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Ring of Honor [26353]
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Qweeshon for the lungers
Apr 28, 2014, 1:12 PM
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I remember seeing a couple months ago a thread about composting. I'm gonna be closing on my first house next month and I'm thinking bout doing a small garden in my back yard next year, so I figured I'd start doing some composting now to have some good soil built up when I decide to use it.
For the composters in here, what should I be looking for as far as price range (don't wanna get a crappy cheap one, but don't need a super pricey high end one), and do places like Ace/Lowe's/Home Depot have them?
Also I seem to remember people saying you shouldn't put certain stuff in there like egg shells and what not.
Any advice is appreciated
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Oculus Spirit [75673]
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My first piece of advice is to wait until you've closed on
Apr 28, 2014, 1:14 PM
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the house to build your compost pit. If you start now, the deal is certain to fall through.
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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Agreed, but I was gonna start looking now to have
Apr 28, 2014, 1:15 PM
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an idea about what I want to get and where from
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Disagree completely. I would spend no less than
Apr 28, 2014, 1:17 PM
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$10,000-$15,000 and put it ALL on credit (before closing). And if you chop it up properly, you can compost anything, including humans. Also, no need for functioning toilets, just #### in your nice composter.
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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That's great advice, would you also recommend
Apr 28, 2014, 1:19 PM
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raiding my new neighbors' trashcans to get more material for my composter??
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Potentially. If they are hot, I would raid their panties
Apr 28, 2014, 1:21 PM
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instead. Dirty ones compost faster.
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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Do you find if it helps any if they are
Apr 28, 2014, 1:23 PM
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currently wearing said panties to help them compost faster since they're fresh?*
*Dependent upon hawtness of course*
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Whoa, you lost me there. But I think you are talking about
Apr 28, 2014, 1:26 PM
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ra pe which is illegal. So, yes?
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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It's not illegal if you
Apr 28, 2014, 1:31 PM
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yell surprise
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Good grief, Greenr. You're just being absurd.
Apr 28, 2014, 1:57 PM
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You CAN compost humans, but it still leaves evidence.
SOMETIMES I THINK YOU PEOPLE DON'T STOP TO THINK LONG ENOUGH TO THINK ABOUT THINKING.
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Heisman Winner [105441]
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Wat is this? Amateur hour? The cutting up / processing
Apr 28, 2014, 1:58 PM
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includes removing the teefs, etc... and taking them to a pig farm.
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OK then.
Apr 28, 2014, 2:00 PM
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I was starting to get angry. And confused. And a touch nostalgic.
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I don't think buying a composter is required to have a
Apr 28, 2014, 1:16 PM
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compost pile.
Also, PRO TIP: Congrats on the house, prepare thy angus to spend every phucking dime you have. Dear god it never ends.
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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That's the general consensus that I keep getting from
Apr 28, 2014, 1:18 PM
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everyone. Just got so tired of writing that rent check every month and it not doing anything for me equity wise.
Thanks though
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Heisman Winner [105441]
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LOL @ Equity in a home.
Apr 28, 2014, 1:21 PM
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Just lol.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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I hope, for your sake, you bought a basically turn key house
Apr 28, 2014, 1:21 PM
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Also, go ahead and pave your entire yard with cement. It'll cost up front, but it will be worth it in the long run, trust me on this.
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dont forget the green paint.***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:23 PM
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tmml. you are screwed.***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:26 PM
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Already been done did that, home slice
Apr 28, 2014, 2:32 PM
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got some drainage problems but I low balled the offer with the understanding that I will fix the drainage issue myself.
Yes I got quotes on it before I made the offer
Very good pro tip, same thing my parents suggested
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Lakebum is correct. No need for a "composter"
Apr 28, 2014, 1:32 PM
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All you really need is an area and you can go at it right away.
Go to Lowes and look in the garden section. Get you 4 green steaks about 3ft high each, and some fence to match. It's not really fence, more like chicken wire type stuff. All green, won't look bad.
Then throw stuff in there. Pretty much any food scraps except meat. Coffee grinds are good too. Also leaves, dirt, weeds, grass clippings...just not sticks.
Works good for a place to toss food scraps and general stuff around the yard that you want to remove but can recycle.
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Thanks for the helpful response, luvdemtgrs.
Apr 28, 2014, 1:35 PM
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Is that fence sufficient to keep critters out?
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Yeah, don't think you need to worry about critters
Apr 28, 2014, 1:44 PM
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I've never had any issues...and have lived in suburban areas.
Really all you need is 3 sides of it to be "fenced in" and you can enter/exit from the open side.
Mine is about 16x16 and I put more leaves, dirt, etc than food waste. If food waste is mainly what you are composting it won't need to be any bigger than a few feet square.
Also, by fence (look at Lowes you'll see what I mean) it's really just like green plastic coated wire. It kind of just wraps around and hooks into the posts, you can then secure it more with zip ties.
