tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post5327068881338591639..comments2024-02-11T01:14:21.904-08:00Comments on SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA: Storage SpaceFerFALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-21803128589186939582010-08-02T20:26:13.219-07:002010-08-02T20:26:13.219-07:00Regarding giving stuff away at home:
During the g...Regarding giving stuff away at home:<br /><br />During the great depression, my grandmother would give handouts to the occasional hobo (migrant worker).<br /><br />She asked one of them how they knew to ask her, and he told her that there were coded marks on the sidewalk or street that told folks that this was a good place for a meal.<br /><br />He asked her if she wanted him to erase the marks, and she told him to leave them. I guess times and people were different, back then. They did alright running a boarding house, with an interest-only loan payment, and good credit with the local butcher. She was a good cook, so everybody ate well at their house.<br /><br />I suppose today that would be a good way to get robbed, but there wasn't that much to steal - the house didn't belong to them, and until it was cooked, the food was not worth that much. I suppose somebody could steal the furniture, or the pots and pans, but everything else was at the bank.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-27646608494870077222010-08-02T10:58:43.851-07:002010-08-02T10:58:43.851-07:00Some ideas:
FOOD STORAGE
1. Adjustable bed riser...Some ideas:<br /><br />FOOD STORAGE<br /><br />1. Adjustable bed risers, for example these from Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Adjustable-Bed-Risers/5148131<br /><br />2. You'll want to hide that ugly pile under your bed, so get an extra long bedskirt, like this: http://www.preciousbedding.com/full-bedskirts-c-91.html<br /><br />Don't worry about the inconvenience of climbing into and out of an extra high bed. It's balanced by the convenience of...well...you and your wife/girlfriend will find out soon enough.<br /><br />EMERGENCY HEAT AND COOKING<br /><br />3. If your condo has a patio or small deck, consider an outdoor storage bench like this: http://www.instylepatio.com/patio-accessories-outdoor-storage.html. An ideal place to store your propane camp stove and a few bottles of propane, outside.<br /><br />WATER STORAGE<br /><br />4. When storing water, remember that smaller bottles are easier to find space for. Consider buying cases of 16-oz bottles, and packing the bottles around the plumbing under your kitchen and bathroom sinks.<br /><br />5. Get a dining table with storage underneath, like this: http://www.tables21.com/IVG2/N/ProductID-49632.htm. Move some of your kitchen equipment out of your base cabinets and put it there. Make it the equipment that you use at the table: cheese grater, pepper mill, iced tea pitcher, coffee press, ceramic teapot. <br /><br />Hopefully you just made some room in your kitchen base cabinets. With that extra room, store gallon jugs of water all the way in the back. Then put a piece of sturdy cardboard in front of them, so your pots and pans don't bash into the bottles and puncture them. Put a big date on the cardboard if you want, so you remember to rotate them out. Now you only have the front 15 inches of cabinet shelf for kitchen equipment, but, if it lives all the way in the back of your base cabinet, you weren't using it anyway. So move some of that kitchen gear to the dining room table storage, or get rid of it. By the way, a standard 30 inch wide kitchen cabinet (two doors wide) can hold four gallon jugs across.<br /><br />Hope these few suggestions get you started.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-71317209488844156532010-08-02T08:38:41.066-07:002010-08-02T08:38:41.066-07:00Here is a good storage space idea:
My husband jus...Here is a good storage space idea:<br /><br />My husband just built me a window-seat to fit under a bedroom window with a high sill. Now I can sit and look out the window, and I've also gained lots of storage space under it.<br /><br />It was cheap to make: a few 2x4 boards and two shipping pallets. I covered the ugly lumber with a pretty skirt made from a bed sheet, and we cushioned the seat with a twin-bed mattress that we got from a friend. Total cost was well under $20.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-75473519753152779752010-08-02T01:25:26.015-07:002010-08-02T01:25:26.015-07:00Store only as much as can be stored in your reside...Store only as much as can be stored in your residence, the balance of funds can go into gold and silver. Moving supplies in later, all at once and at the time it's needed can only alert the neighbors and be very risky in the process. Of course that won't be the case as the wife is hopefully supportive. If not, that's when a small storage unit, the last resort, might be necessary. If so, have the means to move it quickly. A secure enclosed trailer might be worth the price.<br /><br />aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-47862286614052024482010-08-01T20:35:10.938-07:002010-08-01T20:35:10.938-07:00Hi FerFal,
thats a fantastic example of the diffe...Hi FerFal,<br /><br />thats a fantastic example of the difference FerFal and joe average about his age in EUSA:<br /><br /><br />You:<br />" by selling a used xbox ...and finance something much more important for your security"<br /><br />Others:<br />"I need security so people dont steal my Xbox"Maldekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691520628595107662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-46626344794366874262010-08-01T12:59:08.962-07:002010-08-01T12:59:08.962-07:00At one point toward the end of college I rented a ...At one point toward the end of college I rented a bedroom to live in. I had a month of water for 2 people, food for 3 months x2 and enough ammo to fight a small war under my queen sized bed. It sat a bit high but worked fine and was there if I had needed it.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09612373437033635765noreply@blogger.com