Comments on: Recession-Proof Your Household http://frugaldad.com/2008/10/02/five-unique-strategies-to-recession-proof-your-household/ Tips for living frugal while still having a life Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:10:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Surviving A Recession http://frugaldad.com/2008/10/02/five-unique-strategies-to-recession-proof-your-household/comment-page-1/#comment-15297 Surviving A Recession Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:39:05 +0000 http://frugaldad.com/2008/10/02/five-unique-strategies-to-recession-proof-your-household/#comment-15297 I'll add my voice to the crowd that say that Kate and Lisa have it right. I only wish i had the space and time to have a few animals and a giant garden. I really do not think it is going to get as some of you seem to think. I am sure many of you remember stagflation in the 70's. We have not even come close to it being that bad yet. I’ll add my voice to the crowd that say that Kate and Lisa have it right. I only wish i had the space and time to have a few animals and a giant garden.

I really do not think it is going to get as some of you seem to think. I am sure many of you remember stagflation in the 70’s. We have not even come close to it being that bad yet.

]]> By: another Dana http://frugaldad.com/2008/10/02/five-unique-strategies-to-recession-proof-your-household/comment-page-1/#comment-9105 another Dana Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:32:49 +0000 http://frugaldad.com/2008/10/02/five-unique-strategies-to-recession-proof-your-household/#comment-9105 I went out the back door of my apartment building recently to go somewhere and danged if some random unknown person hadn't left a small chest freezer out behind one of the dumpsters! It's common practice for residents in my building to leave pieces of furniture back there that they no longer need, so someone else can grab them if they want. Well, this had obviously been left out very recently and looked practically brand-new. Took it upstairs to test it and it worked. This is going to sound weird and survivalist but I've been looking around and taking mental notes of where edible wild stuff grows. I can't identify everything in my area, but I can identify a lot: black walnuts, crabapples, mulberries, burdock, dandelion, and chicory. In a pinch, we could at least get our nutrients in even if we didn't get a lot of calories from what I can find out there. There's even an apple tree on commercial property across the street from me but we looked more closely at it the other day and the apples all have black spots all over them and look misshapen. I'm half tempted to go around town and offer help to commercial landowners with caring for their fruit trees in return for first dibs on the harvest. I am no arborist, but in a pinch I could learn about basic tree care. I'm a geek about this stuff. We already have free places to go for entertainment, like the park we went to today that has a lake with ducks. You can get a lot of mileage out of a lake and ducks when you have a three-year-old. :) I went out the back door of my apartment building recently to go somewhere and danged if some random unknown person hadn’t left a small chest freezer out behind one of the dumpsters! It’s common practice for residents in my building to leave pieces of furniture back there that they no longer need, so someone else can grab them if they want. Well, this had obviously been left out very recently and looked practically brand-new. Took it upstairs to test it and it worked.

This is going to sound weird and survivalist but I’ve been looking around and taking mental notes of where edible wild stuff grows. I can’t identify everything in my area, but I can identify a lot: black walnuts, crabapples, mulberries, burdock, dandelion, and chicory. In a pinch, we could at least get our nutrients in even if we didn’t get a lot of calories from what I can find out there. There’s even an apple tree on commercial property across the street from me but we looked more closely at it the other day and the apples all have black spots all over them and look misshapen. I’m half tempted to go around town and offer help to commercial landowners with caring for their fruit trees in return for first dibs on the harvest. I am no arborist, but in a pinch I could learn about basic tree care. I’m a geek about this stuff.

We already have free places to go for entertainment, like the park we went to today that has a lake with ducks. You can get a lot of mileage out of a lake and ducks when you have a three-year-old. :)

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