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How to fund a serious climbing habit? 31-Aug-2005 At 2:13:28 AM adski

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Awesome post and thread. Deserves to be this popular!

On 30/08/2005 nmonteith wrote:
>I lived for months at Arapiles
>on a diet of...
>
>Weetbix, Banana, Milk
>no lunch
>Dolmio sauce, Spaggiti and cheese
>Dodgy chocolate mouse desserts (mixed with milk)

That's inspiring Neil.
I've seen a similar week long diet at the Pines with four ingredients: Weet Bix, Honey, Bread and Pasta.

Breakfast: Honey on Weetbix
Lunch: Honey sandwich
Dinner Pasta, with Honey.
repeat (x7)

On 30/08/2005 Paradise wrote:
>How do you guys get the money/time off to do these trips?

Don't flick the full time job just yet, I reckon it provides the right amount of enforced rest to allow you to really seize climbing and training opportunities. Repeat after me: enforced rest is your friend. For dirtbags it can take the form of a rain cloud coming over the Bluffs, for some it's a throbbing pain in a joint. It's truly better when enforced rest comes in the form of a job that pays all your bills and more!

On 30/08/2005 cruze wrote:
>1) get a girlfriend/boyfriend (if you don't
>already), 2) move in with them to half the rent, 3) don't go out drinking
>every week, 4) don't take up a new hobby every 6 months, 5) make friends
>with a mechanic, 6) consider meat a luxury, 7) buy fruit and vegetables
>at markets, 8) go the two ply rather than the three

This stuff is worth printing out and being made into a motivational poster to live your life by. Except for tip #8 as t-nuts rip right through two ply.

On 30/08/2005 JJ wrote:
>There's no pockets in coffins.
>
>I run a LPG Falcon wagon, heaps of room for fellow crankers and cheap
>to run :-)

The tao of LPG is a path that can welcome us all. Especially considering you took less fuel money from me for a Newcastle - Araps trip than most would take for a weekend in the Bluies!! Admittedly that was in the heady early shop-a-docket days when a 10c/L discount was still possible. Now that *was* a good scam.

(JJ, now is the time to place orders for the springtime BorderDash for Invalid Stout, how many would you like?)