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Call the manufacturer of your printer to see if they can refill your old ink cartridges. Having old cartridges refilled instead of buying new ones can help cut costs and save the environment.
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I read a few articles about shipping container housing. It took me about five minutes to realize this subject makes your mind frolic endlessly on an imaginary (however not utopian) land. Those articles belong to some very respectable gentlemen (at least that was the impression they made on me, at first reading) ? that praise living in shipping containers.
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A 40 foot-long shipping container could reach to $1 Gary Jennings Jr Jersey ,500-2,000. I started asking myself questions about how this subject could become a solution for homeless people in Romania (that's where I live), where flats cost (at least) $20,000. And they're not 40 foot-long.
At the same time, Romania has a lot of peripheral categories: the poor Cody Barton Jersey , the old, the young, the unemployed, the pitman, the gypsy D.K. Metcalf Jersey , the orphan, the student.
Could they benefit from this recent discovery that living in some kind of shoe-boxes can be really cool and trendy? I'll try to answer that.
A few advantages from a Romanian point of view: for peripherals it's cheap, for artists it's unconventional the subject is quite green you can "camp" anywhere you want (Romania has not few spectacular landmarks) the result you get using shipping containers can be anywhere between "plastic" and "platinum", practical and fantasy, serious and ludic - you can move your "house" around. At least that's what LOTEK people are trying to prove by their "mobile dwelling unit" project. Earthquakes Marquise Blair Jersey , floods and sliding land are some serious problems in Romania, so being able to leave the place at a snail's pace may be useful. - most Romanians live in blocks of flats that pretty much look like overcrowded shipping containers (and usually inadequate to modern standards: water supply, heating, insulation, comfort etc). Could shipping container houses actually mean a reasonable escape? Maybe L.J. Collier Jersey , if they are properly transformed and adapted to living conditions. - A sad fact is that few Romanians actually have the possibility to pay $2,000 cash for a house-to-be.
If you are not a Romanian 2007 could be, in the optimist version, the year that Romania will join EU. Compared to Western standards, Romanian land properties are very cheap. Land-purchase conditions are the same for both Romanians and foreigners.
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