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
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I was wondering if anyone on this messagethread might have run across any articles about this.... as surely many of those school children did not stay inside the entire summer....<<<
First, wecome to the thread, glad you found us.
You have a valid point, made me think and I would say that the kids around here did not go outdoors, or not like we did as kids.
It is true that I live in the country and do not have kids near me, but in the years past, I have been aware of them making noise when they visited neighbors, or traveled up and down the roadways.
It would be interesting to take your question a step further and see if the areas with the largest number of sick kids, are also the areas that have the most gangs and drive by shootings?
If so, then the real kids were not allowed outdoors, too dangerous.
The truth is, I do not know the answer, someone brings it in and it spreads around and fast.
They keep saying that it does not spread from animals to us, but from us to the animals, something is wrong with that kind of thinking.
Birds and poultry now have swine flu, according to the World Health Dept.
Your cats are certainly unique! I’ve never heard of a cat liking bean burritos.<<<
Hitler, [looked like him and acted like him], preferred her nachos with salsa on top of the cheese.
Her brother and sisters would eat the cheese and corn chips, but did not want the salsa.
I suspect that there is a fear of starving in their dna and these feral based cats will eat many odd things, just give it to them.
I have photos, taken 40 years ago, of my siamese, when they found their first slice of watermelon, or rather it was MY slice that I left unguarded for a few minutes.
Mexican bean pots with up to 30 times the level of lead permitted by federal guidelines have been pulled from the shelves of a local food chain after a health inspector found one in a Concord home and tested it in a county lab.<<<<
At least 50 years ago, in California/San Diego, we were warned to not use the colorful dishes from Mexico for food, then the worst offender was the juice glasses and pitcher were the most dangerous, for the acid in the orange juice, leached out even more lead.
It is/was also in the paint on the plates.
Maybe that is when I became aware that imports were dangerous to our health.
It is scary, when you realize that many of those bean pots are in homes that will never hear of the recall on them..
>> 1 hr 48 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a “national emergency,” the White House said Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and over 1,000 deaths.
The emergency declaration, signed by the president late Friday, enhances the ability of medical treatment facilities to handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients by allowing them to implement emergency plans thanks to federal requirement waivers.<<
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091024/hl_afp/healthfluus_20091024152758
The fun begins..... [DW]
I started thinking about the strange incidence of this H1N1 flu bug about a month ago when I came across some stories about how a pig or a few pigs are said to have caught the Swine Flu from humans at a state fair.
The humans were teenagers who belonged to 4-H, and it seemed to me strange that active 4-H’ers who are raising animals for a state fair would not have more than enough Vitamin D coursing through their systems in late AUGUST when the alleged transmission occurred.
I thought maybe YOU might have already discussed this months ago — I occasionally lurk for weeks at a time on your threads, so I know you are interested in enigmas of this nature.
Also, I’m not certain that classical medicine has ever clinically proved that Vitamin D increases resistance to influenza — perhaps there just seems to be a connection, but it’s not been scientifically proven one way or the other.
Yes, those bean pots are just outrageous, and yes, I do remember those stories from the 1970s about the lead-laden Mexican pottery - although I seem to recall that there were also problems with ceramicware from a number of countries.
I’ve been reading your postings, now & again, for many years, ever since before THESE survival/cooking/crafts/etc threads of yours — I was even lurking at the Threat Matrix set of threads when YOU started posting to it. LOL
When I heard about that Afghani terror suspect having had a food cart in NYC, I instantly remembered all the New Jersey posters to the TM who’d mention all the vendors with their carts outside of Grand Central Station, I thought it was really amazing, as they were making humorous comments at the time, it was a “Thread Joke,” almost.
I read something this morning that might interest you, something I simply did NOT realize.
Under some article about the safe storage of water, they cautioned to never use old glass jars & jugs — but not just because they break, but rather the reason old jars are so unsafe for food and/or water storage is that some of them contain extremely high levels of lead which leaches into the food.
I was totally unaware of that.
Under some article about the safe storage of water, they cautioned to never use old glass jars & jugs — but not just because they break, but rather the reason old jars are so unsafe for food and/or water storage is that some of them contain extremely high levels of lead which leaches into the food.<<<
You kids stretch my memory’s abilities.
I forget what the chemical is that causes the old jars to turn aqua colored and as I recall it the brown and purple ones that have changed colors, are radioactive minerals in the glass.
I have an old fine crystal glass that is turning purple, it was a juice glass, so over the years, many people got a dose of something they did not want.
You are on the same wave link, for I too could not get the food carts in New York out of my mind, it was all so simple and the same to me.
As I recall it, those food carts were connected to several terrorists.
