This is a great idea; I use it all the time with things around the house that I might otherwise throw away. It saves money and reduces waste. For the main ingredient, cardboard or old leather. For the binder, use potting soil or compost. I try to save every cent I can and making otherwise inedible ingredients into…

Pickled Eggs...nature's perfect food.

Anyone who gives up eggs is insane. Evolution has provided egg as the perfect food for growing bodies. I would not carpool with anyone who does not eat eggs...potential serial killer. Sometimes I eat eggs for dinner, just like at breakfast.

Yet another way to get people to part with their money in new and creative ways. These sites are full of the things they were not able to sell elsewhere that nobody wants/needs. People should simplify their lives and not purchase so much internet junk - it saves a ton of money.

@projectvirus:

@Hopanoe: They will never leave you alone, but at least you'll be scurvy-free!

I've done this on occasion and in general it seems effective. I usually don't spend 100% of my per diem. After a few days, I have enough extra to buy beer. (In hindsight, I should have just lumped that into the fixed expenses!)

This whole income tax thing is garbage anyway. There wasn't even an income tax until the Civil War, when Lincoln put the income tax in place to help pay for the war. Then, when the war was over, the tax didn't go away. They never do. Just goes to show you that when they raise our taxes to pay for the stimulus and…

@Phoshi:

If you build up a big enough fund, you can borrow from yourself rather than using credit cards or getting a loan from the bank. Then, you can pay yourself back with interest. That way, you're putting some of the money to work rather than just leaving it sitting there useless.

Why would anyone be using IE?

Windows XP Home here, it boots pretty fast and I just leave it running on my laptop. No need to screw around with Linux distributions, I run Firefox and antivirus.

When I was a kid we didn't have a lot of money. My dad got a large spool (I'm talking 8 feet across) from the electric company and we used it as a picnic table for several years in the back yard.

Potatoes are extremely inexpensive and not worth trying to save money on. 100 lbs of potatoes can be had for $20. If you absolutely *must* have free potatoes, you can go out in the fall and walk along behind the harvester. They do not get 100% of the potatoes and frequently leave perfectly good ones lying on the…

Well, you may want to pay a little more than the *minimum* on your credit cards. The card companies have it structured so that if you only pay the minimum, you're essentially getting nowhere, and if you use the card a little each month you may actually be going backwards.