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
wish I could just run over to your house and see your wood cook stove. It sounds so neat!
You got us beat w/r cords of wood stacked. I only have about 5 about my house, close enough to get to when the snow is 4 feet on the ground. I hope that’ll be enough. There is more out in the meadow, but that’s next year’s supply - and I don’t want to have to trudge through the snow to get to it! Sounds like you’ve been quite busy. I don’t know about you, but when I don’t know where my ‘stuff’ is, I feel quite disorganized and out of sorts until I place it where it needs to be ;P
Tuesday? do tell..... you always get advance notice of things, it seems ;)
Dont’ know if you heard, but got back from Zach’s Air Force graduation - it was spectacular. It was bittersweet, seeing the last bastion of patriotism, good manners, and self-discipline. I wish all our young men and women would go in the military for 2 years. Our country would turn around quickly then, I’m sure.
Can New York City grow enough food to become self-sufficient?
Is farming amidst New York City’s concrete jungle-through small urban garden plots
or multi-story buildings-a realistic possibility? Or will we rely on large farms
on the periphery of the city? Our panelists delve into the economic development
and urban design implications of the fundamental question: Can New York, a city
whose population is growing while its acreage is shrinking, eventually grow enough
food within its boundaries to become self-sufficient?
Kitchen Garden at Trengwainton Garden, Britain
Kitchen garden crops are gradually being reintroduced into the productive area.
Visitors can climb on to a raised platform to take in the scale of the walled gardens
and their unique raised beds, built to the dimensions of Noah’s Ark, as described
in The Bible.
The Victorian Kitchen Garden - BBC TV 1987
The Victorian Kitchen Garden was a 13-part television series produced in 1987 for
BBC Two (Must see. Mike). It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at
Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire. The presenter was the horticultural lecturer, Peter
Thoday, the master gardener was Harry Dodson.
Harry James Dodson (1919 - 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity
as a result of the BBC television documentary series, which featured his professional
expertise and his reminiscences.
A Flemish Kitchen Garden - about 1864
The Antwerp artist Henri de Braekeleer belonged to a family of painters. Influenced
by 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, he specialised in humble scenes of everyday
life, as in this example, in which a woman in peasant dress bends over to cut a
cabbage. These were popular in a period of increasing industrialisation.
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
I am so glad you are feeling better.
Yes, Ginger works for lots of things, put some in olive oil and rub it in where the arthritis hurts, it will help.
Very cold and windy here.
>> Tuesday? do tell..... you always get advance notice of things, it seems ;)<<
???? OH,.. my country a gets it..
please excuse my tardiness.
bye..bye
I can remember when just plowing, it would take a full week pulling two 14” plow bottoms in second gear - all day every day -<<<
I worked on a 2 row Farmall, it must have been the model after the steam version, using knives and harrows, I don’t remember doing the plowing, but Dad might have done that while I was in school.
After a day on the tractor, I did home work, took care of my 2 smaller brothers and cooked for the 4 of us.
I was 12 years old, when I returned to California.
My Dad had found me a husband and when my Mom found out she had a fit, not that I can blame her, she was married at 15, so a neighbor, helped her get us and put us on the Greyhound, to her in Calif.
I thought everyone worked like that, never doubted that I wasn’t to go to the field every day, for if you don’t there will not be a crop.
No electric, no refrigerators, no running water, go out to the cow trough and get a bucket of water, from the windmill.
How different life is today.
I would insist on having your solar lights at least.
Do the goats eat dry grass, or do they need green?<<<
NO, not milk goats.
Milk goats want alfalfa, grain, sorgum to sweeten the grain and a balanced diet.
They might nibble the grass, if they think that you do not want them to do so.
Meat goats and wild goats with nothing else to eat, will eat grass and trees.
Your milk will only be as good as the food they get and how clean their pen is.
If you are offered goat milk and it tastes funny, don’t drink it, the pen may be dirty, the foot might have gone in the pail, they could have an udder disease.
A good Nubian should give you over a gallon of milk each day, 3 quarts to a gallon in the morning and less at night.
Your Lady is lovely, her eyes show that she is sharp.
