And I swear, I'm going to help them as much as I can. With the economy, goes de gubment.

What is going on pisses me off royally, so I do something about it by NOT doing. Restaurant prices are insane, I don't go; and considering how well I can go I may never go to one again as long as I live. I REFUSE to pay $8.00 for a dozen eggs, I'm already vegetarian, I shop for cost effective, and go to the right stores. I avoid the major supermarkets like Lucky, Safeway. . ., shop at Grocery Outlet, Trader Joe's for the RIGHT things, a reasonable produce market, and a couple of small South Asian stores that have SOME good deals. (Good size frozen samosas for under $1.00 a piece. Lemme see, what did the restaurants charge for that?) Cleaners at Dollar Tree (Food? Gotta read those labels. Most of their stuff is toxic, but. . .), shop on line for the best clothing prices in addition to Eco-Thrift that sells used stuff, and we scavenge. If we don't need it, we don't buy it. We are trying to be the worst consumers as possible.

I'm also laughing over Covered Calipornia. I'm signed up for Kaiser, don't pay a cent, and throw everything out that they send me. The state is throwing away a wee over $10,000 a year on me for NOTHING. If I have something wrong, I look it up, and fix it myself. I am on no pharmaceuticals, and it's gonna stay that way. If I'm gonna be dead, I'm gonna be dead. Good riddance to the meat suit when the contract is up. I've done what I came here to do, and the HELL with the rest.

I also drive as little as possible (Less than 8,000 miles a year.), and we only have the basic bills. No telly, or any other unnecessary subscriptions.

The only way to live in the here and now, not that many are of a mind to do that. It also helps to have a few obligations as possible.

Do I consider myself deprived? HELL NO! I'm happiest when I'm on the internet or my nose in a book. . .which I buy at Dollar Tree. I'm gettin' a huge collection of a damn good library for next to nothing. As for the rest of the world, I may as well be dead except for the most minimal stuff to keep us goin'. . .until my bloody contract is up.