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Why the collapse is already driving people out of the failing systems and towards local, life-affirming work.
How real solidarity tends to surface when things get hard.
How the black pill dissolves once one finally stops performing the old script and starts following what feels true.
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Christian, This book by
Andrew Rupnow, the author of "Yeshua: The Metaphysical Mastery of Jesus Christ," for an enlightening read. For your journey of inward awakening. Peace brother.
Back in the probably later half of the '60s, I got a set of toy handcuffs, I think from the five and dime, that were actually pretty hefty and well made metal from outa Japan. When you could see inside of them you could actually see the paint from the beer can they were made from, an american beer at that, though I don't remember which (I wasn't much into beer at the time). They probably salvaged the cans from the american GIs, and made a commercially viable product out of them. I always thought that was neat even being quite young at the time. I would have been impressed to see somebody crush one of those their head.
I certainly save a lot of bottles and containers for repurpose, though I try to limit getting new product in them for the most part these days. I mix drink packs in the small ones, or use them for canteens. You can buy a sling like bottle holder off amazon and such that fits up to a 64 oz or so bottle that I have a few of that I would be lost without them.
Some even make excellent bedside convenience. My daughter buys cat litter in a green jug that is perfect for this use. Keep in mind that such was the norm through most of human history. I'm not even sure it is healthy getting up in the middle of the night to go to the john to take a pee. I fell out one time and hurt myself and broke a vanity that we had bought used to install in this commercial multi unit we had at the time getting up to pee. I think I just fell asleep walking. Changed my ways then, and I wasn't even that old.
Collecting urine may not be be the worse idea for secondary use too. It used to be quite a state business back in the day, so one enforced the other. They would probably think us "stoopid" today getting up to walk to the pot to pee, and even more so wasting it. Saltpeter is still a useful commodity, and possibly may even be more so in coming years, or even days, the way things are going.
I also save anything plastic bag like (paper too, like stuff comes from amazon at times). They make good small trash bags, or for putting something in and sealing it up that you don't want breeding bugs to put in the trash, though that would likely be better composted (having animals, I have more compost then I could ever use).
My grandad married an old gal that raised a big family during the depression, and she saved a lot of things most wouldn't think to save, like bread bags and even the ties, and growing up on grandpa's farm probably more than a little rubbed off on me. Grandad was no slouch either. They saved seed and taters for the next grow too. One of my earlier memories was the whole family coming in and butchering hogs. Priceless experience that time of my life, and an absolute ideal place for a kid to grow up with all the features off the farm nearby too (a RR, a river, a RR trestle, abandoned sandstone quarries, a small dump across the street in one of the quarries, that was one of my favorite places to salvage and explore, a creek and pond on the farm, forest, and miles of other fields, etc.).