Off topic a bit, but a big problem with living in a house in Bangkok is the security issue. If you don’t have someone present 24 hours a day – relative, maid, anyone – you’re going to run a big risk of burglary, especially if it’s known a foreigner is living there – “foreigner” = “probably rich and thus worth having something to steal.” Violent crime is very low, but burglaries are fairly high. That’s why we’ve always opted for condos even though we’d love to have a house so we can keep a dog.
I’ve had LDS friends, and yeah, that was what they told me, that The End was coming and that they were Prepared.
Personally, I like to keep a fairly full pantry myself, but sometimes it’s a pain to remember to rotate all the supplies. Even commercially canned goods will go bad after a while.
Very interesting. A year of water? That would fill up Diosa’s body room in a hearbeat for me. And grinding your own wheat? That’s certainly back to basics. You’re right, too, in flood or hurricane prone areas, this makes little sense.
Hell, these days in Bangkok that’s just a good idea in case of extended riots.
Well, obviously I get why people hire cleaners to clean their house - it’s because cleaning houses sucks. I don’t get why people would voluntarily spend good money to a) create, b) maintain and c) heat and cool, a bunch of excess bathrooms which spend 90% of the time empty.
I figure on any given day I spend about 15 minutes going to the toilet, 20 minutes shower and get ready in the morning, 10 minutes brush teeth and hair at night. Granted I’m probably atypical among women in that regard, but I bet a lot of men would quote similar figures. Compared to the amount of time I’d spend in the kitchen, bedroom and living room (not to mention computer room) - that’s pretty trivial. It’s dead space!
Why exaggerate the statement? Of course people aren’t giving up indoor plumbing, but that doesn’t mean they have to embrace having more bathrooms than people and bedrooms combined. It does seem silly to have so many rooms that are not used, when you could replace them with much more functional rooms, or just save money and use it for other things.
There is a big contingent of people who are specifically trying to live completely within their means, and minimize extra resources, without giving up too many comforts, but even many other people balk at what they consider to be overly wasteful.
Lots of bathrooms have tiny heaters that you only turn on when you need 'em. I’ll give ya that creation is a bitch. In a lot of multi-bathroom houses, often only 2-3 showers get used, so you only need to wipe down the sink and scrub the toilet once/week, which takes all of 2 minutes. If you use 7th generation type cleaners, you can have a really young kid take care of their own bathroom.
My husband and I are big fans of living a considered life, and making decisions that are right for YOU, not just doing what everyone else is doing or getting the biggest house you can afford just because. We have a relatively tiny bungalow because that’s what we decided was right for us; you could argue that the two of us could live in a much smaller space (and they’d be right), but this is what we have chosen for now.
I live in a 2 bed 3 bath home and it’s great. I lucent myself but I have guests every weekend so it’s nice being able to give them their own bedroom and bathroom. The last person I put infused thought I was giving up my master bedroom for them. Since the two sweets take up the entire second story it’s nice having a bathroom on the bottom floor for partys and so I don’t have to walk throughout the entire house to use the bathroom.
For a while I lived in a 1 bedroom 1 bath house that unshaded by sleeping in the living room. Nothing worse was waiting in the morning when i really had to pee to get in to the bathroom there were several morning when I had to usethe kitchen sink. I think a minimum is 1 bathroom per person who is there regularly in the morning.
What a wonderful new-to-me word! I can’t wait to slip it into future conversations. 
I think getting extra bathrooms is one of the most understandable extravagances once you can afford it. Still, I have to laugh at the people who couldn’t possibly live with only one bathroom for an average-sized family. That indicates to me someone who has lost touch with the ordinary world.
You’d be surprised. It’s a large city, so there will be proportionally a lot of mormons in it. Not, say, as densely packed as Utah or parts of Arizona, but there are mormons in every city and every small town in this country.
You’d also think that Las Vegas isn’t exactly a mormon-friendly town, being called “Sin City” and all… But I just saw an uncorroborated statistic on the interwebs that quoted a figure claiming that 7% percent of the population of Las Vegas is mormon. That’s a lot outside of Utah! (Erm. Was that in this thread? :dubious: I forget where I read things.)
I remember reading posts on message boards from New Orleans area mormons after Katrina. Those who had resources were trying to help and share. That thing pretty much devastated everyone…magic underwear notwithstanding.
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