Reply #5: Learn how to COOK [View All]

[Warpy]

Learn how to get adequate nutrition from cheap foodstuffs like beans and grains with root veggies and homemade sprouts. Turn your nose up at all that adulterated convenience food. It's only convenient for the eventual enrichment of the CEOs who run the medical industry.

If you're healthy enough, buy an old bike and use it for short trips and errands. You can get luggage racks and panniers for the back which can hold an astonishing amount of stuff. You can even get a trailer for young kids. Older kids can ride their banana seat bikes along with you.

If you're financially able, unload the gas guzzling dinosaur and get something small, light and efficient. Even Detroit is making decent small cars now, although you'd never know it since the only ones they promote in advertising are the dinosaurs.

Realize that this is going to get worse, not better. Realize you're going to have to do some painful prioritizing. Realize that other folks are all in the same boat and consider getting together with them for bulk purchases from places like Costco. You can do bulk meat purchases online if you eat meat and can afford it.

Learning how to live on practically nothing is a challenge and an adventure. It just sucks being forced to learn it.