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Living without money and swapping skills

Posted by Viola Woolcott

I have just watched this on BBC News. And I was faczinated by the courage as well as the ideas. If you haven’t watched it on TV, you may want to check it out. It could be JUST what you are looking for. I certainly will look into it

By Leo Telling Money Watch, BBC Two

When our personal finances are under pressure the first things to go are the luxuries - fewer nights out, cancelling the gym membership and cutting back on the little things that make life more pleasant.

So if someone told you there was a way to claw back some of those treats that eat into your disposable income, you would probably jump at the chance.

Well, actually there is a way, and it is older than money itself.

It used to be called barter - exchanging your goods and services for someone else’s - but today it is more commonly known as ’swapping’.

Thanks to the internet, and the recession, it seems to be becoming more and more popular.

Nicole Wehden, founder of the swapaskill.com website, says that she now has more than 12,000 users of her free to use website, up from just a few thousand a couple of years back.

The swapaskill website allows users to write an online profile which details what kind of skills they have on offer and what they are looking for in return.

Other on-line schemes such as LETS allow people to build up credits by doing favours for others and then cashing in those credits at a later date.

Swapping and bartering allows everyone to get goods and services without spending any money.

…. to read the whole article, BBC NEWS - click here

Living without money, Mark Boyle

Related link:
Swapping Skills

Filed under: Have Your Say on July 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

The confident woman

Posted by Viola Woolcott

For some of us it’s hard work to be confident I guess! But don’t forget about the rewards. They are well worth all the effort.

Being confident means to go through your day being happy, having respect for yourself and feeling good about who you are and what you are. Feeling good about the decisions you make. Imagine laughing at your own mistakes. Maybe someone criticises you, but the confident woman accepts it gracefully.

And how about taking risks? A confident woman isn’t scared to take them. A confident woman can handle anything life throws her way, because she is strong. She speaks with self-assurance. She carries herself with dignity. A confident woman respects others as she has learned to love herself first.

Most women have moments of great confidence which are followed by moments of self-doubt. None of us are ‘stuck’ at where we are. We all have choice. We all have the ability to change, to grow.

Filed under: Mind | Body | Spirit on July 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

Are You Spiritual Alive?

Posted by Viola Woolcott

Spiritual aliveness is what you experience when you make your spirituality the number one priority every day. To become spiritual alive is quite simple. You just need to be aware of a couple of universal secrets as well as setting your intentions for the day,

We are all here to gain experience and your life is the expression of your spiritual self. Maybe to you the small details in your every day life don’t seem to be that important, but looking at the ‘bigger’ picture, they are all threads, part of the bigger picture, that you as your inner self planned long before you were born. Therefore it should make sense to provide every day with the best possible life-energy possible. That would enable you to make the most of each day’s experiences as they unfold.

Filed under: Mind | Body | Spirit on July 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

Mentalism and Magic Secrets

Posted by Viola Woolcott

If mentalism and magic is for you: Click Here! and you will find ‘Short-Cut’ secrets to total mastery of magic & mentalism. “Crack the magician’s code” revealing the secrets that keeps guys like Criss Angel, David Blaine, David Copperfield & Derren Brown astonishing people for all those years.

So if you are interested in magic and mentalism fun Click Here!

Filed under: Mind | Body | Spirit on June 17th, 2010 | No Comments »

Don’t Inject Me (the Swine Flu Vaccine Song) by the Health Ranger

Posted by Viola Woolcott

There isn’t that much talk about the Swine Flu these days, but I thought I post this ’song’ that was written in protest of the ‘widespread’ swine flu vaccination anyway.

The truth is outrages!!

Related link:
Natural News - Mike Adams, my Hero

Filed under: Health and Diet on June 15th, 2010 | No Comments »

Dark Chocolate Reduces Inflammation

Posted by Viola Woolcott

Once again researchers stress the health benefits of eating dark chocolate. Maybe the study adds new meaning to those many heart-shaped boxes that we are given on special occasions. And sorry to all you milk-lovers, I’m ONLY talking about DARK chocolate here, as that’s the one with the health benefits.

It is believed that small amounts of dark chocolate on a daily basis can reduce inflammation that leads to heart disease. It is also believed that people who consume dark chocolate on a regular basis enjoy lower levels of C-reactive protein in their blood, which is an indication of low levels of inflammation.

Now the question is, how much dark chocolate can we eat? How much can we get away with? Unfortunately it is only about 0.23 ounces in a day.

Statistics say that 50% of people who consume dark chocolate on a daily basis stop seeing a therapist for their depression.

Filed under: Health and Diet on January 29th, 2010 | No Comments »

Yearly Review for 2009

Posted by Viola Woolcott

Thought the ’summary’ of 2009 made an interesting read and decided to share it with you.

Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth
president of the United States and ordered the detention
center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year. George
W. Bush gave his final press conference. “Abu Ghraib was a
huge disappointment,” he said. “Not having weapons of mass
destruction was a significant disappointment.” A federal
appeals court in Texas ruled to permit the sacrifice of
goats. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael
Steele announced an “off the hook” Republican publicity
campaign, targeting “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.” “We
need to uptick our image with everyone,” Steele said,
“including one-armed midgets.” When asked about the state
of the Republican party, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
said, “It’s kind of like asking whether the stock market
has bottomed out.” Thirty-nine million Americans were on
food stamps, 54 percent of graduating U.S. business majors
lacked job offers, and two gunmen robbed a man of one
dollar in the parking lot of an Ohio Wendy’s. A top
Pentagon official said that “cutbacks at Best Buy” made it
easier to recruit better-qualified young people for the
military. The war in Iraq turned six; the war in
Afghanistan turned eight; SpongeBob SquarePants turned
ten. In Afghanistan, where the Taliban threatened to chop
off the fingers of anyone who votes, the government passed
a law allowing men to starve wives who refuse sex.

