Still, cool website, I enjoyed a few articles there even if this one was very short.
Firewood is one of those things that should always be local.
And some firewood places like the ones the sibling commenter mentioned as well.
We didn't know at the time that it was the wives buying the produced back. We just thought we were amazingly successful shop keepers.
Last time I was there they had a milk cow full fillet/tenderloin (among many other things) for around $280 (converted from chf). The store is completely unmanned and you pay electronically. If there are cameras they're not obvious.
A delightful moment among many.
Nice place.
It's not even that I worry someone would steal the eggs that concerns me most, it's that a lot of people would probably think it's funny to throw them at cars or house/shop windows.
I'd love to live some where where this is possible... I heard that Lee Kuan Yew on visiting England in the 50s saw an honesty box and was inspired by how civilised the English were.
Not sure what's happened to us since then... You definitely couldn't do that now. We're like a completely different people. Although it's nice to see that this practise does still live on in some rural communities.
Also – the honesty "box" in that lead picture is absolutely beautiful...
Obviously you might get your car egged once - but you can get eggs anywhere.
If it's any help, my (admittedly very nice) corner of Bristol has a couple of honesty boxes for eggs and things about the place and I've never seen any trouble from it.
It used to be quite common to see usable household goods left outside a house for others to take.
Then they replace the sign with one that reads "$10- put cash in letterbox"
Within an hour, the furniture is gone, though of course there's no cash!
We get a lot of crime around here... The issue with an eggs honesty box is that it's likely to be a nuisance to the neighbourhood. If people are willing to smash windows, I doubt they'd think twice about throw some eggs around. In fact we got egged ourselves a couple of halloween's ago...
If you go hiking in the countryside, you encounter honesty boxes in small villages fairly often. I guess the fact that every knows everyone else tends to make smaller communities more trusting and trustworthy.
That's one thing about these, it's not that no one would ever steal them as if there's some magic in these areas that leads to zero theft. After all anyone can drive out there. They exist because there's little choice but to accept some losses since you can't staff a store selling small amounts of produce.
For all the comments along the lines of "society has gone to shit, look how nice it once was" just remember that theft still happens and these honesty boxes were always done out of raw necessity.
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-california-stores-closed-...
I feel self-checkouts these days lean back towards the honesty box system but no one see's those as quaint at all :p
It's nice to think there is some trust/faith in humanity once you get a certain distance away from the frenetic pace of life in cities.
On a related note, have recently finished (with my wife) a bottle of Adnamurchan whisky - highly recommended, although I'm more of an Islay guy.
Also spent 2.5 years living in Scotland - those blue sky photos are the exception, not the norm.
If you put one of these here in Buenos Aires, I expect it to dissapear in an hour.
But a long time ago I went with my wife for a few weeks to a small town in the mountais in the Cordoba(AR) province. We left the bikes unchained an unatended for hours. I expect a honesty box to be possible there. Except during weekends, when it get's full of turists.
I also have a friend who keeps chickens in Seattle (inside the city). He tried an honesty box for excess eggs, but they just got stolen.
The problem with sighthounds is they will lock on to squirrels, rabbits or other things, and running at 40mph will be out of sight and lost VERY quickly.
So we don't let ours off lead except in controlled places (like this one).
There was a dog with heterochromia and a llama nearby, watching us as we left the money and chose a key. It was quite the memorable place. For years afterwards my wife referred to it as "the hotel run by a dog and a llama".
This concept also exists in some smaller hotels, there it's called "Kasse des Vertrauens".
I think people who would steal something from them fail to understand that everything in society is based on trust. Stealing erodes that, and I can't comprehend living in a society were this concept can't exist. It seams to me that this is the meaning of society and civilization.
Edit: And yes of course that is all with cash.
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It does not seem to be much known in Asia, apart from as the source of whiskey.
I do not about the rest of Europe, but my feeling is that it is not well known.
I have been quite surprised how many people (from Asia and Europe) can visit, or even live in, the UK and not go out of London.
While Scotland is not unknown, there are certainly a lot of people who might visit who have a low awareness of what is there, and articles like this show some very attractive aspects of Scotland.
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https://x.com/KalhanR/status/1762703755462468045
We went viral as Oompa Loompas but we're just normal people:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2y59r89vjo
If not a theme park or safari, then at least a movie:
>A petition to to bring back the experience has been launched, while Scottish actress Karen Gillan has said she wants to star in a film adaptation of the event.
https://www.tiktok.com/@movieweb/video/7348892246982397190
>I would be a cheeky Oompa Looma!
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Mind you, I live in Edinburgh and the Festival has arrived, so I have an extra 100k people to walk past or through everytime I want to get anywhere this month.
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