Broke ass recession edition
1. If you had to drop everything and condense life into whatever you can cram into a car in a 20 minute getaway what would you absolutely pack?
I do love the sound of a getaway – it sounds like a caper. Well, the computer, the music hard drive and my wireless broadband card. Cell phone and Bose stereo. A quick suitcase filling for clothes. My DVD wallet. A box of family photos, my banjo and heck a ton more – my car can hold a bunch of stuff. If I am making a run, I am probably headed to ranch where most everything else is.
2. Screw expensive and fancy – what do you like that is cheap, simple and probably a bit embarrassing if anyone really found out?
I like Skillet Lasagne Hamburger Helper and basic hamburgers at Burger King.
3. Cheap date during the recession – where would you go?
I have always wanted to go to a high school football game between two teams I know nothing about. A night in the stands, a nice date, concession stand popcorn. Good times.
4. In college, the happy hour with the best free food was always a priority. Any tips on local free food finds.
This is tough. I have really looked in years. Denver has few of these kind of deals as it tends to attract the drifters and ner do wells. But any place with a taco bar is usually a bonus. I think the Emerald Isle has one of those.
5. Have you ever gone dumpster diving?
I have picked up a lamp and a bookcase placed next to the dumpster a time or two. But, I haven’t specifically gone dumpster diving, going from dumpster to dumpster in search of reclaimable throwaways.
1. Photo albums and Maxtor server (where all our digital photos live), Adam and the Kitties, my jewelry box, iPhone, .357, a handful of clothes and toiletries and provisions.
2. Grilled cheese and Campbell’s cream of Tomato soup.
3. Playing Spot The Pervert.
4. If you wander in enough Costcos, you can probably fill up on samples of yogurt, mini pizzas and salsa to get you through the day.
5. Like Roy, I’ve found a furnishing or two *beside* a dumpster. I have yet to really get into the “dive” part of that activity.
1) All the evidence linking me to the various crimes I have committed. Oh, the kids as well.
2) crack whore hookers and yes, it is only a “bit” embarrassing.
3)Watch the weeds grow at the foreclosures on my block. Good times.
4) Sam’s club or Costco on a weekend. The sampling is a full meal and quite tasty. I do miss the free peanuts at the Boiler room though.
5)Yes, but usually only when I drop something in the dumpster. I do however put many divable items out for the dump-mariners to dive for.
1)laptop, ipod, wife, movies, underwear.
2)sitting on a bench and people watching at any large event.
3)ice skating and a picnic dinner
4)I rarely have a happy hour.
5)I donate more than recover. But I have retrieved some items in my day.
1. first aid kit, clothes, internal frame pack, hiking shoes, swim suit, sunscreen, bug spray….wait…à did drop everything and that´s what i have on me currently. in nicaragua. hasta la huego! the button below says Enviar Consulta…i´m hazarding a guess that means Submit.
2. suddenly salad. shhh.
3. crashing hotel lobby happy hours.
4. see above.
5. yep. my best find was an old tetherball pole and a japanese parasol that i made into a lamp.
Way to crank up the difficulty level Nall! A for effort.
1. Kitty, kitty food, hard drive, checkbook, clothes, passport, laptop, iphone, bourbon collection, and the crisper.
2. Spaghetti-O’s. During my *hard* drinking days, I’d come home at 4am, open up a can, and doctor it up with artisan cheeses. I know it’s essentially paste, but. . .well . . .I like it.
3. (Loved RW’s answer BTW) To the art museum, followed by a romp in the hay. No expense, high satisfaction.
4. Taco Tuesday at the Buff Brothers bars.
5. Sadly, I have. I once retrieved a wooden photographer’s tripod from a dumpster and made it into a lamp.
1. My 2 kitties, my favorite jeans, the laptop, ID, credit cards and a bottle of rum.
2. Boring but my mom makes a great, though very simple meatloaf with some not so boring mashed potatoes. Mmm. In the non-food realm, I totally next to, not in, the dumpster. I assume others do the same. In the trash is garbage. Next to the trash it’s practically a buffet!
Whoa! My previous response got all jumbled. Somehow, in between “I totally” and “next to…” the whole middle bit of my post got sucked into cyberspace. Must be a ploy to keep the lid on my awesome free food alert!