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It can payoff to have always lived BROKE!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 306357" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Oh, one more thing, a lesson from people in times past as winter would set in - they would store food in other people.</p><p></p><p>By this I mean - picture a village, a farming village, with winter setting in. To keep your animals alive through winter gets expensive. You plan to kill off a few to save the feed bill and also to feed the family. But kill a whole sheep - you can't eat it all. So Farmer A kills a sheep and invted the neighbours in for a feast. People take away various portions and each family eats well over the next week. Some of the meat can be salted or otherwise preserved, but in general - one family kills a beast, the whole village eats.</p><p></p><p>Next week everyone is hungry again. So Farmer B kills HIS sheep. Same thing - he invites the neighbours in for a feed.</p><p></p><p>By storing food in other people, in a society whicvh relies on this kind of goodwill to keep each other alive, you all get to survive the winter much better than if you struggled on alone.</p><p></p><p>Maybe while times are tough, you can do the same thing with close friends who live nearby? Pitch in together to buy meat in bulk from the butcher (the butcher will cut it up for you, how you want it, the per kilo price can be vastly cheaper this way) and together you all do a lot better, you wat a lot better for a helluva lot less.</p><p></p><p>You can do the same thing with fruit & vegetables too, either shop-bought or homegrown.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the old ways are good ways.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 306357, member: 1991"] Oh, one more thing, a lesson from people in times past as winter would set in - they would store food in other people. By this I mean - picture a village, a farming village, with winter setting in. To keep your animals alive through winter gets expensive. You plan to kill off a few to save the feed bill and also to feed the family. But kill a whole sheep - you can't eat it all. So Farmer A kills a sheep and invted the neighbours in for a feast. People take away various portions and each family eats well over the next week. Some of the meat can be salted or otherwise preserved, but in general - one family kills a beast, the whole village eats. Next week everyone is hungry again. So Farmer B kills HIS sheep. Same thing - he invites the neighbours in for a feed. By storing food in other people, in a society whicvh relies on this kind of goodwill to keep each other alive, you all get to survive the winter much better than if you struggled on alone. Maybe while times are tough, you can do the same thing with close friends who live nearby? Pitch in together to buy meat in bulk from the butcher (the butcher will cut it up for you, how you want it, the per kilo price can be vastly cheaper this way) and together you all do a lot better, you wat a lot better for a helluva lot less. You can do the same thing with fruit & vegetables too, either shop-bought or homegrown. Sometimes the old ways are good ways. Marg [/QUOTE]
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