yerp lucky me $60 , a dirt road goes across the very edge so the county takes off however much and I only have a tiny house right now, i live in one of the poorest counties in missouri, with some of the lowest taxes, My in-laws pay however many hundred for a half acre lot with a small house right across the state line
my wife does have an amazing job, but plans on leaving it once our homestead is finished. without that job we couldn't dream of even starting to homestead.
i dont worry about the cold, its easy to deal with , you can always bundle up more or build a bigger fire, I worry about the heat, you can only take so much off. I am already designing my next house, its going to be mostly underground to keep me cool.
Poor IMO is subjective. Wealth can not be measured in dollars and cents. If it can be why are so many folks with lots of money so sad? Why do they look to drugs and other vices for satisfaction? A person can be content with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Point being? Are you poor? That depends on your perspective. Success IMO can't be measured in $$$, but in how content you are to have what you have.
1Ti 6:6
But godliness with
contentment is great gain.
I don't enjoy the cold but I'm with you guys, easier to put more layers on. I couldn't handle the heat of AZ. I work down there pretty often and you don't even want to go outside during the summer. I couldn't live like that.
As for gardening I think that it is A LOT of trial and error. Just because you didn't have success one year, doesn't mean you don't have a green thumb. You just need to try something different the next year, and probably the next year, and the year after that, and then you'll have it down and you'll move and have to start all over again, like I did. LOL
We have a large house on 5 acres. There's no way we'll ever be able to not work. That would be ideal but it's just not gonna happen. We will be selling stuff just to help offset the cost of the stuff we are doing, we aren't hoping to make a profit. But if we can come close to breaking even then that's better than paying for everything out of pocket.
I lived in New Mexico for a time and got to see the community of ES homes out there...... Great concepts, amazing ideas, awesome use of discarded tires and cans and things.. but they were really really weird people. Think hippies in teepee type housing environments. Oh I'm a firm believer in what they advocate but what you see on the web is vastly different from the actual homes. I do believe that a properly set up and maintained ES is the way of the future but not showering for weeks at a time, no personal hygiene, dread locked hair because you don't want to "kill seals with shampoo waste" , cleaning their backsides with their hands because "paper kills the rain forest" and the overall smell of those folks revolts me.
I kind of went on a rant there, my apologies.
These dirty people, are why I could never embrace that type of living. I recall a neighbor saying to me once and I never forgot it, "It's one thing to be poor, it's another to be dirty".
Not using paper won't save the rain forests. It is sad that things are what they are, but you have to have some measurable data to show just how effective what you do is.
Point: The CNY Cat Coalition works to trap, spay/neuter and release feral cats. The measurable data is less and less feral cats. I worked delivering mail in the city and saw less and less feral cats. So they are having an effect.
Now not using paper does nothing to stop what is happening in South America. Petitioning those in power to work toward stopping what is going on will have more of an effect, IMO. Of course if you go to them smelling like an outhouse, you're not likely to convince them to see things your way.
I think plastic is a bigger danger than paper products. Recycling has an effect. They could have recycled newspapers to wipe their butts. It would have been cleaner and reduced the uselessness of cutting down trees or whatever I mean.
Plus if you know history you know that much of the death and disease of the past was due to poor hygiene. Of course there are those who go to extremes. Still that is no reason to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Just so you know, you are effective. Your being here helps me to have an ear and you teach me things. Friends are always together in spirit.
than those things. I already have it mostly drawn up
