[Driller1]

Originally Posted by xlabel

Good topic and I've found myself recently visiting discount book stores and thrift shops purchasing how to books on many things. The more skills you can develop to fix things around the house the longer you may be able to keep a household item from ending up in a landfill and save yourself some bucks also. Virtually anything that can be prepared or repaired there seems to be a forum for it online.

Food was mentioned and I'm not one of the doom and gloomers that's predicting severe depression and empty grocery store shelves but what if it did get that bad? It might be a good time to learn survival skills needed in a worst case scenario.

I can gut and hang a deer in about 1/2 hour. Cut it up and freeze it in about 4 hours.

[Wayland Woman]

There are a lot of societal ills involved in our constant need for instant gratification. I think that is more of a problem than not being as self-sufficient as we can. My parent's generation didn't have brand new everything when they started out married life i.e. they worked until they could afford something before buying it. It's too late to go back to the days of total self-sufficiency, in my opinion, but if everyone did something towards the cause of making our world greener, it would add up over the nation. But most of all, young people need to quite living on credit.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by Wayland Woman

There are a lot of societal ills involved in our constant need for instant gratification. I think that is more of a problem than not being as self-sufficient as we can. My parent's generation didn't have brand new everything when they started out married life i.e. they worked until they could afford something before buying it. It's too late to go back to the days of total self-sufficiency, in my opinion, but if everyone did something towards the cause of making our world greener, it would add up over the nation. But most of all, young people need to quite living on credit.

Whoa there!!!! Your going in to different directions. Greener will never cerate the jobs it will and has cost.

[tjay]

good post (i meant to comment the other day)!!

when you mention family values, i wonder about families today. most of my friends hardly see their children.....