Like this: Very comfortable. They don't make them this good anymore. My car had electric everything. The sound system was fantastic. Hated saying goodbye to that old car.
I like Amazon, but I get my dog food sent via autoship from chewy.com. Every 3 weeks FedEx brings me a bag.
Sure you can be financially poor. However you could be FHC rich. When it's the middle of winter, and there's no oil, propane, electric or natural gas to heat your home, I'll take good old wood any day of the week. Knowing that my family will be cozy comforts me. Here is the thing, most of the people in those Mcmansions do not have the equipment to burn wood nor pellets. Even if they did, most of them rely on someone else to deliver their wood. During a crisis where you'd have to rely on your own hoarding skills, those people would be at a total loss. Relying on their green paper to help them out of a jam. We've lost our roots. FHCer's starting out on a 3 year plan, already have their 3 year plan or more will have plenty to survive. Many of the poor redneck's out there know how to go out and scrounge for wood if they don't already have it. My point is that being financially poor is not the end of the world. Being resourceful and a hard worker will trump these spoiled finically rich people any day of the week. The skills on here go well beyond hoarding firewood. Sure we might be poor, but proud of it. Jason from RI
Both my husband and i grew up what people called "privileged". We both found it an empty pretentious life. Nothing against our parents they were decent people but caught in the world of living up to the Jonses at the country club. They gave us a college education and we are grateful for that but we chose not to go into the carriers we were supposed to. Now we are considered the black sheep or "poor relations" some of them avoid. We don't drive fancy cars wear basic practical clothes and have a life full of wonderful exiting "things" every day. Figuring out what to do out here in the woods has been like one long vacation full of adventures. Are we poor? A lot of people think so. We don't, we feel "privileged".
Turn that around on them. You work yourself to death for what? To pay the gas man or elec. man, or propane man? We all work for it in some way, no matter what it is. Fighting traffic, dealing with everything that goes with having a "job" or "career", just to have more stuff and pay those bills. Having gone through all that tail chasing for many, many years, I'm soooooo glad to be where I am right now, w/o all that hangin' over my head. Took quite a while to figure it out though.
Would rather be poor in regards to money vs poor in regards to character/ethics any day of the week. I'd have had a hard time holding my tongue. "Some 'poor' people have hundreds of acres of land and lots of free fire wood, little girl. They enjoy working in the woods and being self-sufficient. How much land does your mom own? When was the last time you got to go out and enjoy the woods for a day?"
And there's another thing. While spending all that money as fast as it comes in, so many think that retirement is so far down the road that there's no need to worry about it now...or they can just work on that later... But the first ten years in the most important! It is easy to retire a millionaire if you just plan ahead and plan early!!!!! Plan to be poor (or less rich) now, And you can probably retire early and with better income
Short term pain, long term gain. If all goes according to plan, I'm not working a day past 50 because I "have to". Probably will because I want to, but I'll be pretty choosy about who/when/where/what.
Ja ja ja, finally those Yank are driving decent cars now while gettin their firewood home... World Domination Completed! Its okay for me to stay poor, if i can keep my wood, chainsaws, axes, hatches, friends i made while cutting wood, beer and marshmallows by the junglefire...life is good! Keep Hoarding Troops!
