Tuesday June 1 2010 _____________________________________ Our thanks to Roxanne Griswold and James Wesley, Rawles ________________________________________________ Sea Salt–An Indispensable Commodity for Uncertain Times, by Roxanne Griswold When we think about setting aside emergency supplies, most of us would agree that preserved food and purified water are the essentials and everything else is secondary to these. Some [...]
Friday May 28 2010 ____________________________ Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard ______________________________________ Don’t accept or carry anything larger than a $20 bill RIP-OFF ALERT: Clark Howard has a rule: He never carries anything larger than a $20 bill. Why? Because bills larger than that have a much higher chance of being counterfeit. The Los [...]
Thursday May 27 2010 ______________________________________ Click here to watch slide show
Tuesday May 25 2010 _________________________________________ Our thanks to SurvivalBlog.com ________________________ I would like your thoughts on something. I have been stocking up on silver for many years, but I’m wondering what you think will happen to the value of it at TEOTWAWKI(the end of the world as we know it). Here is my thinking, right [...]
Sunday May 16 2010 ______________________ Our thanks to Tod and Tod.fm ____________________ An Unusual Way to Beat Inflation By Tod Inflation has all kinds of interesting consequences, and one of them is that you can sometimes profit from the distortions it creates. I’ll explain how to do that in an unusual way. You can actually [...]
Friday May 14 2010 _______________________ Our thanks to SteveQuayle.com ____________________________ Comment from BeFree: We here at BeFree are not alarmist thinking, and are very positive forward thinkers, but we feel it is very important to be prepared for anything. _________________________________ Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the [...]
Tuesday May 11 2010 _____________________________________
Tuesday May 11 2010 ________________________ Our thanks to Paul B. Farrell and MarketWatch _________________________________ Six investing rules for a worst-case scenario Surviving the End of Civilization 2050 ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — So Congress enacts financial reforms. Big deal. Wall Street must be drunk on Dom Perignon, celebrating the huge paid-offs from their successful $400 [...]
Sunday May 2 2010 _________________________ _____________________________________________________ iFixit: Welcome to Repair 2.0 Fixing the global e-waste problem iFixit co-founder Kyle Wiens discusses the impact of careless e-waste and what they are doing to help. Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard. _____________________________________________ For us do-it-yourselfer’s, there’s a website to learn about: ifixit.com. This site gives us [...]