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I have never owned....a brand new vaccuum cleaner or a brand new air fryer.

Every adult seems to have a Dyson or equivalent, and an air fryer.

Vaccum cleaners sort of like the housewives equivalent to the lawn mower, that husbands are meant to own.
 
Does every adult in the US own a lamborghini? Keeps coming up. I thought it was an Italian car.
It is Italian. I had just watched a contest commercial where a new Lamborghini is one of the prizes.
Fact is,when imported into the U.S they're altered to meet our highway standards . They're not really 100% of their natural selves.

If I won one I'd sell it.
Shouldn't it be a Ford, or a Tesla?
I'm not fond of EV's. Ford or Chevy pickup truck would be more my style. Driving and hauling all in one.
New houses are hard to come buy, but new shoebox apartments are not. They'll be the slums of the future.
In our area kit house HOA communities are popping up all over what were formerly family, and even Amish, farms.

I've watched those kits being put together. Bad stuff.
 
It is Italian. I had just watched a contest commercial where a new Lamborghini is one of the prizes.
Fact is,when imported into the U.S they're altered to meet our highway standards . They're not really 100% of their natural selves.

If I won one I'd sell it.

I'm not fond of EV's. Ford or Chevy pickup truck would be more my style. Driving and hauling all in one.

In our area kit house HOA communities are popping up all over what were formerly family, and even Amish, farms.

I've watched those kits being put together. Bad stuff.
My dad's house (which I still live in) was a kitset home. He bought it new off the plans. Most of our street had the same. They are like shotgun houses eg you can walk right in the front door and straight out to the back. But the difference is ours was built of brick, while most everyone else's was built of wood or weatherboard.

He was smart like the third little pig.

Although...we haven't had an earthquake where I live yet. Just floods and some houses have burned down due to people leaving their heaters on or the oven.
 
Here its Toyotas. Everyone that needs a good car owns or has owned a Toyota. Originally from Japan, but also modified here if bought brand new and not an import.

I had a used one. Was good, lasted 8 years for me and was 20 years old by the time it died.

The hybrids are pretty good. Not so sure about the straight EVs though.
 
Toyota Hilux for pick up.
Toyota Hiace for van

I had Toyota Funcargo mini van. I could never go back to owning just a car. I now own a Suzuki Solio which is also like a mini van. Has to have headroom and able to carry compost and plants.

I could never own a lamborghini or want to own one, and if I won one, I'd not sell it, that would be dishonest. I would just say to the competition people I don't want it and for them to draw again.

Unless someone I knew like a friend or family member really wanted one, I would just gift it to them. They'd need to pay to register it and run it anyway.
 
Here its Toyotas. Everyone that needs a good car owns or has owned a Toyota. Originally from Japan, but also modified here if bought brand new and not an import.

I had a used one. Was good, lasted 8 years for me and was 20 years old by the time it died.

The hybrids are pretty good. Not so sure about the straight EVs though.
Actually it was 24 years old. It was first registered 2001.
They don't make them anymore. The Funcargo model I had.
 
Thing is its tough owning a farm, not that it was ever easy in the first place but a lot harder now even with all the tech. And not many people get to own farms unless they inherited it or have serious amounts of money.

You have to have good arable land or you will have to really work on it for several years to get it productive. It's much easier just to graze it if you own large swathes of it, or sell it, and then subdivide it for suburbs.

If you don't have a big family, it would be harder to work on the farm cos at least the family could help, and they'd grow up on the farm and already know what to do.
 
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My dad's house (which I still live in) was a kitset home. He bought it new off the plans. Most of our street had the same. They are like shotgun houses eg you can walk right in the front door and straight out to the back. But the difference is ours was built of brick, while most everyone else's was built of wood or weatherboard.

He was smart like the third little pig.
Wise man indeed. My home is also brick. The only building material I would ever accept in purchasing a home.

My house is inherited. Third generation build from the early 20th century.


Although...we haven't had an earthquake where I live yet. Just floods and some houses have burned down due to people leaving their heaters on or the oven.
That's sad. I'd imagine one has a twinge of fear from then on, having lost a home that way. 🙏

The houses near me were built,finished, in two days! Three if the buyer asked for a basement.

