With groceries so expensive I’m going to issue a cookbook using only cardboard lawn clippings And leaf debris and see if we can survive on that since they are in extreme abundance. If I can get my teeth sharpened enough, maybe I can add rocks and gravel to the recipes. Asphalt might be delicious as a dessert. There’s plenty of that. Stay tuned for my cookbook.
Check Ethiopian cookbooks for Stone Soup recipes. Black oil sunflower seeds can be pressed for cooking oil. Pulverized acorns make flour. Extra Bonus: Include photos of Native Americans' preferred plants for toilet paper.
Acorns if not prepared properly can be very toxic!!! A lot of other wild edibles are toxic as well and if you don’t know how to make them safe I would highly suggest something else to eat!
Check your library and online for Depression era cookbooks and recipes. There are lots of cheap, filing meals you can make with few, cheap ingredients.
People give vegans a lot of crap sometimes, but a lot of those dishes use staples: beans, lentils, legumes, rice. Many different varieties of each one, lots of possibilities, and dried stuff stores a long time.
FWIW, many vegan baking recipes are also quite good and sidestep the need for eggs which are so expensive these days.
Vegans are far less likely to get fatty liver disease (obesity, diabetes) & cancers, saving on medical care & prescriptions and, maintaining a consistent, healthy weight reduces the need for new clothing in larger sizes.
I went to Ingles then Food City yesterday. I wqnted to cry! The prices went up. Where I used to buy Natalie’s orange juice for $5.99, it was now $7.99. And a pack of chicken breast that used to be around $12 was now $22. And the eggs? Don’t get me started 🤦♀️
Corporations are also using this tariff increase justify raising prices on everything even if it’s made in America or grown in America it’s disgusting. I still say we need the boycott for a week or two. Stock up before the event and then hit them in the pocket
They'll use any excuse to gouge. And this is on top of the pandemic gouging that remains. Prices are sticky, wages are not. Interesting how that works.
One good reliable road-proven source is barely known Denmark band Asteroid Galaxy Tour. I am grateful for their consciousness raising recordings and their club tours including of indie record shops across northern states of U.S.
Their early videos of "Golden Age" apparently didn't call enough attention to the irony intended. Shame our good city bergers in wealthiest nation in recorded and quantified human her\history not YET (decade after Asteroid Galaxy's first US tour of neighborhood record stores through cities with some of the worst and most obvious NORMLIZED HOMELESSNESS on downtown street corners....where investment wealth congregates) confronting ironies pervasive indeed amuck in Golden Ages continuum:
#114 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around the bend (Session Acoustique)
Le Cargo !
61.6K subscribers
126,542 views Mar 16, 2009
Pourquoi n'avions nous pas demandé la session de nous même... Un peu perdu au milieu de la multitude... Heureusement un coup de téléphone et quelques jours plus tard on se retrouve avec les Asteroids dans un incroyable squat parisien... A peine la porte refermée on se retrouve hors du temps, loin de tout... On ne fait pas la différence entre nos hôtes et le groupe... parfait...
Evidemment se retrouver face à deux percussionnistes, une trompette, un saxo et une guitare avec un micro en rade sur les deux, on se demande un peu comment on va faire pour capturer la voix de la jolie Mette Lindberg... Mission presque impossible... Mais même si le résultat est un peu bordélique, on ne voulait pas garder pour nous cette rencontre avec la fanfare farfelue des Asteroids Galaxy Tour...
Jetez vous sur leur Ep. Around the bend est un concentré de bonne humeur qui devrait être remboursé par la sécu... Et guettez la prochaine sortie de l'album et leur retour en France... Indispensable.
Live on NYC's Highline (abandoned elevated subway track that only a century after its abandonment has been converted into an as is way downtown pedestrian park as the first Lower East Side subway line remains over-budget and under construction):
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour One-Take - "The Golden Age"
52,738 views Apr 30, 2010
"Dusty Wright presents Danish alt-pop band The Asteroids Galaxy Tour on the Highline in NYC. Dusty Wright's One-Takes are a series of live performances by artists you know, should know, or will know very soon."
