Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition [Survival Today - an On going Thread #3]

Frugal Dad .com ^ | July 23, 2009 | Frugal Dad

[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

[CottonBall]

hmmm, my mother used to make a form of egg drop soup. Nobody in my family liked it, so she didn’t make it very often. I wonder if it’s an Italian thing, since that’s where she was from.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news161.htm

WHITE HOUSE SUED FOR HOSTING ONLINE ‘SNITCH’ BOX

By Sarah Foster
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
September 1, 2009
C 2009 NewsWithViews.com

[CottonBall]

Look up spaetzle... It may be what you are thinking of.

I love spaetzle. And it's so easy to make, while looking rather exotic for those that haven't had it before. I think, though, egg drop soup is completely different - more like strings of eggs floating in a broth. At least, that's the way my mother made it. How about your grandma's soup, Marmolade?

[TASMANIANRED]

And how long it rained.

We had the deluge that wrecked my basement Aug 4 and rain has been sparce since then.

I had about 86 gallons in the bank...but it is about spent now.

[CottonBall]

Big brother........

the clunker bill had anything taking clunker money sign a paper giving the government access to their driving data

the socialized medicine bill has a requirement that everyone give the government access to their checking and savings accounts

this is getting ugly very fast.

[Sparko]

You’re welcome - and thank you.

[CottonBall]

thanks for the vanilla idea. I haven’t heard that one yet and I’ve been reading most of these threads.

And I’ll smell alot better than using OFF!

[nw_arizona_granny]

1. Wal-Mart Announces Recall Expansion of Durabrand DVD Players Due to Fire Hazard
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2. OfficeMax Recalls Office Chairs Due to Fall Hazard http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09336.html

[CottonBall]

I won’t go to any WH website and I sure as hell wouldn’t ever post on any of their sites. I want nothing to do with the Commie bastards in the WH or anyone associated with them.

Ditto that!

[CottonBall]

I am probably on the list already, though, for all the spam emails I forwarded to flag@whitehouse.gov before they shut it down.

LOL!

[CottonBall]

We were having veal parmegian for dinner, so I thinly sliced and sauted the eggplant, and will try it with the sauce and cheese with tonights dinner. I have another one or two on the vine I can pick and try something different with.

Eggplant parmegian is also very popular (although since I'm not an eggplant fan, I've never made it myself).

[CottonBall]

like it for perfume, when I worked as a waitress, have been known to put some on a cotton ball and in my bra, so that it is there and not over whelming.

Well, this is why I love this thread. I learn so many new and interesting things to try! ;)

[Marmolade]

You both gave me good directions to figure out the egg drops. I think it is some cross between the spaetzle and the egg drop soups. I’ll have to just experiment using what you guys gave me and what I can remember. I know she mixed it up in a glass measuring cup and dripped it into the boiling soup. It would make little dumpling like things. She had chicken bouillon as the base and then would add chicken, carrots, onions, sometimes greenbeans and then the little egg drops. Soup weather is on its way, so I will have to try to figure it out. I’ll let you know if I do.

[CottonBall]

Labeled as “hillbillies” for generations, these people, who spoke a colorful archaic Elizabethan English dialect, occupied the Ozarks Highland, demanding little from industrialized society. It had been their nature to “make do” with the resources at hand and to adjust and adapt to meet changing conditions.

Sound like a neat people. Good timing, too, granny. We're heading by there on vacation next month. After seeing our son graduate from boot camp, we'll be touring either SE or NE OK, westerm Arkansas, and going through Missouri.

(We can't remember if it's the S or N part of eastern OK that is forested - anyone know?)

We're starting our tours in checking out places to move to, either upon retirement or possibly earlier. Leaving Mexifornia is a priority - and a place with forests a necessity!

[Eagle50AE]

>>> this is getting ugly very fast. <<

Take a look at this little dittie ,

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/obama-ramadan-dinner-white-house.html

[Eagle50AE]

>> Labeled as “hillbillies” for generations <<<

You Rang ?? /s

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I will keep that in mind. The other remedy is Skin So Soft from Avon. It has citronella in it and repels mosquitoes.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2329896/posts?page=1
Ask Not What Your President Can Do For You (Indoctrination by B0 in the schools)

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion Blog ^ | September 1, 2009 | William A. Jacobson

Posted on Tue Sep 01 2009 17:30:33 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by TenthAmendmentChampion

The federal Department of Education has released a script for pre-K through 6th grade teachers to use in conjunction with Barack Obama’s “historic” nationwide speech to elementary school students on September 8.

The script instructs teachers to use the following questions with the students after the speech:

What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us? What would you like to tell the President? This whole line of reasoning and questioning is backwards. It may have become lost in the mania, but HE works for US, not the other way around.

Instead of asking what we can do for President Obama, shouldn’t we be teaching children to ask what President Obama can do for us?

And no, this is not Obama’s “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” moment.

First to the current reality. It’s all about him:

[CottonBall]

>> Labeled as “hillbillies” for generations <<<

I'm sorry Eagle, I have a horrible memory. Where are you at?

Hubby and I are starting to take trips to various places around the country where we might want to live. "Hillbilly" country is at the top!

[CottonBall]

The other remedy is Skin So Soft from Avon. It has citronella in it and repels mosquitoes.

Our mountain mosquitos love that stuff! So, I'm anxious to try the vanilla. Unfortunately, all I have is a small bottle of the very expensive cooking pure vanilla....but I might give it a try tomorrow anyway. (And stick a cottonball in my bra for perfume, ala granny!)