Board for poorfags, freegans, hobos, homesteaders, etc. to share knowledge about saving/not needing money, help each other, chat, and more.
This board's focus is on self-sufficiency and thriftiness, whether you are innawoods, homeless, poor, a homesteader, or simply interested in skills that involve less reliance on money and modern conveniences, or alternative uses for things and ways of doing things.
If you have a related board, feel free to post a link ITT.
How to live out of a car (urban location)
http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/
http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/extreme-frugality-living-out-of-your-car/
Food & Cooking thread
>>2
Free Educational Resources
Hey guys, thought it could be of interest to you - I've started a board for us to share free educational resources, or discuss self-education more generally.Please check out >>>/freedu/
Thanks and enjoy!
internet money
dear poberty. i need money for tools.
which online jobs are legit, what are scams? are there common local businesses that need not onsite work?
I didn't see a thread of e-job neetbux so here we go.
To protect myself, I want a cheap gun, but I don't want it to blow up in my face.
What counts as a cheap but good gun?
How does this board feel about perhaps getting added to USSC?
We fight for you, after all.
How much money do you need to survive on minimum?
Includes things like food, taxes, expenses, housing, bills, and entertainment.
How to Pallet Garden
How to make a pallet garden.The apartment complex I live in was going to let me make one of these. They are space efficient as fuck, and can hold a surprisingly large amount of plants. OC pics as season picks up
Pallet gardens are excellent alternatives to large gardens for growing smaller sized vegetables, herbs and ornamental flowers. Garden blogs and garden websites are noting pallet gardens as an up-and-coming trend. We decided to build a
pallet garden and found that a few modifications to the original designs really make this garden suitable to plant production. Schools with limited budgets and space can benefit from growing pallet gardens. Lumber costs can be expensive to
build raised beds, and many schools simply do not have the space to plant raised beds let alone traditional gardens. Below are the LSU AgCenter directions and pictures to construct and plant a pallet garden.
Materials Needed
1 pallet, a staple gun and staples, landscape fabric, soil and
seedlings.
Step 1. Find a pallet. Don’t spend money on a new one; visit a
local dumpster or speak with a grocery store manager. Pallets
can often be found behind large stores, but first ask a manger
as sometimes the delivery trucks recycle pallets saving stores
money.
Step 2. If any of the pallet boards are loose, nail them securely. If old nails are sticking out remove them. We don’t want students tearing their clothes or worse injuring themselves on old nails.
Step 3. If the boards are really rough lightly sand to prevent splinters.
WHAT
Rate my 0c.
Anybody living the trailer life?
Food thread
Thread for food and cooking.
Poor Culture
Hi /poverty/. I have a friend who recently graduated high school. He can't go to community college right now because he can't afford it. He got a job at Chic-fil-a, but he doesn't work for very long hours so he doesn't make too much money. His dad demands a monthly rent of somewhere between 300-400 dollars. He barely has any money leftover. He tried to convince his dad to let him put the money in a savings account for college or other important things instead, but his dad just said "A man provides."The reason I bring this up is because I'm wondering if there is a "poor culture" within a significant amount of poor people that makes them want to prevent other poor people from achieving a better life or becoming successful?
Sup /poverty/. So I'm basically getting disowned by my family because they make my life a miserable existence and I need a couple tips on essentials that I need to get.
I have an interview on Friday for full time fast food and have a place lined up that will cost around $550 (CAD) a month plus better internet if we decide to upgrade and I'd pay the difference on what they currently pay. The place has heating, water, hydro all inclusive and there's a shared fridge/freezer, washer (no dryer), and oven with a convection stove for making soup and shit.
What essentials aside from food will I need to live and how can I get them at a good price? I have clothes, shoes, winter stuff, sheets, laptop, a PS3, a small TV, a garbage bin and some other small stuff to take (or borrow) with me? Is thrift stores good for cheap clothes hangers and rack?
>having to choose between attending to mental health, physical health, or having money
why things gotta be all fucked up?
The Dave pill
>He thinks a car loan is normal
>He thinks student loans are normal
>He thinks having a credit card is normal
Having debt in 2015, shiggy diggy doo
Still haven't taken the Dave pill fellas?
Anyone done any dumpster diving?
I've only done it a few times, with a couple more experienced people. There was a group of grocery stores we would scope out. Sometimes there would be a bunch of stuff back there, plenty of great vegetables, enough for several boxes to be filled. Some places also throw away cakes and things. We once had an industrial size freezer full of discarded, high quality ice cream that lasted for months.
