Tips for saving money and thereby not contributing to cyclical consumption and other things we can do to stop supporting the system.
Don't trade up your equipment unless there is a really good reason or necessity
Support local business over the chain stores whenever possible
Pay using cash or cheque thereby not giving the banks the card commission they take from the merchant
Buy used items
Buy second hand goods off the internet i.e. Amazon market place
When making short journeys, ride a bicycle or walk instead of public transport or driving. It's good for the environment, good for your health and it's free.
Although this website is still in the monetary system, it has elements along the ZG idea such as it is free and products cannot be promoted by commercial payments.
There is lots of great money saving ideas here Moneysaveingexpert
Insurance = illusion: most annual cost of policy add up to 50% or more of the product value, and perhaps at the point of sale the value appears more but with technology moving so fast its not long before its obsolete.
Download Gimphoto a free and powerful photo-editor
Download Ubuntu a free alternative to Microsoft's Windows.
Get phone line rental with the Post Office rather than BT. It's cheaper and a monthly rolling contract instead of a 12 month one like BT.
Better to get a phone contract with the network your on rather than a third party one like Phones4U. It's cheaper and better customer care.
Talk Talk - all calls are included, including overseas to many countries plus broadband for £30/month.
Anyone can add their own tips and tricks!
OVERVIEW
You have a family to feed? You have a house to pay off? You don't know where to start?
Here are some suggestions for daily action:
Instant-Z-Action
Education
Educate yourself http://tinyurl.com/nfaelo
Meditate on the state of your mind.
Food
> Eat locally produced food and avoid purchasing from supermarkets. You will save on transportation energy and money laundering from passing the food from one supplier to another.
> Eat organic / biological food. Help maintain Earth's natural resources in a natural state. In addition you will have nature's taste right at your palate.
> Make your own agriculture, on whatever scale (from apartment to farm) producing part of your food needs. This could begin on a small scale with simply growing some fruit and vegetables in your garden or indoors for your own personal usage. An example is to utilize permaculture principles.
> Adopt a Calorie Restriction Optimum Nutrition diet. You will potentially increase your human lifespan by about 30% if done properly and will reduce dietary consumption saving you money.
> AVOID CONSUMING GENETICALLY MODIFIED AND PROCESSED FOOD. Studies have shown the GM food such as BT corn causes lesions and dark spots in the gastrointestinal tract which leads to cancer and eventual death. Processed foods contain full of preservatives, additives, artificial sweeteners, and other industrial chemicals which have been linked to age-related diseases and cancer.
Other
> Support The Venus Project http://tinyurl.com/dfr963
> Switch-off your TV, Radio
> Use independent news sources instead
> Use free / open source software, operating systems, games
> Use open license (non-proprietary) formats and codecs
> Enjoy Creative Commons licensed music, films, pictures, photographs, art
> Help in an open source / creative commons project, community project, technocrats project
> Create and distribute for free
> Change your occupation if it does not contribute to the good of humanity
> Inspire and Join non-violent mass civil disobediance
> Refuse to wear branded clothing
> Zeitgeist your vehicle
> Write 'Zeitgeist' on your banknotes.
> Cancel your bank account
> Don't use credit or debit cards
> Reduce your consumption to reduce your dependency on the system. http://tinyurl.com/mo3fay
The Resource Based Economy Personal Action Plan Link filled action plan guide http://tinyurl.com/lnlnc7
From Addendum
1) Expose the Banking Fraud. Citibank, and JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are the most powerful controllers within the Corrupt Federal Reserve System. Its time to boycott these institutions (or equivalent large banks in other countries). If you have a bank account or a credit card with any of them, move your money to another bank. If you have a mortgage, refinance with another bank. If you own their stock, sell it. If you work for them, quit. This gesture will express contempt for true power behind the private banking cartel, known as the Federal Reserve. And create awareness about the fraud of the banking system itself.
2) Turn off the TV News. Visit the emerging, independent news agencies on Internet for your information. CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX and all the others, present all news, pre-filtered to maintain the status quo. With 4 corporations owning all major media outlets, objective information is impossible. This is the true beauty of the Internet and the establishment has been losing control because of this free flow of information. We must protect the Internet at all times, as it is truly our savior right now.
3) Don't ever allow yourself, your family, or anyone you know... to ever join, the military. This is an obsolete institution, now used exclusively for maintaining an establishment that is not longer relevant. US soldiers in Iraq, work for US corporations, not the people. Propaganda forces us to believe that war is natural, and the military is an honorable institution. Well, if war is natural, why are there 18 suicides every single day by America veterans, who have post-traumatic stress disorder? If our military men and woman are so honored, why it is that 25% of the American homeless population are veterans.
4) Stop supporting the energy companies. If you live in a detached house, get off the grid. Investigate every means of making your home self-sustainable with clean energy. Solar, wind and other renewable energies are now affordable, consumer realities and considering the never-ending, raising cost of traditional energies, it likely will be a cheaper investment over time. If you drive, get the smallest car you can, and consider using one of the many conversion technologies that can enable your car to be a hybrid, electric or run on anything other than Establishment fuels.
5) Reject the Political system. The illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence. In a monetary system there is no such thing as a true democracy... and there never was. We have 2 political parties owned by the same set of corporate lobbyists. They are placed in their positions by the corporations, with popularity, artificially projected by their media. In a system of inherent corruption, the change of personal every couple of years has very little relevance. Instead of pretending the political game has any true meaning, focus your energies on how to transcend this failed system.
6) Join the movement. Go to thezeitgeistmovement.com and help us create the largest mass movement for social change the world has ever seen. We must mobilize and educate everyone about the inherent corruption of our current world system, along with the only true, sustainable solution - declaring all the natural resources on the planet as common heritage to all people, while informing everyone as to the true state of technology and how we can all be free if the world works together, rather than fights.
But in the end, the most relevant change must occur first inside of you. The real revolution is the Revolution of Consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise, we have been conditioned to think is true... while discovering, amplifying and aligning with the signal coming from our true, empirical oneness.
It's up to you.
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Originally posted by Ben Taylor here