Form more actual food co-ops.

Get together with other households to buy mass food in bulk.

Move to China and sell America cheap crap! (they love it! they realy do!)

Then there's this:

http://www441.pair.com/radiobug/AGreatDe…

Stop charging membership dues and price hiking quality food? Why do I need a club to buy organic?

As for booze, most bars are businesses, and business is better now that your $$$ is a priority rather than an automatic again.

I don't think anything is really going to help us anymore...

How to stay drunk? Steal wine!

HOLD ON! Why didn't the Stranger suggest Silver Platters in Queen Anne to sell used cd's and dvd's???????? They give a hell of a lot more money for dvd's and cd's than Easy Street or Everyday Music!!!!!! I know, I shop at all three.

You can also get low-cost therapy at the Fremont Community Therapy Project, www.therapyproject.org
Fees start ad 45.00 and go downward. On many buslines. FCTP also offers low-cost psychological assessment of mental health, learning disabilities/ADD, and parenting-related matters. Therapists include native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Serbo-Croatian.

http://norecessionforme.us

One food bank option that wasn't listed was Northwest Harvest's Cherry Street Food Bank. They are open 5 days a week, 9-5. You can go once a day and they require no ID. You just sign your name. I volunteer there and they are an amazing organization.

The NY Times bread recipe is the easiest, best tasting bread I have ever baked. Two thumbs, way up!
Note: one and five-eighths cup water? I just used one and two thirds cup. The second time I baked it, I actually had to add a little more. As with all bread baking, there is a bit of an art to it. But still a simple enough recipe a child could put it together.
I also had trouble believing the recipe called for only a quarter teaspoon of yeast (a packet of active dry yeast is 2-1/2 teaspoons, I buy yeast by the jar, and usually use a tablespoon for a loaf) but that's all it takes.
It looks like drop biscuit dough, and makes the lightest airiest home made bread ever. Thanks, Stranger, for turning me on to this recipe.

I've got a story I like to tell people when they ask whether they should go for new or used when buying a bike. I

had recently moved to Chicago, and my roommate and I were both looking for bikes. I told him he should come

Craigslist shopping with me, but he insisted on going a store and buying new at the advice of his friend that

worked at said bike store. I got a 90's Schwinn for 100 bucks that I'm still riding 3 years later, while he spent

$400 on a shiny new Gary Fischer that broke down twice in the first month he owned it (the rear derailer literally

broke off of the bike) and has sat in the basement ever since. If you're on the market for a bike, talk to a bike

friend about things like bent frames (which are, in fact, quite obvious if you know what to look for) and you'll

walk a way with a much, MUCH better bike for half the price when you buy used.

Here are some practical tips:
1) Visit a library (they have DVDs and CDs now too!).
2) Listen to radio, because Seattle has awesome Public Radio.
3) Go to one of Seattle's many great parks.
4) Trade in old books/movies/music/videogames, etc. for store credit to get new books/movies/music/videogames for free.
5) Fuck it. We're all doomed.