Living Car Free - What else are you *-free with?

What else are you *-free with?

Us car-free people are different, and it's not just that we prefer bicycles. We have less than common perspectives regarding health, politics, and sociocultural norms. So, what other things are we (common activity or object)-free.

I myself am:

Meat-free - Ecological and health reasons.
TV-free - Most of it is nonsense.
Partially Hydrogenated Oils-free - They are the devil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#Health_risks).
Drug, tobacco & alcohol-free - Bad drugs are bad.
High Fructose Corn Syrup-lite - Often been called "Liquid Satan" (http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/26/News/Satan.Manifests.Itself.In.Food.With.High.Fructose.Corn.Syrup-3059737.shtml)
Excessive Packaging-lite - To reduce pollution.So what about you guys?

*Edit* Feel free to rant (as long as you do it kindly), and also if an explanation isn't mentioned, feel free to explain why you abstain for something.

-Jai

Drug, tobacco & alcohol free (straightedge)
Prescription meds free
Animal product free (vegan)
Hydrogenated oil free
High Fructose Corn Syrup free
Processed foods lite
Caffeine free
TV very lite

• Drug-free
• Alcohol-free
• Tobacco-free
• Coffee-free (five cups in my life)
• TV-free (I watch no broadcast or cable but may rent an occasional movie)
• Meat-light (a few times a month to a few times a week)
• Margarine/partly hydrogenated oil-free
• Junk-food free
• Pain-killer free
• Consumer spending light (otherwise known as being frugal)

Drug-free
vegetable-free
TV-free (except for movies)

Discretionary income lite.

TV-free, Drug-free, Alcohol-free, Caffeine-lite (I sometimes drink a caffienated soda if I have to stay awake through something dull and inactive if I had trouble sleeping or the hour is odd, but I don't use it regularly)

television free
partially hydrogenated oils free
tobacco & most recreational drugs free
high fructose corn syrup free
dairy lite
white sugar lite
excessive packaging lite

tobacco & recreational drugs free
Kraft/Nabsico etc free
Budwiser/Coors etc free
Hershey etc free

Alcohol, Tobacco, & Caffeine free
Only meat I eat is fish, very seldom 1 every six months
Only eat Organic foods.

Job free
Money free
:(

Not a lot of Chems. in household. Dairy lite, only dairy I eat must be organic. TV lite (Real football(Soccer) Video Games(the next movies) and Movies. Oh yeah and most of the time, worry free ;)

Job free
Money free
:( I hope you can find work soon. don't forget to smile.:)

Girlfriend/spouse-free.

Cuts down on alcohol, spending, lost time, etc. ;)

car-lite
tv-free

now i have to start stretching.....

pimple-free (at the moment)
caffine, candy lite

Child-free! http://www.childfree.com.au/

Girlfriend/spouse-free.

Same here. I won't settle for just anyone, so I could be in this position for a while.

Child-free! http://www.childfree.com.au/

... that I know of!

:p

(kidding.. ;) )

child lite (one teen, that's trauma enough)
meat free
dairy light
alcohol free
telly light (book heavy)
make up free
transfats free
country music free !!!!

and sadly, world series winning local team free....

pet light currently renting a room.
TV light (Spanish channel )
rain lite almost have 7 inches so far this year.
barber free buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
bed free use a sleeping bag
bill free is now auto pay
MCcrapallot, pizza slut, & toxic hell etc. light to never.
wristwatch free , and jewelry-crap free
PHONE light leave my cell off.

Why make life complicated?

*-free

Alcohol
Tobacco
Firearms
Drugs (prescription and recreational)
Caffeine
Child
Spouse/SO
Television
Cell Phone
Credit Card
Debt
Fast food
Air conditioning
Religion
I-Pod

Job free
Money free
:(

Ditto. =\

As an aside, I am tobacco-free. I hate that stuff. Alcohol and (especially) caffeine, OTOH...

Wow, I can't wait to party with you guys!

I imbibe in every vice mentioned above with the exception of owning a car and watching tv.

Wow, I can't wait to party with you guys!

I imbibe in every vice mentioned above with the exception of owning a car and watching tv.

Hear Here:beer::roflmao:

I have no problem with many things...in moderation!:o

I do make homemade wine and beer (LOVE Microbrews)
No Coffee, No Workee (but it is shade grown organic fair trade)
I avoid additives, preservatives and manufactured "food"
I firmly believe the closer to the source the better as far as food is concerned. If I can't pronounce it I don't need to be eating it!

We try to live simply and well within our means. I do use CF's but am convinced they are not the greatest thing since sliced bread. We are putting in a cistern next year to trap rain water for the gardens, we use the minimal amount of chemicals necessary to grow our veggies and raise our chickens. We reduce, reuse and recycle on everything we can.

Aaron:)

Gun collector, hunter, eat wild game every day and I'm carfree mostly because im trying to grow a fortune.

I'm the opposite of most of you....weird.

What else am I apart from Car-free? .......

Credit card free; - I follow St Augustine here in that I hold Usury to be wicked and a bleeding away of a man's life. So I'm also Hire Purchase free, store card free, bank loan free & etc.
Alcohol free
Meat-lite
Junk food free

No doubt there's more, but I can't think of them at the moment.

Video Game Free ---- I didn't notice many people being free of this so I suspect most of you are addicted. I was too but the bicycle enabled me to break free. You would be surprised how addicted people are to these games and the time spent.

Unfortunately, I'm internet addicted.

Video Game Free ---- I didn't notice many people being free of this so I suspect most of you are addicted. I was too but the bicycle enabled me to break free. You would be surprised how addicted people are to these games and the time spent.

Unfortunately, I'm internet addicted.

Actually I never even though of video games...hardly ever play them, unless you count the space invaders game on my company cell phone:D Somewhere around the house I think we have a Nintendo 64:eek:

Aaron:)

Video Game Free ---- I didn't notice many people being free of this so I suspect most of you are addicted.

Following the same logic, would you assume everyone here is infected with HIV since no-one has said HIV-free?

Video games are so far off my radar I don't even think of them.

Following the same logic, would you assume everyone here is infected with HIV since no-one has said HIV-free?

Video games are so far off my radar I don't even think of them.

Ditto. I leave that to the teenagers who yell things at me when I ride my bike.

What else are you *-free with?

Us car-free people are different, and it's not just that we prefer bicycles. We have less than common perspectives regarding health, politics, and sociocultural norms. So, what other things are we (common activity or object)-free.

I myself am:
Meat-free - Ecological and health reasons.
TV-free - Most of it is nonsense.
Partially Hydrogenated Oils-free - They are the devil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#Health_risks).
Drug, tobacco & alcohol-free - Bad drugs are bad.
High Fructose Corn Syrup-lite - Often been called "Liquid Satan" (http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/26/News/Satan.Manifests.Itself.In.Food.With.High.Fructose.Corn.Syrup-3059737.shtml)
Excessive Packaging-lite - To reduce pollution.
So what about you guys?

-Jai

Alcohol free
Tobacco free
illegal drug free
salt lite - I don't add salt to my food
food lite - or at least lighter
medication lite
car lite
television lite

Wow, I can't wait to party with you guys!

I imbibe in every vice mentioned above with the exception of owning a car and watching tv.

Between grandma and I we do everything as often as possible and to excess if possible.
We are however
Money Lite,
Car Lite,
and Debt Free.

I think I'll have another cup of coffee then go have some sausage and eggs with asiago white bread topped with cherry preserves (a cup of sugar to a cup of fruit). Yum:D

I love this thread. I can mix things I don't have but want in with things I'm proud of not owning, boosting my self esteem.

(Kidding)

Seriously:

Car lite (I'm working on it.)
Kid free (I don't care about the population. I just don't like children. They're noisy, smelly, and they leak, and I'm not willing to invest the time and the money.)
TV free (No! I'm not buying a TV, stop asking! Seriously, don't watch it for a month or six, come back to it, and try to figure out how you tolerated the commercials, especially now that you're no longer attached to the shallow characters and lame stories.)
Credit card free (Learned the hard way.)
Tobacco free (How do people start smoking in this day and age?)

I'd say I'm alcohol lite, but I had a Samichlaus (http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-000100.html)last night that actually managed to get me drunk. While I"ll have one to three beers at dinner, I don't generally drink till I'm impaired. Worrying about getting home is not a fun way to spend the evening. I was just not prepared for 14% alcohol by volume. I hadn't read about it online before trying it.

I'd like to be high-fructose corn syrup free. I haven't made a habit of checking for it. I'm currently losing weight at a rate I'm comfortable with, so I'm not willing to mess with my diet right now. After I reach my target, I'll give it a try. It just seems like everything has it in there.

Video Game Free ---- I didn't notice many people being free of this so I suspect most of you are addicted. I was too but the bicycle enabled me to break free. You would be surprised how addicted people are to these games and the time spent.

Unfortunately, I'm internet addicted.
I used to be video game addicted, but not any more. Sure, I'll lose a couple weeks of me time whenever I buy a new Grand Theft Auto game, but I'll never skip going out to play a video game. My breaking point was about eight years ago, when I realized that I was cleaning a virtual apartment in The Sims, while sitting in my messy actual apartment.

These days, I'll fire up a casual game on the DS every month or two when I'm bored.

Debt free!!