Sea levels continued to rise, and a 40-yard-wide asteroid
just missed the earth. The Mediterranean Sea was plagued
by blobs. Pope Benedict XVI visited Africa; in Angola he
warned against witchcraft, corruption, and condoms. Papal
archaeologists in Rome authenticated the bones of Saint
Paul the Apostle, and Jesus Christ was dismissed from jury
duty in Alabama. Toxic-mining wastes in Idaho were killing
tundra swans; a man in Munich received a two-year
suspended sentence for beating another man with a
swan. Highly aggressive supersquirrels were menacing gray
squirrels in England, where the Law Lords were replaced
with a new Supreme Court whose justices wear no wigs, and
where cosmetic nipple surgery was increasingly popular. A
London taxi driver tied one end of a rope around a post
and the other around his neck and drove away, launching
his head from the car. Anglican hymns were sung at
Darwin’s tomb. Two Yellowstone National Park workers were
fired for peeing into Old Faithful. Sarah Palin published
a book, and Sylvia Plath’s son hanged himself in
Alaska. Scientists in San Diego made a robot head study
itself in a mirror until it learned to smile.

Newspaper circulation in the United States declined to its
lowest level in 70 years. It was revealed via Twitter that
President Obama called Kanye West a “jackass” and that a
coyote ran off with Jessica Simpson’s maltipoo. The Taco
Bell chihuahua died of a stroke, and Sonia Sotomayor was
sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. Walter Cronkite,
Merce Cunningham, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy died, as
did Michael Jackson. Ariel Sharon was still alive. Hamas
and Fatah held peace talks in Cairo. Israel approved the
construction of 900 more settler homes in East Jerusalem,
and ten Florida middle schoolers were suspended for
participating in Kick a Jew Day. Chicago rats fed a diet
of bacon, cheesecake, Ho Hos, pound cake, and sausage
began to behave like rats addicted to heroin, and a
Minnesota man pleaded guilty to driving a La-Z-Boy while
intoxicated. China created a small black hole, and NASA
revealed that a mysterious streak of light spotted by
onlookers in the night sky above North America was a
fortnight’s worth of astronaut urine. Physicists said
that the aural jitters picked up by a German
gravitational-wave detector may indicate that we all live
in a giant and blurry cosmic hologram. The United States,
searching for water, bombed the moon.

Permanent URL for this column:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/12/hbc-900063177

…. and there is also Mike Adam’s review. Mike is one of my biggest hero’s. Don’t you just love him

Check his review here:

2009 in review: A year of FDA censorship, Big Pharma crimes and celebrity drug deaths
2009 in review: A year of FDA censorship, Big Pharma crimes and celebrity drug deaths

Filed under: Dare 2B Aware on January 1st, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Don’t Be Tricked By Stores Into Spending Money

Posted by Viola Woolcott

Don’t you realise that it takes a lot of research and planning to get you to spend more when you walk into a store? Don’t you realise that retail outlets are experts at playing on your emotions? They are also playing with your perceptions and of course your lack of critical reasoning.

Does’nt it surprise you when I tell you that it is often the “little” things we never think would influence us that actually do? Beware of the simple added word “only” or “just” before the price RATHER than the price. The ’added’ words “just” and “only” will get you to buy more. Or how about that “3 for 2“? “Buy 1 get 1 Free”? Or 10 for $10? The so said “offers” will get you to buy a lot more of something rather than listing the price as $1 each. And what most don’t realise, the price in most cases is exactly the same. So don’t be fooled.

And there are also the stores that like to play the games such as “good, better, best” with the goods in store, knowing for a fact that buyers that see similar items for a higher price and a lower price will most probably go for the middle priced goods.

Or have you noticed how often you see a high priced item placed with a lot of far lower cost related items around? It is called the “halo effect” and used to sell those lower priced items. They make you think of a “good deal”, where in reality it’s just a very good sales gimmick.

There is only one way to avoid falling for these tricks. KNOW that they exist. Realize when the store is trying to manipulate you. They are trying to “fool” you into purchasing something that you don’t really need.

Filed under: Dare 2B Aware on December 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Natural Water Birth at Home

Some of you may not like to watch this, but I find it absolutely beautiful. It’s awesome. In my days water birth wasn’t as common as it is these days. If I had the choice now, I would definately choose a water birth.

Natural Water Birth at Home

Filed under: Health and Diet on August 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

Texting and driving - the graphic ad to die for

Posted by Viola Woolcott

ALL drivers should see this. Most children don’t listen - maybe it is best to let them watch it too.

Have you ever done it? I’m sure most of us have - the texting and driving.

Yes, texting can be fun, but it’s not only illegal, it can be ‘deadly’.

Having teenage children (an older) myself, I find this quite upsetting to watch, but we should all watch it and be aware of the consequences. I know, most would think ‘this wouldn’t happen to me’, JUST like the girls in the car before it cost them their lifes. A high price to pay, don’t you think?

WARNING!!!! NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!!

Filed under: Dare 2B Aware on August 28th, 2009 | No Comments »