Must be doing alright to be organising them so neatly like that.

This wasn’t a hypothetical. I lived on apprenticeship wages for a few years

Yeah I don’t know either. I never learnt to drive because of the cost so I didn’t even have a car.

Its legal to build a structure (within certain limitations) but it cannot be used as a dwelling. Its ok to visit and you can even camp there or live in your cabin for up to a month of the year. Realistically you would almost certainly be fine to push the 28 days by a bit too.

If you are clearly living there its illegal. You can’t leave for a day and come back either, that timespan is from the whole year. Being stealthy is an option if you want to just do it anyway. You might get away with it for a while, but you might get caught too. Its not really a way to live peacefully though.

If you buy some woodland it won’t have planning permission for a permanent welling on it. Applying will almost certainly get rejected. You will only have permission to temporarily visit your land rather than live on it.

If it does have permission it will cost pretty much as much as a house. If there was a cheap way to have housing, even if it was just living in a tent, more people would be doing it. I suspect hatred of gypsies plays a part in it too.

I would build a cabin in the woods if it was legal to live like that. In the UK, it pretty much isn’t. You can have the cabin, but you can’t live in it.

I need shelter. It is illegal for me to live in a cabin in the woods and any way to do it legally is almost certain to be rejected - I looked, extensively.

So this just leaves renting or buying a house as the only legal options I have left. Maybe a boat, but locations for that are more limited and things can be expensive. Of the two choices, buying is way cheaper long term than renting and even pretty quickly short term depending on the markets.

Remember, rent goes up every year. Your mortgage value remains as it was when you got it. A 250k loan isn’t going to be so much after a sum inflation rate of 50-100% several years down the road. Or about a week if Reform get in.

Cast iron is fairly cheap and reliably buy it for life. Non stick pans are so delicate that you can’t even use metal tools with them and their handles are usually plastic so melt if you put them in the oven, and even then they won’t last more than a few years.

All of my pans are cast iron. For saucepans I have stainless steel. Never really had a problem with cleanup, what are you doing?

If I were living paycheque to paycheque

I would just reject consumerism and not buy anything. You very rarely save money by buying things, maybe some tools, or seeds/cuttings for things you can grow to eat.

I need a house though, most people don’t have 250k sat around. Of course in a major city multiply that by several times.

You won’t.

Could try and live the change you want to see. More people doing that may eventually achieve something.

Kinda depressing what numbers are considered impressive these days.

Remove the breaker and replace it with a coat hanger

Just replace it with a coat hanger, now your circuit will never break.

I would downsize my RAM before giving up my cat. My cat warms my lap directly which is more efficient than warming the room with the PC.

Looks down Yeah about right.

Ok, wasn’t going to buy EA games anyway

Warn people the update changes fonts then, it’s not like you have to force everyone to update immediately

Make your bad code public, it might help train an LLM

Let’s all just start self signing in protest