Bless Mette, Lars & those traveling road-ready horns!!!!
This is a great reference and I wish I could stock up, but living paycheck to paycheck and trying to manage my farm as a solo lady-farmer doesn't leave much. Plus, I work at the local school as head cook, so we have summer break just around the corner and I don't get paid for holidays, snow days or vacations.
Start looking for mutual aid in your area. Time banks, community gardens. We must establish the help we are going to need NOW. Not when the time arrives.
Well, I'm a farmer and Aaso the school garden coach for my local elementary school, so food isn't necessarily the issue...leastwise not things like fresh veg. Grains are an issue, but really I'm more concerned with lady-supplies. Everyday necessities that are already hard to afford.
Living in a very rural part of western Maine, I don't even know what mutual aid is or if we have it available in the region.
But, having been poor my entire life, I'm used to going without (though how you'd go without maxi pads idk), and, having bootstrapped my farm into reality, I'm exceedingly resourceful.🙏
We were carefilly culturally conditioned to think of menstrual blood as "gross," lest we remember to view it as an indication of youth and the power for most menstruating people to create life. Women before the invention of menstrual hygiene products used what was available such as moss or rags. We still called our periods "being on the rag" when I was a kid in the 1970s. Our mothers used rags when they were kids. They would likely have viewed period cups and period underwear as wonderful upgrades!
I’ve been using a menstrual cup, cloth pads, and period underwear for about the last 15 years and I recommend them! I hear lots of people say they they’re gross, but I don’t think they they’re any worse than the disposable ones. I find them WAY more comfortable. You can find cloth pads on Etsy or similar and support small businesses and makers. The biggest problem, though, is that the startup cost is high. If you’re interested in this as an alternative, consider the options and what you are comfortable with/willing to try, and what will be most price effective. I’m happy to chat more if you want.
Maine is full of self help groups. Try the state website. There are community resources. The maxi pads are another story and you really don’t want to know what women did before they were invented. There are reusable products, menstrual cups?
We have got to connect with other folks like ourselves, so we can exchange help and support. The best way I’ve found is contact Indivisible, 50501, the local Democrat party office, and other similar organizations online. Join, volunteer time to make phone calls or send texts. Go to the protests!! You will meet many others like yourself. It’s really easier to make friends now that we’re all in the crosshairs together, and we all need some kind of help, and we can all offer some kind of help! Trade services! You can grow vegetables, which is tremendous!! Maybe you have chickens or cows for eggs and milk products, which is awesome. Let’s just help each other!!
Greedbane has guides and resources. Start checking on Next Door maybe and ask around the area. We are going to have to become more self-reliant and that means building community.
You reverenced silicone wiper blades from Amazon last for years- off Amazon- there are other places to purchase this item please people seek other purchasing platforms
This is 10 categories, not 10 items. I counted 90 specific items, and that didn’t include the larger, catch-all groups. FYI to families with kids: I read a prediction for severe lack of school supplies in the fall. And I wouldn’t count on this administration to protect us against price gouging.
Your advice is appreciated. But shouldn’t all patriotic Americans be lining up to pay the tariffs (sales tax) on imported goods? Doesn’t Conold the corrupt cretin promise that paying tariffs will result in reduced taxes? Or is that promise just more BS from dumbo the clown and his clown car cabinet? Buying reserve items now will distort the immediate price effects of tariffs. And the orange shit stain will claim his fucked up plan is working. Eventually the truth will out. President Leon’s efficiencies will result in increased costs to the federal budget and harm to millions of Americans. Conold’s fantasies will impoverish millions more. But never mind. The 1/3 of (mostly white) registered voters will be happy to fellate Conold along with his hand-picked fuck wit cabinet as the country flushes itself down the shitter. Sad. So. Delaying the inevitable will extend the pain. Delicious. 😋
Okay, so pretty much everything and all necessities. This man is so stupid. And those people that voted for him because he was “good” for the economy and created this self induced economic pain for all of us while he gets richer with his shitcoin.