Anyway, something I learned from this is (1) use a headlamp, headlamps are great and (2) grab up some wax cardboard boxes from these places too, because wax cardboard is great to have when you're making a fire.
I want to explain why you are all in this mess
I'm not blaming you, I'm blaming evil people who try to rule the world unfairly. I'm hoping that by teaching you, you may know the world you live in slightly better and as a result be more successful. peace.
>US will spend 43 million dollars on a gas station in the middle of nowhere in the desert in afghanistan
>$7000 coffee makers
>$600 toilet seats
>$37 for A screw
>$435 for a hammer
>$285 screwdriver
>$387 flat washer
>$469 wrench
>$214 flashlight,
>$437 tape measure
>$2,228 monkey wrench,
>$748 pair of duckbill pliers
>$74,165 aluminum ladder
>$659 ashtray
>$1,118.26 for a spare plastic cap for a navigator’s stool on a B-52 bomber (worth about two cents)
>Defense Accounting Finance Service writes $22 billion in checks every month
>Mark Krenik (pentagon officer) created a phony company and then billed himself $504,000. He had to repay the money, but was not sentenced to prison. Probation only, and a $495 fine. He told the federal judge that he did it because everyone else in his section was doing to the same, but he was not required to name names.
>Sgt. Robbie Miller convicted and sent to prison for stealing $1 million. would not have been caught but was involved in affairs with female co-workers. Agents say they got Miller when he was hauling evidence out of the office to burn it.
>Contractors were billing $300 a night hotel rooms, private jet flights, meals at five star restaurants and bar bills to the government.
>Air Force non-commissioned officers like Miller, who handle giant
accounts at Dayton, call any vendor account that is less than $100,000
“budget dust” and say it’s not worth the time or effort trying to
recover.
>hundreds of billions into stupid wasteful trash every year
>monsanto claims it needs to genetically modify our crops and use pesticides because it helps make the world a better place
>has the biggest and most expensive military and military budget in the entire world that makes the nasa budget look like pocket change in comparison
>claims space travel is too expensive
>claims they can't afford a living wage
>claims they can't give war veterans all the help they need as t.v. commercials go on and on with sad country music with vets missing arms and legs "help the veterans!"
>claims they can't cure Cancer/HIV/Ebola/ as the pink ribbon shows up on KFC chicken buckets everywhere that contain cancer causing ingredients
>claims they can't afford universal health care
>claims they can't house every homeless person
>claims they can't grow all crops organically
>claims they can't feed the poor unless the people themselves donate food, time, and money.
>claims people absolutely must pay taxes because otherwise they would go to jail for making the country crumble apart in failure.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=96;t=000012;p=0
http://www.wnd.com/2000/10/4314/
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-30/news/vw-18804_1_nut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
DailyFail: https://archive.is/RnMCc
BostonHerald: https://archive.is/ojJ6p
How to get rid of Bed Bugs
So since I'm posting this here, obviously throwing my shit out isn't an option. I put covers over my box spring and mattress, but they just laid eggs all over those. I've used a steamer a few times, but it doesn't seem to kill them all that long, nor does the poison spray. Does anyone have any methods on getting rid of them better? I'm seriously hoping you guy can help because I've been living with them for a year, and because they're only in my room, my dad doesn't care enough to really help out that much. I've read they're only supposed to feed every few days, but I have them on me every night, and I think they've begun living at my computer desk/on the chair, I even find them living on my flip flops sometimes. I'd occasionally catch them on my school bag last year, but I ditched it. Thankfully they don't travel on my clothes, so at least I can have a social life.
Learning for free
Can I please have your help ?
What would be some marketable skills I can learn for free on the internet ?
Visit /hope/!
Board owner of >>>/hope/ here.
I received an invitation to advertise here, so here I am! You anons have a very nice board with lots of helpful information and a spirit of mutual assistance; /hope/ is all about that, too. We should be friends.
If you'd like to see what we're all about, read our sticky: http://8ch.net/hope/res/18.html
If you have any questions, ask them in our Q&A thread: http://8ch.net/hope/res/97.html
We look forward to your visit. Have a nice day, anons!
