Anyone who lived through Sandy should understand this. We went 10 days without power, luckily our gas line still worked so we could heat up the canned food, but people were getting beat up (and killed) over GAS for their cars during the aftermath. Smart prepping is reasonable and really this post makes me wanna do it…

I had the same thought reading this: minus the food and water, this is basically an inferior version of what I bring camping.

Those people rolling their eyes will be first on your doorstep when a natural disaster, like earthquake, hurricane, flood etc, hits. You can just sit there and smile at them with your mouth full of food.

The only thing more annoying than the “you’re crazy” look is when it’s followed by “Well now I don’t need to prepare, I can just come over to your house.”

Right? For me, it was realizing that, even in a non-emergency... even if a blizzard or hurricane knocked out power and it was hard for people to get out to get to a store that was under-stocked anyway... It would be so easy to just have some food and water saved up. Do I really want to be the person who has to go to…

You would be SHOCKED how many people hear me say that and immediately roll their eyes like I’m some nutjob prepper... Since when did have a week’s worth of food and water stored in the basement make you crazy?

Yeppppp. Just going by school shootings, I can think of maybe one off the top of my head that wasn’t perpetrated by one or more white dudes.

Mexico City is one of the greatest cities in the world.It has the best examples of Baroque architecture in the world. If you downtown go to the Cathedral. I live Near CDMX and When we visited Spain we when to churches and were like ah you call that Baroque. As for safety It feels way safer than some cities in the…

Don’t forget about the Moslums.

From solicitors at the store entrance to solar panel salespeople inside the store, I hate having to constantly tell solicitors, “no thanks, I’m not interested”

A couple of years ago I went to Mexico City for the first time. Walked absolutely everywhere that I could, and the only thing we avoided due to warnings was jumping into random taxis - we’d have the restaurant or hotel call one for us. Either way, the city was AMAZING. So much history, amazing restaurants, cool bars.

Bastards! They’ve already stolen your “.” key!

or just choose whichever one works best for you, because ultimately there is no such thing as a perfect app for this sad, grueling, imperfect reality that we all share, where everyone has a different situation and lives in a different place, where perhaps, just perhaps, there is no such thing as a universal truth

One thing that saves me a little time each week.... I searched for my house on Google Maps and chose Get Directions and copied that link. Then I made a shortcut on SpeedDial using this link. Now when I open Google Maps it opens with my house as the starting point.

Have you seen those mud ball seed bombs? Also the wrong seeds, but you can find out how to make your own on Pinterest. Buy or judiciously collect some native flower seeds, wrap them in mud, let it dry and then toss them into empty spaces

Legally speaking it is. Mine is $1500. My employer pays $500 into my HSA. My spouse’s is $1500 and his employer paid half of his deductible into his HSA. Yes, it’s a lower deductible than a lot of plans but it’s still a high deductible or consumer driven health plan. You can’t take advantage of the health savings…

It depends on what your needs are, a high deductible plan works great for me because I buy insurance to cover catastrophic events. I can afford to cover the high deductible, I couldn’t afford to pay for chemo and treatment if I get cancer.

My local state College, the University of Minnesota has a really good Bee research program. Possibly most fun is all the diy instructions they have for bee stuff:

This is nice! I’m doing container gardening this year. What did you plant that attracted them?