Better yet, sign up for community supported agriculture (if you can), at least for your food, and skip the grocery store. I have no idea how much eggs cost because I get them at my CSA. $430 for four months with fresh local eggs every other week. I pick up potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, berries, milk, onions, carrots, broccoli — the good stuff we should be eating anyway. Half the stuff we buy is unnecessary. Remember when people used bar soap instead of “body wash”? Do you really need fragrance beads for your laundry? Now’s a good time to do what our grandparents did - learn the beauty of dried beans to feed your family while saving money and skipping meat on occasion. The headline says 10 items, but there are way more than ten. Silliness.
A huge majority of people are already living very frugally, eating beans and rice, not indulging in any bath beads. This is going to be difficult for us.
Yes, of course America is a consumerist country. Lots of people are buying things they don’t need at Walmart and the grocery store. That’s a different issue than whether a huge amount of people have little left to give up to make further cuts.
People who eat and live frugally aren’t identifying themselves at the grocery store,lol. Broccoli, berries, and lettuce are splurges. CSA’s are great, but they require that lump sum payment, just for fruits and veggies. That’s impossible for a lot of people.
You seem to be making an assumption here that I don’t know life is hard because it’s not hard for me. That would be incorrect. Not all CSA‘s require a lump sum payment.- I don’t know where you got that idea either. In any case clearly we have different perspectives on this. I don’t think the point about America being about consumption is a different one on a list about what to hoard. It suggests that many of these things we believe are necessities are in fact not; it’s not possible to separate a curated list from the wider culture that tells us relentlessly what we should be buying. and uses the consumer spending around the holidays to tell us whether we have a vibrant economy or not. Those bath beads may seem like a pleasure to you, but they aren’t one product in isolation. For example, Dove is owned by Unilever, which is one of the world’s largest plastics polluters. The problem with the list is that it tells people how to get what they want not what they need – and want is not the same thing as need. Want is driven in large part by corporations – so if you look at this curated list of what you need, so to speak, who’s deciding for you?
It’s so interesting to me when people make assumptions here — like they fill in what they think they know. What if I see people wheeling carts out of Walmart across from my post office? What if I take my father to Walmart? There’s no substitute for good reasoning skills. Where did I say “self sufficient”? It’s silly to bang out a response that has no basis in evidence, just your own conjecture.
Melanie, you're whining about bath beads when bath beads aren't on the list.
I don't know what people are buying at Walmart because I don't shop at Walmart.
You obviously do.
I don't have to shop at Walmart because I'm in an older suburban neighborhood and I have two grocery stores, an Ace hardware store and a CVS within walking distance.
That's not virtue -- that's location. But I'm well aware that many other people live places where Walmart is their best, if not only choice.
You live somewhere with an active CSA -- not everyone has that.
But if you want to talk about people conjecturing on little data, I suggest you re read your posts.
If you want to lecture, post a note. Having been raised by Depression era grandparents and parents, I'll warn you that scarcity and shortages do not lead to less consumerism in the future. It is not necessarily a spiritual awakening.
It does -- if you were paying attention -- teach you to always have a full pantry.
People who have never experienced physical shortages, who have never gone into a store and not been able to find diapers or pet food or frozen vegetables, they may need guidelines on what to stock up on.
Do you want to help them or lecture on the evils of consumerism?
What do you do for a living? Is your job based on consumers?
When people use charged language like “whining” and do a long ad hominem diatribe, making it about a character attack, it demonstrates the lack of reasoning ability. I note you did not answer my question….because anger is easier. I have parents who survived the Depression too and in fact have published about it. But you’d rather be angry than have a conversation, rather guess about me than discuss this issue. Time is currency. I don’t engage with insulters.
So in other words everything.