I had only the one that was of her coloring, Misti, she was wonderful and a joy to live with.
She was one of my first in Wellton, didn’t have a pen built, so she slept on my side of the bed, on the ground.
I would wake up and my finger nails would be black, then I found out why, if she woke up, she managed to get my hand to scratch her head.
I hated it, when we got a bigger trailer and moved inside, but Bill said something like “Dammit, I am paying to have a bedroom and I will sleep in it”....so we did.
But just in case, my iron bedstead is out there by the shed.
Ahhh thx thx.
Freedom of religion, not from religion
Dear Editor:
I found the following article on the Internet and checked out the veracity with “TruthorFiction” on the Web, and thought most of the local residents would enjoy.
This is a statement that was read over the public address system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tenn., by school principal, Jody McLeod:
“It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the national anthem, to honor God and country. Due to a ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a prayer is a violation of federal law.
“As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it ‘an alternate life style,’ and if someone is offended, that’s OK.
“I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, ‘safe sex.’ If someone is offended, that’s OK.
“I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a ‘viable means of birth control.’ If someone is offended, no problem.
“I can designate a school day as Earth Day and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess mother Earth and call it ecology.
“I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as ‘simple minded’ and ‘ignorant’ and call it enlightenment.
“However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and to ask him to bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then federal law is violated. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except God and his commandments.
“Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. For this reason, I shall ‘Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s,’ and refrain from praying at this time.
“However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God and ask him to bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that’s not against the law yet.”
The Web statement continued, “One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the announcer’s box.
“The only place they didn’t pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America - the seat of Justice in the ‘One nation, under God.”
Somehow, Kingston, Tenn., remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the freedom of religion, not the freedom from religion.
Gerald Berry
Salida
http://www.themountainmail.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=17624
>>>her eyes show that she is sharp.<<<
LOL, she was the best watchdog you could imagine... Let a strange car pull in the driveway and she was right there ready to challenge them...
Once when I was traveling, there was a somewhat shady character who got out of his car and was looking at some of my machinery - she started chasing him round and round his car - my wife came out and the guy was yelling - “It doesn’t bite does it? - Please call it off me...” She was rearing on her hind legs and cocking her head ready to knock the stuffing out of him if he didn’t get back in his car - which he did and left in a hurry.
She trained our dogs that way too - she would slam them and roll them hard - then she would walk up to them and become their best friend. Imagine 140 pound goat standing over 6’ tall on her hind legs - impressive to say the least and then the hammer blow overcame just about any resistance... LOL
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First, honey in its natural state is almost entirely pure fructose; I only use honey for emergency sore throats, LOL
And any type of corn syrup that you can find in the grocery store has the FRUCTOSE added to it -- check the labels, it says HFCS somewhere in the ingredients.
Of course if you are extremely low carb, and/or rely on a high starch diet, then you are probably below the 45-grams of fructose which is currently at the top end of "safe" amounts.
Regular table sugar or sucrose is half glucose and half fructose and is considered WAY much safer than the high fructose sugars.
Also, be careful when you find on the label of processed food something like "corn syrup solids," as I've read that ALL commercial corn syrup is the high fructose variety.
Thank you so much for sharing this vivid description of the sugar junkie cancer cells.
It seems so strange to me that oncologists don't suggest to immediately HALT A.L.L. forms of sugars; it simply doesn't make any sense. I know sometime in the last decade I read somewhere online about a cancer patient who wouldn't drink ANY fruit or ANY vegetable juice, but because I didn't understand anything about fructose being a DANGEROUS sugar, I didn't understand the point.
Soon I am going to try following the type of diet prescribed to people born with Hereditary Fructose Intolerance and see if it has a positive impact upon my health and weight.
The way you described those cancer cells is so VIVID, like a cartoon monster come to life, and maniacally chomping on any sugar molecules it can locate.
Horrors!! Nightmares, LOL!!!
Aw shucks, there goes the entire Self Esteem Movement propagated by the elementary schools!
Seriously, this attitude is ubiquitous to our society and particularly pervasive on TV --- I can't tolerate television anymore; almost every single person in front of the camera is an obvious Clinical Narcissist - and I do mean: clinical!!
