Posts belonging to Category 'self sufficiency'
January 12, 2010 | Posted by author
There’s a reason we don’t see more self-sufficiency: It’s not frugal. It almost always takes more time to make something than it takes to earn enough money to buy one—and that’s without even considering the time it takes to learn the skills (let alone the cost of tools and materials). On the other hand, frugality [...]
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November 2, 2009 | Posted by DDFD
America was once the land of the rugged individualist– what happened? We were once a very self-sufficient people. We (Americans) got fat and happy. We came to expect everything to come easy. However, change is in the air, I do see more and more people mowing their own lawns these days . . . We used to do-it-ourselves, now we [...]
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October 1, 2009 | Posted by DDFD
I’ll bet most of you haven’t heard the term “Sheeple”. The term is used to describe people who are guilty of herd mentality. They blindly follow politicians, Madison Avenue, the news media, and other thought and opinion leaders blindly– even right over the cliff like a bunch of lemmings. Many Sheeple fall into the trap [...]
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September 29, 2009 | Posted by DDFD
Watch the news lately? Images of floods, wildfires, and hurricanes leading to devastation. It often makes me wonder– Are we prepared for trouble? In the northeast, the big issues tend to be storm damage such as downed trees, snow or ice storm, or electricity outage. It sounds simple, but are you prepared with the following? Flashlight [...]
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September 28, 2009 | Posted by DDFD
What if you went into town to the grocery store and the shelves were bare? Most grocery stores have about 3-6 days worth of inventory– what would you do if they weren’t there? I am not talking about “The End of the World as We Know it” (EOTWAWKI), but I am talking about a serious [...]
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September 17, 2009 | Posted by Clair Schwan
Often we confuse self sufficiency with self reliance. The two are related but they’re very different. Think back in the days of the pioneers heading west. They were very self reliant, but they also worked in teams and small communities in support of one another. By definition, they lived off the land, largely because they [...]
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