I’m challenging myself to reach a bare bones level of wealth needed for me to retire early within the next three years. Naturally that has me considering the nature of wealth, security, and money. With regards to money I tend to fall into two different mental habits, neither of which really serve me fully. The first is to focus on increasing my income. I realized the other day this is almost completely irrelevant on its own. The other habit of mine is to focus on cutting expenses. Again this is almost as irrelevant as increasing income. Reducing expenses does tend to reduce consumption of energy and resources, thus reducing my ecological footprint, but with regards to wealth and security unless I can sustainably reduce it to zero this too is completely irrelevant on its own.
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A stupendously healthy “snack cracker”
A few years ago when I was feeling quite flush with income and not nearly so focused on saving money as I am now I observed a new, and fairly pricey snack food at the local grocery store called kale chips. I think it still took a good sale price to entice me into trying them for the first time, as I have pretty much always been frugal by nature. I found them to be quite delicious and eventually sampled pretty much all the flavor varieties. My only complaint besides the cost would be that they were so delicate. Once the kale leaf was dried it got so thin there was almost nothing to it. That got me to thinking about alternatives that might solve this.
Continue reading “A stupendously healthy “snack cracker””Rebuilding the dry stack fieldstone wall of the art studio.
Sometime last fall after some heavy rains really softened and fully saturated the soil there was a deep rumbling heard in my house. At first I thought maybe it was thunder and disregarded it though the sound was a bit different, yet somehow still familiar too. Going out to the studio later I realized what I’d heard, the roll and tumble of boulders falling as my west side rock wall collapsed!
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