The year of living frugally: how 10 friends survived without shopping

The Telegraph UK ^ | 05/01/2007 | Catherine Elsworth

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

<a href="just a template">here you can make a title for the link< /a>

Interesting home page...I have your link thingy saved in Notepad, just copy and paste and insert correct info..done!

My first impulse was I'm afraid patronizing . . . until I remembered that I posted for years before I learned how to do links. And I still don't do images.

Note that I've displayed the < symbol above in quoting DainBramage; ordinarily you might get into trouble doing that because the HTML parser would try to do something with it - like trying to make a literal link to "just a template." The reason I'm sure of getting the < to display is that what you see is not what I typed in but rather an HTML code for it. That code is &lt; (makes sense, because "lt" stands for "less than," which is what the"<" symbol stands for).

. . . and how did I get HTML to display &lt; as such rather than as < ? Why, by using the &amp; code to display the & for you. I think that there are many other "& . . . ;" HTML codes; I mostly only use &lt; - in things like </sarcasm> tags. The &gt; symbol also is properly be used to display >, - but I find that HTML doesn't usually give any trouble with > if it isn't preceded by <.

[burroak]

"Ther is nothing wrong with being frugal...."

Unless you are the Frugal Gourmet.:>)

[linda_22003]

I spent a year not buying anything from China (it CAN be done), and found it did not inconvenience me much at all. I paid more for some items, but mostly I found I left items behind I did not really need. I still keep an eye on the source of goods, and leave Chinese things behind whenever possible.

[linda_22003]

"How many of you have ever had a dinner party with 9 other "middle class professionals"? I assume they were couples so that would be 20 people (give or take 10)."

Sounds like most of my weekends. Why does it seem strange? It mentioned individual people, so that would be about five couples, and that's what my dinner table holds comfortably.

[higgmeister]

I have another hint that many people probably don't know about.

Go to the View pull down menu on your browser and click on Source.

Then scroll down to look for someone else's numbered post that had a picture or link and copy it to paste to your reply.

Just substitute your URL link or picture location in place of what they had posted.

You can use this to learn how someone did an interesting effect or formatting trick.

[HamiltonJay]

An original 41 would never be roadworthy here if it was driven daily in our winters, unless of course you washed the undercarriage after every outing.....

Cars rust faster here than when I lived at the beach.

[Smokin' Joe]

The oldest original (running) I have seen here was a Maxwell (ca 1911). Car bodies from the 30s and 40s are fairly common, although they are being bought up.

There are grain trucks still in service (and well maintained) from the '50s, although it is just more cost-effective to use newer ones (and the electrical systems are more reliable than the old 6 volt systems.)

The really neat thing about those vehicles, though, is that while they are a bit maintenance intensive compared to a modern vehicle, they are simple enough that you can work on them.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Yeah, that's a good idea to consider.

The thing I find myself wishing for is the ability to link to a specific reply within a thread other than the one I'm posting in. You'd think that viewing the source code of a thread would reveal the trick to that - every reply to the first reply has a "TO 1" button, after all - but I haven't had any luck trying it.

[potlatch]

You have used good common sense.

The young generation is a 'throw away' one, they go through things and disgard them fast.

I have too much 'stuff' and need to downsize things myself!

[Aliska]

I think this will work. You code like for a regular hyperlink. Open a new browser window. Go to the thread and click on the number (at the bottom) of the post you want to link to where it says reply, etc. The link with the post # will appear in the top of your browser. Highlight and copy it.

Switch back to your first browser window. Paste it into the url portion for a regular link in your reply. You can view source for each page, and if you look hard enough, you can find how links are coded, if you forget. You can also right click on a link and choose properties to show the url.

I just picked post #55 on this thread at random because it had a lot of posts

I hope that is what you meant. It takes too much time to get too fancy, but it is really handy to at least learn how to code links and also give them a description of your own.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This links to an interesting reply

Your system seems to work. Thank you, I'm sure I'll use that.

The difference between the URL of reply #50 and the URL of the start of the thread seems to be the appending of

?page=50#50

to the thread URL. If that can be generalized, then

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/523109/posts?page=1176#1176

will take us to reply #1176 of that same thread. As it seems to do. Looks good!

[Aliska]

Glad you got that figured out. You took it even deeper than I did! I don't know how I figured it out, think I read something here. I'll try to get back to reading what you wrote in your link. Your links work perfectly. Been a hectic morning.