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eggshells (washed) are good, coffee FILTERS too
Apr 28, 2014, 1:59 PM
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NO fats (meat, butter, oil, human remains, etc...)
i've found that onions & bread don't do well either. And another Protip: Dont toss veggie/fruit scraps in there that may have seeds that'd be prone to sprouting in there. Like Pumpkins. Like MF'n pumpkins from hades
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washed egg shells?
Apr 28, 2014, 2:00 PM
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wut?
They gone get dirty again pretty quick. I wouldn't bother.
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just to get the egg goo off...***
Apr 28, 2014, 2:08 PM
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hope not.
Apr 28, 2014, 2:08 PM
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that's all i'm saying.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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Those feels...I was overtaken by pumpkins last year...
Apr 28, 2014, 2:12 PM
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I guess the previous owners carved about 40 pumpkins in this particular area, because I had what felt like hundreds. Although, they are great fun to destroy when drunk. I'd beat them with shovels, an ax, baseball bat, shot one, destroyed one with my bare hands...They're quite the stress reliever.
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squash bugs got all but 3 of mine
Apr 28, 2014, 2:14 PM
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then I left them outside too long and they basically turned into putrid pumpkin-like water balloons.
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You missed a golden opportunity...
Apr 28, 2014, 2:21 PM
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Seriously, if you get any more this year, let me know...We can have a session. I'm hoping I get some more too, I really want to get enough so I can stack them up and drive through them.
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If I paint my neighbors house orange, you can drive thru IT
Apr 28, 2014, 2:26 PM
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pretty sure he was burning tires in the back yard last night. All while his (or maybe not his) kids were playing around it.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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Your neighbor sounds like an interesting man...
Apr 28, 2014, 2:37 PM
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How many vehicles does he have in the front yard? I hope they don't get in the way of your 55 gallon drum collection. Your landscaping looks great, though.
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you joke
Apr 28, 2014, 2:38 PM
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but 2.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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It sounds like y'all are really good friends...
Apr 28, 2014, 2:42 PM
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He must be great for your property value.
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He HAD been renting the place out to a nice couple w/ kids
Apr 28, 2014, 2:43 PM
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and we all thought he was in the process of foreclosure (gotta pay for the benz, nomsayin')....guess not.
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You obviously haven't asserted yourself as the alpha of
Apr 28, 2014, 2:56 PM
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the neighborhood. Every one is always happier when your neighbors fear you.
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i'm close to doing something....
Apr 28, 2014, 2:58 PM
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however, I'm not certain whether that 'something' is going over there drunk & raising hell, or going over there with a homemade flame thrower. (Most of) The other neighbors are cool, courteous, quiet, etc....i'd hate to frighten them too much
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Nothing gets someones attention like writing a note
Apr 28, 2014, 3:12 PM
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of disapproval, posting it on their door, and unloading 16 rounds of .45 as they get home. I may or may not have fixed a neighbors yappy blue healers in the hood like that one time.
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just talked about that w/ the wife
Apr 28, 2014, 2:49 PM
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all, except for that last part....house down the skreet is goin for (well, currently asking) $600 more than our mortgage payment, and our house is bigger/nicer....just w/ shittier neighbors
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110%er [8243]
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I can get you into the 81, the classy side of Simpsonville.
Apr 28, 2014, 3:07 PM
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"Cheap"
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same place you mentioned in the tmell a few weeks ago?***
Apr 28, 2014, 3:09 PM
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110%er [8243]
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Nope. That land is in the 15.
Apr 28, 2014, 3:10 PM
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My rental is in 81.
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which schools is it zoned for??
Apr 28, 2014, 3:12 PM
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btw, i'm gonna keep axing questions with no real intent on buying this property....however, I am curious, as I do plan on building a medium to extra-medium sized rental empire
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and FML for having to ax those kweshuns now***
Apr 28, 2014, 3:13 PM
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HOW LARGE IS THE PROPERTY???
Apr 28, 2014, 3:18 PM
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the juan w/ the house in the 81
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The house in Simp. is:
Apr 28, 2014, 3:29 PM
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Bells Crossing
Riverside
Mauldin
I have it leased through next April, so you may just want to wait to pay me until then.
The land in Greenville is:
Oakview
Beck
JL Mann
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I just dropped off 3 lbs of compost. Where should I mail it?***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:34 PM
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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Mail it to the WEZ
Apr 28, 2014, 1:36 PM
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I'll pick it up when football season starts.
You think they have any problems holding onto it for me for a couple months?
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Will do. What's your paypal account #?***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:37 PM
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Charge it to Dabo
Apr 28, 2014, 2:34 PM
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me and him is real tight. He shouldn't have an issue with it
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Oh hai.***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:38 PM
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No, really, check tmail. Don't want someone else claiming it***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:39 PM
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Pics sent.***
Apr 28, 2014, 1:51 PM
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