mikensara: pity it doesn't snow here.... or not enough anyway. You guys must STOP giving me ideas
Everyone: Gosh, feel like a zombie today. Spent about 5min looking for my two rescued chickens, Faith and Luna. DH found them hiding in the kitchen cupboard. Every now and then I see Luna and think it's Joy
Time to get practical:
I bought this supersize babies bottle when my DS was born, to put coins in. We've started putting runaway money in it. We need about R100 000 to get away and have a bit left for a rainy day, so we've got a bit to go. But if I sell my car and the other goods and all the chickens etc we should be about a 1/4 of the way. That's going to be just before we go. So say we need to save R70 000. Thats a lot of moolah... The UK visas cost more than the flights! But once we're out of here it'll all be worth it. It's all I can think of sometimes. The great escape. I'm willing to make a few sacrifices in order to get there.. Up 'till now DH said we must move MIL first, i.e. sell the farm before we can go. But after trying very hard I've been unable to get anyone to even come look at our place, nevermind put in a offer. So I had to ask how much longer are we going to live like this? Will all the problems, his mom, our son's growing up. He's 5yo. He's not stupid, he understands things he really shouldn't see.
So we're going to save like mad and when we have enough money we're leaving, whether the farm sells or not.
Luckily we're used to living real cheap. We hardly eat meat and we've got some pigs for that, I grow vegetables, we get plenty eggs, though we sell most of them.
Round here if you get free range eggs you pay double the price of battery eggs. I've started selling the eggs we don't use at the same price as the battery eggs, had to get more hens. I've got 59 hens in production now and we barely keep up. So the chickens is one area we're looking into expanding. It's not huge sums we're making, but I've got to do something. I'll go crazy otherwise.
Looking for an incubator now, cheapest way to expand the flock quickly. I can always sell the roo's...
Wish us luck
