Originally Posted by Mallory (Post 7272307)

Somehow, I just can't picture Clarissa serving up barbequed Armadillo! :eek:

Originally Posted by NC Penguin (Post 7273167)

It's also lacking in protein so you'll probably be hungry a few hours after eating it. I would serve one boiled egg per person to go with that.

Originally Posted by NC Penguin (Post 7273167)

It's also lacking in protein so you'll probably be hungry a few hours after eating it. I would serve one boiled egg per person to go with that.

Originally Posted by Giantaxe (Post 7272705)

I don't consider it doom and gloom to reign in spending that is marginal anyway, particularly if you think there is a significant prospect of diminished income or unemployment down the road. The brutal reality is that in the US there is very little social safety net for the unemployed, and planning for such an eventuality makes an awful lot of sense. So my take is not to stop spending, but to take a long hard look at monthly outgoings (I dropped cable channels I really never watched anyway and probably shouldhave cancelled a while ago), spend within one's budget (particularly for eating out), and spend out of current income rather than on a credit card.

Originally Posted by sambapink (Post 7272975)

My nanny tells me wonderful stories about raising 11 children in Dublin, in the 40's, 50's and 60's. Times were very tough.. but no one had any money, so no one really felt deprived. Thats just how it was. She told me that she sometimes had to pawn my Grandads good suit on a Monday just to get food, and then go and get it back on a Friday (payday) in time for him to wear it to the pub! They had a 3 bedroom small house with no bathroom. She made all their clothes. She feels more sorry for todays generation, she thinks that the pressures on us to have *stuff* is much much greater than it ever was in her day. She says people helped eachother much more... it was a much simpler life, but a wonderful one all the same.

Originally Posted by Ray (Post 7273315)

That was it ...lol....

Anyway who is going to give up their internet connection...

Originally Posted by Mallory (Post 7274302)

I often think about a quote by Maya Angelou,

"When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift."

Originally Posted by tamms_1965 (Post 7274762)

Get real. However, when I first moved into my house I had to wait a few weeks before I was connected. Luckily, a couple of my neighbors had wireless that wasn't password protected. I also would sit in the parking lot of a closed cafe and get it when I had open houses at my old place. And of course, there's always the library.

Originally Posted by Millicent_ByStander (Post 7274808)

I prefer this saying- Every man for himself.... When I've got my own house in order, then I'll think about my social responsibility.

Originally Posted by bevinva (Post 7273020)

I saw a toilet at Sams Club which had two different flushes for pee and pooh as a way of saving water, it was about $100. My OH is now recommending them when he installs toilets.

One of my sons friends said his mother told him "If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down."

Originally Posted by ironporer (Post 7276210)

As always the US is ahead of the worln...I saw the same terlet in Monterey MX 7 years ago; couple with it the "new fad" of 'on demand water heaters'...seen in Spain in 1978.

Originally Posted by bevinva (Post 7276721)

Not claiming the US is ahead of the world, just saying what I had seen available here at reasonable cost.

Originally Posted by ironporer (Post 7276738)

I just wonder where they have been all these years.

Next thing we'll 'discover' will be windmills and cars that get 45 mpg.:confused: