Sometimes it really is just cheaper to buy.

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My plants, for now, are hanging in the pots in which they were bought.  Truth is, I really will need to do something else with them.  The planters are fine, as an interior container.  Add an exterior container and some sort of woven support and life is easy.  A few holes drilled in the side, a few inches from the bottom so as to create a reservoir lower down... plus with the outer area in which water could be added for a several day, even several week, vacation.

Buying an exterior container is beyond a doubt the only way I could go.  I simply don't have a means of manufacture that way.  However, there is a choice regarding a woven support.  I could weave that, it's just rope work.  It would take learning, practice, but it is doable.  The thing is it would cost as much to get going on that as to just buy.  Unless I had stuff just lying around.  I suppose paracord would work.  But it would break down fairly quickly, especially with plants that need more sunlight.  Then again, I'm not sure what anything purchased would have been crafted.  Just, I don't think I see any real savings by making your own.

Many things are that way.  Is it really better to buy?  Sometimes.  Sometimes it's the only real choice.  I suppose you could purchase a horse, or if you raise them for other purposes you would have them.  But would you really want to ride a horse to work?  Even a twenty mile ride every day, and back, would be a strain.  Yeah, and extreme example.  And one I wouldn't mind, just not in the kind of automobile traffic that would be faced where I live.

Unless things change, I'm not sure everything can be hand-crafted.  Then again, if the world changes back, something like houseplants won't be a thing.  People will be too busy just trying to live.  There simply won't be resources for such luxuries.  Having to bring in water for everything, house plants just won't make that extra work cutoff.  We do live in a time of luxury, know it or not.  Even the middle class and poor.

Actually, I honestly wonder if making the poor fat isn't part of the means of getting rid of them.  Any group who is socially and economically led to being fat, and yes... they are... are being targeted.  The ones who seem to escape that, however, are worse of.  Often drug dependent, often in several ways... both pain killers and steroids... they will be in ever worse shape when those things simply aren't available.

Just some strange thoughts.  I went to wash the dishes, but the water was just too cold.  Even with the cave warmed well, I am not warm, inside.  So I reset the water and will give it a shot in an hour or so.  I'll watch another show, drink some tea, and... just... think.  Later.