disposable housing

DISPOSABLE HOUSING


I read or hear of people spending three to six years of wages ( before interest, four to seven after, even at such low rates ) on a house and it goes beyond amazing me. It transcends confusing me. It is leaps and bounds above confirming my very worst suspicions that the elite rulers are correct and almost every human in this country ( with most of Europe and the Commonwealth thrown in for good measure ) is a complete moron who must be controlled for their own good. You believe in human freedom, the concept of a man or woman controlling his own destiny, and the same people you want making their own decision on how much alcohol to drink before driving can’t even evaluate the value of basic shelter ( for the record, as much as I hate drunk drivers menacing me on a bicycle, I can’t condone legislating behavior preemptively. Once you outlaw drinking and driving without an accident, or not wearing a seatbelt just in case you wreak, you outlaw owning a gun just in case it discharges accidentally ).

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I understand that people value things differently. If some mouth breather wants to spend half his take home pay most of his working career for a pathetic stick built and sheetrock and stucco covered piece of crap because it will impress the bitches he wishes to spawn with, fine. It ain’t my ulcer, so why should I care? I mean, sure, I care when the colon exploring jerkwad whorebag gets the mayor to pass zoning rules that prohibit my building inexpensively on my own damn land just so his ever precious home value isn’t compromised ( there is another exercise in stupidity, WANTING to pay more property taxes so you feel richer, as if equity or expenses is the same as buried gold ).But if it doesn’t crap on my shoes, more power to you wasting your own money. But my audience isn’t Yuppie Scum, thank all the gods. My audience is a niche sub-sector of survivalist/preppers. Those that can at least grasp the concept of frugal living ( even if they can’t practice it ). And I say onto you, be aware of what you are living in.

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A house, in a fully functioning economy, with adequate insurance, is all well and good. But it ain’t a dwelling needed for troubled times. And, no, I’m not advocating steel shutters and ballistic protection. That, along with complete fireproofing, is just militia/Yuppie Survivalist eye candy. No matter what you do to a house in the wrong location, you still fail. Does that protect against that 500 year storm surge? Does it protect against property tax increases ( did WWII retirees ever envision $12k a year taxes on their $20k home bought in then semi-rural New Jersey? )? Does it protect you against a wrong address, no knock ninja SWAT team 3AM assault using an armored car mounting battering ram and flash-bangs, because your once nice neighborhood is now in a ghetto and you are next to a crack house? Does it protect you against the Golden Hordes coming from out of state seeking some perceived advantage? Does it protect you against job lose and foreclosure as the economy turns stagnant? No to all. Welcome to your quarter million dollar prison, a surprising strong structure keeping you chained, given its cheap ( not inexpensive ) and shoddy building materials.

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Disposable shelter will, however, protect you against those and allow you financial freedom and flexibility to flee. And cheaply rebuild elsewhere. I’m not necessarily talking about tin box trailers, but that is one possible answer. I’m talking about a philosophy, one that allows mental expansion. One that says, I need shelter. Not a treasure chest you think you can use for retirement. Not a show piece you use to brag on how studly you are. Not a stationary prison that traps you. Then, even if zoning traps you into staying, for now, in a run down mobile home in an expensive park, later you can use local materials to build with using nothing more than labor. Even in a park paying rent, at least you aren’t really stuck. You can walk away from a minimal cost. You can flee the state for job opportunities, not encumbered by a house you can’t sell. If the rioting torches your home, you can move to the next, which is easily and cheaply built. UN troops kick you out of your cheap home? No need to hesitate, just torch the sucker with them in it and build on the foundation once cooled. You should use MONTHS worth of wages to build your shelter, not YEARS worth. You don’t become indebted, you can move on as needed. It works now, in a disintegrating economy, and in the future during the die-off. Always treat your investment for shelter as a low cost, not as an investment you must protect at all cost. You want to die for a house?

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On other drivel, a quick word on a couple of books. “The Sunstone Superstove” by John Lago. Not an approach I’d take, I prefer the mud and barrel modernized Dakota Hole. But certainly feasible for Midwesterners. Basically, a steel cage holding granite field rock with a firebox below. You burn your wood hot, then later a thermostat turns on a fan to force hot air out of the box ( the rocks hold the heat, your outer shell is insulated ). Your only cost should be the steel and welding, plus the barrel stove kit and gas to go get the rock. Mostly sweat, not money needed. An interesting concept. Next, “Iraq And The International Oil System”. A former CIA analyst on the history of oil and some of the geopolitical occurrences up to the First Gulf War ( spottily touching on Afghanistan and Gulf War 2 in the updated paper book version ). Not as good as “Century Of War”, but a lot easier to read than “The Prize”. Until he tapered off at the end, a damn fine overview of oil and the middle east.

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