Day 1 of me spending nothing and being happy.
💥 THIS IS THE WAY. 💥
I have zero active subscriptions, digital or otherwise going into June. Not eating out at all either. With three freezers full of meat, bread to last the month, and milk restocked ahead of time, the only likely out of pocket expense for me in these 30 days will be fuel. I prepaid any bills for utilities and whatnot, so my transactions for this month should literally be zero.
This will be a fascinating experiment on just what I can in fact live without regardless.
Been doing that for the last 2 years except only 2 freezers. Don’t forget to stockpile extra fuel for the generator, in my case I can always use in the lawn mower so won’t go stale.
TOPIC: Custom octane fuel blends & fuel storage for 24 months
PURPOSE: Balance 87 octane and 91 octane fuel reserves for generator and car, respectively.
RESULTS:
70%/30% mix of 91/87 octane works in Premium required vehicle without triggering the fuel injector sensors. STP octane booster used with full tank. 1/2 of the tank is 100% 91 octane and the mix is the other 1/2, then octane booster applied to whole tank. No issues.
Fuel successfully stored for 2 years and then used by adding Stabil fuel stabilizer at 2oz per 5 gal. Fuel not used was refreshed with 50:50 mix new to old and new 2oz of stabilizer (and moved to front for first usage ASAP).
NEXT TEST: 70/30 mix without octane booster to see if fuel injector sensor gets triggered.
I'm playing with this to manage my fuel reserve, but also now doing some distillation and may attempt to do small scale refining experiment to learn how the refining process works and add some focused Chemical Engineering skills.
Funny this topic just came up. I just woke up to power out, just started the generator. Yesterday did a fuel run to replace what was used by the mower so that’s good. Strange that the power is out in three spread out spots. No bad weather to blame. About 5000 total houses out. Unusual to get power outages this time of the year in my area. I just did a generator check 2 days ago to make sure everything was ok. I have two, both Honda’s. Backup is good.