Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Best
way to cook corn on the cob for a crowd
2.
Grocery Sale Cycles, Frugal storage tips
3.
Hide in Plain Sight
4.
Free know-how from Tractor Supply
5.
If I wanted America to Fail-Panic Now-Avoid
the Rush
No matter what
anyone may say
about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes,
in the end they come out of the people who toil."
-- Calvin Coolidge
(1873-1933), 30th US President
We live in an age of paranoia where many of us believe that foods go bad long before their time is up. We confuse sell-by and best-by dates with expiration, and doing so involves tossing out an item when it's still entirely edible. We often refrigerate foods that don't require refrigeration.
about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes,
in the end they come out of the people who toil."
-- Calvin Coolidge
(1873-1933), 30th US President
We live in an age of paranoia where many of us believe that foods go bad long before their time is up. We confuse sell-by and best-by dates with expiration, and doing so involves tossing out an item when it's still entirely edible. We often refrigerate foods that don't require refrigeration.
Kill poison ivy by drenching the plants with a
solution of salt and a little dishwashing liquid; also works on poison oak.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Finding reliable, trusted babysitters…UrbanSitter uses Facebook Connect to access, with permission, the
networks of parents and babysitters, and bring the two together. UrbanSitter.com
The Best Way
to Cook Corn on the Cob for a Crowd?
It's Cooler Corn…
It's Cooler Corn…
We like corn on the cob. And with eight adults
at the table, that means a
couple of dozen ears. We would have used the lobster pot to cook them all,
but the lobster pot was busy steaming lobster…
couple of dozen ears. We would have used the lobster pot to cook them all,
but the lobster pot was busy steaming lobster…
Use a Coleman
cooler and wipe it clean, then fill
with the shucked ears. Next, two kettles-full of boiling water are poured
over the corn and the top closed.
The corn will remain at the perfect level of doneness for a couple of hours
with the shucked ears. Next, two kettles-full of boiling water are poured
over the corn and the top closed.
The corn will remain at the perfect level of doneness for a couple of hours
If your favorite cereal is on
sale this week, do you know how many weeks it will be before it goes on sale
again? Find out,
and you'll know how many boxes you should buy.
Frugal Food Storage Tips
How do you take advantage of food sales when you have little food storage space? Get creative with these food storage ideas!
How do you take advantage of food sales when you have little food storage space? Get creative with these food storage ideas!
Tractor
Supply also Provides Know-How
Be sure to check how their “Know-How Central” section for useful DIY
information.
Livestock, garden, building resources and more…
Hide
In Plain Sight
A lot of people are trying to make themselves very visible on the internet so they learn how to use SEO to make sure they are found. You can use those same principles to blend in among the noise of the internet and make yourself very hard to find.
A lot of people are trying to make themselves very visible on the internet so they learn how to use SEO to make sure they are found. You can use those same principles to blend in among the noise of the internet and make yourself very hard to find.
Some people want to be seen. Others want to fly under the radar. Most
of us want a little bit of both. The real issue that most people have in the
fight between public and private personal information is control over who has
access to what information. We want the ability to reach out to the public at
times, and at other times retreat into our sanctuary. Retreating is more and
more difficult in a digital world. More
at:
The Constitution should not be cast aside so quickly to achieve political ends, and its meaning
must be carefully understood and respected. That's why The Heritage Foundation
is proud to announce a new resource to help the American people and their
elected representatives learn more about the history of our founding document. Heritage's Online Guide to the Constitution is a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of
every single clause in the Constitution -- and it's available for free at ConstitutionOnline.com.
DIY Snack for Better Flowers
Before planting flowers
this spring, mix 1 cup of sugar, 3 cups bone meal, and 1 cup of Epsom salts in
an old bucket. Sprinkle a pinch into the
bottom of each hole as you’re planting.
The result? A more colorful
garden.
2 Liter Bottles of Light
The slums of the Philippines are getting an extreme home makeover in
the form of two liter bottles in their ceilings. The bottles function as 60-watt
lights powered by 100% solar energy. Refraction is an amazing thing. If you
drilled a hole in your ceiling light would drop directly through the opening in
a straight line casting a shadow on the ground in the shape of the hole. By
placing a bottle filled with water into the hole, the light is refracted by the
water and emitted at 360 degrees like a light bulb. Light bulbs are taken for
granted in America, yet are luxury item for the Philippines slums. The two
liter bottles filled with water and a small amount of bleach to keep algae from
growing, act as a light in the often-unlit slums.
Get more creative
and successful by carrying a personalized journal with you. Put your name on the journal and make entries
each time that creative light bulb goes off, even if at the moment is seems
silly.
The Nanny
State Updates…
Why is the DHS
buying so much ammo for domestic use?
The Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that says its main purpose now is to thwart
"homegrown terrorism," has awarded a contract to ammunition
manufacturer ATK for acquiring 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow
point ammo. You can view the announcement of the ammunition purchase at this
press release: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/atk-secures-40-caliber-ammunition-co...
"Hollow point" ammunition is never purchased for practice or training. This ammunition is purchased for the sole purpose of being used in active fighting. At the same time, it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to use hollow point ammunition on the battle field.
"Hollow point" ammunition is never purchased for practice or training. This ammunition is purchased for the sole purpose of being used in active fighting. At the same time, it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to use hollow point ammunition on the battle field.
According to CNN, the level of selling by insiders at corporations listed on the
S&P 500 is the highest that it has been in almost a decade. Do those
insiders know something that the rest of us do not?
The Parting Thought –
The Fall of
the Soviet Union, If I wanted America to Fail & Cycles of Life
For decades, it has seemed as though history has been slowly building toward some sort of crescendo. The pace of change just keeps getting faster and faster and faster, and our world is becoming unstable…and it’s not just the Mayan 20212 prediction that seems to be wreaking havoc with our climate and weather.
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