I really am a cripple, you know.

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I'm minimalist by nature. I'm inspired by shows and movies that have people always on the move who carry very little with them.

It’s hard to be minimalist when you’re homeless.

He has to carry everything he owns, basically, constantly.

He does have storage....so maybe he can make use of that?

Still, it’s hard being a sick man homeless.

If the OP can't cook, as he mentions, that explains why he has to survive on greasy takeaways even if he did have a camp stove or whatever else to cook fresh healthy food on,

I would only carry the bare essentials like when I go on long camping trips. Not saying that's for everyone though. Also I would either eat canned food if I could get it like tuna, olives, beans and also fruit and nuts. If I had to eat regularly at McDonald's, I would eat their salads, grilled chicken sandwiches, apple slices, yogurt etc. I'd only eat something like a quarter pounder and fies once a week. But again, that's me.

A can opener would be a useful artifact...

He goes to the fast food joints as much for the WiFi as for the food.

There's lots of canned food with a pull top. I'm not too good at using a can opener.

I top up my phone for $35 a month which also gives me internet access. I like using my phone to post because it spells out words for me after typing 2 or 3 letters. I get the cheapest phone best buy has because I drop and eventually break them a lot.

That’s true. It’s getting more common for there to be pull tops.

But there’s still lots that require a can opener.

Lots of pull tops here too these days, but not always the cheapest brands. But I often get them, especially when they're on special.

A not-unhealthy meal is a can of Progresso soup, and they do have pull tops. The soup does not have to be heated up, most of it tastes pretty good right out of the can.

But meal planning is out of reach for a lot of people. It requires a pretty good knowledge of nutrition as well as adequate "executive function."

Canned foods, in sufficient quantity, add much weight to a person's load.

Probably, more than 10 canned items would make the load pretty heavy.

But canned foods do last a LONG time.

I wouldn't haul canned food. I'd only go for it daily if there was a store near by.

Canned vegatables dont need any cooking we are just used to heating stuff like that up. However this can be done in the can using a candle for heat.

He probably has books to read, and maybe comic books.

I know, if I were homeless, that I would just love to have a long book to read....especially if it's nonfiction.

...I'm going to return to my original point, which is that I am REALLY crippled . I move ultra-slowly, and, furthermore, my getting up from a floor/the ground position, just as it says in my sig, is REALLY a " Lon Chaney, Sr. as a pathetic cripple with a cart ' matter. My back tends to be bad, and, when I had my rather stuffed backpack stolen while I was asleep recently, the pain-blunting edibles were among what was stolen. Furthermore, now, the NYS lawyer is refusing to send me money at all...the hospital social worker I'd worked with told him a, at the very least, exaggerated story that I was going to another town post-Patterson (San Jose) and got him to cut off money to me - It has been well past a month - strolling toward a month and a half, at least - since I received money from him, the Patterson thing greatly depleted my cash, but, as of now, he has been saying " find another social worker " (the previous one seems to have said " you needn't contact me " after I called her on the false San Jose story) before sending me more of what, in fact, is MY money...I can't just pull a social worker out of a hat!

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