10 Ways to Simplify Your Life
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Apr 26, 2012 9:21AM
What to simplify your life for the better? Easy. Ditch the iCrap. And the cell phones. (Remember? people got along fine for centuries without pocket-sized techno-annoyances.) Read a damn book, printed on PAPER. Look at paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Listen to a river, and the wind. Take a walk. Touch a tree. Eat a steak that has no sauce on it. Smoke some weed. Open your car's windows. Turn off that A/C and drive.
Apr 26, 2012 11:58AM
10 Ways to Simplify Your Life.. Really... I only see one or two things that would Simplify my life, the rest provide MORE work.
I agree with "not you854" and the sad thing is I work for the Geek Squad, and if I could get away with it, I would not have ANY mobile device. You would be surprised how much more free time you get, when you don't spend 2-5 hours a day talking with people on the phone, answering emails, listening to voice mails, responding to texts. I went for almost 2 years without a phone (including home phone), but now I have to carry one for work. What I would do to not have a cell phone or email at all.
1. Drop the mobile life.
2. Take off your shoes at the door.
3. Setup all of your bills to auto pay.
4. Stop wasting time reading/responding to articles like this.
Apr 26, 2012 2:04PM
Apr 26, 2012 12:37PM
Apr 26, 2012 12:17PM
I read the 10 simplify how-tos and had to laugh. Have the American people gone SO far off the track that they must continue to mindlessly spend on highly discretionary nonsense even in this economy? And so many of the suggestions were just the nuttiness of paranoids: Freeze your bedclothing. Really? Kill each killer microbe and allergen in your midst you special, sensitive, entitled dufus. Really? This list was good for a morning laugh.
Except for one thing not you854 has a terrific list below (and probably even the smoke might be terrific, just never having tried one wouldn't know; and as it is on a no-smoke list in the current extremist enviroment probably best to just say no). Back to authentic nature is a great idea. And a look back to the way people lived their lives in the pre-tech area will give some really great ideas.
Apr 26, 2012 3:51PM
I am not at all concerned about US grown non-organic produce residues which are very minute. The materials used by our growers are so regulated by the FDA as to have miniscule effect, if any. (Do I really care about 1 part per billion? NO) I am however very concerned about produce grown in Central or South America where they have used products banned to US farmers. Buy US grown fruits and vegetables and wash produce if you have concerns!
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