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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
  • Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:51:51 -0700 (PDT)

Whether or not to borrow is not for me to comment; but if you 'know' that you
are to borrow, now is the time. Credit drying up. ...bobford


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

> From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 3:45 PM
> My wife and I have actually been toying with getting a loan,
> and buying
> up the rest of what we need for our storage. if nothing
> happens,
> great, we pay it off. If it does, well, I'll have
> plenty of food.
> and stuff.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 3:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
>
>
>
> I won't comment on the other stuff, but I certainly
> wouldn't call you a
> "wannabe". You've accomplished a lot there
> over the years. I remeber
> when you
> were debating sending son to regular high school, now
> he's on a real
> big boat,
> not in jail. If you just have a big garden and shoot a
> freezer full of
> deer,
> you have veggies and meat.
>
> Maybe , like me, you feel like you could have done more,
> already. But,
> don't
> diregard what you actually have done ...bobford
>
>
> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Akka Homestead
> <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
> > To: "Homestead List"
> <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 3:18 PM
> > I live very close to the edge.
> > One of the reasons we moved here was so that we would
> hurt
> > less if something like this happened. We would be able
> to be
> > more self sufficient and less dependent on commerce.
> > I've always been more of a wannabe, but it ki
> nd of
> > looks like my practice will soon be put to the test.
> If Beck
> > is right, and we are looking into the pit of the Great
> > Depression then I may not be a list member much
> longer.  I
> > consider internet connectivity a luxury.  I also
> consider
> > my television a luxury.  Those two things will be the
> first
> > to go.  Then, it will be the phone.  Finally,
> power.  In
> > a worst case scenario, it will take everything we can
> do to
> > make the mortgage should DH lose his job.  If there
> is no
> > credit, then folks won't be buying too many cars,
> or
> > fixing them at the dealership.  I'm not sure what
> we
> > would do....obviously, he'd do some shadetree
> work,
> > woodworking, etc., but is that enough to save the farm
> if
> > there is no regular income? I could rent the pasture
> > out..clean houses or whatever...
> > What about you all?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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