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  • From: Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 09:11:47 -0800 (PST)

All good points. 
 
I  have struggled with many of the same questions.  These are all decisions
every one makes based on their perception of the future.
 
In particular I take note of your use of the word "trade". 
 
>From the little I have read so far, people here pretty much seem to have had
>one form of lifestyle, and based on some perception of change for the
>future, traded a former lifestyle for a new lifestyle.  When anyone
>perceives the future may change, it is a good idea to choose what changes
>one needs to make to make their lifestyle match their change in perception
>of the future.
 


--- On Tue, 12/9/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

If I take the current measured material worth of my life and put it up for
trade, what can I receive in return, leaving out, completely, currency
measurement. If I trade this shelter for a shelter with a hovel, barn,
garden ,
tractor, and fencing; Is it a 'good' trade for me, regardless of what
the currency appraisers (banks and realtors) say? If I trade my health
insurance for a healthier life; is that a good trade? If I trade the
regulations and zoning of the city for the gossip and nosiness of the hamlet,
is
that a good trade?

Those are the new type questions I am asking myself, that have nothing to do
with USD. I know I'm going rural, and soon. But, "location" or
"direction" will be influenced by questions like those., and others.



>
> Here is probably where you fail to understand all this,Bob. I'm not
arguing for or against anything any more than I'm arguing for or agaisnt
winter or summer or aging or putting on one's shoes. I am only opining what
will be.
Large institutions made it possible for us to framgment ourselves into very
small family units and have a sort of 'independence'after a fashion.
The demise of those institutions removes the appearance of that independence.
What's left? The basics of life have to be institutionalized rather than
individualized.

***** You missed my point. Say what you project becomes reality. Now that
people are 'more' institutionalized, will not the ag, commodity and
other businesses also need to be large and institutionalized to provide the
people services, however bleak?
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>Probably your concern is freezing, is it not? Realize that in the Deep
South, where Bob is likely from, winter temps barely get below freezing,
and a cellar, insulated by dirt, would be far warmer than the >outside.

If a root cellar stays warm, I guess there's no point in having one. I
wonder where you would store things like potatoes and winter squash, that
like cool, slightly humid conditions?

Root cellars should never freeze...that ruins winter squash and a lot of
other things. Root cellars here are cool (but above freezing) and fairly
humid; more humid than I would like to store canned or dry foods. I guess
that also isn't a problem where Bob is.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA





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