Let's start collecting Bitcoin
Let me help everyone including myself earning some free bitcoins.Here's a blog i created a couple of days ago:
http://bitcoins-free-earning.blogspot.com/
My 8chan board: http://8ch.net/btc/
Free money is always welcome even if is a cryptocurrency
Sup /poverty/
Here in my garage, just bought this new Lambourghini here
Newsgroups
If you live in a copyright-cucked country that cracks down on torrenting maybe newsgroups are a good solution to avoid paying for overpriced media. Here's a few free newsgroup subscriptions:
http://www.ngprovider.com/free-newsgroup-server.php
Most of them require ipv6 or weekly/daily renewed subscription but a couple others do give you actual free access.
If you want a good Usenet indexer, try 6box.me
how's work going?
This is either a genius idea or a terrible one.
>Can't get rid of student loan debt by filing for bankruptcy.
>Obtain many credit cards.
>Pay off student loan with credit cards.
>Fall into severe debt.
>Earn some money by suing the companies for harassment (yes, this happens).
>Declare bankruptcy.
>Use money obtained through suing companies to pay any amounts you have to still pay.
>Enjoy being debt free.
Non-poor people regret stories
Hi guys, nice board. Short story time.>Be on train
>Blasting headset
>Guy walks by with a sign asking for money for bread
>Am thrown off by beggar on train while expecting cart-checker
>He doesnt ask me personally since im just 19
>He goes on through the door
>Regret not giving a few euros
>Get off train to transit
>See guy
>Didn't give him money again
>Bought expensive lunch item
>Ate it all on my own
I feel like shit again, its not like i couldn't have given the money to him.
So, got that off my chest.
Can we talk about the irony of /poverty/ paying for an ad?
OK poverty people, it's time to ask yourselves: Why should I learn how to pickle things? Then answer, because it's really fucking easy, cheap, and tasty. You can keep your veggies (and eggs and bacon) longer if you don't have a fridge and make things more varied and flavorful when you don't have heat to cook with.
must have: salt, water, and jar(s).
more fun to have: vinegar, sugar, spices.
Pickling basically involves chopping up vegetables, dousing them in salt, and then leaving them in brine (salt water or salt water and vinegar plus spices to taste) in a sealed jar to get more and more delicious over time. Vid shows a way to make some sweet and sour carrot pickles.
Things I suggest you attempt to pickle (because I have and it was great): Carrots, beets, cabbage, hard boiled eggs, bacon, onions, garlic, peppers, and apples.
Easy way to stop being poor
Vote Trump.
I am just kinda here to tell you stories about being poor & shit… Hope this is okay with y'all.
Is there a relatively safe way to sell one of my kidneys and actually get the money?
Daily Reminder:
It's the Jews. Always the Jews. Never Forget
Jewlinking Tsu Sandniggers
Copying from another thread.>upload semi-decent porn to filemoney
>post screenshots on imgchili
>monetize links with linkbucks
>preview that shit all over imagefap and motherless, linking to the screens on imgchili and then to the file from imgchili
>profit
http://goo.gl/aJCQQf - linkbucks
http://goo.gl/SsDbXQ - imgchili
http://goo.gl/AUw8em - filemoney
You can do it with anything but porn works best. Fappening updates will make you a killing from chans and on celeb forums like vintage-erotica-forums etc.
Post these links all over Tsu to maximise your earnings.
Buying Collectives
Has anyone ever done this? The idea is that you get together as a group to increase your purchasing power and get lower prices than if you all bought stuff individually.This is maybe more /thrifty/ than /poverty/, apologies if this grinds any gears.
Some quick links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_buying_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_buying
http://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2012/jun/15/collective-buying-big-switch-cooperative-movement
Seeing a lot of videos on homesteading, cooking and skills. Are all these things worth my time or should I just get a job and hold on to it the best I can?
/poverty/ how do I get a job?
I can ignore the suicidal thoughts if I could actually go out and do things or be able to afford clay and shit so that I can actually practice the things I'm passionate about. But I can't do that without money.
I think getting a job would be great but I've been applying places online and in person for like a year clearly I'm just retarded and doing it wrong how do I get a job?
Overseas Data & Internet
Hey /poverty/, Amerifat here, going to the UK for a week. Rang up my mobile company to see what the charges would be, since I've never left my country, and I am just surprised how much money they're demanding.
Do you guys have any tips on how to get free/cheap phone use and internet over in the UK? I'm fine with any grey areas, since I'd probably have to.