Yep! Even if we wanted, we can’t afford to buy all this now. 🥴
Hahaha I just had the same thought, like so wait what am I NOT buying ???😂
Crayons? 🖍️
Oh but crayons are all I want. Boo!!
Exactly.
Precisely my thought.
With groceries so expensive I’m going to issue a cookbook using only cardboard lawn clippings And leaf debris and see if we can survive on that since they are in extreme abundance. If I can get my teeth sharpened enough, maybe I can add rocks and gravel to the recipes. Asphalt might be delicious as a dessert. There’s plenty of that. Stay tuned for my cookbook.
More realistically learn what plants around you are edible.
There's a phone app for edible wild plants.
I keep hard copies of local plant ID books. Interwebs are not guaranteed.
That's going up in price too.
I’d love to, but I live just south of Detroit in a toxic suburb miles from the nearest clean forest
Decisions have consequences
We can all become Euell Gibbons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euell_Gibbons
With the high pesticide use and pollution in most areas no wild plants will be safe for consumption.
Not much different than the shit we eat now.
Check Ethiopian cookbooks for Stone Soup recipes. Black oil sunflower seeds can be pressed for cooking oil. Pulverized acorns make flour. Extra Bonus: Include photos of Native Americans' preferred plants for toilet paper.
If I use acorn flour, will I acquire the agility of a squirrel?
Acorns if not prepared properly can be very toxic!!! A lot of other wild edibles are toxic as well and if you don’t know how to make them safe I would highly suggest something else to eat!
Otherwise we might end up sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Keep your book title short & to the point: ROUGHAGE.
We all need more of that!
Good to go!
Keep on doing....Health & Balance!
Tio Mitchito
Check your library and online for Depression era cookbooks and recipes. There are lots of cheap, filing meals you can make with few, cheap ingredients.
The ingredients were cheap back then, as was everything. My parents used to talk about burgers for a nickel. They're not cheap anymore.
People give vegans a lot of crap sometimes, but a lot of those dishes use staples: beans, lentils, legumes, rice. Many different varieties of each one, lots of possibilities, and dried stuff stores a long time.
FWIW, many vegan baking recipes are also quite good and sidestep the need for eggs which are so expensive these days.
Vegans are far less likely to get fatty liver disease (obesity, diabetes) & cancers, saving on medical care & prescriptions and, maintaining a consistent, healthy weight reduces the need for new clothing in larger sizes.
I went to Ingles then Food City yesterday. I wqnted to cry! The prices went up. Where I used to buy Natalie’s orange juice for $5.99, it was now $7.99. And a pack of chicken breast that used to be around $12 was now $22. And the eggs? Don’t get me started 🤦♀️
Corporations are also using this tariff increase justify raising prices on everything even if it’s made in America or grown in America it’s disgusting. I still say we need the boycott for a week or two. Stock up before the event and then hit them in the pocket
They'll use any excuse to gouge. And this is on top of the pandemic gouging that remains. Prices are sticky, wages are not. Interesting how that works.
The Irish tried to eat grass when they were starving to death. Our guts are not designed to process it.☹️
We only have one stomach.
The Chinese ate tree bark for a while. But it isn't good for the complexion.
RFK Jr. approves. And don't forget to stock up on cod liver oil for the medicine cabinet.
Gonna go out and get me a case of cod liver oil and Geritol get a pound of lard if I have any leftover money lol
Don't forget the vitamin A and C. According to RFK Jr. that also helps cure measles.
You can cook with anything if you try hard enough 😅
🤣🤣
What? No cats or dogs on the menu? That’s protein on the hoof! (Or paw.)
Nooooooo! I'm keeping my kitteh inside. I have liquid protein - oops, better check the expiration date...
Or so we are being told.
One good reliable road-proven source is barely known Denmark band Asteroid Galaxy Tour. I am grateful for their consciousness raising recordings and their club tours including of indie record shops across northern states of U.S.