Two by eights,and plyboard,not hardwood.Plyboard is wood shavings and glue formed into plywood sheets about an inch thick.
Glue! Highly flammable.
And they're wrapped in insulation paper labeled,Tyvex.
I think it is a Dupont company product.
In huge red letters printed all over that paper are the words, DO NOT EXPOSE TO HIGH HEAT OR FLAME!🔥

Wrapping an all wooden structure. The majority of which contains glue!

And the blueprint for the HOA community streets was deemed a risk by the fire marshall.
But the developer built them anyway.

I pray none of those houses catch in my lifetime.
 
huh ok...interesting

Not. a cat? Or several?
Or maybe a zoo?

What would be a top quality vehicle for you?

Would you need to employ some people to look after your pools and homes? And some to drive your cars? Obvs to run a restaurant and the music studio. Maybe you could own a record label (can people still do so?) .

What's a cobalt blue stoneware collection? Is it a particular make, like IDK Royal Doulton or Temuka or something like that?
What would your restuarant be named? Karlon's?
no cats, zoos, maybe a couple of cane corso dogs. sure, servants. no, don't care about owning a record label. my main interest would be to get a band initiated with extremely talented musicians. cobalt blue stoneware are the pottery vessels back in the 1750 to 1900 era of america. the forms were cake, butter, milk crocks, preserve jars, barrel shaped vessels for large amounts of grains, salts, flours, seeds, etc. &liquids. the jars were for liquids solely. they often would have a cobalt blue image of flowers, birds, houses, boats, animals such as deer, landscape scenery, etc. too, there was yellow, red gray clay. gray was the best. blue was the color of the spectrum that lasted the longest thru the kiln process of firing the unit to it's desired density. a restaurant would be possible. the name would be: "Glorious Gourmet"!
 
She is
I think one of the few female ones.
And was mostly due to her business savvy. I am not sure what she does with her money I suppose she does what she wants with it. Make more music and videos and those shimmery gowns. She probably has several properties and a private jet/entourage to help her do all the concerts and tours, and her own fan club merch.
top level businessmen & agents assisted her income also.
 
no cats, zoos, maybe a couple of cane corso dogs. sure, servants. no, don't care about owning a record label. my main interest would be to get a band initiated with extremely talented musicians. cobalt blue stoneware are the pottery vessels back in the 1750 to 1900 era of america. the forms were cake, butter, milk crocks, preserve jars, barrel shaped vessels for large amounts of grains, salts, flours, seeds, etc. &liquids. the jars were for liquids solely. they often would have a cobalt blue image of flowers, birds, houses, boats, animals such as deer, landscape scenery, etc. too, there was yellow, red gray clay. gray was the best. blue was the color of the spectrum that lasted the longest thru the kiln process of firing the unit to it's desired density. a restaurant would be possible. the name would be: "Glorious Gourmet"!
What kind of band?
Boy? Praise? Rock? Rubber?
 
Wise man indeed. My home is also brick. The only building material I would ever accept in purchasing a home.

My house is inherited. Third generation build from the early 20th century.



That's sad. I'd imagine one has a twinge of fear from then on, having lost a home that way. 🙏

The houses near me were built,finished, in two days! Three if the buyer asked for a basement.

Two by eights,and plyboard,not hardwood.Plyboard is wood shavings and glue formed into plywood sheets about an inch thick.
Glue! Highly flammable.
And they're wrapped in insulation paper labeled,Tyvex.
I think it is a Dupont company product.
In huge red letters printed all over that paper are the words, DO NOT EXPOSE TO HIGH HEAT OR FLAME!🔥

Wrapping an all wooden structure. The majority of which contains glue!

And the blueprint for the HOA community streets was deemed a risk by the fire marshall.
But the developer built them anyway.

I pray none of those houses catch in my lifetime.
Leaky homes have been a disaster in NZ. Once the rot set in, just needs to be condemned. They used softwood pine not properly treated and had stupid designs like no flashings or eaves. Or monolithic cladding, which breaks off when gets wet like cardboard. In a damp rainy climate.