EXPECTING us, the viewer, to approve of them... they are so preoccupied with the impressions they think they are making upon the public. It is all so contrived! It's just so obvious that each & every one of these individuals on TV is entirely self-absorbed and holds an absolutely ridiculously delusionally inflated opinion of themselves!
It's just repugnant to me... and if this is NOT clinical narcissism, then WHERE did so many people under age 50 ever get the idea that a FAKE PHONEY AFFECTED personality coupled with a 'cute,' perky voice is something to be proud of?
I find this very alarming...
And HOW do the so-called newspeople expect to be taken seriously when their PREFERRED mode of speech is to rattle off PUN-headlines???
And then think they are so "cute" and so witty???
So help me, it is like broadcasting is being run from a true Insane Asylum - AND those utterly inane puns prove my point.
It's utter infantile narcissism, and it's utterly repugnant.
/soapbox. LOLOLOL :)
CONSUMER TIPS
Deflation? Not if you're buying food
Some grocery prices have almost doubled in the past year, despite the Retail Price Index falling to zero.
By Richard Evans
Published: 12:08PM GMT 25 Mar 2009
Anyone shopping at their supermarket today will be tempted to scoff at the revelation that prices have not risen at all over the past year, according to the Retail Price Index (RPI).
Some foods have almost doubled in price since this time last year, figures from The Telegraph's Real Cost of Living Index (RCLI) show. Cucumber portions, for example, have risen by 88pc, while staples such as mince beef (up by 48pc) and Basmati rice (43pc higher) have also become much more expensive.
Other foodstuffs to have risen sharply in price include strawberry jam (up by 34pc), baked beans (32pc), Golden Delicious apples (29pc) and bolognese sauce (27pc), according to the index.
But the RCLI overall shows that the cost of living has fallen by 4.3pc since this time last year. The difference is explained by the other constituents of the index, household bills and transport costs, which fell by 8pc and 11pc on average over the same period.
The overall fall in household bills also masked wide variations, however. All the bills included in the index except mortgage and internet costs rose, but they were outweighed by the dramatic 14pc fall in average mortgage repayments as the Bank of England slashed the official cost of borrowing.
Gas prices rose by an average of 54pc, while electricity went up by 36pc and home insurance by 11pc. But the price of internet and TV services fell by 29pc.
The figures emphasis the crunch facing pensioners. The basic state pension rises in line with the RPI, so while recipients are about to benefit from a 5pc rise on the basis of last September's RPI figure, they will see no increase at all this year if the RPI stays where it is.
And many pensioners will see no benefit from the costs that have fallen – most will have paid off their mortgage and are less likely to drive long distances or use the internet intensively – while they will spend more of their income on food and household energy.
Household and transport costs calculated by The Telegraph/moneysupermarket.com. Food costs sourced by mysupermarket.com
I would call this an advertisement, useful if it meets your needs.....granny
Re: Anyone interested in small homestead wind turbines ?
Posted by: “muttleyhunt”
Date: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:07 pm ((PDT))
http://www.wilsonsenergy.com/index.html
My son Ryan’s business. He sells and installs wind turbines, solar, rain capture, etc... a regular chip off the old block.. lol..
Blessings,
kellly
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http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg338.htm
October 30, 2009
TG-338
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner
Press Conference Remarks on New Markets Tax Credits Announcement
Chicago, Illinois
As Prepared for Delivery
Thank you, Rep. Davis. As you’ve said, “all the issues associated with poverty are pronounced” in your 7th District of Chicago. And all of them are harder to deal with because of the recent economic and financial crisis.
It is good to see you [again], Mayor Daley. I’m pleased to be here with Treasury’s Donna Gambrell, Director of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.
I want to offer a special thanks to Bill Leavy. Bill is Executive Director of the Greater West Town Community Development Project, our host today. Bill is helping Chicago’s disadvantaged get the training they need to find jobs.
Yesterday’s 3.5 percent GDP figure was the first positive performance the U.S. economy has posted in more than a year, following the steepest drop in growth in more than 50 years, and the longest in more than 60 years.
