Just curious who else is living super frugal

[FlaRocky]

Target: $19.99

Google "stove top percolator coffee maker" and you can find a lot of them...some cheap like this one, and some expensive....even the Martha Stewart model.

I have some of these. They are great when camping, or when the power goes out. I still have coffee.. I use mine stovetop all the time, the coffee taste better to me. Maye Ride the Glide.....Got Gait....I Do....

 

[ScottnLydia]

Luluann, you probably already have some 'motion sensor lights', but get some more. Also, check out "wireless driveway alarms". They are designed to make a doorbell like sound or 'buzz' when somebody breaks an invisible, infrared beam which you could put across your gate. Place the 'bell' outside with the volume turned up, as soon as someone (including yourself) comes into your yard, "Ding-Dong"! Like coming into some stores. Hard to be sneeky when your arrival is announced!

I once saw an episode of Red Green, where he replaced the light bulb on a motion-sensor light with a screw-in outlet. He then plugged in an air compressor, with one of those 'silent dog whistles' attached. He said "At 50 psi, every dog within 300 yards will be barking their heads off! Everybody will be looking to see what's going on!!! Let's see a light do that!"

Sounded so good to me, I did it. It works. Awoooooooooooooo.

 

[luluann]

We plain ob doing a few more things like a hot fence. We also live on a dirt road with about 8 house including ours it is also a dead end road to and we are at the front

 

[mickey328]

OMGosh, Scott...that's just too darn funny! I have such a mental picture in my head! I didn't realize how fortunate we are to live where we are. We may not be zoned for goats and may not have as much property as we'd like, but we can leave our house unlocked and unattended, and nobody ever bothers us.

 

[ScottnLydia]

Nobody ever comes around our place either, except the occasional 'critter'. I just did that for fun, and to see if it would work. Laughed my sit-down-thing off when I saw that, so I figured I had to see if it would work.

I think that if anyone were to try to sneak onto our place at night, the sheep would make such a ruckus thinking someone might feed them! One ewe, Fiona, has a voice reminiscent of Bill Cosbys "Fat Albert" character yelling "Hay, Hay, HAY!!!" quite loudly. Nobody could sneak around with that going on! Except that one stinking fox.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that while cameras are good, I really like to scare 'em off before they do anything, not try to identify them from a photo of them carrying stuff away (done that).

 

[luluann]

Our dog barks... but she barks at nothing a lot or I never see it.

 

[mickey328]

Our three bark at anyone who walks down the street, leaves blowing across the yard...and lots of other things that remain a mystery to us. One of 'em is big enough that it just might make someone think twice, but the other 2 are ankle biters and would only make a would-be thief laugh at the thought of injury...but they do make enough noise that said thief or mischief maker might worry about folks taking notice that he'she would run away...and as Scott said...that's preferable.

 

[galanie]

OMGosh, Scott...that's just too darn funny!  I have such a mental picture in my head!  I didn't realize how fortunate we are to live where we are.  We may not be zoned for goats and may not have as much property as we'd like, but we can leave our house unlocked and unattended, and nobody ever bothers us.

It's the same here. Yet I have no dogs, no goats, and I'm in the city in an area generally referred to has "high crime!"

Being an old resident with a rep for being a nice lady, plus being known for having a gun close by and having a "Brinks security" sign by my door works wonders. Not sure which of those keeps me safest, But since I have left my keys in the truck many times, I'm thinking the Brinks sign is least important.

 

[DennisK]

I suppose most people have problems with thieves. I didn’t think anyone would bother to invade my place because I live more than 30 miles from town, and about 2 miles off of the county road, but my neighbor’s car broke down near me, and she had to leave it there a couple of days. In a very short time, her truck was partially stripped – way out here on a lonely dirt road! You just never know …. I have two dogs – one of them is a blue nose pit bull. She loves everyone. She is afraid to go out at night, and while our little terrier is out barking at wild critters, she stays very close to the front door. But if you want a real alarm system, try a flock of roosting peacocks!

 

[ScottnLydia]

Lydia reminded me that we're so poor now that thieves would probably leave us something rather than take anything!

Honestly, about the only thing we have of any worth (besides each other and our poochy) is our sheep. But trying to take them would be a full-contact sport requiring body armor, pads and most definately a cup!!!