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Family Values
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 4,075
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Libraries are good for books. Stop buying them.
Read the news online, no more news papers.
Use laptops at home, no desktops (with the associated cables and junk)
Get rid of most of your TVs and cable.
Get rid of gaming systems like DS, Wii, PS2/3, XBox, etc...
When you want to buy something substantial, don't. Live without it for a while to see if you really needed it, or just wanted it. When you buy something, make it the best of its kind, so that you only buy it once (hopefully) in your lifetime. Take care of it.
No electric can openers.
Take more walks.
Play board games or cards at night with family and friend.
Take up hobbies that require craftsmanship. I.e. wood working, fly tying, model planes, ships in a bottle.
When I go on vacation, we go to cabins in the woods with no electricity. We have batteries for lights at night, and propane for stoves and fridges. We spend time together as a family with no electricity, tell stories, read books and play games.
Get a hammock.
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- Joe
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt
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