Bernie
Hi poorfags
Let's have a thread about foodhacks, or recipes that YOU have created.
Here's mine:
If you want to make rice taste better, you can mix soy sauce into it. The Japanese apparently do it too, but not in public as it is deemed rude and impolite.
Personally, I mix soy sauce and sweet chili sauce into it. It tastes great.
just leaving this here
I would like to know if someone if theres actuall a ´´hobo´´ code in houses, to advert other hobos hows the place, if theres food, etc. Also, if you have found them sometimes, post photos and tell theyr meaning
Get paid to review music
http://www.slicethepie.com/?wyd=1019958Pays between $0.08 and $0.25 (depends on grammar and number of adjectives used) for short, 3 or 4 sentence reviews on music by unsigned bands. To be honest you're only gonna make like $5-$6 an hour (if you can type while you listen to the 90 seconds of each track) but it beats the shit out of pay-per-clicks and surveys and shit and it's actually pretty fun.
Protip: on Fridays they have a promotion where you review clothing which pays MUCH better, as the reviews take maybe 30 seconds each and it's a flat rate of $0.20 per review. When it gives you the option to pick places you buy clothing from, select all of them, not just the ones you shop at. It'll give you far more reviews to do and even then you're gonna want more, trust me. Made almost $15 in half an hour on the clothing shit before it ran out on me. So don't make my mistake, pick ALL of the fuckers.
Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?
it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.
Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!
Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.
fuck me!
Hello, /poverty/. I just wanted to let you know that I'm the new board owner of >>>/kind/, and I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to drop in and say hello.
Tell us about your day: >>>/kind/346
Health Thread
This thread is for information regarding staying healthy and taking care of sickness/injury. You can share home remedies and herbal remedies, how to deal with doctors/hospitals/healthcare, and whatever else relates.
Some easy way to make money?
I doesn't expect miracles, or to have a lot without working, but there must be some way I don't know.
Cheap & Safe Travel
Cheap isn't always safe & safe isn't always cheap.So the question is what are some travel spots around the world that are fairly cheap & relatively safe?
Poverty Feels
>get insulted today for being poor>they just keep doing it
>I am extremely tolerant and have an attitude that if I hate someone, I'm going to keep it really secret from them
>so I keep putting up with them
>they keep reminding me though of how ridiculously poor I am, how I work for food rations and pocket change, and go through dumpsters
>they all are able to buy things easily and with little thought which takes me months to acquire
>it all gets to me
>my coping strategies fail
>I leave the conversation
>cry in the shower
>cut away some of my hair afterwards
>get on here
;_;
I have so many problems preventing me from doing basic things in life and I struggle every day to get better but for years I have been in a severely shitty situation and in two years time if my plans fail I'm just going to disregard reality completely and mentally desert my body, I'm just going to shutdown, and ignore the outside world and any people talking to me. I'm too chicken for straight up suicide but I don't want to be sane in a world where there is absolutely nothing for me because I am all around inferior dysfunctional being.
2 jobs or more Thread
Any of my fellow anons working 2 jobs and still barely making it through?Got any scheduling tips or ways to alleviate having less then 5 hours of free time?
Happy and Thank God it's easter today
Anyone have any stories/opinions of shoplifting?
shit labor general
who else here is a temp worker? i just signed on with my second agency after a shitload of places fired me often times for unexplained reasons
Welfare
Amerifat poorfag here. Thinking about getting on some government assistance for the first time. Was raised hardcore conservative, feel like a piece of shit for even considering it. For those that are one welfare/SNAP, etc… Is it easy? Is there a lot of stigma associated with it for you? Also, can it affect me down the road with creditors and employers? Thanks.
A better world is possible, comrades, but only if we organize.
What's with depicting slavs as spooky skellingtons or grim reapers?
We're not THAT into poverty, it's second not third world OK
Boards of the Week Archive
Still deciding how I'm going to manage the Arbitrary Boards of the "Week", because I hate to see personal favorites get taken off but I think cycling them will be positive for general traffic. Feel free to discuss the boards here and any ideas surrounding the whole issue.Archive of Povertymod's Arbitrary Boards of the "Week"
February-March 2015:
>>>/freedu/
>>>/rent/
>>>/biz/
>>>/mlmhate/
>>>/improve/
>>>/econ/
New Board
Fellow anons i made a new board 8ch.net/freetard/ to make provide everybody with anything for free, it doesnt have to be originally for free.It is new so if any suggestions those would be welcome, and if you have anything to contribute your welcome
So add movies, schoolbooks, software, tips and tricks on how to get free stuff, couponcodes, and if you would like to share your free money making schemes/skillz feel free
I am asking here because it would bring more attention to all boards involved and we could help eachother
I asked freedu and leftypol if they could also help and they suggested this board also so come take a look and give your critism and help of you want
I bought some pants for $30
After years of dumpster/thrift clothes…
Turns out it was worth it, they're really good pants.
