fundamentals-living in your car

FRIDAY FUNDAMENTALS-LIVING IN YOUR CAR


As a genius is rarely if ever recognized in his own time ( and, no, FemiNazi, it is usually a man not because a sister is oppressed but because those ovaries are much more potent an enemy of the mind than our gonads, plus by ignoring the curtain climbers and every other distraction outside a meal or two a day and bedding an occasional wench we can concentrate on one thing much better ) I have no illusions of being revered and worshiped as is my just dues. Rather, my stern and gruff warning will be discarded as the ravings of a lunatic. So when the economic collapse enters its over the cliff phase you will be seen looking on in dumbfounded slack jawed drooling confusion. So mark well my words here. This is your last resort dwelling, living in your car. Now, living in a car is miserable. You have absolutely no room, it is bitter cold in the winter and stifling hot in the summer. Hey, you could have been in a nice comfy yurt or something if you had pulled your Yuppie head out of your fat ass and listened to my panicked caterwauling. Here is how to take minimal precautions ahead of time to increase your comfort.

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Living in a car is almost like living in a travel trailer. You need to add insulation for it to be livable. You can’t use fiberglass insulation since that requires framing. You will need thin sheets of rigid board insulation, or wool blankets or squishy foam like they use in a couch, or the rolls of bubble wrap covered in foil. Whatever you can get cheaply and have the storage space for. When the time comes you cover all six sides of the vehicles interior. Let the sun in during the day and close back up at night in the winter, or reverse that in the summer. You are still claustrophobic but at lest you aren’t dead from the weather ( and don’t forget those little solar fans for summer ). Now, I’m sure you will all come up with plenty of objections here, but let me just say that compared to a tent or tarp, your vehicle is a luxury. But if you didn’t stockpile insulation ahead of time it is a nearly worthless shelter. True, right now they are an expensive shelter. But come the $300 a barrel oil, the middle east nuclear wars, what have you, a $30k SUV today will sell for between a loaf of bread or a few silver coins tomorrow. You don’t actually need the vehicle right now. I’ve advocated junk vans in the past. Take out the motor on one and tow that with the working vehicle. You have shelter now, storage, even a work vehicle if you scavenge or do yard work or whatever. You might want to look back through the archives for those articles. My brilliance combined with the insights in the comments section make for a great read.

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A rifle without ammunition is a nifty club but not worth much else. An auto without gas is nothing other than a rain port or a greenhouse. If you add insulation it makes a decent sleeping chamber also. The greenhouse idea is not bad at all, and I salute a minions suggestion for it ( a minion also suggested old windshields from autos being used as a ground stabilizer to combat mud stuck vehicles, but no matter how well held together the glass I still feel weird about putting $100 tires on top of them ). Yes, you would have to minimize your concerns about toxic formaldehyde being leeched out of the plastic and upholstery in the sun. You have other things to worry about rather than cancer in a couple of decades, like eating now and staying alive. Getting windows intact out of abandoned vehicles and framing them into a greenhouse might be close to impossible, but a vehicle is ready made for growing. Throw in a bit of plastic and a drain hose, in goes the compost and out come tasty if slightly poisoned food. And heck, you might not even need to buy those greenhouses. Plenty of vehicles will be left around. Folks will discover the hard way that their second most valued property is next to worthless. Your house, the one your silly ass spend a quarter million for, most of your lifetime’s wages, the one made of warped wood and sheetrock, is worth pretty close to zero now. As soon as the electricity and natural gas are shut off they are worthless. And without affordable gasoline their vehicle, already overpriced to bribe off retired Union workers or pay back government bail-outs and mergers with other companies ( when you buy Budweiser beer, you aren’t paying for quality ingredients or superb taste, you are paying off the merger by fuzzy foreigners- boycott Bud!! ), the cars are worthless. Even the first squatters will soon abandon them if they aren’t insulated.

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Cars of the future. Good for greenhouses, new houses, bullet stops surrounding a compound, for horse drawn wagon after the engine is removed.

END FUNDAMENTALS-MORE DRIVEL BELOW.

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A short word on the “wisdom” of the saying Time Is Money. I hate that saying. Time is money implies that you can’t waste any time, that every waking second is devoted to earning money. Work harder, work faster, great haste and precision! Put your backs into it you scurvy dogs! Time is nothing more than a yardstick of your life. Time is life units. Wasting too much time earning money is time you never get back. And money is taxed, regulated, stolen. It is worth far less than it first appears. Time though, time you could be enjoying by not working, that become worth more every day you are alive. I don’t mean being slothful and lazy. Relaxation is only meaningful after hard work. You need to do something worthwhile, which isn’t the same as making money. I know this will go over your head. You are off, busy earning more mega bucks for the spouse to waste and the bankers to steal ( you’re so cute you think your 401k is still going to be there for you ). But I try occasionally.

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