We will be burning lots of 2014 ‘red, bur and white oak’ next year. We hope it was a good year for oak. LOL
You know, rich people have more fireplaces than poor people. Fireplace in the bedroom, FP in the den, FP in the living room.... And those people pay a LOT of $$ for that firewood.
Good point! They pay lots of money for the fireplaces as well, most of them being used a dozen times their whole lives!
Well, I have to be honest. It was money issues that drove me to burning wood. My home was electric. I could not afford the cost of electricity. I was working full time, going to school full time, and had a wife and two kids at that time. I put in a wood stove and a metalbestos chimney. Cut some wood and bought some wood. Burned wood for many years after that. Now burn pellets. Love the heat from a stove. Poor I was, poor no more but still like the stove to heat with. There were many times when the kids were in college or when they had braces on their teeth that I needed every cent I could get my hands on. Heating with wood saved me one heck of a lot of money. It was one way I could pay myself. I am very grateful for it all.
We're far from poor but still grow a garden, burn wood, hang clothes out to dry, mow our own grass, change our own oil, fix our own stuff, hunt own own meat, etc. Probably why we're far from poor.
Hey now, I resemble that comment! I love me the hell out of some Amazon. Especially for stuff like 50 lb. sacks of dog food that I didn't have to make a special trip to the pet store to get. Just shows up at my door step 48 hrs after I order. Atlanta traffic is hell, with the 5 mile trip to the pet store taking up to 30 mins. I'll take Amazon any day. Which brings me to another topic- the moving truck came yesterday, and packed up. Virginia farm country, here I come....on Monday.
Dave, just for grins you need to rent a luxury car and tow your wood trailer to that same grocery store next Saturday, just to confuse the bejesus out of folks.
Good Lawd! Artisanal firewood? Jeez, they can slap a luxury label on anything and find some sucker to buy it. "And over here we have some exceptionally fine white oak, 2015 vintage. It was sourced from an environmentally sound forest by a certified arborist, and carefully laid to the ground with a classic McCullough. After careful further selection, the finest heart section was transported by baby seal drawn sleigh to the cottage of a local artisan, who has a meticulously maintained lumberjack beard and only wears hand woven flannel- who hand whittles each stick for optimal secondary rolling flames in your fireplace. Each hand prepared package is offered in a pack of 3 sticks for only $17.95. Shall I place a couple of packages in the cargo trunk of your Escalade, or have them delivered as to avoid potential wood fibers making their way into the fabric?
Someone posted that here a couple years ago. Always a fun one to revisit as our membership grows. If only I could get $1200 for a piece of firewood....
This is a person who measures her wealth by her collection of material items. She compares herself to her neighbors, and ensures she has the latest and greatest items on the market. Otherwise known as materialism. She measures people by the clothes they wear, the way their keep their hair or whether they shave or not, and the size of their wallet. Her type of people believe in a piece of paper that really holds no value. Growing up I always thought we were poor. I had no idea what the real definition of poor meant. Sure we didn't have a ton of money. We burned firewood that my dad scrounged for. He never ever paid to have someone deliver a cord of wood to our house. Even in the lean times of wood. I recall one year we stuffed newspaper with the sawdust from processing the logs. You twisted the ends and burned them. It worked sort of. The thermostat in our house was always set at 62. Never a degree above. Though the wood stove would always keep the one side of the house nice and toasty. My bedroom was on the other side. I had an electric blanket that kept my bed warm at night. Yet even with a lack of money, every year we'd go on a one or two week camping trip. Mom cooked at the campground or made sandwiches. Looking back on it, I am very fortunate to have grown up like that. I consider my childhood to be have been a rich one. Not money wise, but experience wise. Sure other kids grew up in bigger homes, went skiing or to Florida for vacation. Many of those families ended up in divorce. Ah burning wood. Sure I'm poor if that is what you want to call it. You should have told her that when the power goes out in the middle of winter, your wood stove will continue to keep your family warm without a generator. Jason from RI
Well sometimes its very true that "poor" people burn wood, "poor" people also don't get that surprise gas bill either...well usually only once and maybe we run out of oil once a year too hoping the price drops before we really need it.
