Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition Category: Roundups | Comments(15)
Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.
To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.
The Frugal Roundup
How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)
Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)
Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)
Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)
40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)
Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)
5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)
A Few Others I Enjoyed
* 4 Quick Tips for Getting Out of a Rut * Young and Cash Rich * Embracing Simple Style * First Trading Experience With OptionsHouse * The Exponential Power of Delayed Consumption * How Much Emergency Fund is Enough? * 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind * Save Money On Car Insurance
I had heard of flash floods back in the hills when I was a kid.
This is the first one I had ever seen in the city.<<<
The fools decide that there has been no water in a wash for years, so it can be filled in and built on.
Then comes the big rain and that water is going some place, if the old channels are shut off, they will find new ones.
Fools across the street and adjoining my land built last year and they filled in washes that I have seen wash out the road, one on the edge of my property.
projecting a depression that will rival the Great Depression of 1929. Gerald Celente, founder of The Trends Research Institute, which the Los Angeles Times once described as the “Standard and Poors of Popular Culture,” forecasts “Food riots, tax protests, farmer rebellions, student revolts, squatter digins, homeless uprisings, tent cities, ghost malls, general strikes, bossnappings, kidnappings, industrial saboteurs, gang warfare, mob rule, terror” by 2012 in the latest edition of The Trends Journal. <<<
From your link...
Exactly what you will hear happening now on the police scanners.
LOL, I won’t be petting any bears.
Purr Baby is an amazing kitten, so smart and on the ball.
She does the best she can with her missing leg, she still attempts to use it and that has to hurt.
Some folks are slow learners.
Even I would not care to put out food for some of the animals.
Somehow, I do not see the ‘o’ family making chili.
So someone added their name, copy it and put yours in the title.
LOL, there is no way to escape the ‘o’ for the next 3 and a half years.
In 1811 a series of quakes along the New Madrid fault caused the Mississippi river to flow north for a time.
The area was largely unpopulated at the time.
Big Quake along New Madrid right now could kill up to 100Million...considering the major cities along the Mississippi.
Made my teeth hurt too.
Your dogs are very handsome, healthy and happy.
I love the tree, you did a good job on it.
Awww, they’re beautiful! They look so silky.
Was that photo on your Christmas card?
But their comments on immigration reveal just who they are.
Mother nature will not be denied.
My girls a quite a pair..They will be 6 this year.
They are not related at all. Both are rescues..Different as night and day in temprament.
Thanks for the tree compliments.
Just emailed the card to fellow fur face people.
They are pretty silky when they are clean.. Unfortunately they aren’t clean right now.
Bath was on the ‘to do’ list the week the flood happened.
Solly and my new rescued cat get along splendidly.. She washes his head very well and he tolerates it. He and Jackie are like oil and water still.
LOL so TAS wants to make a still....
Sorry, sometimes I just cant resist temptation...
Yes, you could make a still with your pressure cooker. Remember, distillation works on more than water though. If your water is contaminated with volatile hydrocarbons, most of them will be boiled off before the water, so you would have to vent it till you had it up to a steady 212 degrees at sea level for a bit. Then you would have to keep the temp close to the 212 temp. till your water has reduced to about half. If you go too much further than that, you run the risk of distilling heavier contaminants - the more concentrated it becomes, the higher the temperature will go.
Kind of like making jelly - after most of the water is boiled off, the remainder gets hotter and for jelly, 6 degrees above the boiling point of water (which varies by pressure/altitude)is the jelling point.
If you are fairly sure that there are no volatiles mixed in with your water, filtering and then putting it in canning jars, bringing them up to 11 pounds pressure would sterilize it with the 240 degree temps. Then you would have containerized sterile water. (Give it at least 30 minutes) You can even re-use lids (if you don’t destroy them removing them roughly)
It all depends on the input water. Gotta take time and think through your situation before proceeding - there is no one size fits all solution unless you go for overkill equipment.
In a really bad emergency, you can use your pressure canner at 15 pounds pressure and you can sterilize strips of sheeting, surgical instruments if needed. I think they suggest 45 minutes at pressure for that.
See what happens when you ask an engineer a simple question... LOL
Actually, if you needed ethanol in small quantities for such things as sanitizing a wound, burning in a alcohol lamp, etc. you could do that too with the pressure cooker, but you would have to really watch the temperature so that it did not get too hot and boil the water. Just make up your mash, let it ferment (excluding air with an air-lock) and then distill.
>>>You are just the man/woman I was wanting to talk to.<<<
LOL most others have wondered about that at one time or another... Old Man - (older than dirt) Name isn’t Dela - It’s just that everyone always says things like where’s Delaware? Up there in New England? So I try to beat them to the punch... Hehehe
>>>The Yellowstone caldera would dump a bunch of ash on me.<<<
Just imagine how I feel - downwind of Washington, D.C.!!!
We are directly in line - getting their stench - and only 75-80 miles away as the crow flies. They pollute the Chesapeake Bay and blame it on our farmers, then they flock to our beaches and deprive us of their use.
‘The brimstone, too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.’ — James Joyce
LOL, if I were younger, New Zealand might look good...
OK 'ol buddy! LOL!
Do you have a good recipe for that mash? Howzabout a link? I might just try making a few drippins with that new canner!
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