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We've had lots of people sleep on our couch on and off, when we rented a large house years ago. Now, since we have a tiny house, we take our hopitality on the road. We invite ourselves to friend's houses, get them to invite people (we encourage them to ask those who don't have much of a social l...

Hey, you don't even need a major emergency. Our food stores got us through a period of unemployment where it would have been a choice between food or rent, had we not had extra food stored.

@TheCrazyphuck I invested in a cheap funnel at the dollar store and cut off part of the narrow tube at the bottom (otherwise the wax clumps it up as it starts to cool).

(continued) You don't trust what they say in an orphanage, especially any third world countries that have corrupt governments. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. Biological parents don't get to pick and choose what problems their kids might have. Adoptive parents should...

@zacharydaviddee OCC gives a lot of shoe boxes to orphanages in the Ukraine.

There are good HS parents, bad ones, & mediocre ones. There are also some good public school teachers, mediocre ones, and some teachers who should be allowed in the same building as another child. To those who oppose homeschooling, it is possible to be friendless and lonely in a school of sever...

@alexissommer Really? Because I am married to one, and he certainly isn't in a movie. He's not perfect, but he certainly does 85% of that list.

@SwArMD1 We're not talking about North America here. In developing countries, they don't have public schools, or laws to protect children the way we do here. Please do a little research as to what life is really like over there, if you are poor.The social programs we have here are just not ava...

@CyberLance26 Like I said below, different people have different skill levels or time constraints. I have free time in my life, but it is in short bits and pieces. A book is portable and can be read in a taxi or car or even in the lunch room at work. A gaming system for the complex games you lik...

It's tough but entirly do-able. Our family lived for a whole year in an Amish house.

That meant no electric, + a woodstove (had to chop own wood) and outdoor privy. No fridge either.

She appears to be signing, like in "sign language".