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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:09:42 -0500


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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