said something like "Tim, look at how athletic...

I thought it was a little odd too. For the wealthy film buff with absolutely no friends?

I guess if you're half Japanese and half Italian that is the perfect insult to both sides of your culture?

In Montana it's fairly lax but it probably varies from state to state. For eggs you need a license for over 9000 eggs per month. The license isn't a big deal but I think the eggs have to be washed and candled then and you aren't allowed to reuse cartons. Meat only has to be inspected if you...

I don't know. The chickens are definitely easier to do and probably easier to sell also. My girlfriend bought a couple of chickens from a couple doing it in North Dakota last year and they had raised 300 birds and sold them all for $18 each almost instantly. Their post on Facebook saying that...

This is the video that inspired my current hog project. I don't know what the climate is like where you are but I imagine it's a lot closer to where polyface farms is in Virginia than I am out West. You probably can't make the money that they do because Joel Salatin is super famous and a...

I shouldn't say you can't make the hay thing work. You can't do it with big modern hay equipment, but if you're going to get a tractor you can probably pick up a 3-point sickle bar mower and a rake for next to nothing at an auction or something and that stuff is fairly simple to run and work...

How much land are we talking about? What kind of farming are you interested in? Alfalfa is very good for the soil being a deep-rooted perennial and also a legume which can fix nitrogen in the soil from the air. You will never be able to pay off haying machinery with a small amount of alfalfa...

I used a Wagner airless sprayer in my house. It's a lot of setup and cleanup, but you can paint incredibly fast in between. I used it on the ceiling and for primer on the walls and floor when the house was gutted. I don't know that I'd use it indoors on a finished house just because it takes...