This means that our Recovery Act is helping to move us in the right direction—with tax cuts that put money in the pockets of middle-class families and small businesses; extended unemployment and health benefits to tide people across tough times; aid to state and local governments to sustain critical services like teachers in the classroom, and investments in infrastructure to create private sector jobs.
It means that our financial programs are working to repair the financial system so that it can make the loans to households and businesses essential to reviving prosperity.
But a single quarter’s growth is only a first step.
It is enough to stanch the hemorrhaging of nearly three-quarters of a million jobs a month that greeted us last January. But it is not enough to bring down the jobless rate from its unacceptably high level of nearly 10%.
It is enough to get some people back to work. But it is not enough to ensure that every American who wants a good job—and the security and self-worth that comes with work—can find one and keep it.
The American people expect us to reach for these broader goals, and President Obama is doing everything in his power to deliver for them.
To deliver, we must rebuild our economy on a firmer foundation—to equip our workers with the skills and education they need to compete; to invest in renewable energy and the jobs of the future; and to make health care affordable for families and businesses everywhere.
And we must make sure that the advantages of this new, stronger economy are broadly shared, including by communities, such as those in the 7th District and those served by Greater West Town Project.
These communities suffer the most in recessions. Job-expanding projects fail for lack of investment. These failures set back the communities in which they occur, making those communities less appealing to future potential investors, thereby making them prone to still more setbacks.
The New Markets Tax Credit program helps break this vicious cycle and extends the benefits of growth to all corners of the country.
The program works by attracting private business and development. It does so by offering tax credits worth 39 percent of the value of the investment claimable over seven years. This credit offsets some of the risks involved in investing in these communities and, in the process, creates a partnership between the private and public sectors to help create jobs and opportunity where they are most needed.
New Markets Tax Credits have proven to be remarkably effective job creators [engines of economic development]. To date over $14 billion of private sector capital has been invested in an estimated two thousand businesses, supporting roughly 200,000 jobs.
That’s why the Administration has worked to expand the program. And that’s why today I am announcing tax credit allocations to support $5 billion in new investments.
Those on the receiving end of recent investments under the New Markets program are proven winners. One of these is the Greater West Town Community Development Project.
Leavy and his team are using $9.3 million of NMTC-supported funds to build a new career training and economic development center on North Sacramento Boulevard. When they move in next September, they will be able to more than double their program to help students who did not complete high school, from 100 students to 250.
Since its inception in 2003, the program has managed to graduate 70 percent of incoming classes sending hundreds of graduates out with full high school degrees and college transition training.
The center will also provide new quarters for Greater West Town’s shipping, receiving and warehousing program. This program has traditionally graduated and placed more than 80 percent of participants.
One of those who has landed a new job is Francisco Chavez.
Chavez is an Army veteran and 41-year-old father of three. He worked days and went to community college at night until the economy’s troubles caught up with his most recent employer, a gas tank manufacturer. He was laid off in June of last year.
He enrolled in Greater West Town’s shipping and receiving program this summer. Despite having just worked as a shipping coordinator, he found the transition tough because of all the new technology.
“The thought of quitting passed my mind,’’ he told one of my staff. “But there was no way I could; I have my children.”
Francisco graduated two weeks ago. He landed a shipping job with Bearse Manufacturing, a military pack and duffel bag maker, three days ago. He starts Monday.
Francisco, will you say a few words about how Greater West Town has improved your life?
[Francisco Chavez speaks.]
Francisco’s story will have to be repeated millions of times over before a real recovery is underway.
And we are going to keep at it so that their jobs will come with access to affordable health care and our children will have access to better education. And with programs like the New Markets Tax Credits and help from groups like Greater West Town, we are working to restore confidence in America by giving Americans the opportunity and economic security that they deserve.
Thank you.
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[This reminds me of the posts from last night on taking over of Hungry...granny]
Health Literacy and Happiness
An AHRQ-funded study found that health literacy was significantly associated with happiness, even after controlling for demographic variables, poverty levels, and self-reported health. Health literacy status was estimated using the previously validated, single-item screening question: ‘‘How confident are you in filling out medical forms by yourself?’’ Happiness was measured using the four-question Subjective Happiness Scale.
