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Realm of the InterNutter

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

So I thought about illustrating things to folks...

Y'know, with paperclips, since I have so darn many of them. One box of paperclips would represent percentages of the population and the other box would represent percentages of wealth.

Everyone’s pretty divided. The 99%, the 53%, the 1%. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to divide this up.

1% I know has 45% of the wealth.

9% also has 45% of the wealth.

The remaining 10% is divided somewhere between the 53% who are either wealthy enough to afford to pay taxes or too poor to avoid them… and the remaining 47% who are ropeable about the whole deal.

I know how much wealth the protesters collectively own - about zip.

I want to ask the 53% - how much wealth have you got?

Finding the Raw Materials - My Adventures in Frugality for Freedom

This Saturday was the day I was supposed to change everything. Or start changing everything.

The ONLY farmer’s market I could find nearby operated one Saturday out of every month. Odd, I thought, but I thought I made it understood that we’d be going together to get infos.

The day dawned and Hubby volunteered to look after the kids whilst I ventured forth on my ownsome.

Like shit, I said, and bullied the kids and my main squeeze

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Economies of Scale

So I revealed to hubby my determination to grow our own fruit and veg, yesterday (I write these in advance, so I don’t have to fret about having something to write about) and offered him some input into the process. He said, grow tomatoes, carrots and lettuce.

Lettuces like things so swampy, I was thinking about a hydroponics setup, so I don’t drown the tomatoes and carrots.

If you don’t buy a kit and grow them

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collaterlysisters: WE GOT HIS MOTHERFUCKING LICENSE PLATE This is the car that ran down two protesters. This is the man who was protected...

collaterlysisters:

WE GOT HIS MOTHERFUCKING LICENSE PLATE

This is the car that ran down two protesters.  This is the man who was protected by the police until he could drive away in peace.  Reblog this.  Call every law enforcement agency you can and demand that they bring him to justice.

And if the law won’t do it: sue him, and the lady who he swapped seats with (she was complicit in covering up the crime) and the police who let

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I Can't Fix Everything.

I had a massive bout of depression, recently.

No, nothing epic. Just the kind that makes you feel like you’re backed into a corner and also that the gravity has been turned up by at least fifty percent.

I have been reading a lot of OWS and related topics. It’s sad for me that the greatest country in the world is threatening to implode because a few greedy arseholes find it more convenient to ship their investments to

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Life Skills 101: Part 4, Cleaning Without Chemicals

You take a look around the cleaning section of your average shop. So many brands, so many choices. So many chemical additives.

I try to hold my breath when going through the cleaning aisle. Something in there makes my eyes itch and my breathing difficult.

Guess what?

You, yes you, do not need ANY of that shit.

To clean most things you need a combination of the following: Ordinary no-brand soap, cheap-arse vinegar or ascetic acid(it’s the same thing!

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Life Skills 101: Grow Your Own (part 3)

They sell pots. They sell tubs. They sell potting mix and blood&bone. They will sell you dynamic lifter, which is actually chook poo. If you have a good garden emporium, it may actually sell you varying kinds of manure [horse poo, cow poo, zoo poo…]. Just don’t go with people poo ‘cause our guts manufacture some really nasty shit. No joke. Cholera, typhus, ebola, and many, many more.

What most garden places don’t sell

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PAYING IN CASH - OUTLAWED!

PAYING IN CASH - OUTLAWED!

99supercommittee:

Louisiana Bans State's Businesses From Accepting Cash

Now this is interesting. A law banning what is known as “coin of the realm”. This law is illegal in so many, many ways.

I’m certain smarter folks than I can figure out the details.

The real trick to quietly protest this is to ONLY operate in cash when in Louisiana. Tell them it’s against your religion to use a card [best if

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Life Skills 101 part 2

Yesterday you saw a discourse on sewing. Can save you upwards of $20 per garment and is only “not worth it” if you let the body corporate tell you that you should follow fashion.

Today, I cover cooking.

Cooking is an essential life skill and will save shittons of money if you’re used to eating out of the drive-through.

Yes, I know some places charge more for fresh produce. I have two words for that: Farmer’s

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Independence from Corporations: Life Skills 101

It occurred to me that I know a lot more about coping without corporate-made items than a lot of the folks who don’t know how to protest the corporations.

I know you. You feel like you’re stuck. You’re scared of losing your job/home/car/significant other/whatever if you stand up with the shouting throng. I know a few people in the media got fired for siding with OWS… they won’t be

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An App We All Need

I honestly don’t know how feasible this is, but it’s an app I know I need. And all the folks who quietly support the Occupy movement need.

I’m tentatively calling it “How Evil Is That?”.

It’s a smart app, able to recognise products and logos from a photograph or an image it takes, much like a code-square scanner. Once it recognises the product [or logo] it searches a database or databases of

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A Bit More on Gridle$$

The real point of Gridle$$ as a means of protest is this:

We are not giving money to any corporation.

We are no longer buying their bullshit. In any form.

If we’re paid, we’re keeping our pay. We’re giving it to actual people who worked to produce the things we need.

We are not buying petrol/gasoline to run our cars because we have bikes. That we repair ourselves.

We are not buying fashionable brand clothing

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