Living the cardboard box lifestyle

[caseyjo]

This thread is not about the Edar I am about to show, it is about your sense of survival & what you would pack with you if you had a home no bigger than this or a large cardboard box. You have very little money except what you make from the labor pools when they send you on a job & that usually only pays for food & toiletries.......You are only  surviving...Its the future & jobs are closing down all over..How are you going to stay alive? 

[Stir Young]

I honestly don't know how I'm gonna fare.  If Social Security and Medicare in some form last through my lifetime, I'll be fine.  I'm not very confident of that happening, but I'm not gonna worry about it.  I have a very modest personal retirement in place, and I've not had to draw from that yet.

I seem to have a built in sensor of when to not live large.  I've been pulling in my wings financially for a couple of years now, and with $4/gallon gasoline now, I've recently been pulling the belt even tighter.

I was in my late teens when I first sensed that all wasn't financially well in the world.  A lot of what I saw as happening down the line is now coming true.  I'm appalled by the level of government spending, at all levels and crossing the political spectrum from left to right (or right to left, if you prefer).  I'm baffled by the economic explainations we get from our leaders.  

I don't have kids, but I really wonder how my niece and numerous nephews will have through their lifetimes.  How long can this system of shortsightedness and selfishness go on?

[caseyjo]

I also worry about the next generations..how will they live?...Will their water still be good to drink & will they have enough water to drink?..Will their earth still be farmable? Will their air still be breathable? Will the oceans, lakes, & streams be fishable? Will they have hope for their children or will they stop having children for fear of their futures? The greedier people become the less hope I feel.....

What the heck?.....We are nature, we are part of the earth & each other arent we? Just like the birds who fly in flocks we are part of that whole thing...We are fighting against our own true natures & not only the poor will suffer, so will the rich because they are creating a fearful society & where there is fear there is hate, overwhelming greed, & killing.

[Quinn]

I like to say I would do what I need to do, but I'm not sure anymore what that really means.

It makes me sad.

 

I agree with Stir about politicans from both sides and the ridiculous spending...Although I am dissappointed/angry with those pols that want to give a 10% tax break to the wealthy! And, make drastic cuts to Medicare and Medicad...

 

Anyway, I would hope that family and/or friends would take me in before I would be homeless, but you really don't know until it happens, so you?

[caseyjo]

You guys & girls are not packing here..You dont have a choice, you are already homeless, you work from the labor pools for little pay because jobs are shutting down everywhere and you have no car (the labor pools car pool their workers so everyone gets a ride). Off the tops of your heads what would you pack with you for the road when all you have is a edar or a cardboard box?

[caseyjo]

Hee hee.....Since when is it not ok for the author to try to regain some control or remind us what their thread is really all about? This one was sidetracked out the gate. I'm trying to find out if anyone around here has an adventurous spirit. Could you imagine climbng in a dempsty dumpster for food and be amazed at what you might find there? A little imagination would be fun.

I have put up this thread (worded differently) about once a year and get the same types of results so I am trying to steer them in another direction. It's ok. They dont have to answer & its fine if they stay sidetracked too.....I'm just trying to steer the boat, but if the crew wants to mutiny, thats ok.

[caseyjo]

You rock....Hey.....Next time you ask someone for a date ask them to go dempsty dumpsty diving.......really weed out the snobs. Your friend sounds like loads of fun

[Stir Young]

Yeah, sorry about taking this off topic right off the bat, CJ.  I have a habit of doing that....my brain doesn't work in a normal fashion.  It seems I search for the edges and work my way back in towards the center of a topic.

I'm pretty sure my thought processes are slightly off center due to the fact that I descend from one of the extraterrestrials who visited earth some time ago.  I expect that when my time on earth is done, I'll simply be re-assigned back to the home planet, where my logic will be more understood.

Until then, hey, I'm here for ya! 

[caseyjo]

Gentle Pat on terrestrial head...May the force be with you....:}

[caseyjo]

I'll be there.

[caseyjo]

I would take a swiss army knife, lighter, flashlight, sleeping bag, good street clothes, small sewing kit, collapsible water bottle, folding silverware, straws, about 20 feet of cord, foil rain blanket, sun glasses, toiletries, a pan, Walkman, batteries, Edar would be great. Some type of light weight hibachi or bbq grill if need be, but I would try to stay near a park or recreation place w/ barb q's in a beach area that has showers. exercise mat for under the sleeping bag, clothes pins & a tarp or pup tent might work better than a box if no edar was available, & a stash of energy bars for emergency, & a library card.