{"id":29751,"date":"2017-03-02T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29751"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:27:41","slug":"a-month-of-frugality-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/a-month-of-frugality-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"A month of frugality (and more)"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Amazon’s recent moves helped spur this, I was planning to do it in any case. Over at the public section of the Cabal, I’ve begun a journal of My month of frugality<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Reasons are explained in the thread, but even if most of them don’t resonate with you, it might be a good thing to try this exercise once in a while as part of your preps. We try out our storage foods, change the batteries in our flashlights, even conduct experiments in doing without our household power for a few days. But how many of us test to see how little we could survive on if we were unemployed, the ATMs were down, etc.?<\/p>\n

Obviously this isn’t a prep for total SHTF or TEOTWAWKI when cash-money and paying monthly bills might become more irrelevant than buggy whips and political promises. But for normal hard times.<\/p>\n

If you want to participate as well as read, remember that we’re also offering 30-day free provisional membership<\/a> to you if you want to “test drive” the place. (This offer will end on the Dreaded Ides of March.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

There’s more in the public area of the Cabal forums, of course — from a video on sheltering during escape and evasion to a discussion on the Ten Commandments that wandered a bit far afield. Enjoy. And learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Amazon’s recent moves helped spur this, I was planning to do it in any case. Over at the public section of the Cabal, I’ve begun a journal of My month of frugality. Reasons are explained in the thread, but even if most of them don’t resonate with you, it might be a good thing to try this exercise once in a while as part of your preps. We try out our storage foods, change the batteries in our flashlights, even conduct experiments in doing without our household power for a few days. But how many of us test to…<\/p>\n

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