Urban legend in New York.

A few years ago a Southern kid got a scholarship to Columbia University. Their dad loaded up the pickup truck and drove them to New York. Driving back to get to the bridge, Dad got lost and ended up on the Upper East Side. It happened to be trash night. Dad saw a half dozen air conditioners being thrown out, as well as a few other nice things. He loaded everything into the pickup and drove back home. A little work and he had six working air conditioners.

He ended up renting a cheap garage in Brooklyn and went out ‘hunting’ in the rich neighborhoods every trash night. Resold the stuff and made a tidy pile.

Here’s a trick I like.

Get a liter sized container. Any time you chop veggies put the unused bits in the container and freeze it. When it’s full use that to make soup stock.

It’s not waste, it’s compost.

Any leftover food stuff can be turned into useful fertilizer. Check you local community to find people who collect it.

Separate your trash and store it in an airtight container.

That doesn’t improve my mood.

Look for a used luxury car being sold by the first owner.

The car was probably garaged and well maintained.

A friend showed me a documentary from the 1980s. They were running around in radiation suits, hunting for deer.

Read an interview with a bank robber once.

He said that there are a million things that can go wrong in a bank robbery, and if you’re a genius you can predict 100.

Any survival strategy is going to fail because no one will know exactly what’s coming down the road.

But if someone buys a paramedic lunch the first responder can lose thier job.

GOP will fight it with every breath, then if it passes, take credit.

Exactly the image I thought of.

Bless you, and all your generations to come, oh wide and sagacious one!

Print the legend!

I was agreeing with you

Just pointing this out. Nobody has all the answers, and we can all learn something new. Talking to the convinced isn’t a waste of time if you’re listening.

You can’t the mind that refuses to change.

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves, contend in vain.” Friedrich Schiller

Or, ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.’

Don’t waste time with the people who refuse to listen; work on building a network of like minded people.

What can someone who lives in an apartment building do? Or a student in a dorm? Which candidates should we support.

Your time is a limited resource, don’t waste it pounding deaf ears.