I was 16 when I was told to get out the house you are not earning enough to stay here you are not in school you are on your own. I lined up a place to stay with friends no hot water no ac but hey we had cold beer and hot women ok the women were not hot but they were female and when you are 16 and you have some place to put that thing that is all that counts. I say it all in the video learn from Ray Mears buscraft search for them on you tube he has wonderful insightful videos that are first class production and he takes the time to teach you the knots you need to learn to successfully sleep in hammocks. Another person is Dave Ramsey that dude has the goods for a stress free life. IDK about you but I don't want to dine on steak for a week and starve the last week of the month I rather lean how to do things where I am never in want this way when I do eat steak I really appreciate it. IF you are paycheck to paycheck and have been so for many years you have got to break that cycle this is no way to live you are going to get caught you have got to learn how to fix these wealth wounds where you are gushing cash. MrEnergycsar IDK for sure 100% here but the guy teaches you about peak oil he has a list of books you might wish to read one book was a joy to read it had a light switch on the cover the man was a college boy that went to live with the non electric people IDK if it was the Amish it might be another tribe IDK which but it changed his life. Albert Eienstien said the definition to insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Abe Lincoln said if he had 8 hours to chop down a tree he would spend 6 sharpening his axe. (clearly he did not have a grinder) what he meant was you have got to have a plan you had better be doing better than average when you swing that tool. I remember the oil embargo of the 70's but I was very young I just remember an elder complaining that there were RV's getting lots of gas people had money they didn't have fuel. If you can buy something at a thrift store (and it is a great deal ) do it (some thrift stores are selling for retail) If you can do without something do. Identify where your time and money is spent I wish I had all them hours back that I spent at laundry mats. I would have been better off learning how to wash my clothes in a bucket and using a mop bucket to wring them out then hang to dry. For some they can get away with this they have but 2 pair of pants or work uniforms. I cut my own hair know why bc I rather do this than call the barber drive to him wait my turn then drive home. People are shot in robberies in business these days people are robbed by the police in the form of a ticket going to these places. You can get in a crash when you really could have taken care of this task yourself. Obtuse you say well I usually never go out on Sat night bc the night is loaded with drunks drunks attact more police and more police mean stops. Last Saturday night 11PM I was stopped and given a ticket for violating 3 stop signs IDK what that ticket cost I can say this I should not have been driving that night I was brought out my cave and got busted. I have driven this way in the presence of police for 25 years never was told boo all of a sudden I have 3 violations (not cool). Most pay these tickets I don't surrender like that I fight some to at least get it busted to some other violation so I don't get any points against my insurance. I call that ticket added tax police don't know how to lay people off they sick them on the people to get them to feed them. I get enough of that shit I will move and they will not get any of my fucking money but so far the last ticket was in 1996 I paid through the nose for that ticket and I did move after that ticket. Some would say drastic moving for a ticket well you tell me if I made the right move I left south central Los Angeles Ca. how is that area now? They can't even get the hind tit that place is imploding I did the right thing and I would leave this area if this becomes a pattern. So far I just don't drive when times for tickets are hot. Ca they write tickets all day long they NEVER give warnings like down here in the south. They could care less if you are a trucker and would not be able to work if you got a ticket they aren't concerned with your problems they want that money and are going to get it. Right or wrong you go to jail they are going home.
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Punk Economics: Lesson 1 greek subsby giannisstagakis209 views
@cdltpx What bothers me is people who cannot fulfill their obligations and blow it off. That is not legal in France, where your great grandchildren will inherit your debts and your bad family name, and none of your cousins can get certain jobs if there is a smear on things. People think it is backward but it isn't. You can swear in writing what you are saying is true here and totally avoid a notary public -- they don't exist here.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@cdltpx They're useful! I seem to always need one for the lunchbox. I've been brown bagging it for decades, hee hee! I was the nerd who'd pull a slice of homemade quick bread out of my briefcase at break time and at the end of the week have cash, not having had to send out or go out to get stuff during the day.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@cdltpx Keep in mind back then I was 12-16 working FF and weighed 145 when I was married age 19 I then quit smoking started working out and was up to 185 in 6 weeks time I added some muscle in that short time I worked out at least 8 hours a day. Ignorance can be cured ONLY if you can convince them I love the Inet it works it shows them what they are missing. We have so many things thrown away here I got satellite dishes from trash I can glue mylar on them poof solar cooker all of an hour time.
cdltpx 1 month ago
@cdltpx I recall when I was a teen I would go hungry but I would not see I worked at Wendys ketchup and crackers are free I would sit there and eat crackers dipped in ketchup. I use to FREAK when a person would come to the counter and say this has mustard on it and the manager would grab it and throw it in the trash ! I started to keep the trash can changed when he would do that I would wait till I could and swipe the tossed food and hide out and eat it.No one ate off it it is a sin to toss food
cdltpx 1 month ago
@slobomotion Strange you mention Ketchup one of my sins is I swipe condiments I can't help myself I get to a place and I am collecting what I need I will grab 3 of them 4of those even though I will not use them then. I takem home keep them in a bag when I cook I take them out and add them to the brew. I keep them too JIC we run out of something wife will take the packets when she has not time to fix a sandwich she snags the supplies and hits the door. I always carry tobasco packet in wallet.
cdltpx 1 month ago
@cdltpx In France, many people never wore leather shoes in their life even until the '80s. I have met people here who never used a phone until they moved to Paris in the '70s. My inlaws still cannot imagine what the Internet or a computer is. They only got a phone and indoor plumbing recently, and this is not rare. They won't even drink a soda here, lots of them, nor an ice cube in a drink. Too weird for them. Many still don't have fridges.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@cdltpx Trying to explain this to my peasant family here has been super frustrating. My own husband told me France did not have enough sun for solar when I first met him. They think I am nuts for proposing a grey water system. So it goes. Hey, my father in law has never even eaten a hamburger in his life. This is so alien to many French, they would never eat a chopped steak with a bun! Nor Asiatiac food, nothing! Ketchup even took me years to find here.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@slobomotion $40 for a bath? You don't have solar heated water. Ever hear of compost water heating? If that cost that much there you are a millionaire with what I am sharing with you here? Any decaying matter produces methane gas as it does this it gives off heat that heat can be collected with a coil water runs through it and wamo you have compost heater. The methane can be collected too and used for cooking, This is not new. Solar cooking too French foreign legion did this in the 17oo's
cdltpx 1 month ago
@cdltpx We just found out 109 of our neighbors are so wealthy they have to pay a special tax. None of them are complaining. Most Americans don't know that the tax for the wealthy in the 19th c. for example was often at the 90 per cent. rate. My first husband, rich, was happy to pay at 50 per cent. and upset Reagan was going to end all that. When visitors see what we pay for oil over here they get freaked out. It costs about 40 USD to take a hot bath in Brittany.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@slobomotion I saw this comming in the 80's my grandfather went to auctions guess what he went to them all through my life there is always somebody that is making unsound decisions or they start projects and fall ill. In the 70's I saw our economy was different from the rest of the country since we were oil and shrimp we make money on oil the nation loses money on it. My town had more millionaires than anyplace else not in the mid 80's when the nation was doing well. Cheap oil dictates our econo
cdltpx 1 month ago