Car free - since thanksgiving of 2005
Budmillercoors free - I used to brew my own beer and quickly foundout what a real beer tastes like
Tobbacco free - quit on April 9, 2007 after ten years of smoking cigarettes
Microwave free - nothing against these things, just can't stand a cluttered kitchen and I have limited counter space as it is
Political Party Free - I describe myself as apolitical
Barber free since Fall 2000 - I refuse to pay for a bad haircut when I am perfectly capable of giving myself one - actually, after seven years, I do a pretty good job and it really doesn't take too long
Television free - I gave my car and my tv to my sister around about the same time

That's about all I can think of.

-Drug free
-Medication free
-Tobacco free
-Not alcohol free, I love beer too much
-TV very lite, maybe 2 hours a week
-Debt free, very proud of this one, tho I do use credit cards I always pay them on time
-And generally stress and worry free!

Barber free since Fall 2000 - I refuse to pay for a bad haircut when I am perfectly capable of giving myself one - actually, after seven years, I do a pretty good job and it really doesn't take too long
I tried that a few times, how do you do the neck-line? I've found it impossible to do the neck-line so when I cut my own hair I don't do it and it looks a little scruffy for two weeks. But the rest of the head is easy, just put a #4 guard on the clipper and run it over my head, then a #2 guard for the sides and back.

Meat-free (Vegan)
Free operating system (GNU Linux)
Free cat (was a stray)

Barber free since Fall 2000 - I refuse to pay for a bad haircut when I am perfectly capable of giving myself one - actually, after seven years, I do a pretty good job and it really doesn't take too long
Ah, I didn't even think of that one. I haven't paid for a haircut since 1996. My girlfriends and I have learned how to trim each other's hair evenly. It's very easy with long hair that's all one length. Besides shampoo and conditioner, I don't purchase any styling products, either. The savings allowed me to afford a good quality pair of left-handed hair scissors, which makes the job even easier for me.

I tried that a few times, how do you do the neck-line? I've found it impossible to do the neck-line so when I cut my own hair I don't do it and it looks a little scruffy for two weeks. But the rest of the head is easy, just put a #4 guard on the clipper and run it over my head, then a #2 guard for the sides and back.

Well, I just cut my hair yesterday and at the neck line I used the 3/8" guard, and then just used scissors to get the little stragglers left behind at the very edges. On top, I just use scissors. Near the top of the sides and back I use the 1" guard and then I use a few of the other guards in between in order to get a nice even taper. Like I said though, I've been been doing it for seven years so I've had plenty of practice using scissors held at odd angles while looking at a reflection of a reflection of the back of my head. It just takes practice.

100% underware free!

Soda free
Oprah free
underwear free
Sucka Free

im pretty free of

debt
meat
money
cars
tv
cokes
kids
stress
religion

Care-lite
desert-free

I was microsoft free, but the new laptop came with it, and I haven't gotten around to switching it over to linux yet.

Coffee free -- Recovering coffee addict since March. Every day is a struggle.

Tobacco free

however I am

beer heavy (I can finally get Magic Hat in Ohio),
liquor lite (The only liquor I drink is from the bottles I pick up as souviniers during my travels. Right now I have a local mescal from Zacatecas and a Sake from Kyoto).

Computer free. I use them at the library.

just put a #4 guard on the clipper and run it over my head, then a #2 guard for the sides and back.

I use the #7 and the #4. (hippie?)

Computer free. I use them at the library.



I use the #7 and the #4. (hippie?)

I'm a #3 man all around. Dang long hairs in the care free foruns!;)

Ah, I didn't even think of that one. I haven't paid for a haircut since 1996. My girlfriends and I have learned how to trim each other's hair evenly. It's very easy with long hair that's all one length. Besides shampoo and conditioner, I don't purchase any styling products, either. The savings allowed me to afford a good quality pair of left-handed hair scissors, which makes the job even easier for me.

Its also really easy with short hair. I don't even bother with combs on my clippers, I go all the way down to the metal shears (I think its a '0'). Mrs Cyclaholic calls it the Kosovo refugee look.:D apparently it makes me look like a mean thug when I get a bit riled up. I can live with that.

I use the #7 and the #4. (hippie?)

Hippies don't use clippers. :rolleyes:

;)

I use no guard on mine for the sides & fade, and go over the top with a 1/4" guard every three weeks or so. I've gotten so I can do it in about five minutes. :D

Free operating system (GNU Linux)


I like to call this EULA-Free. Get free, Firefox (getfirefox.com), OpenOffice.org, and Ubuntu (ubuntu.com).

-Jai

-Alcohol, tobacco, & drug free (while I may not exactly be the life of the party, I do play a mean game of twister :P )
-Processed food free (which is to say that I eat food, not food products)
-Meat & dairy free (vegan, more or less, or at least I'd be if I was able to give up honey...)
-Television free (I second the sentiment of one of the prior posts calling it a wasteland of commercial carpet bombing, bad stories, & worse acting)
-Caffeine free (which only makes me restless or edgy, anyway)