By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:17:22 +0000

Mom and I have survived small pension these past twenty odd years with a good garden in the backyard, no car, just bikes and a lot of “rag-bag” clothing! We actually donated food almost every year to the food banks! I pressure can, dry, freeze, gardens stuffs and any bargains that come along, I pickle, sauerkraut, and make conserves, We brew beer, root beer, and make darned delightful ginger beer, We freeze strawberry rhubarb and apple pies,blueberry pies, keep squash under our bed over winter, dry beans, can beans, hang onions in the cellar head with garlic and drying basil, oregano, we even dry potatoes for delightful scalloped potato dishes in the winter-time! We can any fish we get or buy on sale, including “Suckers” (A Canadian thing) I have canned potatoes – rot proof, last forever – for stews, baked dishes, and to put in with roasts, a cold cellar full of storage potatoes every winter, and pumpkin with many recipes for it coming out our yazoos! We compost and pay little or nothing for fertilizers, and close rooms off we are not using to save heating/cooling costs! We have converted to CFL’s and will go to LED’s as soon as they are practically priced or government subsidized! We turn the furnace off at night save for the coldest times of year, and snuggle into great comforters gotten at yard sales for cheap! We give at church, and attend for our outings, We participate in all church activities. We give to charities locally and the good wife (Mom) goes to Guatemala on a mission this year to build houses for the less fortunate their. We have a color TV, big enough to see, not a whole wall-full mind, and we enjoy some radio too. We read al lot, mostly library books, Ontario, where we live has excellent, free, library services! I use Ubuntu, the free software from the net for my second hand computer, and like it very much! We walk for groceries, carry home any we need, that limits how much doesn’t it! We send gifts to the grandchildren, modest ones, and keep our children well aware of the values of life that count most!Mom cleans floors for richer neighbors, cleans toilets at clubs and the church, to give to charity when we have no immediate needs (most the time!) and we survive. Who could ask for more? Why? My time is my own, my thoughts unregulated by corporatism, capitalism, materialism, conforming, social ladder climbing, and greed, and I see photos to take of the beauty of humanity that can be seen through no other eyes!

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:23:18 +0000

Thank you for pointing that out. Sorry about the misquote – I instinctively thought it was a Gandhi quote but found several sources that said otherwise. I guess those sources suck. 🙂 It’s been fixed. Please don’t judge the entire article by one mistake. Thanks.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:32:43 +0000

I was going to comment on the mis-quote also… I got so ticked by that I almost didn’t read the article…

By: sally

sally — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:03:50 +0000

I think its really disgusting that you’d attribute a Gandhi quote to Ed Begley Jr.

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