[Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore

Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 10 12:09:42 EST 2008


> Now I have an orchard and although we eat what we want, the main focuss is 
> selling fruit. So you can say that I am not a homesteader. I have also 
> tried homesteading without any outside income and I can tell you, at least 
> for me, it was >impossible.

Impossible for me, too. I can forsee a day, when my mortgage is paid off, 
when I can make the money I need from selling what I raise. I think the 
biggest difference between me and 'hobby' homesteaders is that I can (even 
with my mortgage) live on very little money (relative to the rest of the 
country, anyway). I know others living around me in their McMansions who 
need 2 good incomes just to get by. I saw a piece on the news with some guy 
whining that he can't live on unemployment...it was more than twice what I 
live on.  I have to scrape up every penny to pay the bills, but if I ever 
get an outside job, even minimum wage, I'll feel rich :-)

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA 




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