From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mphw
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Woodburning Stoves
Article-I.D.: mhuxh.21
Posted: Tue Mar 15 10:16:56 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 07:47:13 1983

Here's one for you woodburning stove people:

                _H_o_w _Y_o_u _C_a_n _S_a_v_e _w_i_t_h _a _W_o_o_d_s_t_o_v_e

  Stove, pipe, installation, etc.                            $458.00

  Chain saw                                                   149.95

  Gas and maintenance for chain saw                            44.60

  4 wheel drive pick-up                                     8,379.04

  4 wheel drive pick-up, maintenance                          438.00

  Replace rear window of pick-up (twice)                      310.00

  Fine for cutting unmarked tree in state forest              500.00

  Fourteen cases of Michelob                                  126.00

  Littering fine                                               50.00

  Tow charge from creek                                        50.00

  Doctor's fee for removing splinter from eye                  45.00

  Safety glasses                                               29.50

  Emergency room treatment (broken toes -- dropped log)       125.00

  Saftey Shoes                                                 49.50

  New living room carpet                                      800.00

  Paint walls and Ceiling                                     110.00

  Worcester chimney brush and rods                             45.00

  Log splitter                                                150.00

  Fifteen acre woodlot                                      9,000.00

  Taxes on woodlot                                            310.00

  Replace coffee table (chopped up and burned while drunk)     75.00

  Divorce settlement                                       33,678.22
                                                          -----------
  Total first year's costs                                $54,922.81

  Savings in "conventional fuel" -- first year                (62.37)

  Net cost of first year's woodburning                    $54,860.44