There you are, one minute you are sitting there nice and cozy in your beautiful brick 3 bedroom, 2 bath, double garage, on a quarter acre with all the trappings of life as defined by the attitude of consumerism. Your house has all the requisite things that everyone says you need to have to be [...]
Ok, you are moving to the Florida Keys and looking for a place to live. You have pretty much ruled out conventional type houses and home ownership. So what other options are there? Well the next logical step, is apartments and condos. Surprisingly there are quite a few apartment rentals in the Keys. While there [...]
Living in the Florida Keys ain’t cheap. In fact it is one of the most expensive places to live in the continental U.S. of A. Everything needs to be shipped in, food, consumer goods, tourists, cuban refugees, and it gets more expensive as fuel prices go up. But by far the most expensive part of [...]
If you can’t make this then you should be dragged out to a pasture somewhere and eat grass for the rest of your life. Single ingredient ice cream: Take 2 or 3 bananas, leave them in the peels and freeze them. When frozen, peel them and put them in a blender. Blend until the frozen [...]
In Part 1 of the Minimalist Kitchen I wrote about reducing your appliances down to a select few and eliminating single use devices. In this post I’ll be writing about one of my favorite subjects, food. As I said before, I love to eat. I don’t follow the trends, I don’t do the fads. I [...]
Make no mistake about it, I love to eat. I enjoy the hell out of food. It’s an addiction. I started eating when I was a child and haven’t been able to kick the habit since. You’ll read a lot of minimalist blogs, usually by younger authors, where they have all these bizarre hippie eating [...]