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
Folks, don’t use the powdered detergent because it does build up some sort of gunk in pipes. We found that out the hard way and have been using liquid detergent since.<<<<
Yes, and add to that that many cut their amounts used to half and more, and still have clean laundry.
Less is better.
Your burritos sound like the ones a couple are trying to earn money, are making and selling from their home.
Let’s face it, beans are good.
Reminds me of an old standard pot-luck take along fruit salad dish. Put a big bag of frozen mixed fruit in a bowl and stir in a box of vanilla instant pudding mix (unprepared). Store in fridge overnight. As the fruit thaws overnight it moistens the pudding mix to make sort of a sauce.<<<<
Sounds good.
is to use their search function and insert the word GRANDMA’s or GRANDPA’s — some very interesting olde time goodies. Also, there were some very interesting old family concoctions that I once found using the word ‘COUGH’ at various recipe sites.<<<<
LOL, you are one up on me, I had not tried your tricks.
So I picked up a couple cans of each different brand available here — usually I wait until the post-holiday sales to buy clearance-priced canned pumpkin, but I don’t know if there will be much leftover canned pumpkin this year, so I decided to pay full price, NOW, just in case.<<<
LOL, and you did your bit to make sure there was a shortage...
Remember when Johnny Carson used a one line joke about a coming shortage of toilet paper and people stocked up for real?
Last month, somewhere or another, online I read someone post that whenever they felt a flu bug coming on, that they immediate put 2 Tbsp. of red pepper into a cup and poured boiling water over it, filled it up, stirred well, and sipped it all down — and they claimed that they NEVER came down with the flu.<<<
That would work, as it is a massive dose of vitamin C.
I get the hives from all the vitamin C pills, but do ok with peppers.
When you eat red pepper on your food, it causes you to have a hot flush and in the old days, that was considered to be a blood purifier.
One time I simply put the word, ‘MISSOURI’ into the recipe websites search boxes — and got some really interesting results, some claiming to date back to the Civil War era.
I’m sure that plenty of posters also use adjectives like, “granny” or “grammy” or “aunt” or “uncle”
or even something like “olde,” spelled with the ‘e’ on the end.
Here’s the URL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2370636/posts
I think he is right, we are marching right down the takeover path, all set up and ready for the big move.
I thought bill clinton would takeover, but now see him as a conditioner, to get us ready.
I remember the Hungarian takeover, it was ugly.
If they make the decision to go that route, no law, not even the Constitution will stand in their way. They are looking for power over the entire nation...<<<<
I would say power over the world.
Canned pumpkin is in great demand in Oklahoma Shortage: Grocery stores struggle to fill shelves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351873/posts
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This will boost the sale of pumpkin in cans for the rest of the year.
It is not surprising, for there were several areas that the crops were poor, several Freepers reported poor crops of tomatoes for this year.
I haven’t seen the movie, but I plan to get a copy of the book at the public library and read it. I learned about it earlier on this thread, and it is called, WHERE THE LILLIES BLOOM.
Here’s a cut & paste of post no. 3523:
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IN the 1970s I read the book
“Where the Lillies Bloom.” I think it was a true story, about kids surviving near the Great Smoky Mountains (today a national park) after their parents had died.
They used onion baths to cure flues.
3,523 posted on 10/24/2009 6:34:21 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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I’m sure that plenty of posters also use adjectives like, “granny” or “grammy” or “aunt” or “uncle”
or even something like “olde,” spelled with the ‘e’ on the end.<<<
Yes, that would work and so do random dates and numbers.
Remember the 440 code from TM?, it pulled phone area codes and also it pulled up page numbers.
We used random numbers found in the jihadi posts and would go all kinds of places.
Thousands & thousands of recipes!
The area code searches!
Yes, now that you mention it, I do remember -- they were very memorable searches, and many pages of interesting postings at TM -- because they retrieved some very fascinating webpages.
I simply was overcome with DEJA VU recently when they said that Zazi, or whatever his name is, owned a push cart from which he sold food in Manhattan, it was just shocking to me, pure DEJA VU "time travel" which sent me right back to early TM days -- particularly when someone on the news depicted Zazzie as such a friendly smiling vendor.... it all read like it was being dictated from postings made years ago.
It was from YOU that I got the idea to put a word like 'APPLE' in the search field at news.google.com and then to go back and do a second search, where I'd exclude the words 'recipe' and 'cup' from the search by putting minus signs in front of them:
+apple
-recipe
-cup
You can learn alot about crops & harvests by doing a search in the news for
+LENTILS
-RECIPE
-MENU
“I really worry about my school teacher daughter who is about 3 months pregnant...”
Hopefully after having been around kids for a few years, she’s built up some immunities. I pray she will be able to avoid getting sick.
>>>Hopefully after having been around kids for a few years, she’s built up some immunities. I pray she will be able to avoid getting sick.<<<
She’s one of those Energizer Bunnies... Always on the go and not much slows her down... She started teaching in one of the inner city schools - not much she hasn’t seen or been exposed to. She had to handle the family while her husband served a year in Saudi Arabia, then another year that he was in Iraq - and she handled everything well - organized like a good teacher should be. Right now SIL is in California for 4 weeks of intensive training - just hope stress doesn’t bring down her immunity.
“I loved it so much, I asked my husband if he would mind reenlisting so we could get base housing. (He declined...)”
Can’t say I blame him, LOL.
I just went through my food storage and had to send some items to our food pantry at church. I didn’t realize some of the items had upcoming expiration dates, more than we could use. I guess I didn’t check the dates on some of it when I purchased it, as to how far out they were. It gave me a better idea of what I have and to make sure I’m rotating it in and out.
I like the plan you posted, however, we really like tuna and when I make it, we use about 6 cans at a time, so we wouldn’t have nearly enough by our standards. I guess we would just have to up the amount and spend an extra few dollars.
“Even rag strips, can be used for the weavers or if small enough and the hook large enough crocheted into a basket.”
This reminded me of a project I had decided to try when my kids were young. It wasn’t for a basket, but a rug. You always have socks that are missing a mate, or perhaps socks that are worn or too small. I decided to take all the socks and make a rug out of them. I cut each one in half from top to toe to make 2 pieces. After they were cut, I sewed the pieces together end to end to make long chains of sock pieces. Then my kids each took an end and I had them weave their chains over and under in a giant braid. They thought it was good fun. Later I coiled the braid and stitched it into the beginnings of a rag rug. We moved part way through the project and I held onto the bin of socks and braid for quite a few years. I never did get around to finishing it and eventually let it go rather than keep it taking up space and making me feel guilty for not finishing it. I still think it would be a good project to try again. However, if you use socks of a more uniform weight and material, you will get a more consistent fabric chain to work with.
I checked out the Patriot Post link. I see they have Christmas ornaments there. I had bought a Marine ornament when my son graduated and 2 years ago our tree tipped over when we were taking stuff down. The Marine ornament smashed on the floor and I was crushed to see it happen. I have been meaning to replace it and our son will be moving back here soon. Maybe I can get one in time to get it on the tree this year.
“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 some old canning jars from my MIL that are aqua in color, but I thought they were made that way. Were they or did they change into that color?
“I have an old fine crystal glass “
This just reminded me that I have some crystal that is lead crystal. I believe a few pieces are serving dishes. Would those also have the potential to leach lead out of them into food? I never really thought about it before. I don’t use them very often.
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