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Sasha, of www.hypnobird.com, is the author of Hypnobudgets: Life...Budgeted. A "starving artist" in Salt Lake City, Sasha devotes much of her time to assorted volunteer projects. Sharing first hand knowledge of living life on a budget, Sasha's columns are a great asset to Free Credit Fixes! We hope you enjoy them and visit Sasha's main site to view her latest artwork!
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I’m writing this by candle light. The electric went out. Again. For the third time tonight and the second incident in a month. I have candles, but just small little votives, and only three of them. I am, of course, unprepared for this basic need. Light.
Right now I think the Boy Scouts’ motto of “Always Be Prepared” is the most brilliant thing ever. But I wasn’t a boy scout. And so I’m unprepared tonight to keep myself from running into and over everything in a dark apartment. At least I have a lighter to light the candles. I keep one for lighting my incense, which I really need to do more often. As an ex-smoker I no longer know where my several different lighters are at all times. I just have two, and one I don’t know where it is. This one I was lucky enough to have found and been using to light incense recently to show off my new incense burners. Last time the electric went out, due to a transformer down the block blowing up, I learned the importance of keeping that lighter where I knew where to find it. Usually our blackouts don’t last that long, but we do have the.
So why am I, and we as a society, so unprepared for such basic needs? I wonder if the number of people that have extra batteries and/or adapters for their cell phones …
When you think of summer what comes to mind? Lemonade? Watermelon? Picnics? Swimming pools? Icy frozen treats straight out of the freezer? Maybe running through a sprinkler in the wet grass? All things that will help cool you down. Face it. Summer is hot! Its part of what we love about summer and most of what we hate.
While I don’t know of any specific scientific data, it seems to me that being cool becomes more and more important as we get older. Do we just feel the heat more? Perhaps it is the lack of a three month summer vacation that makes us more aware of just how hot it is. Or the fact that most adult small talk centers on the weather. One of an increasing shrinking number of ‘safe’ topics to discuss with strangers at the bus stop, it is nonetheless a constant reminder of just how hot (or cold, rainy, windy or snowy) it is. I don’t believe I ever once went up to a fellow third grader on the playground and inquired “So Stan. Is it hot enough for ya?” And I’m equally sure I never heard anyone else on the playground ask that question.
As staying cool becomes more and more of a priority, no matter what the reason, we are now faced with a new delima. Keeping cool on the cheap. While most of us just use some form of electric air conditioning, there are many more …
We’re welcoming a new contributor, Sasha of www.hypnobird.com, to the site! Check here in the future for tips / hints / advice on living life on a budget! I’m looking forward to it and hope you’ll enjoy it as well!
Yay and Welcome, Sasha!
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