{"id":47002,"date":"2019-06-30T06:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47002"},"modified":"2019-06-30T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:54:42","slug":"extreme-frugality-a-needed-mindset-for-the-age-we-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47002","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Frugality: A needed mindset for the age we live in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/extreme-frugality\/\">Extreme Frugality: A needed mindset for the age we live in<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We didn\u2019t have a lot growing up, as my mom had to single-parent three kids. Most anything I wanted required disciplined frugality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought my first fly rod from Orvis at the age of 13, which took the better part of a year to save up for. I hand-tied the first flies drifted from its lines from the hackles of roosters I raised expressly for that purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my later teens, I took a long cross-country climbing\/working road trip where I lived on $5\/week (1980s). Doing so was an art form involving dried beans and camping for free on federal lands, including the time I woke up to a large bull pawing and snorting a few yards from my tent.&nbsp; I knew nothing about the behavior of bulls, and still don\u2019t; but I knew that wasn\u2019t a good sign and so I backed away using the tent as a shield and climbed a tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sleeping on the ground, or on sofas doesn\u2019t bother me. I am a remarkably un-picky eater. I\u2019m just easy that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of which is to say that being frugal and \u2018making do\u2019 with what\u2019s on hand comes naturally to me.&nbsp; Don\u2019t get me wrong, I can enjoy spending money, and have indulged in some expensive hobbies in my life. But I can also zipper the wallet and not skip a beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m glad I can, because being frugal is an extremely valuable skill to employ as we get ready for a future of \u2018less\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>System Failure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometime, much sooner than we\u2019ll be ready for, the systems upon which we rely will fail us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weather system is already becoming intolerably wonky. Heat in Europe, crop-ruining rains in the US farm belt, and unprecedented heat in the arctic are all telling us that something is terribly amiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Frugality: A needed mindset for the age we live in We didn\u2019t have a lot growing up, as my mom had to single-parent three kids. Most anything I wanted required disciplined frugality. I bought my first fly rod from Orvis at the age of 13, which took the better part of a year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26175,26176,17306,2218,21004],"class_list":["post-47002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-extreme-frugality","tag-frugal","tag-frugality","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-system-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47003,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47002\/revisions\/47003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}