Quality over quantity I suppose. It's a paradigm shift for me.
pic unrelated.
/poverty/ realted life hacks.
Hi /poverty/, i founded this video and thought that it will be useful on this time of the year. Also, lifehacks general.Theres a fuckton of videos in this topic in you are interested in something more elaborated.
Hey, might as well start an amazon thread.
http://amzn.com/w/25RECZT6PNFFN
Send me something and maybe you will get something too.
POST YOUR LINK.
Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"
>Via Business Insider: "As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject. National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer's March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks "too politically controversial" for the site…".
What's your plan?
After years of useless fucking around, I've realized I have to get a bachelor's degree. Currently working and saving up money so I can go to school and escape this cycle.
Greetings
Hello /poverty/, I come from /32/.In an effort to bring good small boards closer together I bring a potential board-tan as a token of goodwill.
Peace
Feel free to visit.
How poor are the niggers in your area?
Are there any professional niggers in your area?
Are YOU a victim of being a NIGGER?
Both of these sites are pretty similar, but have their definite differences. It seems like they might be useful to anyone lurking this board who has a few extra $. Ive bought from both, literature is pretty on point as far as being thrifty, and ingenuity in or out of society goes.
http://pioneerspress.com/
http://microcosmpublishing.com/
/dharma/
I was invited to advertise my new board >>>/dharma/ here. It's a Buddhist board for describing Buddhism, Indian philosophy/dharma, and anything related to it. We have a few posts so far and the discussions and resources are growing and useful. Like any philosophical/religious tradition that encourages or features monastic lifestyles, I'm sure it might appeal to some of you. Thanks!
>>>/econ/
Since you were so kind to invite me to shill on here, and because I think 8chan needs a good board for poor people, I will link /poverty/ on my board.
Just a reminder that if you're going to College while poor, you should check out what programs your College offers to help those with low incomes. My Community College offers free Low-Income housing and has a food pantry that anyone who goes to the school can use for free.
Roaming through Europe
Hey there /poverty/, me and a friend are going hobo-ing through Europe because we want to travel and get away from our lives here, we were wondering if anybody would like to join us?
Free phone service!
(Well, you gotta buy the equipment first)
http://freedompop.com/
I got into the beta and so far it's working brety gud. They put me on the premium service which is 10 a month, but may cancel anyway because I'm that much of a je..poorfag.
http://ooma.com/
I bought my ooma system off ebay for around 80 bucks and only pay the taxes which come out to 5 bucks a month.
Anyway, if you need a super cheap alternative to phone services, consider these ones.
Not a shill, just been using ooma for a long time and just started using freedompop and am pretty impressed.
Here's a thread from halfchan's /fit/ about how to maintain your back/feet health while working in a warehouse or retail type job.
Personal Hygiene
Normal shampoo isn't necessary to wash your hair. You can use baking soda or vinegar and even then, those are optional.http://www.diynatural.com/homemade-shampoo/
http://www.diynatural.com/homemade-conditioner/
http://www.diynatural.com/homemade-toothpaste/
http://www.diynatural.com/natural-homemade-deodorant/
Egg whites can be used to tighten pores and their yolks can be used as natural moisturizers. Rose, coconut oil, jojoba oil, vitamin e, aloe, and oatmeal are also optional moisturizers. Manuka honey has anti-inflammatory properties and can aid blemish scars.
Tea tree oil is also helpful for some people's acne, but others are too sensitive. Lemon juice diluted in water can also help clean your face on a budget, but it will make your skin more sensitive to sunlight. Simple baking soda and water could also be used to wash your face and apple cider vinegar diluted in water is a nice toner for oilier skin.
Thrifty Life Hacks
From a 1948 pamphlet of household hints:1. Make homemade room or closet deodorizer by mixing some diluted ammonia with fresh water and letting it sit out in a bowl overnight.
