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PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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Listening to the radio with headphones

(Underwood and Underwood. 1920s)

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Carmilla (2019)

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JOSS STONE as Anne of Cleves The Tudors (2007-2010) — Season four, episode three 'Something For You'

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Machete is right

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and if you weren’t as lucky as I was to learn from Great Depression grandparents:

• everything you can wash, save, and reuse or alter/repurpose, start learning to do it. you can always toss it later if you look it up and CAN’T find a use for it that makes it worth keeping for you. But give yourself the chance.

• learn to mend and do basic hand sewing.

• learn cheap recipes based around rice, beans, potatoes, etc. (casseroles can help with this, and use lots of cheaper frozen or canned food too)

• ten extra seconds every time you use something to refold it really well (or wipe it off, or repack it, or whatever) will extend its life so much. spend the little bits of time and the small routine maintenance tasks so you don’t have to replace things or repair them nearly as soon

• coupon. use sale ads. check every membership and group you have for discounts and deals.

• build a deep pantry. you want enough to feed yourself food you’ll actually eat for two weeks. If you want and you can, you can expand it to three months.

• learn how to dehydrate or can or freeze dry if you can

• learn your local plants and what you can forage

• build strong communities with people you can mutually trade supplies and skills with (ironing, home repair, mending, weaving, carpentry, painting, landscaping, gardening, etc.) and people who you are lightened and warmed by and can socialize with and emotionally support each other with

• swap things. Find local buy-nothing groups and local freecycle people

• USE THE LIBRARY. FIND OUT ALL THE THINGS IT CAN DO AND PROVIDE FOR YOU

• there’s no shame in using a food pantry. Use one if you need it. no one there is judging you. many more people have used one at least once in their life than you’d ever guess, I promise.

• inventory what you already have. For real. Fully. Your supplies for food, your cooking appliances, your toolbox, your entertainment games, your books, your clothing. Know what you have, figure out what you need to fill in still, and figure out if you have any extra you can give away, swap, or sell to those who need it

• humans are always humans. humans have always been humans. in disaster, humans tend towards kindness and community. NOT panic and distrust. accept that fact and live and plan accordingly

• shelf stable is your friend

• Learn To Ask For Help

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Saving the planet.

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1928 Sheet music "When Polly Walks Through the Hollyhocks". From The Jazz Age, FB.

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Walhalla. 1830-42. Leo Von Klenze. Regensburg. Bavaria.

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The Princess Diaries (2001) dir. Gary Marshall

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1929 McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, located at #35, 330 West 42nd Street, Manhattan. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

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He was the assignment that changed her life. 

Carla Gugino & Antonio Banderas in Spy Kids (2001) dir. Robert Rodriguez

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Daily reminder

Have you taken your meds?

Have you had something to drink?

Have you eaten something?

Have you rested?

Have you moved your body?