How to survive and thrive as a Homeless Person

I've spent lots of time homeless myself. Staying dry is important.

Best place to camp is on either railroad land or Department of Transportation land (near freeways), or by a riverbank.

There's 11 main homeless camps in Seattle, and occasionally cops bring a bulldozer and clear the sites, then the homeless are back again.

The large numbers of homeless are direct result of treasonous policies of the masonic world disorder agenda; outsourcing way over 20 million jobs, flooding the US market with untarriffed Chinese prisoner labor junk that US biz cannot compete with, undermining labor unions and minimum wage laws via encouraging a flood of illegals via amnesty, running the economy into the ground systematically.

If you have to, eat from dumpsters behind restaurants. Offer to trade work for a hamburger, etc. Be friendly, so people will want to offer a couch to sleep on.

I'e been homeless many times, but I usually hitch-hiked around the nation to survive, and usually find another place to live that way. Carrying a guitar helped me a lot (first impression).

Good luck.

At the age of 17, I ran away from home. I was raised with a silver spoon, golden chalice, and had want of nothing. My parents spoiled the heck out of me. I didn't have to do a dang thing for spending money, yet my brother would have to put in 5-8 hours working with my dad to even get $5. Running away, living the homeless life, really was a learning experience for me.

I stayed in an abandoned, condemned house that had no electricity, no heat, and was left a disaster that even rats didn't want to live in. There was running water in the bathroom, of which only the shower and toilet worked, but it was only ice cold water. I took 5-10 minute showers, brushed my teeth while showering.

I had no money for gas, so everything was on foot. Ate out of BK and McD dumpsters, that which they tossed out after a couple hours, or from the convenience stores when they tossed out their items. For smokes, I dug through the garbage at car washes for aluminum cans. Even tried giving blood once for smokes and something to eat...but it made me super dizzy and sick, found out I had hypoglycemia and anemia.

I had friends around in the town I stayed in, but they knew that I had to learn this lesson...and I did, for a whole 5 months! My parents would check up on me by calling my friends, and when fall rolled around, they came and got me, talked me into coming home. Those lessons learned have helped me get through some really hard times...like when we ended up trying to move to Michigan, truck broke down the moment we got there, and didn't run until we were ready to leave, but we at least had an apartment in Michigan, and I walked 15 miles one day for a job interview. I had to walk 1 1/2 miles to get to the grocery store, and 2 miles to get to the bus stop.

It was all for preparation, so I know I could face homelessness and not become too desperate.

yeah and a tent..

Get something like this (below) and several military surplus wool blankets. Wool clothing is also ideal - particularly Merino wool. Get some mosquito netting too.

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This would allow you to make camp way up a tree. With a pulley, ropes, and a cargo net, you could stow all your stuff up there too.

This would be preferred in the South, where there's standing water and bugs.

[link to www.wildwoodsurvival.com]

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buy a book on wild edible plant where you plan to reside

Do yourself a favor and head North. Maybe the cold will give you some common sense. Along with water and bugs, the South has snakes, bears, wildcats, and gators.

OP, I know how you're feeling I think. I "walked away" for a while myself, and I still can't adjust to living like this now that I'm back. Somehow I know I'll end up back out there too, but right now I gotta wait til the kids are 18. Here's something I've been thinking about doing when I do go back out, as opposed to living the rough life like the first time.

[link to www.wwoof.org]

It's an organization called Wwoof. It's a bunch of independent farms that have people travel to them. They provide roofs and food, sometimes money (several different configurations). If you plan it right, you could set up arrival/departure times to travel the whole globe for years! It's hard work though, but damnit, you'd be more free than most people I know.

I appreciate nature everyday. I talk to the birds, I see the deer and talk to them, I feed a bear and raccoons and listen to the coyotes every night and I work also and I still say, without a job or people to visit or serve their interests or needs, it would be lonely, boring and not a natural life to pursue.

I have a friend who resides in San Francisco and he is homeless and he knows his city and still I know he is lonely and try to make sure I contact him frequently so that he has people with whom to have contact.

Always remember the black Sharpie so you can make cardboard signs out of the empty box you just slept in. A squeegee and some rags for the intersections will earn respect for you in the homeless community. The rest of them will think you have a job!
If you live in a big city, try to hang outside the stadia when ballgames are ending. Get yourself a big cup and collect beers that are left behind. You can get tore up that way!
Get a shopping cart that doesn't have one of those parking lot auto locks on them. It's good to have one now then need one later!
Read the verses of the bible out loud from street corners and tell us all what your interpretation of the passages mean.
Sleep during the day and stay awake all night so people just think you're a wino and won't bother you.