2. To erase fingerprints and spots from wallpaper, rub stale, soft chunks of bread in even vertical strokes.
3. Remove paper stuck to a wood surface by allowing a few drops of oil to soak into it and then rubbing it gently with a clean cloth.
4. Clean varnished surfaces with a cloth dipped in cool, weak tea. Tea also makes a good fertilizer for house plants and acts as an insecticide.
5. When you crack a dish, put it in a pan of milk and boil it for 45 minutes. The crack will usually disappear and the dish will actually become stronger.
6. Deodorize jars and bottles by pouring a solution of water and dry mustard into them and let them stand for several hours.
7. Pour hot salt water down your sink and tub drains once or twice a week to keep them free of grease and odors.
8. Sharpen scissors by cutting a piece of sandpaper once or twice with them.
9. Chill candles in the refrigerator for 24 hours before using them so the will burn evenly and not drip.
10. If a pot lid loses its knob, put a pointed screw through the hole and twist a cork (which is heatproof) onto it.
Also check out: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/diy-household-products-that-save-money-without-chemicals.html
and
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/money/pass-fail-14-money-saving-tips-get-tested.html
Also here is a nice gif.
Interesting thread about automation/abolition of work over on /leftypol/ >>>/leftypol/94089
So I saw this board was dead.
If anyone comes back to it, what do you think would help the poor more, government assistance, union action or partial ownership in their workplace?
Hey /poverty/ I created the /mlmhate/ board and someone was kind enough to share my here.
I have a quetion about cheap living.
So I'm going into a maritime program out in Seattle. The program costs enough 21,000 thousand total. I have about 70k in series ebonds. How do I live cheap for the year.
I am considering the following expenses.
>Rent (I've found ads on craigslist for places 800-1000 per month nearby, within walking distance of my vocational school)
>food
>utilities including high speed internet
>occasionally clothing, my shirts keep shrinking
>gym (I've seen gyms that cost)
>My mom is still willing to pay for my Iphone and I am still on her insurance.
Any other important costs and tips and tricks to cut back on cost of living there or necesarry things I need.
Thanks guys!
How do poor people starve/go hungry? It's so easy to obtain food, I can't remember the last time I had to use cash on food. Whether it was food stamps, shop lifting, dumpster diving, etc. I've traveled across the U.S numerous times, via numerous ways, and never struggled with food. Are you one of those people that stay fucking up? Why?
What are some good cheap hardware solutions for internet browsing? Are smartphones w/ data plan worth keeping?
found this on /arcane/
>Homeless woman fined for building her own home>The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has charged Necan with breaches of the Public Lands Act that carry fines of up to $10,000, and up to an additional $1,000 fine each time she is caught continuing to build.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/homeless-woman-fined-for-building-her-own-home-1.2824688
As an unorganized township, Savant Lake doesn't have a municipal leader. Denis Mousseau owns the only store, across the street from his hotel, on one of the community's two main roads.
"It's a common thing for First Nations people to do, is build their own house without title to the land," Mousseau said. "First Nations people have the right to do that and I don't see why [the Ministry of] Natural Resources should be hassling her over this."
Necan has boarded up the unfinished doorway to her cabin for the winter, and said she feels "shattered" by the charges against her. Her next court date is Nov. 20.
"I still keep going with this fight no matter how awful it makes me feel for trying to house myself and help people, because a lot of people don't believe in themselves or that things can change if you fight hard enough," Necan said, her voice cracking.
"It's what I try to believe. I try to be hopeful. That's hard too and a lot of times I cry by myself here. But I talk to my [late] mom and my [late] dad and it keeps me going because I keep thinking of them."
Can I help you by finding the jobs for you?
I know some of the people here don't always have access to internet so I can look them up for you and download the documents and pictures of jobs here. Is that a good or bad idea?
Do you see yourself more as an idealist or an opportunist?
Hey /poverty/, I will be moving out with a friend of mine to an apartment soon. We will both likely be making around minimum wage when we rent it. I would like to know what I should look for in an apartment so I don't end up wasting money. I'd also like to know what sort of hidden fees usually come with an apartment.
I will leave this here and hopefully it will help some people out.
So comra- ur workers, will you be partaking in the revolution?
Credibility of the ruling elite is being shredded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brHqBcZqNzE
It's getting cold out, so lets have topic about cheap ways to keep warm without spending tons of cash. Video related.
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tl;dr: I took some camellia sasanqua leaves from a yard, gonna see if it makes decent tea or what. currently drying the leaves out.
