one Benjamin a week
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Charles P. Gruppe, Meadow Brook, ca. 1912, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1912.7.1
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8″ by 10″ Premium Wood Panel from Walgreens.
What do you do when you have dropped the ball? Get back on the horse. Yay, mixed metaphors! Yes, and I’m baaaack! woo!
YARD SALES are simply the best! One of my favorite things to do.. as much for meeting new people as for finding that perfect treasure. I almost always meet someone very kind & interesting, usually the person having the sale. Today it was Sweet Lady Linda from Oklahoma, who was helping sell the estate of her sister, Terri. heartstrings… sigh. We’ve all been there in one way or another. Should I start posting pictures of yard sales, the people I meet, and the treasures I find? Literally, I define streets as being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on the quantity and quality of yard sales they procure. ha! Ok, let’s put a pin in that idea and circle back to it. Today was definitely a good street yard sale with good peeps!
TODAY’s Treasures:
$1 cookbooks with top secret recipes and once-a-month cooking. Sonic cherry limeade hacks are in my future. Top super secret recipes for less than a dollar.. about a penny per secret, can’t beat that!
What in the world is this exciting book! Thousands of recipes from telephone operators? Does anyone under the age of 30 even know what a telephone operator is? I remember listening in on the neighbors on our ‘party line’, growing up on the wind swept plains of Oklahoma in the house that my great great grandfather built (on land he purchased with cash from the Cherokee, no Sooners here!). Anywho… technically, ha, this cookbook was published in 1989, a very Mixed Blessings Year for me personally.. good.. got within 6 feet from Bon Jovi back stage AND Benjamin Orr gave me a HUG (wow I used to be so exciting, my kids don’t even know..!) .. and bad… still married to a bozo. So, mixed feelings about 1989 but who even looks at the copyright, am I right? IF you can find this book on amazon or anywhere, BUY it. It’s as thick as a phone book. So many recipes it’ll blow your mind.
Same song, second verse… At the back of this phone book (ha) is yet ANOTHER book! 1879 cookbook and what ails ya book. Full of treatments for everything from the sick room to cleaning rooms top to bottom (as if).
Different day, different yard sale.. but one of my most favorite treasures ever and deserves a shout out…
….a new favorite thing… a sweet little ceramic swan that I found for 25 cents at a yard sale! holding my free stash of sweeteners that accumulated in my purse.
so……….what is a co-op?
A co-op (often called a buyer’s club) is a group of people who place an order together to receive wholesale prices. This is so easy to set up people….for real! All you need is one person in charge to place the order. That could be YOU… just saying!
Instead of clipping coupons or looking for sales… this is what you do: buy your items at below wholesale prices. genius. These are the same prices that stores buy their inventory, except now it is YOU buying your household items at wholesale.
Buy groceries and household items for below wholesale prices!
See below for how I set up my buyer’s club!
Here are the nitty gritty details of HOW I run a co-op for next to nothing AND buy organic, non GMO, fair trade products for wholesale & below!
Co-ops are a win-win for everyone! but… who is Frontier???
Frontier is a co-op that is committed to treated everyone involved in positive, beneficial and healthy ways. Not only do they allow the public to buy product at wholesale prices to improve our lives here, but they donate 4% of their profits to their producers around the word. Many of the growers and producers live in rural villages in developing countries. Frontier helps improve their lives by paying fair trade for product, as well as donating profits back to them.
The instructions for starting a buying club are here!
Download a catalog with wholesale prices right here!
and finally, do I make any money if you start a Frontier co-op? nope! nada. zilch!
We all need truckers, right? They are the life blood of this nation. I really am impressed and thankful that they deliver our food and everything we need… right to our neighborhoods. Have you ever heard the Jim Croce song, Speedball Tucker? Love that song, Jim, and truckers! thank you guys (and gals!).
These photos are from an ice storm in Dallas several years ago. The truckers were delayed just 3 days, and this is what happened… my main concern was the lack of avocados… but that’s just me. Gotta have my guac!
But really, the main threat to anyone’s food is lack of funds, due to medical costs, lack of employment or under employment, Murphy surprises, and the like. Truckers usually can get the food through almost any sort of weather surprise. They are built that way….
I have opinions (are you surprised?) and categorize food storage into 2 main categories: short term & long term. Basically meaning the difference in shelf life. Short term food storage lasts for up to 2 years. Long term food storage lasts for longer than that.
