Post by admin on Dec 6, 2006 6:25:48 GMT -5
WELCOME AMY!!!!
I'm soooo glad to talk to someone who is getting off the grid. I was over at my mothers for a couple of days, away from my computer. What you've done with the solar lights are going to be a huge topic when my hubby comes home from work tonight!
Our kids are grown and have moved off on their own, so we are trying our best to live as frugally as possible. Upon my 55th birthday, we bought a fixer upper RV, sure it's only 23 ft long, but I had a pack rat problem and that is now a thing of the past. Everything has to have a place or it can't stay in a little RV. Anyway, we've moved it into a senior RV community where the rent with electric is only $375 month. Huge savings for us since the economy is so bad and my health was getting so bad from lack of exercise. Since we've moved here I've already lost 14 pounds because of all the great things we can do here. Cut down expenses tremendously by deciding what we truly need instead of what we want. Like you, we're doing what seems to work for us and it's working. I really like your solor light thing and can't wait to talk more about it. We're cooking outside more because we live in Florida and can do that unless it's raining. We can fish and probably could eat fish every day, except I've been too busy lately.
You're doing great Amy, especially considering you have children and have purchased a home!!!
Elaine/admin/Florida
I am new to this message board, and wanted to share what simple living means to me, and how I go about it...
I want to live simply in order to care for my family, live meaningful lives, and be able to survive on as little money as possible. To do this has been a process. We had to pay our debt first, which took five years. The only debt we have now is our mortgage, and I have a plan in place to pay that down. We do the following to save money: heat with wood using a woodstove, have chickens, fruit trees, garden, bake, sew, cook at home, hang out my laundry. When my 3 year old was a baby, I used cloth diapers. I make my own bread, and am learning how to make goat milk soap. I am on the lookout for a dairy goat, but they are not as popular as meat goats in our area. Recently purchase a hand crank radio which sits in the kitchen for music/news/weather. It also has a small black/white tv. We have a well, which i use to water the animals, garden and fruit trees. Would love to use it for the house also, but we need a bigger water tank on the pump. I am hoping to be able to go totally off grid in the next few years either here or in WV. I have plans to move the family to property in WV, that has been in my father's family for a long time. No one has lived on it since 1976, but I have detaileed plans on what my plans are....I have been detailing my prospective move in an online blog, which will chronicle the journey I made from the beginning to my arrival in WV, and quite possibly the experience in setting up a new homestead. I look forward to getting to know everyone here.
I'm soooo glad to talk to someone who is getting off the grid. I was over at my mothers for a couple of days, away from my computer. What you've done with the solar lights are going to be a huge topic when my hubby comes home from work tonight!
Our kids are grown and have moved off on their own, so we are trying our best to live as frugally as possible. Upon my 55th birthday, we bought a fixer upper RV, sure it's only 23 ft long, but I had a pack rat problem and that is now a thing of the past. Everything has to have a place or it can't stay in a little RV. Anyway, we've moved it into a senior RV community where the rent with electric is only $375 month. Huge savings for us since the economy is so bad and my health was getting so bad from lack of exercise. Since we've moved here I've already lost 14 pounds because of all the great things we can do here. Cut down expenses tremendously by deciding what we truly need instead of what we want. Like you, we're doing what seems to work for us and it's working. I really like your solor light thing and can't wait to talk more about it. We're cooking outside more because we live in Florida and can do that unless it's raining. We can fish and probably could eat fish every day, except I've been too busy lately.
You're doing great Amy, especially considering you have children and have purchased a home!!!
Elaine/admin/Florida
I am new to this message board, and wanted to share what simple living means to me, and how I go about it...
I want to live simply in order to care for my family, live meaningful lives, and be able to survive on as little money as possible. To do this has been a process. We had to pay our debt first, which took five years. The only debt we have now is our mortgage, and I have a plan in place to pay that down. We do the following to save money: heat with wood using a woodstove, have chickens, fruit trees, garden, bake, sew, cook at home, hang out my laundry. When my 3 year old was a baby, I used cloth diapers. I make my own bread, and am learning how to make goat milk soap. I am on the lookout for a dairy goat, but they are not as popular as meat goats in our area. Recently purchase a hand crank radio which sits in the kitchen for music/news/weather. It also has a small black/white tv. We have a well, which i use to water the animals, garden and fruit trees. Would love to use it for the house also, but we need a bigger water tank on the pump. I am hoping to be able to go totally off grid in the next few years either here or in WV. I have plans to move the family to property in WV, that has been in my father's family for a long time. No one has lived on it since 1976, but I have detaileed plans on what my plans are....I have been detailing my prospective move in an online blog, which will chronicle the journey I made from the beginning to my arrival in WV, and quite possibly the experience in setting up a new homestead. I look forward to getting to know everyone here.
