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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (13113)	5/5/2001 3:08:28 PM
From: hobo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I know that sells deboned chicken thighs. LOL !!! I could say... no I better not -g-

To: Lane3 who wrote (13113)	5/5/2001 3:08:45 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You're lucky enough to have a Whole Foods near enough to where you live. If you had to take an entire day to go to one, as I would, I doubt you would only buy one or two days meat at a time! And actually, we find that with the vacuum packing (Food Saver) our frozen meat tastes just fine And if you were ten miles from the nearest store and it was only open from 10 to 6, and not on Sunday, you wouldn't perhaps be quite so casual about only buying one roll of paper towels at a time. But I'm happy that you have found shopping habits that work for you. We actually hate to shop, so we do it once a month (except for fresh fruits and veggies and milk and such, which we do once a week, Thursday afternoon, and if my wife doesn't show up at the store right at 3:30 on Thursday it is, I assure you, majorly noticed. Small town life.) and get it over with. If we don't have something, it waits for the next shopping trip which may be a week away. Living that way, you make sure there's plenty of toilet paper in the pantry! Your auctions sound like fun. There are a lot of alternate life stylers here on the island, so there's a lot of thrift store activity and lots of barter. For an island of 6,000 people there is a community thrift store plus two stores selling used everything. Not antique stores -- they don't even bother pretending to be that. One, in fact, is called Funk and Junk. Not even a pretense of upscale! Three second hand stores for 6,000 people has to be some sort of record. Did you ever hear of Scott and Jane Neery (Neary?) They were famous back-to-the-land-ers in the 30s and 40s, or thereabouts. Wrote one or more books about it. They were distant friends of our family when I sas a kid, but at my young age I just thought them weird -- why would somebody want to go live without electricity and pump water by hand and use an outhouse. Sounded like NO fun to me. (Still doesn't!)

To: Lane3 who wrote (13113)	5/5/2001 5:38:29 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

This is the book that started my simplification kick. Karen, I got on an anti-clutter kick a few years back; read a few books, followed instructions.It was incredibly freeing. Since then I have often forgotten, or just not followed some of the precepts, but at least I remember how removing clutter from life can really create peace of mind. My worst clutter these days is in storing and processing information on the computer. I am always bookmarking articles I have read, and I am never able to find them in those rare instances where I search for something apropos weeks or months later. I would be interested in how others deal with organizing the plethora of computing information, and how they deal with their folders, etc. Most of it should probably just be thrown out! :) I'm gonna have a look for that book you cited in the library (one thing I still practice; I have whittled my essential library down to one bookcase which I add one book to a month. Other books which I buy, I read and give away. It might sound silly, but it simplifies...)