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
>>>That would have been a site to see.<<<
LOL I could handle the sight - it was the way it shook the whole ground AND my big vehicle that really got my attention!
I could not imagine what it would be like to drive one of those.
Those tankers are a special breed - I gotta respect guys that can put those heavy tracks back on in the field with only minimal equipment or pull and replace a huge engine out in the boondocks. Takes a real can-do attitude. (Maybe they are like the bumblebee and because they don’t know that you can’t do it, they just do it anyway)
I think the crocheting is what Phyllis used to do to make her rag baskets.
She was so neat. I used to go over to her house and we’d do puzzles for the whole afternoon while listening to WWII music. I loved her stories of growing up in the depression and then working in a factory during the war. With not a note of pity or anything - just that that was the way it was and everyone made do. What a great generation.
just that that was the way it was and everyone made do. What a great generation.<<<
She sounds like my friend Mary.
Some are taught to do what needs to be done and they do it.
Takes a real can-do attitude.<<<
Yes and I think they have always existed, it is that some are not so spectacular as your tank repairmen,that would be worth watching.
My first son in law, a young Marine, with a Texas oil field background, was sent to viet Nam, his job was to patch the copters and keep them flying, including the ones spraying Agent Orange.
His reward was brain cancer, that at 25 years old, left him about 9 years old, until he died 15 years later.
Sheer waste of a special person.
Well, I tested the baking soda today on pinto beans and garbanzo beans - I can’t believe how quickly they softed up! I just soaked them in water with 1/2 tsp baking soda for about 3 hours - and it was similar to my soaking them overnight without the baking soda. They also cooked up quickly, simmering them really slowly for about an hour.
thanks, Government Shrinker, for the old beans tip. I am storing SuperPails of beans and if TS doesn’t HTF, then I might have some old ones in a decade or so!
I just bought 7 mylar bags, intending to use them in buckets to store important things, like dried cat food ;)
The instructions on the web make it sound rather difficult. Anyone have experience with it?
And...what’s a good CHEAP source of food-grade 5 or 6 gallon buckets?
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INFLUENZA PANDEMIC (H1N1) 2009 (91): UKRAINE
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86 people have died in Ukraine from flu and respiratory infections, the
health ministry said on Wednesday [4 Nov 2009], in an epidemic the World
Health Organization said could be largely due to the pandemic (H1N1) 2009
influenza virus. The ministry said that almost half a million cases of flu
and acute respiratory infections had been recorded since mid-October 2009
in this country of 46 million, while 24 000 people have been hospitalised.
Some 148 000 cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours, it added.
The epidemic is concentrated in the west of the country, which borders 4
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the capital Kiev. “As the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus has rapidly become the
dominant influenza strain worldwide, it can be assumed that most cases of
influenza in Ukraine are caused by the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus,” the WHO
said on Tuesday [3 Nov 2009].
Lyudmila Mukharska, Ukraine’s deputy chief health officer, said the
authorities had confirmed that 5 of the dead had died of the pandemic [?]
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I was watching this and thinking, “is this a tape recorded BEFORE this atrocity?” Just couldn’t believe this man could be this callous and shallow.
Glad it works and that word is getting around. I never knew about this either, until somebody posted that beans weren’t useable if they’d been stored too long. I knew I’d heard of well-informed sources recommended dried beans for very long term storage, so I did some googling and bumped into the baking soda trick.
With a year of organic chemistry under my belt, I suppose I ought to be able to figure out why this works. Guess I’ll put that project on my to-do list. For now, I’m just going to think of baking soda as “magic bean softener”.
The only starting point I can think of off-hand is that it’s alkaline. Must be reacting with the beans in some way that causes water to be pulled in due to a sort of domino-effect of the reaction.
>>>I’m just going to think of baking soda as “magic bean softener”.<<<
LOL not a hard one... Alkali causes deterioration of the skin covering of the beans, allowing the water to penetrate better when cooked. Stronger alkali solutions (lye) are routinely used for peeling potatoes and carrots commercially.
I only see two disadvantages to it - 1. It does tend to lower one or more of the B vitamins and 2. With some beans (like pinto) you will get more loss of integrity of the beans. (But easier to make those refried beans - LOL)
There are definite advantages to kidneys - particularly those with kidney function troubles.
As far as gas, I can only say that the more regularly you eat beans, the less gas you seem to get. The body compensates for it over time, but occasional eating of beans does not give the body time to develop the resistance. Wish I could remember the particular enzyme we produce that controls it, but for the life of me I can’t remember. (will probably wake and remember it about 3 am and then promptly forget it again - LOL)
Callous, Shallow both came to my mind too - BUT I think the underlying narcissism is what really drives him.
Hey, congratulations to Maine! While they didn’t vote gay marriage out by very much, they did it!
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