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puffedpride

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 300
Location: bristol

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 2:57 pm Post subject: launching Upsizer

I'm looking for earnest volunteers to help me launch a new website - Upsizer.

This on the advice of Oldhibberd (see We're all doomed thread), who reckons our planetary efforts to cut back may ultimately delay but only worsen the 'peak oil' crisis (bigger population=bigger catastrophe). Our obvious moral duty must therefore be in vigorous opposition to our current approach.

So then, what will the new site look like? What topics will be posted, what advice given by Upsizers?

Treacodactyl
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 3:05 pm Post subject:
Do you need a web site, why not hold frequent meetings all over the world so huge numbers of people have to fly to them? Oh, they currently do that don't they.

sally_in_wales
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 3:05 pm Post subject:
Are we talking things like 'eating at Mcwotsits is cheaper than cooking therefore has to be a good thing'????? (I had someone try to persuade me of this a while ago )

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 3:08 pm Post subject:
I think I can qualify to run this site, 3 supermarket visits today

oldhibberd

Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 118

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: launching Upsizer

puffedpride wrote:

Oh dear what have I done? I must say this is not my idea, I read it somewhere a few weeks ago. Do you think I can find the reference now?

How about Buy a Hummer, a villa in Antigua, the largest plasma screen TV on the market, and a couple of dozen patio heaters, just for starters?

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 3:11 pm Post subject:
buy a huge car and drive everywhere

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 4:46 pm Post subject:
That sounds like my kind of site! Can we all stop knitting our own sandals if we join?

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 5:56 pm Post subject:
Hey guilt free as well - count me in Last edited by Cathryn on Sun Jan 22, 06 5:57 pm; edited 1 time in total

puffedpride

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 300
Location: bristol

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 5:56 pm Post subject:
I was thinking of getting a Hummer too. If I save enough money by eating at Mcwotsits every night, maybe I could afford one eventually. Perhaps we could encourage members to change their ways with some kind of promo competition. You could earn points on a Hectare Card for buying foods that took up the most landspace per meal. Or win holiday flights by collecting food miles.

mark

Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 2191
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 6:36 pm Post subject:

or maybe include a section for those designer "downsizers" who:-

1) got out of the rat race to avoid stress but them worry about everything in their new lifestyle!"!!!!!!!

2) move to the country and then insist on using the most petrol guzzling of agricultural equipment, vehicles etc. & still use the tractor instead of walking 100 yards!!!

3) grow their own to cut down on "food miles" then spend a fortune on imported garden aids, chemicals, food driers, home brewing aids, posh cookers etc...

4) start hoarding stuff for "recycling" and end up with a more cluttered and selfish lifestyle than before!

etc

gil
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18415

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 06 7:18 pm Post subject:

A finance and property section that deals in how to sell your perfectly adequately-sized house in the south of england, and move somewhere a lot cheaper where you can buy a small but perfectly formed A-listed stately home for the same money, and then worry about how you're going to finance the repairs and maintenance, not to mention the live-in staff.

Or why not just have links to all those property ladder programmes on TV ?

A section on how to treat your home as a fashion and lifestyle accessory, so that every season you throw out all your furniture (to landfill) and redecorate in line with the latest trends.

Whoops, sorry, that's the weekend papers...

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 06 7:14 pm Post subject:

hmm...

competition on how many carrier bags can be collected in one shopping session.

competition on how many dustbin bags can be put out once a week (actually I've neighbours who win that one weekly with 10 on average! - anyone else count the rubbish bags outside homes? - oh just me.....

)

there'd be no need for a cooking section since all those ready meals and takeaways means the huge shiny kitchens are never sullied with as much as a used saucepan.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 06 8:25 pm Post subject:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

there'd be no need for a cooking section since all those ready meals and takeaways means the huge shiny kitchens are never sullied with as much as a used saucepan.

But you to have the equipment all the same, you have to have a big range cooker even if you only know how to use a microwave, and the saucepans absolutely must match the colour of the curtains and hence will need monthly replacements

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 06 8:33 pm Post subject:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

competition on how many dustbin bags can be put out once a week (actually I've neighbours who win that one weekly with 10 on average! - anyone else count the rubbish bags outside homes? - oh just me.....

)

With you there!!!! The farmer here puts out an enourmous number of bags each week and I too have to admit to counting them

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 06 8:39 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

)

With you there!!!! The farmer here puts out an enourmous number of bags each week and I too have to admit to counting them

and me

next door have more than enough every week, never less that 5 and after chrimbo i lost count

upsizer children have every new toy on the market usually bought for them by grandma and all hellishly expensive so we better have a toy section and let us not forget the vouchers for tanning parties for 10 year old girls and mobile phones for the 8yr olds (yes there was someone at work who bought a mobile for her 8 yr old daughter)

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