So, tea is made of camellia sinensis (pic 1)
a shitton of people plant camellias in their yards, but not usually c. sinensis
instead they plant c. japonica and c. sasanqua and others. anyway I decided to google around and see if its possible to make tea from these other types of camellia…the answer seems to be yes, although the results for it aren't very abundant:
>camellia japonica
http://pandragonathome.blogspot.com/2009/11/making-black-tea-from-your-camellia.html
http://inpraiseofshadows.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/tea-from-the-camellia-japonica/
>camellia sasanqua:
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/welcome/blue_mountains_botanic_garden/garden_features/blooming_calendar/Camellias (In Japan, the Camellia sasanqua has a long history in cultivation for practical rather than decorative reasons. The leaves have been used for centuries to make a form of tea and the seeds or nuts have been a thriving Japanese industry long before there were any written records.)
http://tcpermaculture.blogspot.com/2013/01/questions-from-readers-growing-your-own.html
>93-Year-Old Homesteader Living It Up In The Wilderness
this vid is top cozy
>Oligarchy, not democracy: Americans have ‘near-zero’ input on policy – report
http://rt.com/usa/us-democracy-oligarchy-policy-512/
"Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association,” the authors say the data implicate “the nearly total failure of 'median voter' and other Majoritarian Electoral Democracy theories [of America]. When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
Made one of these today. Didn't have pots or sand on hand already so it ran me like $20, though I'm sure I coulda borrowed some sand from a playground and saved a few bucks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator
Humidity is on the mid-high range where I live so this might be a fail, but I'll report back about it
For people who want to move/travel/live somewhere else for cheap:
http://www.wwoof.net/
>Usually you live with your host and are expected to join in and cooperate with the day to day activities. In most countries the exchange is based on 4-6 hours help-fair exchange for a full day’s food and accommodation.
http://www.workaway.info/
>Generally you will be expected to volunteer around 5 hours per day in exchange for food and accommodation. Conditions and agreements may vary depending on the skills you can offer and the requirements of each host. It is important you communicate as much as possible beforehand with your hosts so that you both know each other's expectations.
If you don't have a rice cooker…wtf are you doing?
- Cooks rice. obviously.
- steams vegetables, but i'm sure you knew that.
- cooks noodles
- cooks oatmeal
- Also bakes bread. Yeah, home-made bread: http://insunee.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-knead-bread-in-rice-cooker-it-dont.html
- makes yogurt: http://insunee.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-homemade-yogurt-in-rice-cooker.html
- warms things up as good as/better than a microwave (e.g. put pizza on the steamer rack, some water in the bowl, and you get warm pizza thats not all dried out)
- makes giant pancakes: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/06/14/how-to-make-epic-pancakes-with-your-japanese-rice-cooker/
to quote one of the links up there on why you would use a rice cooker instead of whatever else, "Efficiency experts have probably already picked up on one of the hidden benefits of this method: less stuff to wash." Plus I don't know about you guys but at times I have been without a stove, oven, microwave, etc.
Cold brew coffee…holy shit it's good. Tasty as fuck and you only need time, water, ground coffee, 2 containers to steep it in and something to filter it. No heating element necessary at all.
I did 1/2 cup of some generic ground coffee, like Yuban or something I dunno
put it in a mason jar, added 2 cups cold water, covered it and let it sit over night (supposed to be 12 hours)
Then I popped a coffee filter over another mason jar, secure with a rubber band, and poured the coffee into it to filter it, took a few mins
so then it's done. I heated up a cup of water and poured in some of the coffee syrup i had created until it reached the ratio I wanted (looks like more plain water than coffee syrup, to me), and damn its tasty. would taste great cold too or with milk/whatever.
thought i'd post it here since it's something you could make even while living in a car
http://www.stilltasty.com/
Look up foods and see how long they actually last for in pantry vs fridge vs freezer
Get on in here poor alcoholics.
The stuff tastes like ass, smells like ass, drinks like ass, and gives you a hangover. But is it worth it? I guess that's up to you. This is the simplest form of fermentation, all you need is a container that is acid and solvent resistant, (acids and alcohols are formed during fermentation) water that has been boiled and sat (this gets covered when you boil the wort) And a source of sweet sugars. This includes glucose, fructose, sucrose, galactose, and maltose. These are ones that can be fermented with no added steps involved in brewing beers. Just mix and let sit.
