Posted on 05/02/2010 7:12:16 PM PDT by blam
We often stop by the Grocery store when we don’t need anything, and walk the isles looking for items on sale (with a long shelf life) that we can stock-up on. We have about a 6 month supply of various canned foods, rice, condiments, etc. and it was all purchased on sale. Buy what you eat & eat what you buy, and rotate your stock to keep it all fresh.
My tagline, exactly.
This is exactly why the Progs would never countenance a VAT unless it was added to existing taxes. IOW, they will always oppose scrapping other taxes and replacing them with a VAT.
Because a VAT gives too much power to the people. People can simply control their spending in order to control the amount they pay in taxes. That is not allowed.
See my tagline. If millions of people go on a “starve the beast” tear for a year, or even until Christmas, it’d get someone’s attention.
Smart Balance is available in a BIG BIG TUB at Sam’s Club, which seems to be what’s in the pic. The BIG BIG TUB makes it cost much less than at the regular grocery store.
I don’t know how cost-effective it is to have chickens, but, goodness, just a couple will keep a couple of people in eggs and those eggs sure taste good.
There was a freeper here years ago who posted her method of raising chickens without the hassle of having the henhouse to clean, etc. IIRC, it involved a movable pen or some such. They moved it around on their land every few days, so that they could then clean up after the chickens rather naturally and the pen area always was on a clean spot.
Anyway, that was the idea as I remember it and I’m sticking to it.
Along with thrift outliving this economic situation, I sure hope the Tea Party movement outlasts Obama and continues after 2012. ;)
Well, learn something every day! Thank you!
This freeper only had 3-4 chickens, so I don’t know how big the tractor was. But it sure sounded like a great idea.
Yep. In mother earth news they show you how to build just that. They clean out the ticks, etc. as well. I think you could modify their designs and put them on simple small lawn mower wheels with an offset axle so the bottom would just skim above the ground. You need flat ground though. And you could probably move the thing more than once a day. They are something like 8 feet square.
The design I recall was even simpler. It was literally just stakes with chicken wire. She pulled up the stakes every so many days and reset them on “fresh” ground. Again, this was just for a handful of chickens. They may have roamed free during the day, too, but put up at night.
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