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

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

[nw_arizona_granny]

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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

[TASMANIANRED]

Although you can store Vitamin D, most people in northern climates are usually vitamin d deficient.

[TASMANIANRED]

Lead can leach out but the biggest risk is acidic beverages and alcohol storred in them, as in a decanter.

Single use for a glass of wine is less of a problem.

[Marmolade]

What is the difference between vitamin D and D-3? Most of the references related to the flu mentioned vitamin D, which is what I bought. Now that I purchased it, I’m seeing references to vitamin D-3. Did I buy the wrong kind?

[Marmolade]

Thanks for posting the link. Always good to read the tips over and over again to help us see where we fall short. These days are getting pretty scary to wake up and find out what else is being done to our nation.

[nw_arizona_granny]

HOW TO USE WATER

POWER.

[1907]

BY

HERBERT CHAXLEY,

B.Sc. (Enqinebrinq), Mem. Soc. Arts, etc. ;

Lecturer in Civil Engineering and Applied MechanicSj Portsmouth ;
Author of ^^How to Make a Survey’’ ** The Problem of Flight^’* dec.

snipped from the book...

I have endeavoured to produce not an exhaustive treatise, but a
clear account of the methods and principles of Hydraulic Engineering as
at present practised, in a form that can be easily grasped by the crafts-
man or student with limited knowledge of mechanics and mathematics.
There are many things which could be more thoroughly treated, but I
have thought it better to sacrifice further discussion to my main
purpose, viz., simplicity and utility.

[nw_arizona_granny]

The link for the book “How to use Water Power”:

http://www.archive.org/stream/howtousewaterpo00chatgoog/howtousewaterpo00chatgoog_djvu.txt

http://www.archive.org/stream/howtousewaterpo00chatgoog/howtousewaterpo00chatgoog_djvu.txt

[LucyT]

[Iowan]

Thanks for the Ping, LucyT.

The kitty pic is just perfect.

LOL

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924003127705/cu31924003127705_djvu.txt

Full text of “How to build poultry houses”

1903

[Fred Nerks]

growing kittens from cuttings...

[DollyCali]

LOL Fred

[Marmolade]

What great ideas, granny. I used to make the ice candles when I was a kid. They are fun to burn, as the light shines through the holes. I just ran across a small table in the attic the other day and sent the chalkboard table idea to my daughter (its her table). It might make a good Christmas gift for my granddaughter.

[Marmolade]

Thanks - good to know. I’ll have to keep that in mind when I plan to use my crystal items.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.archive.org/details/howtobuildaeropl00petirich

How to build an aeroplane (1910)

Author: Petit, F. Robert; Hubbard, Thomas O’Brien, 1882-; Ledeboer, John Henry, 1883-; Petit, F. Robert

Subject: Airplanes — Design and construction

Publisher: London, Williams & Norgate;
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: nrlf_ucb:GLAD-251249
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: University of California Libraries

[a book to read on line or down load]

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.archive.org/stream/cleanwaterandho00hazegoog/cleanwaterandho00hazegoog_djvu.txt

Full text of “Clean Water and how to Get it” 1914

[nw_arizona_granny]

Full text of “Florida Fruits and how to Raise Them”

1886
book

http://www.archive.org/stream/floridafruitsan00harcgoog/floridafruitsan00harcgoog_djvu.txt

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thousands & thousands of recipes!

site:allrecipes.com FIND:”grandma’s” - Google Search

site:allrecipes.com FIND:”granny’s best” - Google Search
<<<<<<<<<<

LOL, you had me with that one, thought you had pulled up the 20,000 or more recipes that are here.

I saw several that should be posted, hope you will do so...LOL

[nw_arizona_granny]

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
<<<<<<<<<<

It is the fancy stuff, that I can never remember to use, you would think as many searches as I have done, I would be able to do it any style.

But I do have too much using my granny searches, to bother learning to do it as other do. After all, when I got into the search racket, we were looking for what was hidden and not the common stuff that was out there.

If you stumble across something that should be reported, send it to the local FBI office, they at least will read it.

Which makes me laugh, before 9-11, I had other interests, dolls and making them or even just collecting them was one of the interests.

I had signed up for a lovely porcelain doll makers newsletter, that was only for the announcement of when she designed a new doll, which were one of a kind and hundreds of dollars, but I could look at the beauty.

I started getting crappy jihadi posts and deleted them, LOL, what did I know, nothing........and then one night I read one all the way and knew instantly what they were about.

I waited all night for Sunday morning and woke up a poor FBI Agent, who sounded like he had had a late night and now here was granny, “upset, cause she does not like a message in her doll club”......

He was almost yelling, at me.

So I yelled back, “shut up a minute and listen”.

And I started reading the post, soon I had a nice voice asking if I could email it to him.

I did and was able to go and get all the others that i had deleted.

My thoughts were with yours when Zazi, was arrested, for my mind went there in a flash.

Amazing, the arrests over the years that we are now reading about, that we were expecting to read about years ago.

[nw_arizona_granny]

However, if you use socks of a more uniform weight and material, you will get a more consistent fabric chain to work with.<<<

Yes, nylon hose makes a wonderful rug, crocheted into an oval.

There is a way to join the strips, if you cut across, so you have a circle, then you loop one onto itself, a kid can show you, they know how, LOL, I didn’t and sewed many a ball of scraps for rug making.

I like the bread sack of plastic for in front of the doors, outside, they really catch the dirt and stickers, and you can make them by cutting the loops and then joining without sewing.

[nw_arizona_granny]

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?<<<

Now that you ask it like that, I am not sure.

I always thought they had changed colors and in Arizona you will find all kinds of glass on the top of sheds and buildings, so it can turn in the sunlight.