Coronavirus Frugality

Why wouldn't anyone be able to exercise?

Even prisoners know the value of the basics: push-ups, pull-ups, dips, squats, and sit-ups. From there you can get "fancy", like horizontal boarding off of any stable vertical pole.

You don't even have to leave your living room for any of this.

If you're not doing it, you just don't want to.

5 stars POST!

And yes, OP, this is the way!

And don't forget, mental and spiritual preparation it's most important!

There is normally enough soap residue in clothes (people use way too much, do not follow the instructions on the bottle) for at least 3 washes...so just use 1/10th of the soap you normally do for scent. Do a spot spray on heavier stains and such.

The idea you need a whole bunch of laundry detergent is bogus. It's like shampoo...'lather rinse, repeat' just makes it so you use more product.

Definitely OP.

Rationing everything. Salvaging everything. Pringles cans, twist ties, stopped using paper towels to dry hands. We have designated hand towels for each person.

My family is totally sick n

of me.

Don't forget baked potatoes for later hash browns, and good old potato soup!

The Great Depression didn't turn us communist - but now......

If you make bread, especially with low supplies at the stores, get a sourdough starter going

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Yep, the bride and I are eating half rations most of the time... ie, one hamburger chopped up for tacos or in any kind of sauces, eggs, whatever... making our own bread. Don't do dishes unless the sink is full. (no dish washer). same with laundry... we are locked down and making do.. pray, prep and protect.

exactly. Lazy SLOBS

I love this thread! I've made bread, but I hadn't thought of making my own starter. Thanks!

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Been living like that for years. But you can't save everything. It is the green way to live.

We have been doing this. Making our meal menus out of foods that are on hand and have shorter shelf life.

Suddenly foodies make more sense. I never shop for a meal specifically, I buy what is on sale and learned to cook. Learning to cook...well I'll pull up the Heinlein quote....

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

This keeps disappearing from the thread, so I'll shorten it and try again. It's helpful, so someone might benefit from it.

Do you have cats? How much food do they leave in their bowls that you toss? Some days, mine eat it all. Other days, they'll leave half a bowl - same flavor - who knows why? A couple of months ago, I started freezing their leftovers - flavors all mixed up, the filet and bits type. I put them in the oven to warm them - served some warm - some were left to cook almost crispy. They ate both types like it was kitty candy.
A couple of weeks ago I started saving a big new batch of their leftovers. So glad because it took 4 days to get on the grocery delivery list. Had I not saved their leftovers, they'd have had nothing.

So, there's another idea for you. Pet food leftovers.

Stale chips and cereals - freshen and crisp them by putting them in the oven a few minutes.

You are way too nice to your cats. I'd leave it out until it's hungry enough to eat it.

Great Thread!

I pulled out a paper grocery bag & was tossing paper towels into it I had blown my nose with (figured I'd use them for making a fire if needed).

I ended up spilling a glass of juice & used them to wipe it up...saved myself a ton of clean paper towels!

Frozen bananas are great to snack on too! They taste like ice cream all by themselves. My mom used to freeze bananas for me to munch on as a kid. Of course, they’re even better covered in chocolate. A drizzle of the hard shell chocolate on them is wonderful.

I have some potatoes that needed to be thrown out. We’re going to plant them instead.

Pulling up some of my older posts for this thread...
Thread: self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice

Thread: Decent Enough Jobs for an Economic Collapse

I'll sift through my other old non-doxed names...ASAP.

When I get done with a gallon jug or 2 liter bottle I clean it and fill it up with water and put it in the garage. In case the water system goes down we will have some toilet water. I hope I'm crazy.

Wow. Good movie. That may have been the first time I read an entire movie.

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I have a composting toilet, when I empty the tray (mine is electric) it doesn't smell and I put it at the base of fruit trees.

I've been nuking 7 tater tots to add to a sammich. It adds alot of bulk to the sammich and then I use alot less ham or roast beef.

Another old thread
Thread: Took the Day Off Work, Making Boeuf Bourguignon, $4.00 a Head Eats are Cheap

Don't ferget dem tater cakes. Yeah...I likes dem tater cakes.

Anyone can exercise - they just have to adjust to a different way of doing it, such as inside their home instead of the gym. Find yourself an old Youtube video of Dancing to the Oldies if nothing else and at least make it fun. I think some people probably have a bit of depression/anxiety over this whole thing that makes it difficult to get off the couch, and if you are not busy, you tend to snack. This, too, will pass.

repined and bump.

Oh crud too many pines...manyana...

Bump, I'll pine when the green pines allow me too. Don't Panic and have a good towel.