It may be good that I cannot leave the house today, for I would be nervous at a buffet or the many different places that I once ate.
There was a time that I went to Mexico to shop, alone and ate with the rest of them at the street side vendors, it was good food.
Today, I will not cross the border.
Thank you for being a faithful reader, for at many points, I have wondered if I was only posting to myself.
I couldn’t resist throwing in a google or two, this is not really related, LOL, but has several that look interesting:
If one did some reading, this talks about glass:
says: eat from a food cart and finance a terrorist:
Very interesting and it reminds me that last night, I noticed a bunch of pulled books, tapes, etc at Archive.org and finally I googled one of them, turned out it was the gov study of our transportation systems...........a good one to take off the internet, for they do love to blow up buses and trains.
looks interesting, some of the old stories show up:
Several oldie type:
Obama declares swine flu emergency
Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:58:05 PM · 359 of 368
Eagle50AE to TigerLikesRooster; DelaWhere; rockabyebaby; Red_Devil 232
TLR, Thank You for the Thread.
This is a POWER Play.. hoping to go under the news radar on a Saturday.
Wonder what the other hand is doing ?
I’m asking DW to ping the survival list..
RBB, ping to the GB list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369994/posts
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>> 1 hr 48 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a “national emergency,” the White House said Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and over 1,000 deaths.
The emergency declaration, signed by the president late Friday, enhances the ability of medical treatment facilities to handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients by allowing them to implement emergency plans thanks to federal requirement waivers.<<
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091024/hl_afp/healthfluus_20091024152758
The fun begins..... [DW]
The humans were teenagers who belonged to 4-H, and it seemed to me strange that active 4-H’ers who are raising animals for a state fair would not have more than enough Vitamin D coursing through their systems in late AUGUST when the alleged transmission occurred.<<<
You are correct.
About the only vitamin D info on this thread, has been that it will keep the flu away.
There are many flu deaths, for I get news alerts from Denver, San Diego and Las Vegas, they show the deaths one at a time and schools that are shut down, due to hundreds of kids sick with the flu.
The emergency declaration, signed by the president late Friday, enhances the ability of medical treatment facilities to handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients by allowing them to implement emergency plans thanks to federal requirement waivers.<<
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091024/hl_afp/healthfluus_20091024152758
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I hear the tanks arolling, for martial law is here.
‘o’ means to win fair or foul.
Yes, there is a lot of waste>>>>>
I’m with you, granny. Not much gets thrown out here. Always something you can do with it. DelaWhere, I just took a tablespoon of mold from maple syrup that has to be at least three years old. The mold very nicely clung to the spoon so I could remove it all. Very carefully tasted the remains and it tasted swell so poured some over maple walnut ice cream and enjoyed.
When my children complained of moldy bread, I just told them that was what penicillin was made from and when they weren’t looking,I removed the mold and made bread pudding.
Thanks for the ping!
Now that we are under martial law, the Tea Parties are ended, as are other protests and the citizens will not learn of what is really going on.
And at last we find out if our name is on the list for the camps.
Wish I was joking.
Including our own.
I did ceramics for many years starting back in the 60s and there were a number of glaze colors that could not be used for items that would be in contact with food. They were for decorative purposes only because of the lead content. Over a period of time most of those glazes were phased out. It's been quite a few years since I did any ceramic work, but I have to wonder if they still discourage the use of many reds for food serving pieces.
Very carefully tasted the remains and it tasted swell so poured some over maple walnut ice cream and enjoyed.<<<
Sounds good.
My sister will not eat bread pudding or dressing from my house, I do not know where she got her fancy ideas, as both dishes were invented to cover up the mold and salvage breads that are too old to eat.
I heard part of the order was taking over FNC (Fox News) ,just until the crisis is over. You know, for national security reasons.
GREAT STUFF. THX.
Wow, the Good Old Days! — well, of several years ago, post 911, when you started posting your search results to TM, and I learned that OPEN not restrictive googles sometimes return all manner of “treasures.” :)
I have to wonder if they still discourage the use of many reds for food serving pieces.<<<
A good point, they still make and sell the ruby red glasses, you see them at Christmas.
When i started rock collecting, the first thing I learned was to never lick a red rock.
LOL, we lick some of our rocks, for when wet, a rock will look like it will, if it is cut and polished.
It is arsenic that ruins most of the red rocks and crystals, as I recall.
Have you read any of the interesting recent research about the blight that caused the Potato Famine?
The Potato Blight is more closely related to the malaria parasite than to anything fungal — who knows? Perhaps I read it HERE, first, I just don’t remember.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=potato+blight+malaria
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