Living on spills.

Kadizzle took the first bicycle ride of spring yesterday. The journey went by the farm supply area south of town.  In an effort to have a chat with Berg Kadizzle ran into a young woman loading a truck with farm fertilizer.  Kadizzle noticed a bit of fertilizer being spilled.  Kadizzle is frugal, cheap, or you name it, he likes to give himself the illusion he saves money.  So Kadizzle asked the woman if he could have the spilled fertilizer for the price of cleaning it up.  She said Kadizzle just needed to bring a container like other had and they would fill it for free from the spilled material.  There must be other scrounges and cheap asses around.

The amount of waste in our country is astonishing.  A person with a little effort could live just by picking up spilled product.  In Hazen during the potato harvest one easily can get a winter supply of potatoes by simply gleaning the potato field.  If one were ambitious there is all the spilled grain one could want at the elevator.  You could grind it into flour or feed it to your chickens.

Being a scavenger is like a game.  Reusing something is not a disgrace.  Containers are a classic example.  Why would anyone go to Home Depot and pay for a bright orange new plastic bucket when you can get one almost anywhere.  Want a nice water container?  Buy one for $12 or you can get all sorts of excellent five gallon water containers safe to drink from just for asking.  Often in our crazy society the container cost more than the contents.  Every type of nice container and dispenser is available for free if you just know where to look.

When we camp we often want firewood.  You can buy a bundle of five pieces of nice firewood or you can go around the campground and pick it up free in the morning.  The people who bought the bundle did not burn it all and left it by the fire pit when they left.  People call Kadizzle cheap, he takes it as a compliment. Next time you go by the guy living under the bridge you might ask if he was frugal.  He may not have been during his working years, but now when he pushes his grocery cart he is a little frugal.