Oct 23 2008
Where’s Michael?
I’ve been a bad frugal blogger lately but there are times when life gets in the way of my Internet time and these past few days have been some of those times.
I took a rare few hours to myself recently and actually spent money on me for a change. The vast majority of what I purchased were things that I really needed but I did happen to splurge a bit and purchased two huge books that were reasonably priced and right up my alley, so to speak.
“The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living” is an impressive tome with the subtitle “Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth” and from what I’ve perused so far, they aren’t that far off. Editor Walter Szykitka seems to be a guru of self-sufficiency and self-reliance. Seriously folks, this book even tells you how to replace worn webbing in a bra. I’m not making this up.
The second book is called “Country Widsom & Know How - Everything you need to know to live off the land” from the Editors of Storey Books. It even tells you how to cook a porcupine. Again - not kidding.
While I’m pretty sure I won’t be replacing any bra webbing or broiling a porcupine anytime soon, my dream is to someday live a live of self-reliance and to live as close to the earth as I possibly can and while these two books may have cost me forty bucks, they will provide me years of information and entertainment and for that reason I think them well worth the price.
