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I am only semi-nomadic. I am a live-in pet sitter who goes from placement to placement. Currently in a town house with a cat and a dog through Wednesday night. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

Since Visible sends you a SIM, do you need the IPhone past the app sign up? Could you just toss the SIM into a Verizon MiFi? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

Thanks @Francesfree! I have been waiting for a good price on the Ryobi circular saw. You made my day! Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

I work as a nanny too, how crazy! Cloth diapers have these zippered and washable wet bags. One of those ought to contain your wet washables until laundry day. Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Once upon a time back in 2013, I went on a date with a guy who never progressed past the second date. On the first date, all he could talk about was Bitcoin. I had a $5 and a $1 in my pocket and wasn't counting every penny so I gave him those and he gave me some of his stash of Bitcoin. Later on...

As a fellow nanny, travel nanny or Newborn Care Specialist are both things, especially if you have your home and can travel. There is no official certification for a newborn care specialist, though there are some training programs that will announce that you graduated from them. Those positions...

The Wake County, North Carolina, shelter is full so they are adopting animals out for free. I know people in Wake County who would let you borrow their address. Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Once, on a backpacking trip, I forgot my spoon too! I lack wood carving skills, so I just reinvented chopsticks out of twigs. Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

I understand the point of having a flare, especially a road flare... But a flare *gun*? What advantage for shooting your road flare into the sky? Certainly won't need to call down airstrikes in non-combat. Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

I have several brands of pee funnel (one in hard plastic, and one in squishy silicone). Speaking from personal experience, they don't help if you are a person who pees when they poop or poops when they pee. This is only for people who can do one without the other. Sent from my SGH-I337 using...

But if you want to go the Rocket Stove route, it certainly stores compactly, no need to reinvent the wheel. Just steal lessons learned from the backpacking and bushcrafting communities. https://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=111595 Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Not sure what the temperature was, but water froze in their water bottles. Also, no one was backpacking with a white gas stove, just propane, butane, propane/butane mixes, and alcohol. None of those would light. It was too cold. It was 9 people sleeping in a dog pile cold night. The thing...

For main cooking or for occasional cooking? As someone who has always been an avid backpacker, if it is a type of stove that works off grid, I have tried it. I adore my wood stove when it is too cold for liquid gas. And living on the east coast, wood is plentiful. But it creates a *lot* of...

Happened to me on my former car battery (I don't have a house battery). $100 later and a battery change that I did in the rain with borrowed tools from NAPA Autoparts and I have put that in my "Things which can happen" folder. No one I dealt with who had greater knowledge about cars than I...

Amen to this! I understand why people with Class Bs (and converting the van yourself doesn't make it not a class B) want these things. After all, they have made their own tiny-home. But for those of us who use our sleeping spaces as just that: sleeping spaces, a fridge and solar don't justify...

For a sticks and bricks recirculating shower, you can always do it Japanese style: scrub yourself impeccably clean in water collected to flush your toilet, then with your impeccably clean self, soak in hot water designed for reuse. Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

While I love a 12V appliance for slow cooking, nothing beats propane for bringing things up to temperature, quickly. I am in a Civic, but I love my JetBoil (from an REI garage sale @ $20) to make hot water. Gas canisters are $5, you can buy them from pretty much everywhere, and they are...

I am not a CPST, but I work with children regularly and have friends who are. If you didn't know, they make seats that are passenger/front crash tested and approved. They are more expensive, but at least you know that in crash tests they will keep your precious one alive and so they will do the...

I am an user. Which service is for what is highly location dependent. I am afraid that there are no broad pronouncements that can be made. Each of us can only speak of our own personal experiences in our own locations. Sent from my SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

I use my anger to make change in the world. It bolsters my courage to call that person and be an advocate. It inspires me to write that opinion piece. It allows me to speak truth to power. But I don't make life altering decisions while in the grip of anger because I tend to make bad ones. Sent...