Subject: Re: [Homestead] Living the good life on 5000 a year
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:00:56 -0600
The monthly hook-up price for electricity here is (or was the last
time I checked) about $30/month. At one point we considered have one
hookup for the barn and one for the house when we had the dairy to
make taxes easier, but canned that idea in a hurry.
Health insurance in this country is not possible these days for less
than a couple of hundred dollars a month, and that's if you're young
(under 25) and healthy.
I look forward to James's financial analysis of the situation.
Marie
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Lynn Wigglesworth
<lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.