Cathie/Cleanse

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Cathie, not sure if anyone has suggested this yet...

 

Are you mobile enough to garden and if so, Do you have room where you

live to grow and small patch of herbs? Perhaps you can grow some of

the stuff you would need? Plus it is fun and a great stress reliever

to work in the garden (even if that garden is all in containers!)

 

Sylvia

 

 

 

herbal remedies , SophiasDream@a... wrote:

> Hi Kelli,

> I'm a stay at home mom, with a disability. We rely on my

husband's income

> and he is only a phone tech at a cell phone company. We have a

house payment

> and bills and after bills only $125 a week to live on. We have a

talented

> fifteen year old who is very gifted in her natural ability on the

trumpet. We

> just spent every last penny we have, to put her in a band camp for

two weeks

> this summer. Now we owe another $325 for a special Orchestra she

tried out for

> and made it into. Recently, the family pitched in to buy her a

much needed new

> trumpet, as with her tremendous ability she was still playin on a

beginner's.

> All these things are building toward her future, and we are

investing in our

> daughter's future at this time. We have no credit due to

bankruptcy a few

> years ago and I have no plans to apply for any credit card. I have

literally,

> with no money in savings and no credit, but bills all paid, had NO

MONEY, I

> mean Zero Dollars in the bank for the past week, waiting for payday

on Friday

> which quite frankly is going to be short, because my husband's

company suddenly

> started shipping jobs overseas to India, which made the

availability of

> overtime non-existent. Often, I find myself down to Zero until

payday, and there is

> Always a list of things that need to be scrounged and saved for.

> In addition to this, things that are on the list of things I

hope to have

> money for soon:

> 1) breaks are going on the car I drive my daughter around in, to

trumpet

> lessons she takes with a gifted trumpet instructor who says she

will go far and

> make lots of money playing the trumpet.

>

> 2) Me daughter needs new glasses/contact lenses before school

starts in the

> fall, as well as a school wardrobe. I finally " splurged " and went

out and

> bought myself a few new summer dresses, recently, as my wardrobe is

wearing

> threadbear and thin.

>

> 3) I need new glasses but will make do with the old ones.

>

> 4) We ALL need a trip to the dentist it has been Literally Years.

>

> 5) I scrounge together $30 a month for spa membership so with my

disability I

> can exercise on a no-impact aerobic jogging device to rehabilitate

my injury

> ( it's going well and improvements have been made the docs

predicted would not

> happen. including veins clearing out the docs said would not

clear, so I

> guess I'm doing pretty good on my rehab. )

>

> 6) I like to be able to throw my daugher $10 every now and then,

and more

> often in the summer, to go to a movie with friends. My husband and

I Have NO

> recreation funds in our budget. I WANT my daughter, these last

three years she

> is with us, to have everything possible to set her up for success

in life. Ad

> to 1-6 the fact that after these expenses, there is always

something else

> cropping up: a band trip, a home repair, a car repair, and you can

see how hard it

> is to make it on $125 a week after bills.

>

> 7) ad to this the fact that I am not motivated to attempt a vegan

diet at

> this time, and I guess it seems pretty clear I won't be doing " the

cleanse " that

> is so popular. I'm sure it is a good cleanse. I'm stubborn and

like to do

> things my own way.

>

> My husband is not motivated to give up meat, and he makes the money

and I

> cook for him. There is not room in the food budget for a special

diet for me,

> and me alone.

> Besides, I am not really motivated to give up meat either.

>

> I hope this does not preclude me from participating in this list.

Afterall,

> I have improved my health a lot by just doing waht I do, without

special

> cleanses. After all, a whole vein in my legt that had clotted

years ago, is

> suddenly clear as of last summer, due to what I'm doing for myself

already.

>

> I'm stubborn and like to do things my own way, piecing together

bits of

> information from here and there. We rarely get sick. We rarely

need to go to the

> doctor for Anything ( I go to have my protimes monitored ). I

spend a good

> deal of time searching the web looking for health info on my own.

>

> Maybe in three years when my daughter is off at college, I will

change my

> mind, have the available funds ( my daughter has a college fund set

up for her by

> her grandmother left to her when she died ), the focus, and the

desire to

> attempt such a thing. Maybe not.

> I hope this does not preclude me from participating in the list, or

in any

> way negate the progress I have already made on my own without the

cleanse, or

> the knowledge I have of nutrition so far.

>

> I realize the cleanse is very popular and no doubt effective. I'm

just not

> motivated to take up a vegan diet, even if I had the money for all

the special

> vitamins and supplies needed, which would be in addition to the

food and

> vitamins I need to buy to feed the rest of my family who won't be

participating in

> it with me.

>

> I know you mean well, but the total cleanse, or any kind of

specialized

> cleanse other than a simple " cleanse by change of diet consisting

of foods we

> normally have on hand taht we all can eat " is not going to happen

right now. I " m

> not even considering it.

>

> Blessings, and thanks for your care.

> Cathie

>

>

>

> In a message dated 6/15/2004 12:46:25 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

> kelli@c... writes:

>

> > Oh excellent Cathie! Glad your rash is better. Cleaning up the

diet and

> > doing your cleansing/fasting will definitely help, as you already

know. I still

> > recommend doing what cleansing/fasting you can right now, and

then decide

> > what you're going to save up for - the total body cleanse? Others

on this list

> > have gotten there by just stashing away an herb or two as they

can. It adds

> > up!

> >

> >

> >

> > Kelli

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