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I do not have a regime but as I do not have a car I figure I get enough
exercise walking for necessities. Well, and I do enjoy an occational long walk and I love bicycling to work a few days a week ...

Just to make you envious, I have never needed a clothesline pole. I just string the line between trees at a convenient height and let it stay.

I second that wood clothes pins are better. The plast ...

Getting hot while biking: It may help to sling a wet towel around your neck. You usually create some wind resistance while biking, and the water will evaporate and cool you down.

I am a bit obsessed by growing veggies.

Last week in our weekend cottage I spent hours hauling water to our tiny garden, about 6 square meters. We do not have running water at that place, so it ...

I guess there are different kinds of emergencies. If you for some reason are unable to cook, canned things are ready to eat.

mpcar

I am 63 yrs old, woman, poor muscles, bad at all kinds of sport. But I love biking. It gets me in a good mood.

April through October I usually bike to work on Monday, leave the bike at work and go ...

adding to Strider's list: In Alberta they can not find enough skilled people to run all the rigs. In other oil places they do not have enough rigs.

nocar

I see no reason why Hawaii cannot grow more of their fresh sallads and tomatoes and other fresh produce. Some of the golf courses and pineapple fields can certainly be converted to grow many of the th ...

it seems to me to be a 50-ton compost providing one household (or just one person?) with energy. How much needs to be added to the compost weekly to keep it going? Or does it run down and a new one i ...

Fredrik, I think it is a terrible bad idea for European countries to try to lower motor fuel prices. Low income people, especially women, already live without owning a car. They manage with public tr ...

VMarch, about kerosene cooking, I just remember reading a booklet from Worldwatch Institute years ago how many countries, particularly in Asia, subsidize kerosene for cooking to help the poor. Usuall ...

Gasoline is just one of many oil products. In many poor countries, I believe kerosene (Sp?) is widely used for cooking. Also some countries use oil for electricity generation. I am quite sure Russia ...

Allenwrench, What is CPA? Central Planning Arbitrator?

nocar

My mom is still alive and doing well. They went throught the whole WWII thing and ration coupons and the whole bit. Bottom line the world did not end. I grew up on stories of the great depression.

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If I were a bank, and the government did not help in this situation, I might evict delinquent lenders to begin with. But then I would discover that being stuck with a lot of empty houses is no good. S ...