One thing I learned a long time ago was you don't need to make much more than you want to spend. Spending like Jennifer would prefer requires a lot of income, but is unnecessary.
I've been jobless for 20 years (officially, I'm "discouraged"), which doesn't mean no income, built a house that self-heats and self-cools. No mortgage, I built it as we could pay for it. We grow a large part of what we want to eat and shoot much of the remainder on our land.
My plan for electric self-sufficiency is in the works, but does not entail large expense. I've accumulated most of the hardware already, used. Buying all this new would make it prohibitively expensive in my eye, but with care one can avoid that. There are several choices available how to do that, mine is micro-hydro.
Awhile back I knew a Vermont woman on a homestead forum who was living on SS disability. She still managed to assemble her homestead and eat well.
As David is aware, my place here was assembled without family money. All that is required is desire, and creativity.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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