Re: How I lived on a pound a day for a year
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:13 pm
Is this serious suggestion? Not even one cup of Costa coffee a day! ridiculous
The urban guide to becoming self sufficient'ish
https://selfsufficientish.com/forum/
Can't you make a cup last a week then? xtrinder wrote:Is this serious suggestion? Not even one cup of Costa coffee a day! ridiculous
Stick with it as the book does get a bit better. Once he gets into the routine of the challenge, he becomes less attached to his material things. Its an interesting concept but as he says somewhere in the book, we are all different and have different attachments to possessions. A friend of mine who lives a minimilist lifestyle will get rid of something if it hasn't been used in 3 months. Personally I try and group potential purchases into 'Needs' and 'Wants', preferring to walk away from a purchase and think on how it might enhance my life.the.fee.fairy wrote:baldybloke wrote:Yes I read this about a year ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. May I suggest another for you. 'Enough' by John Naish. One of my favourite books of recent times. I have also just finished reading 'The 100 Thing Challenge' , a concept of living for a year with no more than 100 things. Interesting but not really that inspiring.
I've been trying to read the 100 things Challenge after you mentioned it, but nearly halfway through he's just moaning about all the stuff he's got to get rid of!!
And i'm getting a bit fed up with the Christian/religious references. I'm interested in his project, NOT his religion.
I want to read about his experiences living with just 100 things and not all the luxury stuff he's getting rid of, and how it makes his daughters feel. I feel like he had an idea, he executed it, someone told him to write a book so he did. But he didn't have a lot to say so he moaned a lot for the first 5 chapters just to pad it out a bit.
bill1953 wrote:Can't you make a cup last a week then? xtrinder wrote:Is this serious suggestion? Not even one cup of Costa coffee a day! ridiculous
I don't understand how this works bb. What sort of things are we talking about?baldybloke wrote: A friend of mine who lives a minimilist lifestyle will get rid of something if it hasn't been used in 3 months.
There are certain essentials that are required by everyone, like saucepans etc. He looks at alternative ways of doing things that means using the minimum of equipment. For example, he has got rid of his Hi Fi and plays the few CD's he now owns through the DVD player. He has also got rid of a lot of white goods which only get used once in a while.Green Aura wrote:I don't understand how this works bb. What sort of things are we talking about?baldybloke wrote: A friend of mine who lives a minimilist lifestyle will get rid of something if it hasn't been used in 3 months.
And what happens if they need it again,do they then buy another? Or borrow someone else's?
I tend to be a bit of a hoarder and it has paid off so often when we've not had to replace something we haven't used for years but have stashed in a cupboard.
We have friends who live minimally because they have beliefs about not owning "stuff". So they borrow things.....incessantly.
bill1953 wrote:Yes I agree with that. Seen someone in a supermarket cafe knock up a bill of over £28 for her, husband and kids. Had a little bag of shopping too!
In Ireland we treat everyone as equals. We have worldwide respect for that fact and also the fact we that have never colonised another people, so the term untermenschen is foreign to usoldjerry wrote:bill1953 wrote:Yes I agree with that. Seen someone in a supermarket cafe knock up a bill of over £28 for her, husband and kids. Had a little bag of shopping too!
So are these people Untermenschen ?? Or do they just live their lives differently to you?
Perhaps they should get a public subsidy - an Art's Council grant perhaps. Does the Art's Council still exist? Anyway, a tableaux of "Family Eating in T***o Café" could win prizes.oldjerry wrote: Personally I think they deserve our thanks for reinforcing the warm glow of superiority we all seem to enjoy so much.