>A good list of sugars that are fermentable >http://byo.com/stories/issue/item/1441-sweetness-brewing-sugars-how-to-use-them<
>What we are dealing with, >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilju<
First step, find your container. 5 gallon buckets work great, and you can just stretch saran-wrap over the lid opening with some holes poked in it for an airlock, or some loosely placed tin foil scrunched over the top where it is on the snug, but not air-tight. >http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Food-Grade-Buckets< Make sure you clean it well, use clean water to wash it out with a very dilute bleach solution, then rinse until you can't smell anymore bleach on the bucket. If you do use soap instead do a secondary wash with just water as the soap will try and leave a film.
You wanted to name the board /bums/ but it would have been overrun with analfags, right
> Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the worlds squatter sites – where a billion people now make their homes – to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour.
Cheap recipes and foods
Not quite poverty worthy but there's no better place to post this thread. Post cheap recipes and foods to buy when you have fuck all money. My weekly food budget is usually around $40 so I'm curious to see what you guys come up with.
I know Sikhs will feed people that come to their temple. I've only been to one once but they gave us tea and something like pic related which was breddy good. The service was pleasant, honestly I don't remember it well but I didn't feel like I was sitting through something ridiculous. From what I understand of the religion it's against trying to aggressively convert people.
Anyone else know some places to get a decent free meal?
>tfw your basil cuttings are growing little roots
:')
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGDE2sLY14VOYV8OPd1vJaA
Great show, highly suggested for dem snuggly tiems
Got no reply on >>>/leftypol/…anyone read this book/author?
this is a somewhat interesting board
bumping it in good intentions. I'm against shoplifting. don't do that. stealing is messed up.
Gonna make some homemade laundry soap. Will report back on cost and efficacy
Mega survival ebook archive
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5692605/Mega_Survival_Ebook_Archive_(100___books)_Wilderness_and_Urban_SHas all the survival info you could want.
Bushcraft/innawoods/primitive skills thread
Beer making
Anyone has infos on making beer?A nice set circulated on imageboards a while ago
Profit from Crisis: Why capitalists do not want recovery, and what that means for America
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/05/15/profit-from-crisis-why-capitalists-do-not-want-recovery-and-what-that-means-for-america/>While conventional economic wisdom holds that capitalists should be just as anxious to see recovery as workers, Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler argue that it is actually in capitalists’ interests to prolong the crisis, as their relative power increases in times of stagnation and unemployment. Using U.S. data from the past century, they find that when unemployment rises, capitalists can expect their share of income to rise in the years that follow.
Thoughts?
1930's trailer park
Hello /poverty/, regards /fringe/
NEET master race reporting in, I'm impoverished as fuck, and work for food rations twice a week for a few hours (don't get paid unless there's a little spare change someone gives me but gets lots of food!)I'm mostly poor because I have some serious issues with insomnia and also went through years of severe depression and had a shitty regrettable childhood.
I'm getting better though with the practise of magick having helped me in so many ways in life.
Here are some books that might interest anyone who wants to focus on making money; I myself do not focus on that right now as I have higher priorities that need to be sorted out first.
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1900thoughtforce.pdf
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1908secretsuccess.pdf
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1910psychologysalesmanship.pdf
William Walker Atkinson was a very successful occultist – and business man – and many other things all at once! He really lived what he talked, a very respectable man indeed. I highly recommend everything written by him.
One of the most important things for anyone impoverished is to learn contentment with the bare minimum of things; and even when deprived of the essentials to main their poise and inner-calm. Then you will not suffer so much and be so sad, even if you are in impoverished condition. You can still work to become richer though, there's really no reason for any mystics like me to stay poor forever, indeed there are highly enlightened persons who've been incredibly wealthy and had palaces in the past. The thing is not to become attached to wealth and not to let wealth control you. In this regard, there is considerable virtue in a plain ascetic life, with not much of the concerns and worry of say running a business or an empire.
That said poverty can also get in the way of achieving life goals and that's not a good thing. One should work to improve themselves, to accomplish goals; to do as they will. It's just important that as go about our work we do not make our happiness dependent upon success but rather can maintain an optimal mental state the whole way through and regardless of the outcome.
If you guys want to talk to me about this more come visit >>>/fringe/ ! I answer all questions and have much more to say potentially!
Survival Guide to Homelessness:
http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/
explains how to live out of a car