Archive for December, 2006

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Living on $1/day for food for a month

Here’s a guy who decided to experience for himself one aspect of being poor: living on $30 for a month for food ($US I hasten to add) Read from the bottom up for proper chronology.
Hungry for a month
My background lends well to being frugal to start with - both of my parents went through WWII […]

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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Wii!! Wii!!

I’m not normally interested in what’s going on in the gaming console market - I just consider them to be crippled gaming computers - very good gaming computers, but still crippled.
The Playstation with it’s DVD player was the last console that garnered any interest, due to the fact that for slightly more than a DVD […]

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