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THE GATE AT CDC
Author: RiNS
The Art of Upcycling and Guerilla Economics
Guest post by The Orangutan
My parents were Depression Kids; born in the early 1930’s. My maternal grandfather took several pay cuts but cherished his employer kept him employed during those tough times. My mother would retell stories from those days of visitors who came to the house seeking a meal in exchange for performing some light duty chores. As a young child she vividly remembered one stranger who ate his meal alone on the porch; when she asked my grandfather why he would not eat with the family, my grandfather replied that he was simply too ashamed to do so. Those were desperate times that lacked today’s social safety nets, and folks had to make do. And so, they did, perhaps with some hubris that would have been harder to find just a decade earlier. Seems that kind of hubris is nowhere to be found today.
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Fixing Doors for Rumble
The current COVID lockdown has left many, myself included, with lots of time and not enough things to keep busy. Long since gone are the days when politicians promised a mere two weeks of restrictions to flatten the curve. The restrictions endure, and left at loose ends, I persist in my rage against the machine. My wife frets rightly, that I spend too much time online and not enough in the real world living. So through fits and starts, and like many other households, we were left to cast about the house for projects to pass the time and sharpen skills.