Nobody was even bothering to check with NZ safety standards. I could go on about it, but I won't. Just google documentary "A Rotten Shame' or 'A Living Hell'
 
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Pix of cobalt blue pottery vessels please!
i don't know how to post pics. the lovely Magenta sent me instructions & there was about 12 things i had to do. i really dislike this kind of soical atmosphere but cc is a fine collection of characters such as you, Magenta, carriepie, godsgirl, tall timbers & others. if someone was here & said, "karlon do this, now do that & so on, i would learn how to post pics. i don't have the equipment Magenta spoke of anyway. i often thought that if i was totally retired from the landscape biz, i would learn. you are adept at posting, all you have to do is search american stoneware pottery, 17th, 18th & 19th centuries.
 
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Leaky homes have been a disaster in NZ. Once the rot set in, just needs to be condemned. They used softwood pine not properly treated and had stupid designs like no flashings or eaves. Or monolithic cladding, which breaks off when gets wet like cardboard. In a damp rainy climate.

Nobody was even bothering to check with NZ safety standards. I could go on about it, but I won't. Just google documentary "A Rotten Shame' or 'A Living Hell'
what about the home inspection laws after a home is built
 
Leaky homes have been a disaster in NZ. Once the rot set in, just needs to be condemned. They used softwood pine not properly treated and had stupid designs like no flashings or eaves. Or monolithic cladding, which breaks off when gets wet like cardboard. In a damp rainy climate.

Nobody was even bothering to check with NZ safety standards. I could go on about it, but I won't. Just google documentary "A Rotten Shame' or 'A Living Hell'
That's a shame.

Money! It's all about the the money.

The HOA community near me has houses wrapped in that Tyvex paper before the plyboard/glue boards, could dry after days of rain.

As soon as it stopped raining, if it was early morning when the storm passed,the builder crew would be on site Tyvex wrapping the house. And it isn't treated wood their using either. Because in houses that priced starting in the mid $300's, that would make them costly to build.🙄

So now,there are countless houses across 25 acres of a former family farm with rain soaked wood, wrapped with flammable insulation paper.

And families, totally unaware, paying on a 30 year mortgage.

The first developer lied to potential buyers. Oh,there's going to be a community center,you can pay extra for a fence,which was never installed because he sold the property to a different developer, and on and on.Promise after promise.

All lies.
Because it's all about the money.

And those buyers could opt to buy the house furnished! Furnished!

Because who doesn't want to pay for 30 years for a living room set?
 
Leaky homes have been a disaster in NZ. Once the rot set in, just needs to be condemned. They used softwood pine not properly treated and had stupid designs like no flashings or eaves. Or monolithic cladding, which breaks off when gets wet like cardboard. In a damp rainy climate.

Nobody was even bothering to check with NZ safety standards. I could go on about it, but I won't. Just google documentary "A Rotten Shame' or 'A Living Hell'

😔Horrible.
Prison sentences sound fair.
 
That's a shame.

Money! It's all about the the money.

The HOA community near me has houses wrapped in that Tyvex paper before the plyboard/glue boards, could dry after days of rain.

As soon as it stopped raining, if it was early morning when the storm passed,the builder crew would be on site Tyvex wrapping the house. And it isn't treated wood their using either. Because in houses that priced starting in the mid $300's, that would make them costly to build.🙄

So now,there are countless houses across 25 acres of a former family farm with rain soaked wood, wrapped with flammable insulation paper.

And families, totally unaware, paying on a 30 year mortgage.

The first developer lied to potential buyers. Oh,there's going to be a community center,you can pay extra for a fence,which was never installed because he sold the property to a different developer, and on and on.Promise after promise.

All lies.
Because it's all about the money.

And those buyers could opt to buy the house furnished! Furnished!

Because who doesn't want to pay for 30 years for a living room set?
what a disastrous situation. hope for better days ahead. get some lawyers & strongmen on your side.
 
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