Re: Frugal ideas (on topic)

 

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I know that your list reflects your lifestyle, so I'm not critisizing it.
On the other hand, I am lazy, and since you took the trouble of writing out
your list, why should I waste my energy?  I'll just remora onto your list,
pointing out my differences.  Thanks for the list.  Now, if you'll excuse
my whilst I attach my rubber remora lips.... SLURP!


We still have two.  American independance, and all that.


Both of ours are used, and 10 years old.


Not available at all, in our village. (Yes, there are villages in the USA!)


There are NO destinations less then 1 mile away from where we live.  Unless
you count Ms Croutlier, and I wouldn't even want to drive to her house.
The nearest business is a convenience store, 2 miles away.


We do that.

We do that, but ONLY when we're in that town. (18 miles away)

We have no TV service at all.  Not because we're superior, but because
we're in a valley and get Zero, as in NADA, ZILCH, NYET, NONE reception.
Thank God for Netflix (($24/month) anad the Internet.

Well, duh.  Who doesn't?  Do you use a French Press?  If not, you should.
Do you go to StarBuX?  If so, you shouldn't.

My friends call me "that cheap bastard that never pays for anything."  Come
to think of it, why do I consider them to be friends?

What the flying fuck does this mean?

You said that, already

Not here.  $1 per bag of trash. However, we redeem our beverage bottles,
"redoom" our glass and plastics, feed the EXTREMELY rare meat scraps to our
dogs, vermipost (feed to our worm "farm") about 1/4 our veggie waste, and
compost the rest of our veggie waste.   Our trash "fees" run about $2 per
month.

no cell phones.  2 cent per minute calling plan.

I honestly did not understand that last sentence.

Ditto, but no kudos to us.  The guy who built our house was insane, and
built a southern facing sun room, and a brick floor.  It mostly works, but
no thanks to anthying we did.

No babies anymore, but we gave away all the clothes.

 



Hmm, Yes.  After reviewing your additions I can see that we have
vastly different lifestyles (or at least life situations).  We
are gonna drive the one solution fits all crowd insane (heh, heh, heh).


So do you use the Roku Netflix player??  If so, how do you like it??


No I don't go to $tarbuck$.  Never will.
And I know many people that think making your own coffee
takes too much time.  So they spend too much money at
$tarbuck$. You should see all the commuters getting off the
train carrying their cups of over priced morning jolt.


We used to spend a lot of money on video tape.  With small kids,
they were constantly getting broken, spilled on, etc.
Now if we miss a program we can go to the network website and
watch the back episodes.


Same thing, just different arrangements.
 Reduce the amount of trash and reduce your pickup fee.


M to M == Mobile to Mobile.  For a call to another person
that has the same carrier, there is no cost and no use of
plan minutes.


 

 

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I am really, really tempted, but Netflix will need to get a better list of
movies available online first.  It's very handy for catching up on TV
series I've never seen, but the move selection leaves much to be desired,
currently.


Yeah, and it's really quick to make coffee with a french press.  I mean, in
actual hands-on time.  Put the tea kettle on, and put the coffee into the
press.  Do something else until you hear the kettle boil, pour the hot
water, and do something else for 5 minutes.  Press, and drink.  Really good
cofee, and no filters to mess with, either.
Thank goodness I don't have to do the commute thing anymore, either.  I
have my own business (computer programming) and work out of my home.



Thanks.  Sorry about the f-bomb.  I was enjoying libations when I
origionally posted, and thought I had cleaned the message up before I sent
it.


Thanks.  I don't have cell phone (until just last month there was no
reception here) so didn't know what that meant.  I'm fighting hard to NOT
get a cell phone, as I don't want a giant electronic leash that anyone can
yank on whenever they want.  The wife is chomping at the bits for one,
though.  

 

P.W. , how do you like your vermaposting? Are you just fertilizing with
them?

Tommy

 

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:43:08 -0500, jeeppintom@webtv.net (Tommy) wrote:


I'm only into my third month of doing it, but so far, I'm loving it.  We've
been "composting" for years, but as we never generate enough waste for a
compost pile to heat up, it really just slowely rots.  (still helps the
earth, though.)  

My goal is not fertilizer, just to get rid of the compost waste.  I'll use
any fertilizer I get, but that's not my goal.  

I'm loving that fact that there is zero odor from these guys.  My wife
hated the smells that sometimes came from the compost bucket before I
dumped it.  The only time I had any trouble was when I tried to give them
too much compost at once, early on, then I had some odor, and a fruit fly
infestation.  I learned to back off, and be patient, and now they're eating
about 1/4 our compost, and I believe this will increase as they multiply.
And no more odor or fruit flies.  

They're incredibly prolific. I originally had them in a large quart-size
yogurt container, and nearly threw them out when I opened it one day and
found a fine white mold growing over it.  Luckily I looked closely and
noticed the "mold" was moving - thousands of little worm babies.

They are now in a much larger container (about 2.5 feet  X 1.5 feet  X by 6
inches) which I named "Wriggly Field", and this morning the top was once
again covered by worm babies, so I'm looking into another population
explosiion, and I'll bet they'll be eating about 1/2 our compost.

I'm looking into getting chickens next srping, and if so, the excess
population will be protein snacks for the hens!