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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Bev; I always wonder those kinds of things, too. The article does say that 
he lives alone now in a 14x16' cabin. I assume that he doesn't have health 
insurance, so doesn't go to doctors. At $200/month, I don't see how he could 
have any kind of  internet connection...maybe he has  a computer at work? I 
don't see how with a "nine dollar and change" electric bill he can have much 
more than a light bulb....my service charge is $8.80...that's the cost 
BEFORE you use any electric.  I'll never get down to $5000/year, even if I 
get my debts paid off, but I could possibly get down to $10-12,000/year.

He's written a book, but I don't know if he goes into the nitty-gritty of 
his life.
http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Simplicity-Small-Footprints-Finite/dp/0865714738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227651946&sr=8-1

Lynn Wigglesworth


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Living the good life on 5000 a year


I've thought about this guy almost all day.  I wondered about his
family...there are articles out there that mention that he has one, yet
this states he lives alone. I wonder if he has high speed internet.  I
wonder what kind of bicycle he owns.  I wonder if he makes his own
clothes, and how he affords health care if he has insurance.  I looked
at a few sites, but did not see too many about him personally that are
recent.  He's probably close to retirement age by now. Here's what one
of my friends wrote about it:
> To have all the things that we deem as necessary, like refrigeration
> for our food and access to medical care require a HUGE interdependent
> network of technologies that wouldn't be in place if everybody tried
> to live on $5000/yr.  I suppose we could all go back to living like
> the peasants in China and India, but why would anyone want to??

Larry, in case anyone is interested, lives in Utah and is as
environmentally minded as the next person-probably more so.
Merkel is definitely radical, but I can't help but wonder what his life
is *really* like.

Bev, wondering why the list is so quiet

Tim Oppenheim wrote:
> http://www.alternet.org/environment/108461/living_the_good_life_on_%245%2C000_a_year/
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> Merkel decided not only to quit the business of war but also to stop
> paying federal tax dollars that could fund government weapons. To do
> so, he aimed to live on an annual income less than the U.S. taxable
> level of $5,000.

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