A repair cafe?? Im not from the EU so I’m not familiar with the customs, but is it like a cafe with tools instead of food? Or is it like a community repair shop where people go to work on stuff?

Edit: I normally would recommend choosing to bike or get rid of a car if OP wasn’t about to go broke and cars make for amazing shelter as long as you can maintain them.

I know how to find people, it’s in my name. Thus I also know how to make it difficult for me to find you.

Learn to do things yourself. Let me give you a few answers

• Car oil change: $35 for both the oil and oil filter. Would be a little over $75 if I had a shop do it.
• compare prices when buying food, same with the amount of food in the container compared to the price.
• spend in cash, easier to follow a budget if you have physical money in your hand.
• buy things from the second hand market, my laptop that I use was $1100 MSRP, got it for $750. That’s a good deal
• don’t eat out at restaurants
• eliminate monthly services.
• fix broken things. I fixed my aunts AC window unit for about $10 with a used run capacitor from eBay. Would have costed a little over $300 for a new one.

There are lots of things I could talk about, and some of these things involve learning a bit, and some time. As someone who was without a job for the entirety of COVID, it forces you to be thrifty.

That is some pure innocence right there.

No I haven’t seen it.

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Other people have amazing reasons not to come, so Im not going to add on to that regard. But if your coworker chooses to come, here are some points to take into account when traveling

• Don’t make it look like you going to be staying for a while.
• Be the gray man: don’t take it literally, but don’t dress fancy or to rugged. Blend in. If someone takes a photo of you walking by someone else, you don’t want them to say “yeah he went over there”.
• be situationally aware: don’t be the bumbling idiot with a phone in there hand and earbuds in when walking in public. Keep your head up, wear sunglasses so people can’t see where your looking. Stay alert.
• avoid the bad areas: do extensive research on the area your going.
• Cash is king: harder to track and create a profile about your purchases with cash. Don’t carry to much otherwise that is a good questioning point
• shit hits the fan: if you noticed your being followed, stay calm and keep moving, make it look like your stoping in a store and go out the back door. Keep a change of clothes, hat and sunglasses. I’m not an expert on evasion but there are plenty of guides out there
• don’t bring your personal electronics, use 2nd hand burners for your travels, just use them a bit before coming as to not raise suspicion.

Same here, while this was a few years back it’s still relevant. My girlfriends parents are helicopter parents and would have a back door into everything if they could. So the one day I noticed that her mother had said to me that she doesn’t mind us going to movies two weeks from then. This was only said between the two of us in a text. This was a good opportunity to switch her over to signal. She asked me if there is a way to check if she was in anything else so I had her change password and move over to a password manager instead of the paper notebook in her room that her mother probably looked through.

Only a week later her mother did look through that notebook at one point for passwords because because she openly asked for it one day “so she could check her school email for scholarship information”, didn’t ask for just the password, but the whole notebook. From what I remember my girlfriend had a conversation with her mother about privacy that would turn into an argument.

Moral of the story, even people you are told you are supposed to trust aren’t trustworthy.

I get about 7 hours ish, but I wish I could get 8 hours. It’s amazing how much an hour can do but I feel amazing on 8 hours in the morning but sometimes feel like a zombie on 7 hours.

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Sounds like a badass dream if you ask me. You beat the ever living crap out of a ghost.

On the weekend I will go for a 8.5mi hike to a abandoned fire tower and eat lunch. Same hike but I always see something different.

Please apologize to the tree that produced the oxygen you breathe.

According to your logic, a 2wd w/ snow tires will be a 4wd w/ snow tires AND even with a locking rear diff. Have you ever been off roading or gone up a icy slope in the winter?

You live in canada, so buy something with both 4wd / 2wd. Having 2wd for the summer will save you gas money, and having 4wd means its safer to drive in snow (regarding safety from your vehicle and not others).

Make sure to check the oil dip stick and transmission dip stick too. And if the car is already when you get there turn it off first thing and just look through car.

I’m from the states, but what’s stopping one from removing the modem or snipping the antenna?

You can still run around in the woods with good stick regardless of age. I still do it with my nephews.

People who call putting an ipad in front of their kid “parenting”.

Run around in the woods with a good stick.