Posts from August 16th, 2017
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Savvy Savings Strategies
Before the turn of the century (Sweet Moses, that sounds awful!) I lived in Portsmouth with 2 roommates. For reasons that have left my memory at this point, we all participated in a "fast" for an entire week. This meant nothing other than water and tea for a full 5 days. (We weren't about to cramp our weekend style!) There were two prominent lessons we all seemed to pick up from this experience. First was how easy it was. Sure we were hungry through the first 36 hours or so, but after that the hunger dissipated. The second lesson was how much extra time we had in the day. Removing shopping, cooking, eating and cleaning from the day freed up at least 2-3 hours. In the end, we learned more about what we could live without and a ton more respect for those who don't go hungry optio...