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Originally Posted by toranokaze
Prepaid cell phones are cheap as dirt and work well, most supermarkets throw out perfectly eatable food, also multivitamins are indispensable. You will get thru this sam
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Thanks for the vote of confidence! I'm a bit of survivalist at heart, so I have food stored away and that should help. If I have to go to the soup kitchen a few times, it's hardly the end of the world. I can walk most places around here, and friends will give me rides if I need to go further than a few miles.
I'm worried about the critters, but I believe there is a rescue outfit in town which will supply dog and cat food to owners who are going through a temporary lack of cash. If they turn off my electricity, I have a very bright propane lantern and a little camping propane stove. I store bottles of propane away like I do non-perishable food. The local library will even let me use their Internet computers for as long as I want.
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The following is my little rave about the local economy. It's not required reading and it won't be on the mid-term.
As usual, I checked the Cortez paper yesterday for jobs (the paper only comes out 3 x week). There were a total of 14 listings, mot counting tribal jobs which go preferentially to Native Americans, nor did I include jobs outside the County, like in Farmington, NM, for example. The town of Cortez has a population of roughly 8,481 lost souls. The unemployment rate seems to vary according to the whim of the statisticians on any particular day, so I settled on 8.9% which is the average from several gov’t sources.
That comes out to 755 people who are “officially” still looking for work in Cortez, and a pathetic 14 jobs available. Naturally, every job does not wind up advertized the paper. Jobs can go by word of mouth, etc. I’m just using the 14 jobs in the local paper for the sake of an example. Montezuma County has the 5th lowest standard of living among all Colorado counties. The aptly named Dolores County is right next door to us. It’s unemployment has spiked as high as 20%, and their standard of living is worse than ours.
The Four Corners (Lost Corners) is a dead end. I want to move to near-by Durango which has a mere 6.1% unemployment and better paying jobs, but I lack the money for the move – first, last, and damage deposit. In my dreams.
As for getting thru this month… The local temp agencies have few jobs, and these go preferentially to the homeless. I’m thinking of calling up the local senior center and seeing if they know of anyone who needs some help – like after a surgery or whatever. Wish I still had my own rose biz – I used to make a nice sum selling flowers back in Colorado Springs, but no longer have my tax license. One more thing to save my pennies for if I ever get some pennies!