Their early videos of "Golden Age" apparently didn't call enough attention to the irony intended. Shame our good city bergers in wealthiest nation in recorded and quantified human her\history not YET (decade after Asteroid Galaxy's first US tour of neighborhood record stores through cities with some of the worst and most obvious NORMLIZED HOMELESSNESS on downtown street corners....where investment wealth congregates) confronting ironies pervasive indeed amuck in Golden Ages continuum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWiyipJj9o
#114 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around the bend (Session Acoustique)
Le Cargo !
61.6K subscribers
126,542 views Mar 16, 2009
Pourquoi n'avions nous pas demandé la session de nous même... Un peu perdu au milieu de la multitude... Heureusement un coup de téléphone et quelques jours plus tard on se retrouve avec les Asteroids dans un incroyable squat parisien... A peine la porte refermée on se retrouve hors du temps, loin de tout... On ne fait pas la différence entre nos hôtes et le groupe... parfait...
Evidemment se retrouver face à deux percussionnistes, une trompette, un saxo et une guitare avec un micro en rade sur les deux, on se demande un peu comment on va faire pour capturer la voix de la jolie Mette Lindberg... Mission presque impossible... Mais même si le résultat est un peu bordélique, on ne voulait pas garder pour nous cette rencontre avec la fanfare farfelue des Asteroids Galaxy Tour...
Jetez vous sur leur Ep. Around the bend est un concentré de bonne humeur qui devrait être remboursé par la sécu... Et guettez la prochaine sortie de l'album et leur retour en France... Indispensable.
Merci à toute l'équipe de Music Media Consulting.
Images : Renaud de Foville (www.unjourpeutetre.net)
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Live on NYC's Highline (abandoned elevated subway track that only a century after its abandonment has been converted into an as is way downtown pedestrian park as the first Lower East Side subway line remains over-budget and under construction):
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour One-Take - "The Golden Age"
52,738 views Apr 30, 2010
"Dusty Wright presents Danish alt-pop band The Asteroids Galaxy Tour on the Highline in NYC. Dusty Wright's One-Takes are a series of live performances by artists you know, should know, or will know very soon."
Bless Mette, Lars & those traveling road-ready horns!!!!
Encore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGCSGgMHQ9k
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour -
This is a great reference and I wish I could stock up, but living paycheck to paycheck and trying to manage my farm as a solo lady-farmer doesn't leave much. Plus, I work at the local school as head cook, so we have summer break just around the corner and I don't get paid for holidays, snow days or vacations.
This is gonna hurt.😫
Start looking for mutual aid in your area. Time banks, community gardens. We must establish the help we are going to need NOW. Not when the time arrives.
Well, I'm a farmer and Aaso the school garden coach for my local elementary school, so food isn't necessarily the issue...leastwise not things like fresh veg. Grains are an issue, but really I'm more concerned with lady-supplies. Everyday necessities that are already hard to afford.
Living in a very rural part of western Maine, I don't even know what mutual aid is or if we have it available in the region.
But, having been poor my entire life, I'm used to going without (though how you'd go without maxi pads idk), and, having bootstrapped my farm into reality, I'm exceedingly resourceful.🙏
We were carefilly culturally conditioned to think of menstrual blood as "gross," lest we remember to view it as an indication of youth and the power for most menstruating people to create life. Women before the invention of menstrual hygiene products used what was available such as moss or rags. We still called our periods "being on the rag" when I was a kid in the 1970s. Our mothers used rags when they were kids. They would likely have viewed period cups and period underwear as wonderful upgrades!
I’ve been using a menstrual cup, cloth pads, and period underwear for about the last 15 years and I recommend them! I hear lots of people say they they’re gross, but I don’t think they they’re any worse than the disposable ones. I find them WAY more comfortable. You can find cloth pads on Etsy or similar and support small businesses and makers. The biggest problem, though, is that the startup cost is high. If you’re interested in this as an alternative, consider the options and what you are comfortable with/willing to try, and what will be most price effective. I’m happy to chat more if you want.
