Maybe this about lessons of the past, hell I don’t know, I know this, shopping these days suck, with inflation being transitory, you gotta be frugal. Believe you me, I seen and lived frugal. I’ll use bacon as starter thingy. Having bacon steaks for breakfast and watching the sunrise with ratdog.
Cannot remember the last time I bought bacon, I see the price on paper thin bacon, bacon with nitrates, packed in water, which is why it spits at you when frying it up. When you shop, do you swap quality for price, (buy cheap get cheap). Making bacon isn’t cost effective compared to buying it, the good side of things, I know what’s in it, on it because I put it there. Your hams or bacon you buy has a pink color to it, that cure #1 aka the pink stuff, same stuff in your balogna, nitrates. I have discovered I won’t be needing to buy soap for at least a year, maybe 2, depending on how often I bath/shower. Making soap was something her and lil sis did together.
Smells of soap, not some fruity scent where some smart-ass says something stupid to where I gotta rearrange the chicklets. Having all the molds and stuff to make soap, saves me money for the ammo can “wink wink”. Thinking if I know a woman who makes soap/wants to make soap, has the time to make soap, what’s that worth, thinking maybe 4 pounds of bacon. So I’m standing over 4/5 gallon buckets of laundry soap, something else I never helped carry in the house from the store, she made it. I looked it up, yes its cheaper to make than buy, with 5 buckets I should be set for awhile. Think in terms of this, if that Armydog ever found out I been making soap, I’d probably greeted as Klinger!, to which I’d have remind him of Eleanor
U.S. Marines have “the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals.
Higher prices, smaller packages, the bidung economy sucks, just sucks.
Her words not mine ”
“when all there is, is land and weather, what you going to?’.
I did a leather sheath for Armydog’s picaroon
at 10 years of age, he was cutting cedar for posts, 5 cents a post, stripped and stacked.
Hard times are at hand