With respect someone who stayed homeless for that long must either have done so due to personal preference, drug abuse or disability.

There is a significant difference between an itinerant laborer and a homeless person.
You can work for accommodation and food, the accommodation could be a farmer allowing you to sleep in a barn or set up a tent as this costs them nothing.
Itinerant workers often carry tools if only for show, tell everyone they are passing through on the way to somewhere else and are looking for work.
Lumber yards, brick yards, cement pouring yards- these places have little that can be stolen, the workers are tough to begin with and they may find the prospect of overnight security appealing.

You may find work at night as a concierge in a small hotel/ whore house, you will actually earn decent pay, use the hotels laundry facilities and sleep during the day which is a great deal safer.
Nobody ever wakes up someone in uniform, it's universally assumed that you're just overworked and "I work nights" is a legitimate excuse for falling sleep anywhere.

Many people take jobs that involve travel and so will get accommodation vouchers. Truck drivers, stewards, marine work, primary industry work, cattle, even traveling salesmen.

I would look at jobs that already force people to stay away from home before a non traditional income like pan handling.

Many people do some kind of performing art, huge variety. My favorite are musicians who carry a mouth acordian because these are inexpensive and lightweight.
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On shoe repair:
This is a very specific issue which actually warrants some coverage.

You can get shoes from thrift shops, begging outside a shoe store can quickly get you a cheap pair of shoes from a guilty shopper.
Shoes are often stolen from stores, but anything you can think of store security have seen a hundred times before. I'm not going to tell you how to shop lift but bear in mind security will be far harder on someone who's not a customer than a customer who also steals.

I generally recommend putting cardboard insoles in your shoes immediately, because you can discard an infinite number of cardboard insoles but washing cheap shoes often damaged them.

To sew shoes there's a very specific techniques.
>rejoining the sole to the top
You need two strips of pliable plastic, ideally thicker than a zip lock bag but thinner than a plastic water bottle- either however is better than nothing.
You will need strong thread, thin wire, or plastic cord.
Electrical cables from junk electronics are perfect, if you split them they are full of these tiny copper wires.
You will need a punch,not a knife. Make one out of a sharpened piece of wire from a fence- finally barbed wire does you a favor.

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Getting off the street can be difficult and is not something to think lightly about. I've been homeless about 7 different times since age 11 or so. It doesn't really get any easier each time, neither, and thankfully I haven't had to sleep outside or in my car, but I did sleep under my desk at my first job for about 2 months, and got some weird looks for it. Really, anything is doable if you can get a shower and clean your clothes.
Not having a permanent address is a pain in the ass, but you can feasibly use the address of an abandoned house or something, though I haven't tried doing that before, and it meant for me having to use a family member's address. At least in the US, you'll need to get your social security card and a state ID, and most likely your birth certificate with multiple proofs of residency to get your ID. YMMV. So long as your criminal record isn't fucked, getting an apartment requires about 3 months rent up front besides needing a security deposit for incidentals or pets. Check out >>>387 for advice on doing that part and DO NOT SKIP ANY STEPS. If you can rent a room or get into a shelter, if you gotta get sober, if you need a phone, if you need a car, it's ALWAYS best to do as many of those things up front instead of raw-dogging homelessness. You might end up having to live in with the worst roommate ever or in a motel, at least you can hopefully change your situation to find a better roomie, a cheaper spot, something, as long as you can minimize your exposure, because exposure can and will wreck you quicker than anything else you can prepare for. Don't do stupid shit that can put your ass in jail while you're on the street because it means you will be starting out from scratch. I've heard that as long as you have an ID you can get into a halfway house, and it doesn't even have to be legit, that it can literally say you're Elmo, taped together, or whatever, though I don't know anything about how well that works. There is likely a waiting list depending on your area additionally.
Spend as much of your time while homeless looking for a way out, because it definitely is a choice (and not a good one) to stay out on the street, and it's only getting harder by the year.

Buying physical metals is for retards. The mints don't sell it to you at spot price - you have to pay a markup.

Only countries buying literal ship loads of precious metals get it close to spot price.


While the metals may hold their value well compared to fiat currency, it could be years before your investment claws back the markup you paid.

Much better to financially expose yourself to precious metals by buying an ETF, or shares of mining companies.

>>4528
Etfs no, mining shares yes

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>>4528
I'm not one of those kind of retards who shills gold only as the only real asset etc. but yeah you pay a premium and no it isn't always bad. Sometimes the premium is worth it. I had a couple of little bars (mostly for the cool factor of having shiny gold 1 oz bars) but it was like a 2% premium for a total of ~$2,200 each...

>>4340
It was widely discussed. People were very adamant about how inflation was due to market conditions and not the fact that the currency supply exploded overnight.

>>4574

Yeah, what you said made sense in 1812, things have m ed on in the last two hundred years
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>>4538

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>>4343
Day of the pillow soon.

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Cos they eat too much.

I work with one that flaunts the jet skis and dune buggies, drives the $80,000 trucks, and can't read the room. Big things are happening with that guy, at least that's what he tells us. He started wearing suits to the office trying to have it catch on (button up / no t-shirts is the standard at the moment)... What a boob punch.

>>4212
Well BEANed

>>3621
Beans are very high in oxalate and will absolutely fuck your kidney up if you overeat them for a long time.

>>4334
just soak them before hand brother. if youre concerned about anti nutrients alot of them can be voided with peppers/tomato/lime. I love a good pot pre soaked then boiled a couple hours with garlic/onion/jallepeno and maybe some ham.

>bitcoin
>privacy
You meant to type Monero right?

>>4245
invest 10% of it in bonds and the rest in voo. lowest mgmt fees of all the s&p500 tickers.

>>4245
Any time you get any large sum of money, you need to invest in something that is stable. So long as it is stable and pays out faster/higher than the amount you'd lose from inflation. That money is leverage, and that leverage is what you can use to either make your life better (invest it in tools that make earning money easier), or worse (waste it on dogshit like a home gym, sports cars or drugs)

>>4333
>invest in bonds
bonds earn and pay out less than the amount shown via the Real Inflation Rate of ~4.5% (calculated by comparing prices from gas, products made directly from raw resources (furniture), basic food dishes with low overhead (fast food, etc), etc)

>>4347
>I know in California you often see Mexicans hanging out around Home Depots and certain gas stations waiting for work in fields and other places
Is it really like that? I assumed it to be an urban myth.

>>4347
Your better off enlisting in the military in a field that you can work overseas, then leaving the USA.

Housing prices are never going down, it's over.

>>4352
in some regards, it really is like that. They're cheap, but despite the meme, they're terrible workers. They will fuck your shit up, sometimes steal crap, etc. The entire industry has adapted to using these people for labor because they're cheap, but this only just means that there are no entry positions for anyone who isn't illegal, and it has done a lot to ensure the enshittification of a lot of different sectors of several industries.

It's the same way with H1B's as well, for similar reasons