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Escape To Reality
Yesterday I returned from a couple of days in reality. Really, it was three days and two nights, but only from 9AM on Wednesday until 5PM on Friday. Nah. That was how long I was away from work and home. … Continue reading
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Tagged backpacking, frugal, frugality, Grand Lake, hiking, Maslow, minimalism, minimalist, nature, Olympic National Park, Twelve Months
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Littler To Do Lists
What day is it? How’d we get so close to Christmas so quickly? Looks like a lot of things are going to get done a little later than usual, but then, a faster pace of life has become the usual. … Continue reading
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Tagged ALAYCPYB, books, diet, Gig Economy, Lottery, minimalism, Powerball
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Weirdnesses Approaching
As if the world wasn’t weird enough, it’s getting weirder. Sometimes that’s a good thing. Luckily, humans evolved to be adaptable, and that adaptability is being tested. The following is a Friday night random list of shifts, changes, and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Airplane design, artifical intelligence, Atomic Age, auto autos, automation, autonomous, aviation, bitcoin, blockchain, Cascades, coal, commodities, decentralized, driveless cars, driverless vehicles, earthquakes, fossil fuels, frugal, frugality, gas, graphene, high frequency trading, housing, inflation, infrastructure, investing, invisibility, minimalism, oil, personal finance, power, renewable energy, renewables, Simple Living, solar, Tiny Houses, trends, tsunami, wind
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Little Things Matter More Now
I can flush again. It is amazing how big the little things are when you miss them for a while. A working toilet, quiet time, water from a faucet, heat and light with the flick of a switch. Many people … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, frugality, minimalism, personal finance, poverty, Simple Living, WalkAway, wealth
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Things To Look Forward To In 2015
2014 was better than 2013. 2015 has to be better than 2014. While that may be a personal wish, it is also a global one because some things continued to get worse in some topics while good news came in … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, cars, decentralized, economy, employment, frugal, frugality, graphene, Great Depression, Great Recession, health care, healthcare, housing, investing, jobs, markets, minimalism, ObamaCare, personal finance, Simple Living, solar, stocks, Tiny Houses, transportation, unemployment, war
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What I Can Do With An Eighth Of A Teaspoon
Thank you all for putting up with the joke about making a cup of tea from two bits of a marijuana bud. Total effect: I smiled because I got past everyone else’s anxieties and anticipations. This personal finance and amateur … Continue reading
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Tagged cannabis, frugal, frugality, Langley, marijuana, minimalism, personal finance, Simple Living, tea
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Tiny House Winners
Buying the biggest house you can afford for your first house makes as much sense as learning how to run by starting with a 100 mile race. Yes, it might work, but there’s a good chance you’ll hurt yourself. What … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, frugality, housing, investing, minimalism, minimalist, mortgage, personal finance, real estate, Simple Living, stocks, Tiny Houses, walk away, wealth
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I Miss The Mall
I miss the mall. Having said that I wonder if I’ll be shunned in my small town. But let me finish. I haven’t been to the mall in years, and that was because they have an Apple store and I … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Christmas, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, holidays, investing, Langley, minimalism, personal finance, research, Scotland, shopping, Simple Living, stocks, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Minimalism Meets A Carport Sale
Wind, rain, a few degrees within fifty degrees, and I’m having a carport sale. Not the best timing, but finances suggest I should do this. (Almost Everything Must Go) I’m certainly not doing this because I want to do … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Cascades, Charity, consulting, frugal, frugality, housing, jobs, minimalism, organic, photos, Scotland, unemployment, Whidbey, writing
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