Maine is full of self help groups. Try the state website. There are community resources. The maxi pads are another story and you really don’t want to know what women did before they were invented. There are reusable products, menstrual cups?
You can make (or buy) cloth pads! And there’s also period panties that basically serve the same purpose. Kinda gross? Yeah. Cheaper? Absolutely!
Not gross at all. I wish we still had The Red Tent...
We have got to connect with other folks like ourselves, so we can exchange help and support. The best way I’ve found is contact Indivisible, 50501, the local Democrat party office, and other similar organizations online. Join, volunteer time to make phone calls or send texts. Go to the protests!! You will meet many others like yourself. It’s really easier to make friends now that we’re all in the crosshairs together, and we all need some kind of help, and we can all offer some kind of help! Trade services! You can grow vegetables, which is tremendous!! Maybe you have chickens or cows for eggs and milk products, which is awesome. Let’s just help each other!!
She’s a farmer, she has animals, and grows vegetables and is the school lunch lady.
Greedbane has guides and resources. Start checking on Next Door maybe and ask around the area. We are going to have to become more self-reliant and that means building community.
https://substack.com/@greedbane
Yes, lady supplies! I bought 6 packs !!! Hope thats enough to weather the storm. Get your lady supplies!!!
You reverenced silicone wiper blades from Amazon last for years- off Amazon- there are other places to purchase this item please people seek other purchasing platforms
I use Amazon as a catalog. Look it up and buy elsewhere. 😉
Anywhere but Amazon (ABA) 😉 But do what you have to do!! Better to throw a little $ their way than go without wiper blades. We have to be realistic.
Absolutment! Do not give Bezos another cent. There are many
alternatives.
Advanced auto parts, you can order direct
Not to spill your silcon, but I do believe that Advance supports Trump.
Oh Shit
Pet supplies. Food, cat litter, flea & tick meds, heartworm meds.
This is 10 categories, not 10 items. I counted 90 specific items, and that didn’t include the larger, catch-all groups. FYI to families with kids: I read a prediction for severe lack of school supplies in the fall. And I wouldn’t count on this administration to protect us against price gouging.
Price gouging would be a feature for them.
Speaking of school supplies. My local Dollar Tree already has all school supplies out for sale???? WTHeck! They must know too!
Your advice is appreciated. But shouldn’t all patriotic Americans be lining up to pay the tariffs (sales tax) on imported goods? Doesn’t Conold the corrupt cretin promise that paying tariffs will result in reduced taxes? Or is that promise just more BS from dumbo the clown and his clown car cabinet? Buying reserve items now will distort the immediate price effects of tariffs. And the orange shit stain will claim his fucked up plan is working. Eventually the truth will out. President Leon’s efficiencies will result in increased costs to the federal budget and harm to millions of Americans. Conold’s fantasies will impoverish millions more. But never mind. The 1/3 of (mostly white) registered voters will be happy to fellate Conold along with his hand-picked fuck wit cabinet as the country flushes itself down the shitter. Sad. So. Delaying the inevitable will extend the pain. Delicious. 😋
The rise in cost for everyday goods will far exceed any tax cuts.
Particularly for the middle class which is to support the wealthy.
But the very wealthy don’t care
I live in a small condo. Perhaps i should stock up on a private warehouse or an rxtra home to store all this stuff.
Yeah I live in an RV. Can’t do much stocking.
Okay, so pretty much everything and all necessities. This man is so stupid. And those people that voted for him because he was “good” for the economy and created this self induced economic pain for all of us while he gets richer with his shitcoin.
