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
Awwww, thanks DW!
How did you know I didn’t get to buy enough Air Force stuff when we were at Lackland? ;)
Seems every time he was standing in a formation and a plane would take off or land, his head instinctively followed it - getting him in trouble... The penalty - double-time around the airfield..<<<
That I can understand, for I still do the same, can’t resist at least a glimpse of its running lights at night.
The Mercy flight copter goes over my mobile, the full length, when it is on a real emergency flight, you can hear the extra strain and at times, I really fear it is too overloaded to clear the mountain.
Imagine how boring I find this area of Arizona, the airport is 25 miles east of me, so very seldom see a plane.
At Wellton, Az, my property line was across the street from the Yuma Proving Grounds test range and they all flew over my place to reach it, even the Space Ship.
I once told Bill that I had gotten out the door in time to see a medium sized airplane, make a sharp right hand turn, he said no, planes did not do that, I must have seen a helicopter.
I knew what I saw for it was too low and I looked at the bottom of the plane as it went over.
That weekend, it was on the news, a test plane from England with a Rolls Royce engine, that could make turns.
This was about 1974.
We even had spies show up in 1970, but then we did not know what they were talking about, for we knew nothing of what flew on the range, they had gone for a 5 mile walk and all of a sudden were looking in our window and asking questions, a middle aged foreign type of couple.
Bill being the nice guy that he was, took them back to town, for it was 10 or 11 pm and not the time to walk in our neighborhood, lots of rattlesnakes.
They said they were staying at the motel.
The next morning, after we had decided they did not add up, Bill went to town “to see if they were OK?”, they had lied and had not stayed at the motel, this was in 1970 or early in 71.
Bill bought the Sunday paper and there it was, the new Jet Helicopter had been tested on our range. And we missed it or did not know it existed so had no idea what it was.
By the time the space ship tests came, Bill worked for a man, who had been in the Air Force with one of its pilots and I worked at the Court, so we knew all about the s. ships and I watched them most week nights, while I milked my goats. 1973 era and later, lots of years of testing and the base was in the Wellton district.
For vegetable soup that I plan to eat for several days in a row, I make sure to use the OUTER leaves of cabbages, and the OUTERMOST layers of peeled onions. These are the parts of cabbages & onions that most people throw away — but because they are so very tough, they are PERFECT for a large pot of soup — because they don’t fall apart into nothing: on Day 3 of this type of veggie soup, you can still identify the piece of diced onion or chopped cabbage.<<<
I have always been interested in the French stock pots and at times tried them out.
When I am going to cook a lot of things, for freezing or a special dinner, I put a large pot on the back of the stove and start tossing things in it, bones, fat, tough parts of vegetables, what ever comes to hand.
The last time I did it, I had 4 gallons of excellent soup to freeze when I was done.
You can fish out the bones and too tough parts and leave the rest, or even put it through the blender, after removing the bones.
I just found this posted the the Threat Matrix, and thought it would interest you.
8 infected with rare form of typhus near U.S. Los Angeles <<<
Thanks for the alert, for fleas as a weapon were perfected by the Japanese in WW2.
Post 3700 here.
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I was horrified to discover how EASY it is — “r.e.f.r.y.” actually refers to boiling down cooked beans and mashing them all up — it really doesn’t have anything to do with either frying or with re-frying — EXCEPT that the boil down is done using a frying pan, with a pretty high heat, to help evaporate the bean cooking water.<<<
My Mexican neighbors, when I was a kid, boiled them down and then refried them in bacon grease...
Less is indeed better on the pocket book. I don’t use but just a couple tablespoons of liquid laundry detergent.<<<
You can do the same with the fabric softners, use less or cut the sheets in half or smaller.
One lady that I read, said that she could not / or had not been able to train her family to use less soap, so she buys the liquid, dilutes it half with water, in one of the empty bottles and lets the family use their full amount of half mix.
I know that when my sister does my laundry, I cannot wear the clothes or sleep on the sheets, brings on the allergies and burns my skin.
You know more than enough about cooking to play around with the recipe; it’s really GOOD, you’ll be surprized.
Chipotle’s Basmati Rice <<<
I will have to try that, when I get a lime.
I am not able to do my own shopping, due to health, so have to be careful to not over load Scott.
The spaghetti sauce I get (one of my cats also likes it at times),....but GREEN OLIVES?
VERY unique!<<<
Maybe it is the salt, for they are my way of getting extra salt in the summer.
I hear plenty of stuff on NPR early in the morning after BBC goes off the air, and before I'm inclined to get up and turn off the radio.
Not EVERYTHING on NPR is vile, I actually frequently listen to Marketplace -- the other morning there was a very interesting segment about Oklahoma, that unemployment is VERY VERY VERY low in Oklahoma, due to a couple factors. First, the entire populations seems to remember the Droughty Dirty 30s, Oklahoma was Ground Zero for plenty of massive dust storms; and secondly because there was a mini "oil boom" and subsequent crash during the 1980s - and thus there really weren't any people in Oklahoma who ever got particularly excited about the housing bubble.
There's plenty of similar interesting stuff available on NPR, but I don't listen to any of theie political stuff, nor any of the artsy stuff - pretty much just economics and breaking news. I don't need patience for that.
I heard part of the order was taking over FNC (Fox News) ,just until the crisis is over. You know, for national security reasons.<<<
Welcome to the thread.
Nothing surprises me, we will see many things, before the next election happens.
Bottles of Real Lime juice don’t expire for at least a year, and don’t cost very much at all.
LOL! I”m glad you further explained WHY you were licking rocks.<<<
The instruction book for rock hounds, says a spray bottle of water.
For me, the extra weight of the water, meant less rocks that I could tote back.
LOL, like all that I did, I over did it with rock collecting too.
>>>How did you know I didn’t get to buy enough Air Force stuff when we were at Lackland? ;)<<<
LOL, My telepathic wife told me...
Seriously - She keeps telling me things about subjects I was thinking about but haven’t said a word about. Then there is the waking me in the middle of the night to tell me that our outside dog has burned his water over and is thirsty, and that I need to call Daughter because something is wrong - like yesterday evening when one of her dogs got loose and was hit on the road. LOL It assures no Jimmy Carter transgressions - that’s for sure.
Bottles of Real Lime juice don’t expire for at least a year,<<<
LOL, it will take me a year to get Scott to buy it, he does not like shopping, so I don’t make waves and save the exotic stuff for my sister, when she comes once a year.
Now that I pass out so often, I am very limited on what I dare attempt to cook.
During the day, the Net keeps me up to date on breaking news, and overnight, I keep the radio tuned to BBC World Service.
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