Read a summary of the study in AHRQ’s Research Activities at: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/oct09/1009RA18.htm.
Find the article, “Health literacy and happniess: A community-based study” at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/a814346h27136m41/fulltext.pdf.
AHRQ Seeks Health Literacy Innovations and Tools
AHRQ’s Health Care Innovation Exchange contains a wealth of information on innovations and tools to improve the quality of health care. We are continuously updating our databases to increase awareness of innovative strategies.
Have you implemented and studied the impact of a health literacy innovation? Whether it worked or not, AHRQ would like to hear about it. To learn about submitting an innovation profile, go to: http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/submit/submit.aspx.
To see health literacy innovations and tools already posted on the Health Care Innovation Exchange, go to http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/searchSummary.aspx?term=health+literacy.
AHRQ hopes you have had a happy Health Literacy Month.
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg337.htm
October 30, 2009
TG-337
Treasury Awards $5 Billion to Encourage Private
Sector Investments in Local Communities
New Markets Tax Credit Program Includes $1.5 Billion
Awarded Under the Recovery Act
CHICAGO— As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to revive local economies, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner today visited a job training center in Chicago benefiting from private sector investments made through the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program. As part of his visit, Geithner announced $5 billion in NMTC awards, including $1.5 billion made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), for more than 90 organizations in communities around the country.
“We must rebuild our economy on a firmer foundation, one that equips our workers with the skills and education they need to compete,” said Secretary Geithner. “We must make sure that the advantages of this new, stronger economy are broadly shared. Too often, communities are left behind by economic growth. The Recovery Act and the New Markets Tax Credit program help break this vicious cycle to ensure the benefits of growth reaches all corners of the country.”
In May 2009, Secretary Geithner announced an initial $1.5 billion for NMTC awards under the Recovery Act, making today’s announcement the second round of Recovery Act funding for the program. The NMTC program, established by Congress in December 2000, permits individual and corporate taxpayers to receive a credit against federal income taxes for making equity investments in investment vehicles known as Community Development Entities (CDEs). The investor receives a credit totaling 39 percent of the cost of the investment. CDEs must apply to the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, which administers the NMTC program, to compete for this allocation authority. The organizations receiving awards have identified principal service areas that will cover nearly every state in the country, as well the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and plan to invest in renewable energy projects, charter schools, health care facilities, manufacturing companies, and retail centers.
Secretary Geithner’s announcement was made today at the Greater West Town Community Development Project (GWTP) which provides job training and placement services to local residents, and educational and career development services targeted to former Chicago public high school drop-outs. Through financing provided by the Chicago Development Fund, a New Markets Tax Credit award recipient in Chicago, the GWTP will convert a vacant industrial building into a new job training and education facility. The GWTP projects the development will create 30 construction jobs and 35 permanent jobs for employees. Secretary Geithner was joined at the site by Donna J. Gambrell, Director of Treasury’s CDFI Fund; Mayor Richard Daley; Congressman Danny Davis (IL-7); and Bill Leavy, Director of the GWTP.
Said Gambrell: “The New Markets Tax Credit Program is promoting private-sector investment in our nation’s communities and is helping to stimulate economic growth, create jobs and bringing new opportunities to Americans most in need. This innovative federal program is helping to finance numerous businesses and real estate projects across the country—projects that may not have been financed if not for New Markets Tax Credits.”
Said Leavy: “The major reason we are able to build this new job training facility is because we received a New Markets Tax Credit award. This innovative federal program is supporting the expansion of employment and educational opportunities so desperately needed in communities like ours.”
To date, over $14 billion of private-sector capital has been invested through the NMTC Program into urban and rural communities throughout the country. Data reported through 2008 shows that $12.7 billion dollars of NMTC capital has been invested into approximately 2,000 businesses and real estate developments. A complete list of the organizations selected and additional information on the NMTC Program can be found on the CDFI Fund’s web site at: www.cdfifund.gov.
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