This list reads like a hurricane preparation protocol…only this is a continuous hurricane for the next 3.5 years…
Consider adding diapers and formula to that list, and all things for babies
Better yet, sign up for community supported agriculture (if you can), at least for your food, and skip the grocery store. I have no idea how much eggs cost because I get them at my CSA. $430 for four months with fresh local eggs every other week. I pick up potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, berries, milk, onions, carrots, broccoli — the good stuff we should be eating anyway. Half the stuff we buy is unnecessary. Remember when people used bar soap instead of “body wash”? Do you really need fragrance beads for your laundry? Now’s a good time to do what our grandparents did - learn the beauty of dried beans to feed your family while saving money and skipping meat on occasion. The headline says 10 items, but there are way more than ten. Silliness.
A huge majority of people are already living very frugally, eating beans and rice, not indulging in any bath beads. This is going to be difficult for us.
I don’t think it’s a huge majority, judging by what I see at Walmart and the grocery store. America runs on consumption.
Yes, of course America is a consumerist country. Lots of people are buying things they don’t need at Walmart and the grocery store. That’s a different issue than whether a huge amount of people have little left to give up to make further cuts.
People who eat and live frugally aren’t identifying themselves at the grocery store,lol. Broccoli, berries, and lettuce are splurges. CSA’s are great, but they require that lump sum payment, just for fruits and veggies. That’s impossible for a lot of people.
You seem to be making an assumption here that I don’t know life is hard because it’s not hard for me. That would be incorrect. Not all CSA‘s require a lump sum payment.- I don’t know where you got that idea either. In any case clearly we have different perspectives on this. I don’t think the point about America being about consumption is a different one on a list about what to hoard. It suggests that many of these things we believe are necessities are in fact not; it’s not possible to separate a curated list from the wider culture that tells us relentlessly what we should be buying. and uses the consumer spending around the holidays to tell us whether we have a vibrant economy or not. Those bath beads may seem like a pleasure to you, but they aren’t one product in isolation. For example, Dove is owned by Unilever, which is one of the world’s largest plastics polluters. The problem with the list is that it tells people how to get what they want not what they need – and want is not the same thing as need. Want is driven in large part by corporations – so if you look at this curated list of what you need, so to speak, who’s deciding for you?
If you're self sufficient, why are you at Walmart?
It’s so interesting to me when people make assumptions here — like they fill in what they think they know. What if I see people wheeling carts out of Walmart across from my post office? What if I take my father to Walmart? There’s no substitute for good reasoning skills. Where did I say “self sufficient”? It’s silly to bang out a response that has no basis in evidence, just your own conjecture.
Melanie, you're whining about bath beads when bath beads aren't on the list.
I don't know what people are buying at Walmart because I don't shop at Walmart.
You obviously do.
I don't have to shop at Walmart because I'm in an older suburban neighborhood and I have two grocery stores, an Ace hardware store and a CVS within walking distance.
That's not virtue -- that's location. But I'm well aware that many other people live places where Walmart is their best, if not only choice.
You live somewhere with an active CSA -- not everyone has that.
But if you want to talk about people conjecturing on little data, I suggest you re read your posts.
If you want to lecture, post a note. Having been raised by Depression era grandparents and parents, I'll warn you that scarcity and shortages do not lead to less consumerism in the future. It is not necessarily a spiritual awakening.
It does -- if you were paying attention -- teach you to always have a full pantry.
People who have never experienced physical shortages, who have never gone into a store and not been able to find diapers or pet food or frozen vegetables, they may need guidelines on what to stock up on.
Do you want to help them or lecture on the evils of consumerism?
What do you do for a living? Is your job based on consumers?
When people use charged language like “whining” and do a long ad hominem diatribe, making it about a character attack, it demonstrates the lack of reasoning ability. I note you did not answer my question….because anger is easier. I have parents who survived the Depression too and in fact have published about it. But you’d rather be angry than have a conversation, rather guess about me than discuss this issue. Time is currency. I don’t engage with insulters.
Farmer's markets, too.
So overwhelming, outrageous, infuriating, stupid to be put in this situation in the first place & unnecessary!
But, but, the exporting country pays the tariffs 😆
If you didn’t have a Costco membership before, now would be the time.
It would also be good to learn skills like mending, basic machine repair, etc.