This Deserves A Reblog. With Blackouts Becoming More Likely Due To The Switch To Greener Energy And Countries

This deserves a reblog. With blackouts becoming more likely due to the switch to greener energy and countries being cheep-ass lets save money no matter what attitude I totally recommend preparing for yourself.

I dont really like making rebloggable posts but I haven’t seen anyone mention them yet: terracotta heaters are really easy and effective DYI heaters for cold emergencies and I think it might be helpful considering, you know

TDLR, place a candle of any size down, and put a terracotta pot (as large as possible preferably) over it, with something non-flammable and balanced to keep the bottom an inch or two off the ground, like bricks. 

The candle will heat the terracotta, which will put off heat, while the space underneath lets smoke out and oxygen in. I’ve used these all 3 times we had outages here in Maine during blizzards to keep my aquariums warm, the weather outside had been easily -20 F with high winds, and not only was I cozy, that shit kept the water 10 degrees above room temperature. If it can heat the aquariums, it’ll heat a small room.

They work so much better than you’d think, the heat they put off is insane. Obviously be careful because smoke and open flame, but they’re very easy to make and just need an eye kept on them on all times.

 Don’t touch the heated pot bare-handed, it’ll burn like a motherfucker, they get VERY hot. Use thick oven mitts or layered rags to remove pot, put the candle out first if you can manage. Don’t do more than one or two in a non-ventilated or closed room, it’s still making smoke and that can make it harder to breathe.

[ID: Two bricks are laid flat, two bricks are stacked on top on their sides. A candle is in a jar inbetween and is lit. A large terracotta pot is balanced on the second, higher set of bricks so it is above the candle and off the ground. End Id]

I knew those buggers had legs or something. Walking roots!

If Crowley is asleep, then who takes care of his plants?

They band together and take care of each other.

It is a paradox but people are greedy, when they THINK they are stealing. We had a big cherry tree close to our unfenced property and for some reason folks thought they had to come at night and sweep it clean. We solved that problem by telling everybody in the neighborhood it is free and they could come and from that year on it never happened again.

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

I psychologist, ethics expert or some one really competent please explain to me why this is happening. All of these women are beautiful as they are. Whyyy!!!?!!!